Well, without of doubt this is the worst book of the series, really, WTF was that?
Ok, not only this book was pointless, it was STUPID.
It uses the "it's a wonderful life" and "A christmas carol" formula, but it feels so forced and out of place.
And this story it just comes out of nowhere, like, why make it about christmas!? ok, the third one takes place on february and it has a love theme, but, it wasn't all around the holiday, because it would be cheesy, boring and even more predictable that these books already are.
I just don't get why suddenly this books are about holidays, because after this is the day of the dead one (I don't remember a thing about that one so I'll give it the benefit of the doubt) but, what's up with that, like, they were meant to be like holiday special books or something? did Tonya Hurley right before writing this book was like "Hummm, let's see... what was the last book about?... Oh yeah! Valentines day! ok, then I'll write one about christmas!!!!" I really don't understand this...
But ok, the last book ended up in a decent note, it even was an ok book, the characters evolved, en even, they managed to be most of them genuinely likeable, but in this, that was DESTROYED, and it doesn't make any sense de reason why, Charlotte is an pathetic, selfish, annoying again, Petula is an egomaniac without any good in her, Damen is bland and boring, and the Wendys.... Well, they are still the same, just maybe a little more stupid.
Ok not everyone was awful, I mean, the cool sassy Scarlet that I love was back, which was nice, Prue and Pam are also like in the first book where they have a PERSONALITY, and they were more easy to identify, and Eric was likeable and frankly, I think that mostly everything that he did was justified (except a detail that I would get into later)
But ok, how did we passed to some structured characters that evolved and grew up into they straight up opposite? Well...
Charlotte was BY FAR the worst character of this book.
If she was awful in the first book with her selfish attitude and the way she treats the people that love her, here, she was just despicable, she was a frickin' monster! like, she got over Damen finally, but then suddenly she likes him again... Seriously? and they way she suddenly hates everyone and everything it's just abhorrent.
And actually, I think that she deserves her impopularity and being alone.
Not just because she treats like shit the people who care and love her, she also idolize this persons in a really pathetic, crazy, creepy, desperate and even disgusting way.
Ok I know that they are "popular" but having a shrine of them and stalking them won't make you their friend.
And why she is so desperate about this again? this just came out of nowhere, like she was stressed and she had an argue with Eric, and she gets angry.
Ok I guess that she was tired and irritable, but the thing that gets in my nerves is the fact that she won't hesitate a second of leaving all her responsibilities, her friends, her boyfriend and heck even her parents (who are nonexistent in this book) just to go after people who don't give a shit about her.
I LOATHED HER in this book, in the last one, she was ok even nice, in the second one she was fine, in the first one she was a pain in the ass and in this one it's just the most despicable character I ever read, even more than any villain, Why? because she is the main character, she is the one on the cover, the whole book revolves around her, and is infuriating in everything she does, and even when she realises she was wrong and she didn't appreciate what she had it just felt... wrong... she was so stupidly selfish that is not believable anymore now that she appreciates what she has.
So she was shit, how terrible was the rest? Well...
Scarlet, yeah, as I said her sass was back and I liked it, but.... I don't know going back to that character feels wrong, we had seen different parts in her personality and going right back to the start it kinda feels like it's taking 50 steps back instead of moving on.
Petula was heartless again and she wasn't even funny, she was really unlikeable I really disliked every time I was reading anything about her.
Damen was boring in this book, I mean, it was better than in the last one, but nothing really remarkable.
But I do appreciate her relationship with Scarlet a little bit more.
Eric... ok I liked him, he was again my favorite character, I don't know what I like about him but I really do.
He is just really nice and it kinda makes this books a little more lighter.
And as I said, everything he did was justified except for a tiny small big huge problem.
Her relationship with Charlotte doesn't make sense.
Why he is in love with her? what does make her so special for him? I mean, I don't dislike the couple but, there still nothing that builds this couple in any way, and, even though I like this character, I think that he justs exists so Charlotte can have a boyfriend...
Of course it shows that the author tries to make him work in the story but her relationship feels so artificial... like, ok they are the bad boy and the good girl, it's a cliché but you can work with it, but It doesn't go anywhere, it's even confusing, they don't share any nice moment in the two books that Eric has been on, and that makes this couple work even less
As I said, I don't hate it, when Eric shows that he cares about her is really sweet and Charlotte with anyone but Damen it's kind of a relief.
Prue and Pam are more like in the first book, which made them a little more interesting, Prue was probably the funniest character in this book, but they really don't appear that much and kinda get lost with all the deathology students.
Speaking of which.
They are all names with dialogues, not characters.
Ok, they do some stuff specifical for that character but really, who cares it could have said it any other character and I would have been the same.
And I'm just disappointed in how irrelevant Maddy is in this book, I mean yeah, she flirts with Eric and acts mean, but she doesn't really do anything.
And just quick, the Wendys
Boring.
I mean I guess that's better than annoying but I didn't bother with them in this book, bland, stupid, next.
Another thing that really bugs me is the fact that, the timeline of this book doesn't make sense.
I mean it's clearly after the 3rd one, Lovesick, which is clear since Eric is there , she is a teacher, etc.
But they say multiple times that this is their first christmas.
Ok... but, the first book takes place around september / October
The Second one isn't really clear when it takes place, but it looks like is around the same as the first book.
And the third one is in february.
There must be at least ONE christmas that Charlotte has been dead, maybe without Eric, but it's imposible that she was alive a christmas before the one from the book.
Leaving that aside, this book was so disappointing, the last one had potential and got wasted in a pretty depressing way with this book,I think that there was a big miss opportunity with a new ghostgirl book, like, Charlotte was a teacher now, she had grow up so much since the first book, she was a whole new person, it could have been about that about her life as a teacher, and heck, even maybe a girl who has just died and has the same cling to her past life and does selfish stuff and doesn't care for her new dead friends,Charlotte being on the other side and deal with that, and this hypothetical girl maybe runs away and Maddy tempts her to do selfish stuff and she thinks that Maddy will give her old life again , and Charlotte needs help of her alive friends to get her back and reason with her, and Petula now that is not with the Wendy's anymore, who are her friends? How are things going with Tate?, did she has really got over Virginia? How is now her relationship with Scarlet, they are a little bit more close now, they still hate each other? how could they? but they are so different from each other... they could become friends? they are different as they think they are?
They are so many possibilities and they are all wasted in this piece of garbage.
it let me in a really bad note so i'm not really sure when i'll read the next one, if I ever do.