Rating: 5 Stars Themes: Young Adult, Race, Fiction Thoughts: I absolutely devoured this book. I knew from the off this was gonna be a deep and intense book and it didn’t disappoint. Jerome is so mature in his actions caring for his family when alive and at the same time we can see him acting his normal age when he gets frustrated with it all. I’ve seen kids behave like that myself so Jerome feels like a very real child of that age in those circumstances. It’s interesting that we see so much about the family of the cop who shot him, especially the daughter but I can see how some may interpret it a little like it centres the sympathy of the perpetrator a little too much. Although I personally did like the angle it took with that in terms of the purpose of these Ghost Boys and the reason why we need to see a lot from Sarah and the cops perspective. I liked that it flipped back and forth between dead and alive as it built up the tension and also reminded us just how young and innocent Jero...
Rating: 4 Stars Themes: Young Adult, Horror, Supernatural Thoughts: This is my first Night House Files book and it looks like they’re a really cool concept. The book is somewhat mixed media with interviews and document clips being included to build up the world and emphasise the classified and coverup nature of the story. I liked that these are printed with shading behind like they were really extra pages added to the written script provided. The images were well done and added an extra creep factor when the villains were pictured. It was actually surprisingly creepy for a book I found in the teen section so probably for older teens but it was really well done and impressive.