It's the story of a girl, Anya, who falls into a deep well in the woods one day and meets a ghost. Anya gets rescued, and unwittingly brings a ghost from the well back home with her. Everything seems great - Emily seems to be the awesome best friend Anya has always wanted - until things start to go wrong.
I liked Anya, even though she had some deeply unlikeable qualities. She was so awkward in her skin and so desperate to fit in and really didn't realise how good she had things until the ghost started to try and take over her life. I liked Emily too, until I started to realise what a complete sociopath she was!
The drawings in this book were very plain and made the story really easy to follow. A lot of the time I get put off graphic novels if the drawings are too fussy or complicated or interfere wit the text and this wasn't the case here.
The main theme is basically envy - of others' lives and how we always seem to perceive that other people have it better than we do. You've got Emily who was envious of the guy who ditched her and then of Anya's life when she got out of the well and Anya is envious of the other kids in her school and tries desperately to hide her Russian heritage. All she sees are her physical imperfections and her annoying mum and all the skinny blonde people around her and she tries so hard to be like them instead of embracing who she is.
The only thing I wasn't keen on was that the story felt a bit rushed and ended too soon. Otherwise this was a really great read.
4 stars