Joanna Wallace, You’d Look Better as a Ghost

“We all need a little humor in our life. Laughter lightens the psychic load and sometimes the darker the better. Such is the case with this mordantly funny and, dare I say touching novel. Clair is a bit of a psychopath. If you irritate her for some reason like cutting in line at her favorite coffee shop, she might think you’d be better off no longer in this world. Her father recognized this idiosyncrasy and tried to shield the world from her as best he could but now, he’s dead (natural causes) and the one person who loved her enough to protect her from herself is gone and she is lost. Filled with black humor, and showing a kinder (well sort of kinder) conniving side to Claire this is proof that sometimes all you can do is laugh.” — Pete Mock