A Ghosty Holiday Read

This month, the club officially chose to read Good Spirits by B.K. Borison. This was a very popular pick, but I have to admit that I had my reservations as I began reading. Initially, it gave A Christmas Carol vibes, and I was not feeling like reading a Dickens retelling. Plus, I had just finished a particularly funny holiday read (Meghan Quinn’s Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal), and was not in the mood for anything somber or involving ghosts.

The main characters were a hot Ghost of Christmas Past and an overall lovely and all-too-loving girl named Harriet who is in love with Christmas. Together, they revisit her memories, many of which involved having an unkind family dynamic, in hopes of finding where she has gone wrong in her life. I wasn’t into it. Who wants to be haunted during the Christmas season? Or revisit awful memories??

But…about 100 pages in, our ghost’s magic begins to go haywire and they begin traveling backward in time to revisit his past, and it is clear that nothing is as it should be. Our hot ghost also manages to fall in love with Harriet rather quickly, and through some kind of magic that I do not understand but could definitely appreciate, he has enough of a physical form for their connection to really blossom, if you know what I mean.

Basically, the story quickly pivoted from a haunting to a story about two souls who are destined to find one another, and I’d be lying if I said that I am not a sucker for destiny. By the time the story ended, I was in deep, hoping that these two would find a way to be together—time, distance, and corporeality be damned. It did not disappoint. If that’s your flavor for holiday magic, you cannot go wrong with this one.