Save the Last Dance for Me

Haunted #2

by Dyan Sheldon

Sixteen-year-old Angel is fed up with living in a haunted house. For the resident spook - the infuriatingly good-looking, leather-jacketed Billy J Spatano, BJ to his friends - must be just about the most irritating kind of ghost imaginable. He criticizes Angel's choice of boyfriends, reads her diary and - worse still - fancies her best friend, Suze.

But as Angel digs into the past and discovers the real truth about BJ's dramatic death in 1959, she begins to sense that she has misunderstood BJ. Maybe she, Angel, is the one person who could finally help BJ find peace...

Upbeat, humorous and often poignant, Save the Last Dance for Me concludes the story of Angel and BJ which began in You Can Never Go Home Anymore.

Genres: Young Adult, Paranormal, Ghosts, Romance

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Dyan Sheldon is the author of many novels for young adult readers, including the #1 New York Times bestseller CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE DRAMA QUEEN, which was made into a major motion picture. American by birth, she lives in North London.

Reviews

[Jennifer Nedbalek · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of the best books that I have ever read. I first got it (and its predecessor,You Can Never Go Home Again ) when I was in 6th grade through a book order. I recently found both of them and immediately had to re-read them. They are great. You are immediately drawn into the story, and at the end, don't want it to be over. I remember when I finished this one, I kept hoping that there would be another to go with it. Also, I have always held hope that a movie version would be made.

[Heather ~*dread mushrooms*~ · Rating 3 out of 5]

You're going to tease a ghost romance and not have ANY romance between the leads? You're not going to find a way to bring that hot, wild ghost back to life by the end? You're going to introduce a random non-ghost biker guy to romance the heroine instead, like that's going to satisfy me after two books of reading about the people I actually shipped? THIS BOOK IS RUDE.

I do love the potential of the story.

BUT RUUUUDE.

[Azura Chan · Rating 5 out of 5]

OMG, I've been searching for this book for ages. This is my favourite book during my teenage year. Huhu... Would love to haunt this book at the second hand book fair.

[Jeanna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Omg. This book. My heart broke in half, and I literally cried when I finished this book! I remember finishing the first book and I automatically knew that I had to get the second book (this book). I got this book from Amazon and I finished it. This is such a good two book series. Read it.

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The thing that bothered me was Angels attitude. I didn't agree with it, and I absolutely hated how she treated BJ with such a prissy attitude! I wish she could've treated him differently, but this is a book so of course it has to be that way! It did say that she wishes she wasn't so mean towards him, but she was still mean towards him!! That made me a little frustrated haha!

These were books that brought everything together little by little. Then, along the way, everything came together and made one big story and that's what I really like. It was such a touching series and I would definitely read these again and again.

[Rea K · Rating 4 out of 5]

Okay, first off, this book has a nineties feel. What? You can tell by settling into it that it was written in the nineties. I mean, hiding in a closet with the phone? Mhm, definitely not the last ten years. There's also the writing style. It's a ya book, but it still has the nineties vibe. I promise I'm not joking. I've read several books that were published late eighties/ early nineties recently, and I have to admit that they all seemed to have a similar writing style. Not that it detracted. I still liked them.
I read the whole thing, and the ending was a punch to the gut. I spend way too much time with fantasy, and I sort of had a tiny little dream going about this. To say it didn't end how I wanted it to is an understatement. However, I still liked it. I guess if I want a book to end how I wanted it to end, I better write it myself. Ugh. I mean, it ended well, but my little heart is still broken. :/

[Stacy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I didn’t enjoy this quite as much as the first one but that was just because there wasn’t quite as much interaction between Angel and BJ. Also at the end of the last book I thought Angel had learned a little bit but in this one she went right back to being a spoiled brat. The bickering between them over nothing was obnoxious. But I did really enjoy the end.

[Jona]

I can't download it. How will i read this book? There's no button of downloading here. Please let me know how. I reaaaally wanna read this book.

[M.D. Laird · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read these books over and over in my early teens and enjoyed them just as much although I'd forgotten how sad the ending was

[Stoli-Toi · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've read this book way to many times to count. I think I first read it when I was around 11 or 12. I just love it! Its an easy read, I read it in 2 days the first time, the year stated says that I started reading it in 1996 but I put that there because that was the first year I first read this book. Its so simple but something about this book just hooks you and cant put it down. This was the very first book to made me cry, at such a young age I never knew that books could pull at your emotions so easily and that's what this book did to me and ever since then its become one of my top three most favorite books of all time. I would highly recommend this book to anyone at any age. I'm still trying to convince my daughter to read it, haha.

[Danielle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Blast from the past part 2

I read this 2 part series as a teenager. I Still enjoyed it 35 years later! It still made me sad and I still wished the main characters had been a little more friendly in this second part... But I loved the addition of Gill... Worth a read.

[Becky · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this as a young girl. I was obsessed with it.