A hilarious blend of horror and thriller.

Let's take a quick break from the life sucking vortex that is our cell phones and talk about this book! Ghoster by Jason Arnopp is a hilarious blend of supernatural horror and thriller, I couldn’t get enough of it. This book was a refreshing change from my usual reads in the horror genre. Jason Arnopp has a great sense of humour while still keeping this spooky. Aside from being quirky and funny, the book really shines a light on society’s addiction to their devices. It certainly made me think about my own addiction to my phone. This was a well rounded read that checked off a lot of boxes for me as a reader but I felt that it was a little lengthy. Regardless of the page count, I believe this book has everything you as a reader need to be entertained. 

It's not often you get something this funny in horror fiction. At least not without sacrificing the narrative in some way. I have seen some attempts to add comedy but it always feels wrong, as if maybe the author was trying to hard. Jason Arnopp is a natural and his humor seems to blend well with the story giving it that special something to stand out in the genre. I would love to see the authors Google search history while doing research for this book. Jason Arnopp, Please don't tell me this was mostly based on personal experience. I don't want to believe the Death Grip Cult is a real thing!

I think the issues the book presents are so interesting. Let's face the facts, society has a serious addiction. There are studies that suggest the average person Is on their phone six to twelve hours a day. That is a devastating statistic when you think about it. Now, here's something else to consider. If you sleep six to eight hours out of every twenty four hour day then that means the average person is staring at a screen for six to twelve hours of their sixteen hours of awake time. So the question is, what are you supposed to be doing when your staring at your phone? Driving, studying, working, or even parenting. Are you putting others at risk because your distracted by your device? This is the problem the author presents his characters in Ghoster. Can they resist the urge or will they succumb to the addiction in the search to find answers to the mysterious disappearance of Scott? 

Ghoster was a tad lengthy at 496 pages but it did go by fairly quickly. I think that readers won't mind terribly especially because the author is constantly spouting hilarious narrative page-after-page. The length of the book might have been longer than desirable but I wonder if the author could achieve the same comic relief in a ghost story by cutting the page count down. I am not sure that he could have. Honestly, I think Jason Arnopp wrote a hell of a good story here and regardless of my quarreling thoughts on length, I can't imagine missing a moment of this reading experience. 

I rate Ghoster by Jason Arnopp is 4 / 5 stars. This might be the most fun I've had reading in a long time. The authors unique sense of humor mixed with a suspenseful ghost story makes for an extremely entertaining read. I would absolutely recommend this book for fans of horror fiction that need a good laugh.

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too stupid and unbelievable

hard to get through. kept hoping it would be more of a murder mystery type story. ghosts mixed with fixation on phones hard to get into for me. Lead character was annoyingly stupid hard to imagine she was bright enough to be an emt. To compare this guy to Stephen King is an insult to King.

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Horrible and complete waste of time

You’re already halfway through the book before it starts to get ridiculous and so you finish it and when you get to the end you shake your head as to how such a book could actually get published

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