The Ghost and the Goth by Stacey Kade

From Goodreads: Alona Dare–Senior in high school, co-captain of the cheer leading squad, Homecoming Queen three years in a row, voted most likely to marry a movie star… and newly dead.

I’m the girl you hated in high school. Is it my fault I was born with it all-good looks, silky blond hair, a hot bod, and a keen sense of what everyone else should not be wearing? But my life isn’t perfect, especially since I died. Run over by a bus of band geeks—is there anything more humiliating? As it turns out, yes—watching your boyfriend and friends move on with life, only days after your funeral. And you wouldn’t believe what they’re saying about me now that they think I can’t hear them. To top it off, I’m starting to disappear, flickering in and out of existence. I don’t know where I go when I’m gone, but it’s not good. Where is that freaking white light already?

Will Killian–Senior in high school, outcast, dubbed “Will Kill” by the popular crowd for the unearthly aura around him, voted most likely to rob a bank…and a ghost-talker.

I can see, hear, and touch the dead. Unfortunately, they can also see, hear and touch me. Yeah, because surviving high school isn’t hard enough already. I’ve done my best to hide my “gift.” After all, my dad, who shared my ability, killed himself because of it when I was fifteen. But lately, pretending to be normal has gotten a lot harder. A new ghost—an anonymous, seething cloud of negative energy with the capacity to throw me around—is pursuing me with a vengeance. My mom, who knows nothing about what I can do, is worrying about the increase in odd incidents, my shrink is tossing around terms like “temporary confinement for psychiatric evaluation,” and my principal, who thinks I’m a disruption and a faker, is searching for every way possible to get rid of me. How many weeks until graduation?

This is our Teen Book Club choice for January, I enjoyed this book a lot there was something about the storyline that was different and it actually included the less popular people that are around in schools throughout the world. The only thing that I would fault is that Will is portrayed on the cover and by the title as a goth but throughout the book he doesn't call himself a goth and he isn't all he does that Gothic is wearing black. That doesn't necessarily mean that someone wears black it makes them a goth. 

The book is split into the stories of both Will and Alona which is an interesting way to read about what each of them is going through, one being Alona and how she is coping with being dead and what she needs to do to get to the other side. Whereas on the other side you have Will who can see the dead and how it is affecting him with his day to day living. The only thing that I didn't like is that I get confused with who the chapter is based on, so I always have to look at the name at the beginning of the chapter so I can refresh myself. 

This is an interesting book and it is definitely one for people to read, but there were parts that I thought were missing and I wanted to find out more Will's friend who was in hospital and I wanted to know why she was there. This is the start in the series and I am not sure that I will read the next one because I don't know if it is going to be the same as this one. The storyline felt like other books that I had read, one that comes to mind are The Riley Bloom novels. I hope that the next one has a bit more to it.