Ninth Key by Jenny Carroll (2001) – BR00204 (2022) – πΈπΈπΈπΈβͺ
Plot or Premise
Suze continues helping dead people, except this time she’s more engaged with the living in the form of a murderous land developer and his hottie teenage son.
What I Liked
Suze is doing normal young girl stuff, going to parties, getting poison oak on her hands, and dancing with a hottie named Tad who doesn’t even know her name. A ghost sends her looking into Tad’s father, a real estate developer whose opponents tend to disappear. There’s a sub-story about whether or not the dad is actually a vampire killing various people for fun and profit.
What I Didn’t Like
Just about everyone in the story spends a lot of time yelling at Suze and telling her what to do or not do based on the lame information limited to the “living world”, with one scene being a nun sending her home for wearing a skirt that isn’t “school appropriate”. And everyone but her is okay with the nun telling her it’s not appropriate, but none of them actually think the skirt is bad or seem to want to question the nun’s decision. Yet they’re all “liberal” and “empowered”. Huh?
The Bottom Line
Good for the ghost part, not great for the home life
