This book follows Kate—a down-bad for him ambulance driver and Nokia-user who has just met dream guy Scott on tinder. The only problem is this fast-burn relationship results in Kate being ghosted by Scott after he asks her to move in to his apartment. Weird, right? Kate shows up to Scott’s apartment with all her belongings, ready to move in, only to find his place empty except for the one thing he left behind—his cellphone.
This book ultimately, comments on the modern obsession with the cellphone and social media. It also poses an honest take on the realities of modern dating—specifically what it’s like to talk to a stranger online. Ghoster truly had everything—creepy twins, demons, online dating lore, text messages from the dead, talk of death cults, mental health, a porn addiction and even horrific ambulance medical calls. If any of that makes you go “huh” this book was written for you.
Overall Thoughts:
I really enjoyed the numerous formats used in this book—the text messages, the joural entries and the dated entries in real-time of Kate uncovering why Scott ghosted her and what happened to him. This book has a fast plot, with short chapters, which made me never want to put it down and every layer of the story kept me guessing. This book was also just funny in a lot of ways. Kate herself, had this fun and witty sense of humor even though she worked a sad job and was essentially being haunted by her boyfriends Scotts and trapped inside his cold apartment.
You’ve got lots of twists, lots of banter, some parts were sad, some parts were graphic, and some parts truly made me think wtf? I mean come on I just loved every second of it and as someone who has been ghosted by many guys in the online dating world, I felt Kates pain, now on second thought—I’m going to get off my phone because you never know what can happen, do you?
