ANYA’S GHOST By Vera Brosgol
Categories: Graphic novel, paranormal fiction
High school is not easy for Anya. She’s not as skinny as the popular girls and her mother is an immigrant from Russia with little sympathy for the woes of an un-popular teenage girl. But everything changes when Anya falls into a pit and stumbles across a skeleton. This is no ordinary pit though, a girl named Emily once fell in and died a long time ago and her ghost remains. Emily is bored and lonely in the pit and decides to follow Anya around. It goes well, but then a dark side of Emily comes out…
This shadowy tale of a haunt gone awry is fun and humorous. Anya can’t catch a break until she meets Emily; and then it all goes wrong. Our heroine was witty and sympathetic. All illustrations were shades of purple and gray and black, a befitting color scheme for a ghost story.
This was a fun read and Neil Gaiman hailed it “A Masterpiece.” This should be enough encouragement to seek out this graphic novel. Happy hauntings!
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