Haint Misbehavin', Book One of the Ghost Handler series. Poor Heather, I felt so bad for her. She is like all of us at 14, feeling weird, crushing on older boys.
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The ghost story wasn't really a ghost story and Amy's infantile behavior even for a 10 yera old they seemed beneath her and Hathers just as infantile response, the ghost story elements felt wasted. The flip flop with Heathers emotions towards Amy was also a little tough to deal with. Her connection to the ghosts Had so much potential. But we really got not much of anything from that. The best thing about this books seemed to below quick a read it was. There wasn't much setting detail so the reader was free to create the home and the pool and the movie theater and the library without much int he way of description.
There is to be at least one follow up book. Hopefully the author will havedecidded which type of book she wants to write. Because otherwise if you are looking for a YA paranormal series, I would suggest that there are better choices. I will also note that I think this is definitely steered more towars young girls and I am not sure boys will appreciate it.
This is my very first review for a file I received from NetGalley. I downloaded the ebook at no cost as a PDF file, in exchange for a review. Converting the file to kindle format and uploading it to my device was easily accomplished by emailing the PDF file to my kindle email. Fourteen year old Heather Tiley has been ridiculed throughout her elementary and junior high school years because of her hypersensitive skin, earning her a reputation as a weirdo and a freak.
The summer befor This is my very first review for a file I received from NetGalley. The summer before entering high school, she feels like she may have a chance to turn everything around. It all starts with getting her older and much cooler sister Audrey to like her. Now that she's finally entered womanhood, she may have half a chance. But then, along with her menstrual, comes another big problem, the ability to see ghosts!
Heather's ghost, Amy, is a rambunctious ten-year old female who's only wish is for Heather to provide her with entertainment. As if it isn't already hard enough for Heather to ditch her freakish reputation on her own, how is she ever going to succeed with a cantankerous young "haint" tagging along. Heather's only hope at ever having a normal high school experience is to find a way to get Amy into the afterlife.
The sooner the better. However, this task proves to be much harder than one may think! You see Amy is harboring a dark secret, a secret which has kept her lingering in this world afraid to ever pass into the next and she's refuses to talk about it.. Will Heather be successful in rectifying Amy's situation, sending her happily to the afterlife?
Or is it her destiny to forever be known as the freakish weirdo with the hypersensitive skin who now can see ghosts?
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Book one in the Ghost Handler series. This story was an enjoyable and totally humorous read. The characters were true to the times. The author utilized the most current teenage language, styles and devices throughout the novel to create truly believable characters teenagers will be able to relate to. The reader could easily sympathize with Heather's plight.
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Most everyone has an inner desire to be liked and to fit in, especially as teenagers. It was brilliant the way the author wove these theme's into this unique storyline. A completely wholesome, clean, novel leaving the reader very satisfied and with a warm heart. I look forward to the rest of the series. This book would be suitable for middle grade girls ages 11 to I don't believe the plot or storyline would actively interest boys. The language and word choice is appropriate for this age group and also detailed enough even grown ups would be entertained. Full review on Reader's Dialogue: Heather Tildy has it rough - she has hypersensitive skin, she's seen as a weirdo by just about everyone in her neighborhood, the guy she has a crush on doesn't know she exists, her older sister hates her and is out to make her life miserable - and now, to top it off, along with her period, she gets her own ten-year-old, mischievous ghost!
H Full review on Reader's Dialogue: Heather wants to help Amy move on, but Amy doesn't seem to want to. With lots of laughs and wacky scenarios, Heather and Amy both learn some lessons from their time together. The multi-layered plot of the book works really well. The different elements - the possible romance, the older sister problems, the weirdness problem, the parent troubles, and the ghost - all fit together seamlessly to create a really realistic-sounding story about a "regular" girl trying to fit in and learning that the best thing is to be yourself.
The two guys in the story actually works really well, too. I've heard that the two-guy thing is starting to get on people's nerves already think Twilight , but in this case, I think the author did a great job of it. Both guys are nice though I'm rooting for Xavier and it'll be interesting to see what Heather does about them in the next book s. The pace of the book is amazing, too. Partly because of all the different parts of the plot, I guess, things are always happening. But the amazing part is that there is no downtime in this story - every single scene makes a difference to the characters and plot, and my interest was never lost through the whole book.
I love the snappy, sassy tone of the book, and it's constant throughout. The style of the writing is so great that, while I didn't notice it while reading - another plus, that the goodness of the writing is unobtrusive - when I think about it now, the tone is modified at each scene to fit the mood and what's going on.
