Scary Mary is an online novel for teens about a high school girl who hears ghosts. Mary begins her junior year of high school without high expectations. As the resident school freak, she’d just like to be left alone, but Cy Asher, a new student, tries to befriend her. The budding friendship, though, dies when Mary discovers Cy’s house is . . .
Mary’s back, and she has to help Vicky, her nemesis. While on a date, Vicky gets into car wreck that leaves her in a coma. Through dreams, she reaches out to Mary for help. Mary isn’t happy to help her, but she’s willing to do almost anything to get her out of her head. . . .
Aug 23, 2008: It’s a short book.
That’s not a complaint. If anything it’s a compliment that the only thing I can find to complain of is that there wasn’t as much of the book as I might like.
The characters are quirky and interesting. I’m thinking specifically of Mary, her best friend, and her grandmother. The other characters are interesting enough to be in the story, in one case changing from relatively two-dimensional to [more . . .]