On the eve of her “sweet sixteen” birthday, a girl meets a ghost with a tragic past Megan Logan’s sixteenth birthday party is in eleven days, and she still doesn’t have a date. For months she’s been secretly in love with her best friend, Justin, but she’s afraid to tell him how she feels. By the time her party starts, though, boys will be the last thing on her mind. While Megan tries on her … mind.
While Megan tries on her party dress, three of her friends go for a ride to the lake. As the car makes a sharp turn, the steering malfunctions, and the girls fly headlong into a utility pole. Two escape with minor injuries, but one is rushed to the hospital in critical condition. As Megan worries about her friend, a spirit appears in her mirror: the ghost of a girl who died decades before, on her sixteenth birthday. As the ghost attempts to take over her life, Megan just hopes she can make it through her party alive.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Diane Hoh including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
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This was the first book I ever read by Diane Hoh, way back when I was a teenager during the 90s and, as someone who had been a fan of horror stories for years, I was happy with what I got while reading it! Megan should be looking forward to her upcoming “sweet sixteen” birthday party, but she’s currently been feeling rather depressed since hearing about the horrific car accident that injured one of her friends and killed three others. She tries to convince herself that the party will lift her spirits, but she is about to have a much more frightening and truly bizarre issue to worry about. She couldn’t be more startled—and terrified—when she unexpectedly hears a voice talking to her from inside her closed bedroom. Trying to find the source of the voice, she is, at first, confused when she still appears to be alone in the room… until she looks in her full-length dressing mirror and sees the shadowy phantom hovering in the reflection! The ghost introduces herself as Juliet, a girl who tragically drowned in a boating accident just before she could celebrate her own sixteenth birthday party. It apparently happened thirty years earlier and she is not at rest because she wishes had the chance, which is why she pleads with Megan to allow her to trade places for a week, to let Juliet “borrow” her body. Not realizing what a horrible mistake it might be, a sympathetic Megan agrees to the switch. But while she hates the disorienting, terrifying experience of being a ghost, Megan soon finds that she and Juliet have something even more sinister to worry about. More and more of Megan’s friends start falling victim to terrible accidents, causing Megan to realize that, just like the car accident that killed three of her friends, these “accidents” are really horrifying attempts on her friends’ lives, which is confirmed by the deliberate clues and warnings that the killer leaves for her to find! Megan knows that she and Juliet must find out who is harming her friends, who it is that seems to want to kill her before Juliet, while still in possession of Megan’s body, is attacked and possibly killed. After all, Megan doesn’t know what will happen if Juliet is killed before Megan can return to her body, but she knows the consequences could be awful. Any fan of ghost stories can probably predict the book’s biggest twist if you have read these “ghost in a mirror” stories before, which is the only reason I probably shouldn’t have selected “unpredictable” as one of the reasons why I like this book, but I think this ghost story is so well-plotted that I think you’ll love how it reaches its solution before delivering a whopping nail-biter of a climax! As a paperback, this Point Horror title from 1991 only takes 165 pages to read, but the short amount of time (or not, if you’re a teenager, since any of them like the book a lot might want to take their time and really enjoy it. I’m now an adult, but try as I might, no matter how much I like these 90s teen horror books, I often read them pretty quickly because of the short number of pages.) you might spend with this chiller will be time well spent in the company of a master at writing these creepy books!