Sixteen Souls: The "TikTok made me buy it" sensation dubbed Heartstopper with ghosts!

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Throughout the novel Charlie is also coming to terms with his sexuality – how crucial of a role was diversity and representation for you when you wrote the novel? The "ye olde English" used by some of the ghosts also felt rather clunky, and there was a particularly odd bit where it said Heather (a thoroughly modern ghost) had to talk like that when addressing the oldest and most powerful ghosts, when she was actually saying nothing of the kind.

His ghost-seeing ability caused chaos in his life, but we got be there for every step as he fought to rebuild friendships, begin a romance, and somehow solve a decades old mystery that had remained unsolved while facing the demons of his own past. Overall it’s a well-rounded, downright good book that I can see sitting firmly in the mainstream YA market and receiving five star reviews from all sorts of readers. Learning so much about York and all the rich history that goes along with it will be fascinating for the uninitiated, and give northern readers a rare chance to see something approaching their lives spotlighted. Rosie Talbot has created a magical world with her wonderful writing and amazingly well fleshed out characters. Update, this is now a short story and available on …more I'm penning a little novella prequel to Sixteen Souls to go out free to my Newsletter subscribers.Which, sounds silly, but that can be really hard to do in a book that is serious at times, and handles such delicate topics as this does. From his struggles with coming out, his aunt going through chemo, his struggles with ghosts, to his balance between prosthesis' and a wheelchair, he had A LOT going on in his life. The budding relationship between them is written so tenderly and it made me ACHE watching them be stupid little chaos gays with their stupid miscommunication and stupid self-esteem issues and I wanted to bash their stupid heads together but also I wouldn't change a thing and I was literally reading it with tears streaming down my cheeks and a grin on my face most of the time.

A couple of the major revelations felt a bit obvious from about halfway through, but there were still plenty of surprises and revelations to keep me entertained.Each week, I’ll post a suggested number of pages to read across my social media and you’re welcome to have a spoiler free discussion with me at each stage. Though there is a large mystery element, the story is propelled by fun thrills and a growing tension throughout that culminates in an explosive finale. The plot is consistently engaging, unique, and engaging, with a steady flow that allows for plenty of twists and turns without feeling clogged by too many ideas.

And, as he slowly comes to terms with his romantic feelings for Sam, the stakes become even higher as time quickly runs out! Imagine a story that has all the character of York, then fill it with all the ghosts from there too . Our protagonist, Charlie, one of these seers, lives in York, the oft declared most haunted city in the entire world. We caught up with Rosie to find out more about the inspiration behind her supernatural debut and talk all things BookTok and Bookstagram.Like Charlie being gay, this one is addressed fairly openly, again with an honesty and a sensitivity that's lovely to see. I’ve seen this compared to Heartstopper and despite Sam being able to be compared to Nick in some ways, this book is DARK, and quite scary. While I maintain that it can't be compared to anything else, because it's *just that good*, Sixteen Souls would be perfect for fans of William Hussey, Christine Lynn Herman, Patrick Ness, or Maggie Stiefvater. I get it, though, she's well beautiful -- round cheeked, petite and curvy, with dark brown skin and long lashes. It never holds Charlie back, or stops him from achieving anything, but it does often show how it makes some tasks much more challenging for him, and there's a lot in there about the minor annoyances it can cause, from minor damage to the prosthetics to the relief of removing them at the end of the day.