Michael Pryor

Lingerers. Moaners. Thugs. Weepers. So many ghosts. Not enough graveyard shifts in a night. When an extreme ghost plague descends on the city, Anton and Rani must work overtime to keep the city safe and to find the source of the new aggressive ghost outbreak. And it amps up to another level after ghost hunters become the hunted. Anton and Rani will need all their wits and wiles about them if they are to manage the ghost influx, get to the truth about the Elsewhere and navigate the night with all their limbs intact.

Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town

Alice

Lysh (She/Her)

Two Scots, an Englishwoman and an Aussie walk into the beginning of the apocalypse...sounds like a joke, but book two in the "Gap Year in Ghost Town" series, though filled with tongue-in-cheek humour, is anything but. I've never come across so many pop culture references in one novel - Supernatural, Doctor Who, The Good Place and Harry Potter, just to name a few. Our main character, Anton, is 19 and fulfilling the family duty of sending ghosts on to the afterlife with his friend, Rani. I appreciated that Pryor dropped the potential for them to be a couple and continued to grow their friendship instead. They drive around important sites in Melbourne and we are lucky enough to come along for the ride! I adore Pryor's writing style - it reads like a middle grade novel with young adult references and some adult humour and swearing. Plus he throws in a few comments about our government and the environmental situation, subtly showing his own views on the modern world. Perfect for upper high school. Beware lots of death and blood, though not described in gory detail. I believe this is a trilogy, so I wait in anticipation for the next instalment!

Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town

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