Seventeen-year-old Olivia Black has a rare birth defect known as Psyche Sans Soma, or PSS. Instead of a right hand made of flesh and blood, she was born with a hand made of ethereal energy.
How does Olivia handle being the girl with the ghost hand? Well, she’s a little bit morbid and a whole lot snarky.
Her mother thinks her obsession with death, black clothing, and the local cemetery is a … local cemetery is a bid for attention. But when Marcus, the new guy in Olivia’s calculus class, stares at her like she’s a freak, Olivia doesn’t like it. And when her hand goes rogue, doing things she never imagined possible, Olivia finds herself running for her life with Marcus from a group of men bent on taking the power of her hand for their own nefarious purposes.
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I never like reading, but this had my attention the whole time. I had a hard time putting the book down, I had to find out what would happen next. The characters are amazingly brought to life. Definitely recommend, I love it!!
There were some moments where the description of action was confusing. Still, i really enjoyed the book and I do plan on reading the rest of the series.
This novel was a page-turner right from the start. A thrilling ride into a modern day reality, so like our everyday one, but with a twist… some people have ‘Ghost Limbs’. Our heroine, Olivia is one of them. She has a ‘Ghost Hand’. She doesn’t know how or why she is this way. Nor does she know what it can do. But both she and the reader are …
One of the things I truly loved about this story was the originality of it. PSS, or Psyche Sans Soma, is the presence of psychic body parts. The person is born missing a body part, a hand in the case of the main character, but are capable of generating this energy that allows them to function normally. The main character, Olivia, has a “ghost …