Author: Greg Van Eekhout
Genre: fantasy
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Summary (provided by publisher): Zenith and her friends may be dead—but lucky for them, even getting ghosted wasn’t enough to tear them apart.
The four of them were thick as thieves long before an unfortunate lab accident sent them careening into the afterlife. So when they hear about a machine that could return them to the land of the living, they are determined to steal it.
Unfortunately, the magical device belongs to a dangerous necromancer who’s out for their ectoplasm.
Fortunately, they’re great at heists. Because pulling off the score of their deathtimes is no job for an amateur.
My opinion: Take a standard heist story and add some supernatural elements and you have this book. Our primary cast is a group of ghosts facing off against a man described as a necromancer but also accurately called an arch-capitalist. So yes, they are planning a theft but the victim is a "bad dude" so the theft is justified. The characters are reasonably complex for readers of this age group and the pacing is solid.
Advanced Reader Copy provided by NetGalley
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