The Gift by Andrea J. Buchanan
A librarian’s review
Spoiler Alert**
The Gift is a paranormal story about three friends who begin
to have encounters with a ghost who calls himself Patrick. At the same time, two of the friends begin
having the same dream about previous lives.
They learn that all three of them were friends in a past life. The dreams are violent and scary, but drive
the story forward. The main character,
Daisy, has special electrical powers and has learned to control them throughout
her life. The second character, Vivi is
a shell of a girl who has had contact with Patrick since she was a child. The third friend is Danielle, and she doesn’t
really have any powers or ghostly contacts.
This makes her jealous and leads to problems between her and her
friends. Daisy has a love interest named
Kevin who also has issues, but his are more normal, epilepsy. The
ghost, Patrick, is able to feed off Daisy’s electrical energy and allows him to
possess one of the girls. He wants to
possess Vivi, since he’s been grooming her for her entire life, but Danielle is
so jealous that she makes an easier and stronger target so he ends up
possessing her. Long story short, the
girls find out that the ghost was actually murdered during their past lives and
he’s there to take his revenge on Daisy who killed him in his previous
life. I won’t tell you more about how
it ends, but it’s a decent read. I
enjoyed the book and it kept my attention from the beginning. There were parts of the book that were
predictable, but that didn’t ruin it.
The only part I had a bit of a problem with was at the end when Kevin
was suddenly able to communicate telepathically with Daisy. I wish the author would have explained that part
a little more. This one will be popular
and will circulate well. I’ll be
ordering it for my library and, as for a rating, I would give it a 3.5.
