I started wondering why I couldn't get started. Because it is set in Texas, I wondered if the language was messing me up. Maybe I wasn't getting the patterns of a Southern drawl. So I borrowed an audio copy. Well that didn't work, the narrator was terrible - whiney and Northern US sounding. But I heard enough of the story through the audio that I was invested in the book and managed to read through to the end.
Ellie is a Lipan Apache in an alternate United States, a place where magic and monsters live in the same place as cell phones and pistacio ice cream. Ellie's (Elatsoe) magical power is that she can bring ghosts up from below. She enjoys her dog, Kirby, as much dead as alive - and there are some advantages to having an invisible dog (If I had one, it would always accompany me to school!) But with her connection to the dead, some strange things can happen. The night that her cousin died he came to her in a dream and told her that he had been murdered and asked that she protect his family. And here we go into the pages of a magical murder mystery.
Where can you find this book of ghosts and monsters and magic? Try the shelves of our library. You can also read in through SORA if you connect your account to NPL, and Hoopla (through NPL, but skip the audio - trust me when I tell you it was terrible.)
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