Ghosts of Harvard

I'd like to thank Random House and Netgalley for giving me an ARC of Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella. I am finally getting around to writing a review of this book. I loved this book. It is filled with notes of redemption, grief, self-doubt, and healing. The main character, Cady is realistic and resilient, and I enjoyed her growth throughout the book.

I loved the writing style. The writing was atmospheric and descriptive, and it was interesting reading about the old haunts around the Harvard campus. Everything tied up nicely at the end, and there were a few twists that I honestly didn't expect.

Overall I found Ghosts of Harvard to be a refreshing and enjoyable read.

This went in a direction I expected and also a direction I didn't expect. I figured out one of the bad guys right away. There were other bad guys though and some people aren't as bad as I thought they were. So these characters really changed and grew throughout the book. That was a positive. The ghosts weren't quite what I expected, but I'm okay with that.
There is a big negative and a small negative though. The big negative that was distracting was the eating parts of the book. I think the authors mentioned a different restaurant for every meal Cady ate and there were a lot of meals! That took me out of the story because I would think how crazy it is that she tried another new to her place and I would also struggle to ‘see' the area. The small negative was the last chapter and the epilogue. I get why they were important, but I think it would have been better with one of them and not both of them. Those are really just a couple small things that took me out of the story. Overall it was a really great story of family and grief with a little supernatural and a little thriller thrown in.