“Love Ghoul Style”For Ian Volkuv, his teenage years haven’t been all they could be. He’s the school outcast, nearly friendless, and has the biggest crush on Boston Hilderbrant – the richest, most handsome boy at Cleveland High. Something’s gotta give.This is the tale of how Ian and Boston get together.What, you thought it was gonna be that easy? Think again.Especially since Boston isn’t exactly … again.
Especially since Boston isn’t exactly human.
The Ghoul Who Loved Me is the first book in a series of young adult monster romance novellas. Funny and sometimes intense, chock full of teens with raging hormones, mental illness, and closets packed with skeletons, Nina Hobson brings to you high school monster fiction at its best.
Come and experience teen angst on a whole ‘nother level.
WARNING
Contains: Sex scenes, mentions of sex, violence, and occasional profanity
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Ian Volkuv was doing the filing in the school office when he saw three gorgeous teens walking out of the principal’s office. The new students were the Hilderbrants, wealthy beyond imagination. But it wasn’t the wealth he saw as he looked at Boston Hilderbrant. Ian has been the school outcast, but he has a crush on Boston, unaware that Boston isn’t even human! Why would these rich kids come to Cleveland High public school when they could attend private schools anywhere in the world?
Amiyah Messon is Ian’s best and only friend. She’s going through his closet, reviewing what he has to wear to the pep rally where Boston will be attending. Finding nothing acceptable, she drags him out shopping. And when she looks over at him, he is actually smiling and laughing with a guy!
Everyone usually ignores Ian as he walks down the hall at school, except for Boston’s two cousins, Tavien and Trenton. His next class is with Boston, and he almost faints when their hands reach for the doorknob of the classroom at the same time. Boston liked Ian but, every time he saw him watching him and tried to smile, Ian would quickly turn away. Boston knows Ian is smart, kind, but socially inhibited. After the pep rally, Boston plans to ask him on a date and will help him get over his shyness. But when he walks into the store to shop for something new for the rally, he sees Ian in a corner kissing Marvin Winnoski, the captain of the football team!
Taliyah Calhoun is about to make her move on the handsome Boston. Not only is he rich, but she will be the most popular girl in school if she can make him her boyfriend. She pretends to trip and fall into him, while Marvin walks by with his arm around Ian and smirks at Boston.
When Gianna and Eliza go to City Hall for an important meeting of some kind. Maibe Malloy, whose family is even richer than the Hilderbrandts, snubbed them as Gianna recalled having eaten Maibe’s uncle the week before… he was delicious. Then the meeting started, and first order of business was a request by Malloy Industries to purchase the Hundred Year Olde Cemetery! What will the Hilderbrandts do if that happens – their ghoul family lives right behind that cemetery! And Maibe’s plans for the property will not be good news for the Hilderbrandts! Can she be stopped? Or is there more at work here than they know?
There is so much going on here, it can be difficult to keep up! Despite the absurdity of the things they do, the characters are likable somehow. There is mystery involved, not only with how and why the football player was suddenly dating Ian, but with the Malloys’ plans for the cemetery. The story line is just crazy enough to be entertaining and humorous. As they say, “Try it, you’ll like it!” And you just might!
Enjoyable paranormal read. A boy meets a boy. This is beginning of rather comex love story. Nothing is as it seems. Well developed characters and relationships among them plus interesting background and reality. All together a good read
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The Ghoul Who Loved Me by Nina Hobson isn’t for me. The characters were shallow. The scenes jumped around and there weren’t good transitions between each scene. Therefore it was confusing on who’s the focus.
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The Ghoul Who Loved Me by Nina Hobson had potential. I liked the idea of a ghoul falling in love with a human. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have read the book. But the execution of the story needs major help. The story was told from so many different points of view that it made the story hard to follow. There were also big-time jumps but no indication of how much time had passed or what had happened during that missed time. There were also constant point of view slips, or head-hopping, with nothing to indicate that the point of view had shifted. There were some inconsistencies and subplots that went nowhere, like why the Colonel didn’t want any of his family to take a human mate. Oh, and there is mpreg, male pregnancy, in the story, not that I have anything against male pregnancy. It’s one of my favorite types of books to read. With the story told through so many different people, though, it was hard to feel the chemistry between Ian and Boston. So it was unbelievable when they said I love you, while Ian was still Marvin’s boyfriend. I did manage to read to the end, but I think I’ll pass on reading books by this author. The author has down that she is also the editor. I would recommend that she find another editor specializing in point-of-view shifts and have her stories re-edited. Oh, and third-person point-of-view stories are supposed to be told in the past tense, not present tense. If you can look past all of those problems, then give it a whirl. Like I said at the beginning, the story had potential.
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The Ghoul Who Loved Me follows the story of Ian and Boston and is filled with Gauls and other supernatural creatures. It is a YA book, but was difficult to follow sometimes due to having too many different POVs. Also, the timing of the book felt off as some chapters spread out and went into detail and other sections felt rushed.
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