Give Up the Ghost by Megan Crewe

Blurb:

Cass McKenna much prefers ghosts to "breathers." Ghosts are uncomplicated and dependable. They know the dirt on everybody... and Cass loves dirt. She's on a mission to expose the lies and backstabbing between her fellow students.

But when the vice president of the student council discovers her secret, Cass's whole scheme hangs in the balance. Tim wants her to help him contact his recently deceased mother, and Cass reluctantly agrees.

As Cass becomes increasingly entwined in Tim's life, she's surprised to realize he's not so bad--and he needs help more desperately than anyone else suspects. Maybe it's time to give the living another chance...

Kindle Edition, 253 pages

Finished on 26 May 2017

☆☆☆☆ of 5 

This is slightly Veronica Mars, with ghost twist. 

Cass is Veronica who can see and speak to the dead (both used to be have close circle of friends, now losing it and became the outcast), Tim is Logan (both are popular guys who lost someone they love and got depressed. Tim losing his mother, Logan losing his girlfriend and mother. Damn, poor Logan..). Not that the similarity is bad.

I love the relationship dynamic here. She's the outcast who used to avoid and rude to everyone to protect her heart. So when she acknowledge and befriend Tim slowly, well this is what should happen, there's a process, not insta-friend, insta-love thing.

I also like the lack of love thing here, there is no swooning, just one time fluttering and some vapid observations on her side. Thank God. They both have more important problem so falling in love doesn't happen here. It's realistic.

Overall i enjoy the writing and the story.