But still, the snappiness and sassiness is pretty much constant, since Heather is a sarcastic-thinking - in a nice way! The writing drew me into the story completely, to the point that when Heather finds the answer that will help Amy move on, I smiled so widely and felt a warmth spreading throughout my heart. OK, so that sounds cheesy, but good books do that to you! Or to me, anyway. And the very last line made me laugh out loud! Hainted Love - now there's a sequel I'm really anticipating!
Sep 15, Emilie added it Shelves: Ghost stories often tend to be fun stories and this one followed the trend. Heather has been waiting for a long time for her period to come, but when it finally does it brings along a surprise. That surprise goes by the name of Amy and died in See the problem here?
Heather has always been told that her Aunt Geneva has a ghost friend but she never actually believed it. Now Heather has to deal with Amy on top of getting her older sister Audrey to like her and make Drew the hot lifeguard to notice her. And of course there are all those hypersensitivity issues to manage.
Now the real question for Heather is, can she get Amy to move on her way before she heads off to the beach for the family vacation? Heather reminded me of my year-old self, minus the whole ghost thing. She has all these problems that I remember having not so long ago. She was a fun character and I loved her humor and how she dealt with everything. Despite how much she complained, she seemed to just take everything in stride and no matter what would try to make the best out of the situation. She always picked what she thought was the best moment to act, which of course tended to be the worst moment for Heather.
But despite it all, she was a as good a friend as a ghost can be. In the long run her story is sad but how it all ended got me a little teary eyed. Ghost stories are always a lot of fun but for some reason I always tend to forget and and remember it all once I start reading again. This happened again with this book.
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Both have the same light, fun playfulness and are really enjoyable reads. Oct 28, Chibineko rated it liked it. Tis the season for spooky books! If you asked Heather, she'd probably tell you that her life sucks. Now on top of all of that she's discovered that she can see ghosts. However there are a few things about the book that might wear a little thin with some readers.
It's fine at first but it's almost completely nonstop, which gets pretty old after a while. Also wearing a little thin is how Heather's parents are completely oblivious to how she's treated- while I can understand parents wanting to think the better of their kids, Audrey's actions are so incredibly noticeable that I really wanted to see more reaction from the parents, even if it was signs that they were actively trying to live in ignorance.
I can see where Hardegree was trying to go with this, but I just wanted to see more depth to the characters. She does show it towards the end, but it's a bit too little too late in the book for that. I just hope that Hardegree manages to balance out everything in the second book. ARC provided by NetGalley Aug 18, Kate McMurry rated it it was amazing Shelves: Ghost Handlers 1, fun, chick lit, ghost story for young teens This is the first book in a fun, paranormal YA series about Heather Tiley, a fourteen-year-old girl who attracts ghosts.
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It's the summer before her freshman year and geeky Heather, who has endured years of ridicule from her peers because she suffers from multiple skin and respiratory allergies, is determined to reinvent herself by convincing her pretty, popular, older sister Audrey to back her as she enters the brave new world of high Ghost Handlers 1, fun, chick lit, ghost story for young teens This is the first book in a fun, paranormal YA series about Heather Tiley, a fourteen-year-old girl who attracts ghosts.
It's the summer before her freshman year and geeky Heather, who has endured years of ridicule from her peers because she suffers from multiple skin and respiratory allergies, is determined to reinvent herself by convincing her pretty, popular, older sister Audrey to back her as she enters the brave new world of high school in the fall. Unfortunately, just as Heather is reaching out to win over her sister, Heather's first period arrives, accompanied by a disastrous development--Heather can see ghosts, and most of them are unnervingly demanding.
The only silver lining in this horrifying situation is that Heather can apparently only be compelled to wrangle one ghost at a time. But the one who latches onto her is an overwhelmingly boisterous ten-year-old girl from the 's named Amy who makes incessant demands on Heather to entertain her. The only way for Heather to offload Amy, and escape the embarrassing situations she constantly creates, is to figure out what is holding the little girl in this realm. But Amy refuses to cooperate, and it will take every bit of ingenuity Heather can muster to ferret out the mischievous ghost's secrets.
It was a treat discovering this lighthearted, G-rated, YA paranormal novel in the midst of a sea of dark, R-rated YA in today's marketplace.
There is a tendency among many reviewers to label any book that is not "edgy" as "middle-grade," but I do not view this book that way. Yes, it is a "clean" enough read that girls as young as can safely read it, but it is a solid-enough story that teens as old as 15 will enjoy it as well, and adults who are fans of the YA genre will definitely find this a very entertaining read.
