10. The Ghost Wife – Susan Price

An old timey YA the whole way through, The Ghost Wife is very different. Usually, the young people who may or may not be trying to fall in love are from the future learning of a tragic romance in the past. In this case it’s all old and the ghost is already in a relationship and does not want to be cheated on by the living. Her attached dude is living and apparently attractive to other living people like a girl named Rattle who works in the mines nearby.

Rattle does the collier version of taking off her glasses and unleashing her ponytail by putting on her sister’s skirt and gets a nearly okay reception from Jonathon, who lives with the ghost Becca because his father was a “devil” who attached the ghost to their family as like a servant/spy. Becca is not an easily commanded ghost and she doesn’t want Rattle trying to take her man.

Rattle goes to another “devil” in the area, who plies his wares at a church for some reason and he tells her he can get rid of the ghost. So Rattle thinks the ghost will be gone and we finally meet the actual villain of the story, the “Devil” dude. It has a really weird ending, honestly, I wasn’t expecting the turn and it’s on the sad and abrupt side.

Wisting sees a vet instead of a devil for his needs I can’t take care of, but we haven’t come up with a ghost attached to him yet.

I mean, he maybe takes calls from Ghostface while Ghostwatch is on, but no other kinds of ghosts.
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