Whisper

     

      Whisper, by Stacey Campbell, is the second in the Lakeview series. While the novel can stand alone, I do recommend getting the back story from Hush. I really enjoyed Whisper, so much in fact that I'm halfway through the third book, Scream. Stay tuned for that review soon!
      Whisper centers around a boarding school in Canada that ranges from 8-12th graders. One of those students is Halle, whom this novel focuses on. Her older sister, Blakely, is the center of the first novel Hush. Halle is super excited to attend Lakeview, where her sister attended for five years. One of her sister's best friends, Leigh, is a year 12 at the school and takes Halle under her wing. The premise of this novel is about a ghost, Elsie, who was the school's founders daughter. Halle becomes wrapped up in this when she discovers Elsie's journal under a floorboard when volunteering to clean their old apartment. Elsie starts to overtake Halle's life, giving her nightmares and appearing to be moving things around when Halle isn't there. Halle learns through the journal that Elsie hid the school's flag and crest shortly before she died, and Halle is on a mission to find these items to set Elsie's spirit free.
      Meanwhile, we learn about Leigh and her troubled past with a boy in her grade, Calum. The two used to date, but after a nasty mysterious breakup, the two hate each other. Unfortunately, Leigh's best friend at school is going out with Calum's best friend and the two are forced to be civil with one another. But the chemistry between them still runs hot and the long school take of someone from each class eventually getting married has the talk around campus.
      In this second novel in the Lakeview series, relationships develop and a ghost is chased while attending boarding school. Halle is the sister of a princess in Europe, trying to forge her own story at Lakeview. Between dodging Missy the bully and falling for her roommate's twin brother, this novel is filled with ups and downs that can excite any reader. I'm not normally one for a romance novel, but this doesn't read as another teen romance flick.