The second in the Dead Serious novels, The Ungrateful Dead could still be read as a stand-alone book. Anna is “a guided,” someone who helps the
dead transition. While walking home from
school, Anna comes across the body of a beautiful teen girl named Harper, who
looks as if she has fallen from a balcony.
Harper doesn’t really want Anna’s help because Anna doesn’t have much
fashion sense, but does accept help from a ghost who does. Lucy, a vindictive ghost who has issues with
Anna, tells Harper how she can come back alive.
Anna must navigate how to deal with her new mean-girl stepsister,
following her mother’s sudden remarriage to the local mortician while allowing
Harper to “live” in her stepfather’s large home.
This book is a fast read and has some fun
cartoonish line art sprinkled in. Anna’s
world is a bit of a soap opera for someone so young. Apparently dead teenage girls are even more
shallow in death, so the dead aren’t likeable and the book reads like a middle
school drama fest with a few dead people thrown in.
MS-OPTIONAL. Michelle
in the Middle
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