Phantom Whispers

Phantoms #3

by Jessica Hawke

Despite a growing resume of secret rescues and near-death experiences, teenage ghost whisperer Bridget Young is trying to be a normal kid. As a series of freak accidents send her classmates to the hospital, Bridget connects the dots and realizes they’re not random at all. And when she spots an unusually powerful and angry spirit at the scene of the most recent accident, she knows this is her kind of trouble. But this spirit doesn’t want peace.

It wants blood.

In her most dangerous case yet, Bridget teams up with new allies and old friends to help a vengeful spirit who doesn’t want her help. As the violence escalates and hits close to home, Bridget is forced to decide how far she’ll go to save innocent lives.

Don’t miss this thrilling new installment in the Phantoms series!

Genres: Young Adult, Paranormal

342 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 14, 2017

Reviews

[Amber Todd · Rating 5 out of 5]

Book three in this series got real scary, real quick, and I loved the wild ride. Bridget has had her abilities to see ghost for a while now, but she's still working on figuring it all out. She's taking on ghost way out of her league, but she has enough heart to finish a job no one else wants. I'm loving the series. Learning right along with Bridget and figuring out how everything works. And Kale. What in the world is his deal?! I must keep reading!

[Crystal P · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you like your ghost stories to be a little on the scarier side, you get that with this book, the 3rd book in the Phantom series by Jessica Hawke. Bridget focused on not taking matters into her own hand, but this became a challenge when the dead began to pose a threat to her and her friends and family. This book widened Bridget’s group of ghost-aware humans and she faced challenges among her group of friends unable to see spirits but aware of Bridget’s ability to do so. Her teenage life continues to place extra stress on her and quite frankly, I’m ready for her to get a place of her own so she can at least stop having to conceal herself at every turn if only for a little while!

Another great story with the promise of so much more!!!

[Dolorianne · Rating 5 out of 5]

With a new social media # challenge popping up everyday, it's a super interesting angle to build a story on. The end result was fabulous. I felt so much for every single character. I'm happy to see that Bridget is expanding her team, even with the awkward growing pains. I loved the twists and turns and the creative ways Bridget tracked down what she needed to figure out what was going on. And as much as it was frustrating, I'm glad to see the complications of being a minor trying to do what she's doing. Woven together, this was a great adventure that had me on the edge of my seat.

[Alexandria · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bridget is trying to get her life in order, but the ghosts in her life are making that a bit challenging. Her life is complicated more when a social media challenge makes a pair of ghosts violent. When they start hurting people who do the challenge, Bridget tries her best to help.

This has been an interesting series. This book was a bit darker. I'm looking forward to reading Bridget's next adventure.

[Stacey · Rating 4 out of 5]

(*o*)

The series is giving ghost whisperer teenager version but the third book in particular is giving hocus pocus, and Casper. Slight romance with the ghost boy

I will say I’m not a fan of the author flashbacks it reminds me of old cartoon or anime recaps. It’s nice to have a when there’s been some time but like most in 2024 I’m binge reading this series and could do without

I feel like the vibes of this book is off. Feels rushed . But just like the second book the last 30-40% really saved it. Had me once again tearing up, felt so bad and can relate to Bridget feelings on the matter

There was a slight error in the book where they said there were going to st Theresa but ended in woodlands. Was a bit weird
Pg 114 “No need.” She showed me a Post-it note with two addresses on it. “I already looked them up.” She entered the first one in her GPS. “Looks like Saint Teresa’s first.”

[Diana Blick · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent

This is a well written addition to the series, so well written that I am simply over the mother in the story, lol. Stoic and expecting everyone else to fall into line without bothering to look for reasons why they don't, if she was real she would be on my list of people to tell off! It certainly adds to the tension in the story when I look at what our teenage protagonist will have to deal with as an adult--controlling mothers and unconventional lives don't mix. The author generates so much emotional attachment to the characters that your heart hurts for this poor girl who is trapped by a gift she didn't ask for and already punished by the world for being different. She has such heart and so much compassion that she seems like a real person. If you are a lover of things paranormal, don't miss this series!

