Joshua looks like a loner at school because he'd rather talk to her, and no one else can see mostly-dead Amelia.
And when they kiss, Amelia vanishes spontaneously, reappearing elsewhere with no control over her location.
A trip out of town for the holidays doesn't sound half-bad, even if they might encounter Joshua's grandmother Ruth who's a Seer dedicated to eliminating all ghosts like Amelia.
Happy Book Birthday tomorrow (June 5th, 2012) to Arise! You'll enjoy this spooky adventure even more if you read Hereafter first to learn how Amelia and Joshua met (my no-spoiler recommendation here), so grab it at your local library or independent bookstore, then head for the French Quarter with Arise.
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Book info: Arise (Hereafter series, 2) / Tara Hudson. Harper Teen, 2012. [author's website] [publisher site] [book trailer]
My Recommendation: Amelia longs to kiss Joshua, but the spirit-girl just poofs
away when she touches the human boy, rematerializing somewhere else. Perhaps
his Seer relatives in New Orleans have an answer to their dilemma, or perhaps the
couple is walking into a sinister trap.
Getting away from the evil beings clustered near the High
Bridge should be holiday enough, but it’s a long, awkward trip from Oklahoma to
the Crescent City. Josh’s sister Jillian can sense Amelia in the car, and their
parents get them lost more than once. Dozing off, Amelia is brought into the
spirit world, seeing her father at last! He’d died shortly after she did, but
she hadn’t been able to locate his spirit until now – and he brings her a
chilling warning about rising rivers.
Entering the Mayhew family’s ancestral home is like walking
into a supernatural force field, as all the relatives gathered there for
Christmas are Seers attuned to the spirit world. The teen cousins can see
Amelia’s ghost-form and include the newcomers in their mysterious winter-break
plans.
Amelia encounters ghosts wandering around the French Quarter
tourist areas who warn her of dark demons gathering nearby, all invisible to
the living. Gabrielle is another thing entirely, a spirit-girl they meet at a
Voodoo shop, one ghost who’s found a way to stay with the living and might be
able to help Amelia do the same. For every time that Amelia vanishes and
reappears, yet another piece of her ghostly form is lost…
Is it coincidence that the dark forces are rising just when
the Seers of the Mayhew clan are all in one place? Can Gaby’s midnight ceremony
in the graveyard anchor Amelia in the world of the living? Or should she stick
with her plan to save Joshua and his family from the deepest evils by
disappearing from his life forever?
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