Couldn't get into this one - i think it's written for a more YA audience.

You might like this book if:
- You like young adult genre
- You don’t mind some swearing
- You like sci-fi-type genre
- You like reading about a group of people that are different from mainstream society
- You like one-dimensional bad guys
- You like very headstrong protagonist
- You like books set in contemporary time
- You don’t mind some deception
- You don’t mind a small cliffhanger
- You don’t mind some stereotypes
- You like teenage infatuations

This book is the first book in a series ( )

Synopsis - Olivia Black just discovered that her ghost hand, a rare birth defect, can do more than light up a room. It can reach into people and pull things out. Things from the darkest depths of the human psyche never meant to exist in this world.

Olivia can pickpocket the soul.

But she can't control her ability, or the strange items it extracts, and the only thing between Olivia and the men bent on taking the power of her hand is a boy she barely knows and doesn't trust.

Review - I really enjoyed this book! I was really intrigued by the synopsis when I first read it. I'd never heard of a plot like this so I really looked forward to reading the book. I loved the way Olivia's ghost hand was described, how it worked, how it was revealed that other people had this 'birth defect.' Also, I liked Olivia a lot as a heroine. She felt like a real person to me and she was really likable and I rooted for her! She's a teenage girl struggling with issues that are bigger than she is [life and death situations due to her PSS and a conspiracy around it] but also, she's got 'regular' teenage problems - she doesn't get a long with her mom, she lost her dad, and she might have feelings for Marcus [which is tied to the conspiracy!].
I found her just a really relate-able character and very true to life. So many times in YA novels we have heroes/heroines that come across as trying to play at being grownups and it always falls really flat for me. I didn't get that sense at all with Ghost Hand. Olivia was a great character and narrator.
I also liked the other characters in the book - the other PSS kids.
I think there's a lot of room for this book to grow into a series and I hope that Ripley Patton continues! I'm really intrigued by all the ways PSS can manifest and also in Olivia's abilities.
I definitely recommend this book! ( )

While the writing was OK and the story was interesting, the story moved entirely too slowly for my liking. ( )

Olivia Black's life is pretty much as normal as it is going to get. The fact that she has a ghost hand does cause quite a few stares and disbelieving glance, but since she has dealt with it since she was born, it is really nothing new to her. So when her hand suddenly starts to act seemingly on its own, even she is quite freaked out.

But a strange boy who is new to town doesn't seem at all surprised or disturbed by her hand's sudden actions. In fact, he doesn't seem disturbed by her hand at all and the fact that you can see right through it and it glows blue. BLUE!!! Normal hands do not do that. So why isn't he running in the opposite direction?

These are the very thoughts that I imagine running through Olivia's mind in the beginning of this book. How can a person so new to town be so calm around something so unexplainable and rare? As the pages turn and the plot unravels, Olivia finds that he knows more about her condition than he lets on. In fact, he may know enough to save her from a fate worse than death in her supposedly safe little town.

I absolutely devoured this book. The story is one that I have never read before, and I could not get through each chapter fast enough. All in all, it was a phenomenal read and I am definitely going to have to check out the second in the series, Ghost Hold, really soon.