[Elda · Rating 5 out of 5]

This third book in the Phantoms series left me totally exhausted! Poor Bridget kept chasing angry ghosts, doing research on dead people, trying to figure out who was causing so many accidents, and still not getting her homework done. I was breathless! Bridget is also very sassy. Not afraid to stand her ground but also relents when she has to especially to her overprotective mom. A couple of very scary angry dead kids were threatening people and generally causing mayhem. Bridget felt it her duty to try and help the two angry brothers who died in a very tragic accident. That’s what I liked about her, she stubbornly held her ground doing what she felt was best in spite of what all the so called professionals told her. I think this book would be very appropriate for the YA crowd. I highly recommend it.

[Melinda · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just cannot get enough of the Phantom Series by Jessica Hawke. This has truly been a binge read one click series for me. Bridget Young has not only lost her sister during an accident she blames her self for but she is now the ghost whisper aka town freak. All she wants is to be a normal teenager but seeing dead people and trying to send them on is all around her and this time is worse. The evil spirits have started to harm people in this world sending many of her classmates to the hospital. All things are connected to some stupid video dare. Bridget tries to get some answers but once it touches her family things go from bad to worse.

[Suze Prescot · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hauntingly Excellent

Bridget and her ghosts. This time, she has to contend with a vengeful spirit, intent on hurting the living. Oh, and she has a new friend who can see ghosts too.
Loving these stories. Bridget is a terrific character, a typical teenager, struggling to keep up her grades, keep in her mother's good books, and keep her friendships intact. She is, like many teens, full of contradictions, empathy vies with anger, selflessness with selfishness, romance with reality. Forced to make tough decisions, often she just wants normality.
A thrilling, edge-of-the-seat story, which ramps up the anxiety as it progresses. Wonderful.

[M.L. · Rating 1 out of 5]

0.5⭐️ it’s the worst. My expectations of this series getting better just went out the window. It had so much potential, with the cop, ghost cop, hot guy, guardian, but all we got was blah blah blah.
Why the hell would I want to read a full page about the reason why you need a flashlight. Really?
Also, so much babbling about insignificant things and people and garbage.
I usually give a series the benefit of the doubt and keep going on book further. Sometimes it gets good other times, like this one, it just pointless.

[Jennifer Lil'n Dunski · Rating 5 out of 5]

Creepy fun

Bridget and the ghostly gang are back and it's creepier than ever! Once again Jessica had me up all night reading "Phantom Whispers" biting my nails and cursing at the stupid, LOL. I love how everything is brought to life or death in these stories and Bridget helps resolve the issue like a good old fashioned detective!

[Patrick Hodges · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love Bridget Young. She's sometimes bratty, irascible, headstrong, even impossible to deal with - both from her friends and her beleaguered mother - but she'll go all-out to do the right thing when the chips are down, even at the cost of her own safety. You just got to admire that.

In this third installment of Bridget's epic ghost-whispering saga, she has to track down the vengeful spirits who are targeting teens who made an ill-conceived YouTube video called "Dead Eyes" in the local graveyard, resulting in several severe injuries. With her grades slipping, her mother becoming more fed up by the minute, and with a new "sensitive" making an acquaintance, can Bridget juggle both her lives and still defeat the restless specters that are causing all the mischief?

Jessica Hawke ramps up the tension in the second half of the book (including a little sexual tension between Bridget and her ghostly guardian, Kale, which is just adorable), and the book ended with me wondering what's next for our stalwart paranormal daredevil. Please tell me this ain't the end, Ms. Hawke! Not when it's starting to get REALLY intriguing!

I would recommend this book, and this entire series, to anyone who loves paranormal YA.

[Tamara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Whispers

Whispers Need to be heard just as much as roars do. This was another amazing journey for Bridget I hope that she finds a healthy medium in putting herself head first into danger but that wouldn't make as amazing a story I suppose.

[Barbara Beauchamp · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent

Excellent story I love how she tries to help the ghosts move on even when she hates everything about her situation.