Book Review: The Next by Stephanie Gangi
Publisher: St. Martin ’s
Press
I requested this book because it said that it as a tale of
love, revenge, and ghosts. That seemed to be right up my alley because I am
such a horror nut. I’m disappointed to say that this is not what I got at all.
We start with Joanna DeAngelis who is at home dying from her
second bout of Stage 4 cancer. As someone who’s had a mother with cancer this
hit close to home. You would figure that at this time she would be home amongst
her two adult daughters and trying to soak in their love while she still can.
Instead she is obsessed with her phone, social media, and her ex-love Ned. Ned
went out for groceries one day and never came back. When he turns back up he
has a new celebrity girlfriend and a baby on the way and has become a minor
celebrity himself.
When she passes away, all the rage and anger about her loss
of Ned brings her back as a ghost. She’s a nasty ghost. She is selfish and
heartless and bent on revenge. She is not a likable character at all and it
makes me dislike the book that much more.
Instead of checking in on her adult daughters and basking in
a second chance to get some more love from them she is intent on destroying
Ned. It gets exhausting and draining to read.
I’m not going to spoil the ending of the book and will only
say that I was dissatisfied. The last chapter or so did not redeem the whole of
the book like it could have.
I received a copy of this book from Netgalley.com in
exchange for an honest review.
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