Seeing Other People

by Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka

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“The livings join forces to help their specters — and each other — move on in this emotional, slow-burn romance.”—New York Times

Two people haunted by their exes find that love isn’t dead in this heartfelt romance from the beloved authors of The Roughest Draft.

Morgan is being ghosted by her ex. No, really. It’s sad Zach died and became a ghost. But Morgan and Zach only ever went on the one date, and now she’s being haunted by him. Zach has no desire to spend eternity with Morgan, but he can’t recall his past and doesn’t know how to move on.

At a support group for humans and their haunters, Morgan and Zach run into Sawyer, whose fiancée-turned-ghost has started to fade. Unlike Morgan, Sawyer isn’t ready to part ways with his ghost. Although they face opposite issues, Morgan and Sawyer decide to work together to solve their problems.

As Morgan and Sawyer try to solve their paranormal conundrums together, they find something even more surprising—a tender, growing affection between them that threatens any unfinished business they’re seeking to close. The ghosts of their past might be there in spirit, but the connection between Morgan and Sawyer is as alive as anything they’ve ever felt.

My Rating:

Favorite Quote:

Oh, your yard? It’s lovely,” I joke. “Who’s your landscaper? Beetlejuice?”

I feel like I’m seeing colors I forgot light could make.

Fate isn’t some invisible, incomprehensible force hurtling you into pain and frustration. Fate is just a puzzle you don’t have all the pieces to yet. With enough time, enough information, the picture starts to make sense.

I wonder if when people leave our lives, they eventually become nothing but the gifts they gave us.

The sound of our tires on the concrete feels small in the silent world outside.

There are forces stronger than the laws of nature. I’m determined to be one of them.

My pulse thuds in my jaw. I feel like I can taste my own heartbeat.

Sometimes fear is the ghost of love. The shadow drawn by the enormity of what it means to care for someone.

My Review:

This was angstier than I’m generally comfortable with, but it was so insightfully written, creatively conceived, and intricately detailed that I have to give it props and a 5-star rating. The main characters are both a bit of a hot mess, but lovable and worthy individuals who completed each other. Their ghosts were just as intriguing and haunted them for different reasons and in unique ways. The writing style was seamless and penned in my favorite dual POV with well-timed lashings of snarky wit and clever humor.

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Emily Wibberley grew up in Southern California, but instead of working on her nonexistent tan at the beach, she spent her time reading, making music and watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Shortly after falling for her best friend, Austin Siegemund-Broka, she attended Princeton University where she graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2014 with a degree in Psychology. She and Austin now live and write YA contemporary together. Their debut, UPSTAGED, will be published by Puffin Books in Summer 2018.

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Austin Siegemund-Broka cowrites YA contemporary with Emily Wibberley. His debut with Wibberley, ALWAYS NEVER YOURS, publishes from Puffin/Speak in 2018.

A former journalist in the entertainment industry, where he covered the courts and, yes, met a couple of celebrities, he graduated from Harvard in 2014 with a degree in English and a focus on Shakespeare. When he’s not writing (or reading) YA, he enjoys combing every corner of contemporary music and watching Buffy with Emily.

He lives in Los Angeles.