Name: Ghost Wood Song
Rating: 3.826923076923077 (26 reviews)
ISBN: 9780062894229

Erica Waters

Ghost Wood Song

kelsey

Jill Niemeier 

A magical story about grief, shame, generational trauma, and healing. This one ticked so many boxes for me and was told so beautifully.

Kristina Masone

This book was okay. The writing wasn't terrible, I just think the story wasn't for me. I listened along with the audiobook, and I feel like that probably detracted from my enjoyment.

danielle bush

Ghost Wood Song was beautifully written and sucked me right in from the beginning. I loved Shady and how she was willing to do whatever it took to find her daddy's fiddle to prove that her brother didn't murder her stepfather. I actually liked most of the characters except Rose and Sarah.. 
While Shady is trying to uncover the truth, she ends up stirring up other people secrets as well, including the truth about her own familys past. 
I got this book from the library, but I am going to buy it. I think its definitely a book that I want in my library.

Tania Joana da Silva Monteiro

This was a good book with a good atmosphere. But I was expecting more a creepy spooky ghosty story and I think this was more of a family drama with ghosts. The drama is still very interesting and this has probably the only love triagle I have ever enjoyed, because it actually makes sense and it's not predictable (and it is not the main focus of the story). Plus the characters are very well round. I think what makes me give it a 3 stars, besides the fact that I was hoping for another kind of story (which it's totally my fault) is that some things were a bit stretched out (like the main character having a feeling for no reason at all but it always turned out to be right) and the fact that barely anyone was open about anything, which I guess served the plot but sometimes it was a bit too much imo. Still, I recommend it!

Manon van Heumen

This wasn't wholly what I was expecting. I really enjoyed the story and the atmosphere, but the characters didn't really work for me.

Lisa Beasley

This was a really atmospheric read, just the right level of creepy for me as I'm not a horror fan. The characters were all really interesting, I loved Shady and how she was dealing with so much all at once. The story was very well paced and flowed nicely. The slow reveal of the truth as the story progressed was also well executed.

4.5 stars.

Michele Papa

Sawkill Girls meets Beautiful Creatures in this lush and eerie debut, where the boundary between reality and nightmares is as thin as the veil between the living and the dead. If I could have a fiddle made of Daddy’s bones, I’d play it. I’d learn all the secrets he kept. Shady Grove inherited her father’s ability to call ghosts from the grave with his fiddle, but she also knows the fiddle’s tunes bring nothing but trouble and darkness. But when her brother is accused of murder, she can’t let the dead keep their secrets. In order to clear his name, she’s going to have to make those ghosts sing. Family secrets, a gorgeously resonant LGBTQ love triangle, and just the right amount of creepiness make this young adult debut a haunting and hopeful story about facing everything that haunts us in the dark.

Leticia Leal

Emily Perkovich

Tomi Schade

Nicole Dykeman

Latitude Tamarind

Sawkill Girls meets The Hazel Wood in this lush and eerie debut, where the boundary between reality and nightmares is as thin as the veil between the living and the dead. If I could have a fiddle made of Daddy's bones, I'd play it. I'd learn all the secrets he kept. Shady Grove inherited her father's ability to call ghosts from the grave with his fiddle, but she also knows the fiddle's tunes bring nothing but trouble and darkness. But when her brother is accused of murder, she can't let the dead keep their secrets. In order to clear his name, she's going to have to make those ghosts sing. Family secrets, a gorgeously resonant LGBTQ love triangle, and just the right amount of creepiness make this young adult debut a haunting and hopeful story about facing everything that haunts us in the dark.

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