Skye has just moved down from Scotland to London to live with her aunt while her mum is taking a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in Australia. If settling into her new school and life wasn't hard enough, Skye is also a ghost-seeing psychic! As the dead that haunt her home begin to get in the way of her social life (you try taking fashion tips from a 16th century ghost), Skye wonders whether she'll ever fit in. Then suddenly, Nico, the most unattainable (and hottest) boy in her school, asks Skye out and she's the talk of the school. She starts to make friends and suddenly it doesn't seem like moving to London was such a bad idea after all.

Her aunt (who is also a psychic) is keen to get her involved with the ghost society of Hackney and introduces Skye to ex-footballer, ghost-boy, Dontay. He takes her on a mission into the heart of Hackney's gangs (where he himself was shot) to try and prevent Dontay's football-crazy brother from making a big mistake. Soon Skye is racing against time to save another footballer's future from a bullet.

The beginning of this book is good, but not great. It feels a little like the life of an average teen with a few ghosts thrown in to make it worth reading. There are a few comments and a few questions that make you keep reading but it's not a real page-turner. Once I had worked this out from the first couple of chapters I decided it was fine and it was only at the beginning where this was a problem (if it was too exciting how was it supposed to reach a climax?). However, by the time I was 3/4 of the way through the book, I began to wonder whether it would ever pick up the pace.

Fortunately, I was not disappointed. It was as if the author had suddenly decided that they wanted to finish the book and hurried to squish all the exciting stuff in. For the next four chapters I could hardly put the book down. It was amazingly gripping and suddenly I wasn't so sceptical of the plot.

The last chapter contains a satisfying ending. I can't say it was quite as exciting as the last few chapters but it ties up all the ends nicely and leaves the heroine...well, I don't want to give the ending away.

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