The story is filled with comic adventure, the characters are lively and three-dimensional, and Heather is a likeable, warm-heartedly hapless heroine. I would label this book as both a comic coming-of-age tale and chick lit. The emphasis is on Heather's various relationships, family, friends, social enemies and, of course, ghosts. I rate this book as follows: Heather has enough problems: Her older sister, Aubrey, whom she desperately wants to like her, is friends with a bunch of mean girls who constantly pick on her.
To make matt Heather has enough problems: Can Heather discover why Amy is staying and haunting her old farm? And once she does, can she get Amy to move on? I was happy that Heather started to learn the lesson, during the course of this book, that what other people think of you is really not that important as long as you are happy with who you are.
Highly recommended for anyone who is capable of reading it - I think I could probably have read this one as young as 8 or 9, so there is no reason to keep your kid from it. I thought this was a cute book about a girl that just can't catch a break, and ends up even worse off when she realizes that she can see ghosts, and one ghost in particular isn't about to let her catch a break either.
I really liked Heather, the main character and I really couldn't help but feeling for her character as she suffered through all of the trouble her sister put her through, not to mention her sister's friends. She really has a tough time. She just can't win and if you're a young girl I thought this was a cute book about a girl that just can't catch a break, and ends up even worse off when she realizes that she can see ghosts, and one ghost in particular isn't about to let her catch a break either.
She just can't win and if you're a young girl reading this book, you'd probably fall in love with her right away because I'm sure you can find qualities of yourself in Heather. She's just a normal girl, well a girl that can see ghosts. And that certainly complicates matters. Audrey, Heather's older sister made me despise her instantly and I kept waiting for her time to come, where something would happen to her that would put her in her place, but sadly nothing really did happen.
Nothing big, or nothing punishing enough, at least in my opinion. One aspect that I found a bit strange was how Heather received knowing that Amy, the girl she saw around her father's grapes was in fact a ghost. It seemed to go too smoothly. I'm not sure that someone that hasn't seen a ghost before or interacted with a ghost before, especially a teenager, could take to knowing the girl she's conversing with is indeed a ghost. However, things seem to get better for Heather and she does get better at interacting with Amy and working to try and help her. At first it's just her being annoyed and frustrated and wanting nothing more to do with her ghost pal because hey, she's a teen on summer vacation.
Of course she has better things to do. I'm interested in reading the second book in this series because it was a fun, light read. Before her life can get better, she has to figure out how to help the ghost move on. Debut author Hardegree is a veteran short-story author for the well-known Mossy Creek Hometown series. She plans multiple titles in this warm and funny young adult series. Our buyback partners are not buying this book at this time.
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I felt for her as she struggled trying to find herself, despite peer pressure. When the ghost got her into tight fixes, I laughed and cringed at the same time. The author does a great job of getting into the YA psyche, adding just the right amounts of humor and angst, and getting the reader so deep into the point of view of the main character not only those of YA age,but also older readers can relate and enjoy this book. Though it was an average length book, I finished it in record time. This book was an unexpected delight! I expected a typical young adult book The story is told from her point of view.
So the entire book is from a girl's point of view. When a small girl ghost shows up, named Amy All sorts of teenage angst There's a great sense of humor involved It ends in a good way One person found this helpful 2 people found this helpful. Haint Misbehavin' is a fun, entertaining story, even for those of us who left the teenager years long ago. I downloaded this story when it was offered for free, and I couldn't put it down.
Maureen Hardegree created a great character with Heather Tildy, and left me wanting more. What is the family history when it comes to ghosts? Does her aunt really have a ghost friend or is she just pretending? There is some problem with the timeline. I think Amy was supposed to be a victim of an earlier epidemic and either the author or the publisher decided to go for the s to help the young adults connect with the character.
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Some of the characters reactions seem a little odd--especially Mom and Dad's--to me. They seem a bit harsh and easy to believe the worst about Amy in some ways, but the lead character is fourteen years old. Mom and Dads can seem to be too harsh or just not understanding. I love that Heather was smart and brave in the story, but she isn't perfect. She makes bad decisions, even though I understand why she does.
I look forward to reading the rest of the series! I know this book is really for the younger generations, and those stories have to be written a bit differently. But this book is just too good to put down. Surely every woman in the world who was ever an adolescent will identify with this girl. OMG, sensitive skin, an older sister who hates her, a dream of a boy and she always makes a fool of herself- oh wait, that was the ghost who keeps jumping inside her This is just too good.
I really liked the sort of flat, "Charlie Brown Christmas" way the secondary characters were portrayed. Not that in real life they would have been like that, but in this first person story of an anxiety-ridden adolescent, it fits. I think that's pretty much the way she'd see her family.
It's not an age of great enlightenment about others in the world, and family in particular. I'm going to be reading a lot more YA from now on if this is the quality I can expect. See all 52 reviews.