Echoes Between Us

Veronica can see ghosts: namely the ghost of her mother but others as well. When Sawyer and his family move in downstairs from her, Veronica enlists him in her senior year project, proving that ghosts really exist. Sawyer reluctantly agrees, he’s strangely drawn to Veronica, even though she’s a social outcast. Echoes Between Us pleasantly surprised me with its sweet story, solid, dynamic characters, and unique issues. While it is primarily a romance, it also tackles some heavy topics such as addiction, alcoholism, cancer, and death. Told in alternating first-person between Sawyer and Veronica, it has an intimate feel and closely explores each’s vulnerabilities. Veronica is whimsical and full of life, despite having a potentially fatal brain tumor. Sawyer is compassionate and loving, spending most of his time taking care of his sister and mother, all while battling his adrenaline junkie compulsions telling him to jump off dangerous cliffs. Echoes Between Us reminded me a bit of A Walk to Remember but with ghosts. It’s an emotional but lovely story, and I thoroughly recommend it to other fans of emotional YA.

I don't usually read contemporary Young Adult books but the cover caught my attention and the blurb sounded interesting so I thought I would give it a try. Any book is usually made better with the addition of ghosts and such and I really enjoyed reading it. Both Veronica and Sawyer were surprisingly likable characters. I really liked how despite the struggles they were going through with the tumor and the addiction, they were able to help each other out and be nice to others. The senior project with trying to prove ghosts are real was fun to read about and added to the story nicely. It wrapped up well too and I enjoyed the whole book. If the author's other books are like this one, then I will probably read more by her!

I was super excited for this book, and I wasn’t let down! The overall premise of this book isn’t unique, weird girl and hot popular guy somehow get connected and fall in love. This one had a very unusual twist that pulled me in: ghosts, and not either of the main characters being a ghost (thank god!). It was sold as a paranormal romance, and the paranormal was around the romance instead instead of apart of it, if that makes sense. Win: -sawyer and Veronica. I loved our 2 main characters. It centered around the secrets both of them were keeping -hunting ghosts. YES! I love Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures, and anything to do with ghosts/ hauntings and proving their validity, so when that happened, I was super elated! -super cute story with a cute ending. I dont do contemporary, or ya romance all that often, because I prefer fantasy, but I needed this right now, and I loved it. -evelyns diary entries. They were interesting, and I genuinely do love the outlook she had on life. I’m definitely interested in reading her full diary without Sawyers point of view popping in to tie it in. Opportunities -why did Veronica want sawyer for her project so bad? Because he was close and had a car (not buying it) -Leo. What an awful “love triangle” attempt. Leo was a self-centered jerk, and suddenly at the end all is forgiving. Mmk. My big warning on this, there may be some triggering things throughout the novel, and none of the were mentioned before hand. Predatory behavior (mentioned a possibility of it happening), adrenaline junkies, as well as alcoholism. I wish there was some kind of warning beforehand, instead of just in the authors note at the very end. Other than that, this was a super cute novel, and I’m not mad at it. The paranormal was interesting, the TB hospital, the diary entries, and the brain tumor were interesting additions to a very cliche book.