Lights by Brenna Thummler

This is the third in a series, and I am torn between calling it an excellent standalone for just one reason. The reason is that the emotional ride the characters have been in in the past two books makes this more satisfying, but even if you stumbled on this without prior knowledge, I’d think it would still be deep and meaningful (or so I’d assume since I cannot confirm that fact). We have two girls who bonded over the course of the last story over a ghost who is trying to explore his new world. In this book, finally, we get to know Wendell’s past. Wendell has been a restless ghost, and we get to know why that might be the case. Both girls, who are of different temperaments, were thrown together when both behaved outside the norm of the ‘regular’ girls in school. It is now up to them to see their friendship through, even as they have different ideas as to how to help Wendell. The dynamics of friendship are both intriguing and fragile, as many of us might have experienced ourselves. All the emotions are set forward so simply that they will definitely take the reader by surprise at their simplicity. I definitely liked this the best of the three and think that together, they pose a perfect package. It is one of the easier graphic novels to understand while being deep enough to evoke emotional reactions from the readers. I received an ARC thanks to NetGalley and the publishers, but the review is entirely based on my own reading experience.