It was cool to learn more about Santa Monica, which I have driven through but not spent any time. Now I know though, that if I had a ton of bucks and any fashion sense, Montana Avenue is the only place to shop.
Jeff is the new kid in super-rich town. His dad did very well in the whole dot.com thing, so he is new to this world of riches, but it isn't the prep school or the new wealth that are causing him problems, its a ghost. The ghost of Kimberlee, who was super-rich in life and went to Jeff's prep school, but she had a big problem, she was a kleptomaniac. Big time. She hid all of the things that she stole, from her teachers, classmates, stores, in a cave on her private beach. She's been haunting the school halls for a year now and no one can see her, until Jeff starts school. She enlists his help to return all of the things that she stole so that her soul can have peace and maybe she won't have to float around in limbo.
I really did like this book, I guess I just wanted it to have a little more meaning. It could have. Jeff is an agnostic and I thought maybe he would be moved by his experience with Kimberlee or something, you know? I don't know...I just thought that this could be a good part of the book, not that it would have to be Christian or preachy or anything. Or even if his whole experience affirmed his agnosticism (is that possible, given the nature of agnosticism, I don't know!) or something! But it just didn't seem to impact him at all, for more belief or for less belief, and I found that not very believable. Interacting with a ghost would impact you in a big way, I think! It just had a chance to be something deeper, like a Sara Zarr book, but it didn't go that way. And that's okay! I mean, I am the gal who loves Stone Barrington and The Fame Game! I just wanted a little more from this. Still, I would recommend it.
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