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    The Ghosts of Ashbury High
    The Ghosts of Ashbury High
    The Ghosts of Ashbury High
    Audiobook13 hours

    The Ghosts of Ashbury High

    Written by Jaclyn Moriarty

    Narrated by Bianca Amato, Toby Leonard Moore, Colin Moore and

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    About this audiobook

    Best-selling novelist Jaclyn Moriarty has garnered critical acclaim for brilliantly interweaving letters, journal entries, blog postings, and homework assignments into contemporary tales brimming with mystery. Amelia and Riley have transferred to Ashbury for their senior year. In love since they were 14, they dance their nights away and sleepwalk their way through school. Their fellow students long to be drawn into their cool, self-contained world. But when Riley fears he's losing Amelia to the past and asks his peers for help, things take an ominous turn.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 18, 2010
    ISBN9781449843427
    The Ghosts of Ashbury High
    Author

    Jaclyn Moriarty

    Jaclyn Moriarty grew up in Sydney, Australia and studied in the United States and England. She spent four years working as a media and entertainment lawyer and is now writing full time. Jaclyn is the author of bittersweet teen bestsellers FEELING SORRY FOR CELIA, FINDING CASSIE CRAZY and BECOMING BINDY MACKENZIE.

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    • 5/5
      Every time I've read Jaclyn Moriarty's books, I think: Oooh, this book is just so delicious that I can't imagine she's ever going to think up such awesomely wonderful sentences again. But I keep getting proven wrong. Dreaming of Amelia took me longer to read, just because I kept pausing to re-read sentences, because they felt so good in my brain :) However, I am determined to maintain my fan-girl tendencies and try to bring you a dignified review. Some info about the book:The story's told in a series of student's HSC exam responses (written essays of the gothic nature), blog posts (with oh-so-awesome comments), memos, emails and meeting agenda sheets, from multiple POV's: students from Ashbury High and staff as well.And, because Jaclyn is obviously a genius, she presents them all in a sometimes chronological time line, other times not and other times overlapping so you end up with a layered and slightly chaotic telling of the events. Each layer adds intrigue and a different POV that swivels the story around slightly. So... it is unlike any other YA book out there, really. It's like Jaclyn just invented her own thing and I can't really compare it to anything else I've read. Because the structure is so different to many books, you just have to sink into to it and settle in for the ride.The main thing you need to know about this book is that it is Funny.Also, whimsical.Expect to feel good. And smile a lot.And if you're a laugh-out-loud-while-reading kinda person, you will be laughing out loud, loudly.Plus, I kind of ached in some of the more poignant moments.Sometimes, it gets a little bit crazy. But I like that.And, for me, I just adore the characters.I particularly loved re-visting Em and Lyd and Cassie (of The year of Secret Assignments, who also cameo in Bindy MacKenzie), they are some of my fave YA characters ever. And, Seb. Sigh. Riley's not bad either, I definitely feel the love there.And och, aye, Toby's Irish history and convict storyline was grand, to be sure (okay, so that sounds lame from me, but from Toby, you will feel the Irish love).Other random things to love:there's an axe murdererthere's a mental asylum of the old fashioned kindeveryone's going crazy about Riley and Amelia and the mystery and wonder of them...there's ghostly activity at Ashbury Highthere's love and broken hearts and kisses in a classroom the staff at the school are just as gloriously entertaining as the studentsyou will learn about black holes. I know!there's parties and secrets and nostalgic moments that made me feel nostalgic tooOverall though, I am in awe of the lovely chaotic storyline and the weaving of it all together and the beautiful, mysterious climax - how does Jaclyn do that? She's a genius and I don't think her style can be mimicked - it's so deliciously unique.I keep this one near my bedside, so I can randomly flick through it and re-read passages. It's very therapuetic :)
    • 3/5
      This would be my fourth favourite Moriarty book. I prefer Finding Cassie Crazy and Feeling Sorry for Celia followed by the Bindy McKenzie one which was a bit slow to start. This is still enjoyable - liked it more than The Spell Book of Listen Taylor.
    • 4/5
      Dreaming of Amelia is the fourth companion to the epistolary Ashbury/Brookfield novels Feeling Sorry for Celia, Finding Cassie Crazy, and The Betrayal of Bindy Mackenzie. It is about year 12/HSC insanity, history, secrets, misunderstandings, second chances, friendship and ghosts. (The back cover says 'the story of ghosts and secrets, of passion, locked doors and femme fatales, of final-year-of-high-school tension and intrigue', which works, too.) The story revolves around Amelia and Riley, new scholarship year 12 students with mysterious pasts, and is told through assessment pieces concerning memoir written for the English Extension 3 elective on Gothic fiction, along with emails, blog entries, meeting minutes and letters.Once I got beyond the beginning and settled into the story, I couldn't put it down. Despite the seriousness and the somber tone which creeps in, it is entertaining. It is also cleverly told, as the mystery unravels and pieces begin to fall into place. Moriarty has a knack for showing that pieces were not what you previously believed and fit together in unexpected ways, and for bringing in a twist or two which seem completely out of the blue and yet fit in perfectly. Because much of what is told is written for assessment - and furthermore, assessment requiring students to write in the style of Gothic fiction - you never get the full story, and the question of unreliable narrators is gently raised. You get to know each of the characters intensely, and yet there are always omissions, and the story pulls away and turns to another character who may relate similar events but has a different perspective, and different things they choose to omit.
      Neither ghost stories or Gothic fiction appeal particularly to me, but Dreaming of Amelia manages to be a ghost story I found very satisfying. It explores ghosts as metaphors, imagined ghosts, ghosts which turn out to be something else entirely, along with the unexplainable specters of the past. Or something.It is also a satisfying conclusion to a series, since I imagine Moriarty is unlikely to write about this group of characters once they are no longer high school students. Although I would have loved to have heard from several characters who aren't featured - the main voices are Riley, Amelia, Lydia (from FCC), Emily (from FCC & tBoBM), Toby (from tBoBM) and and Mr Botherit, the English teacher responsible for the pen-pal exchange between Ashbury and Brookfield students in FSC and FCC - there are references to other characters which let you know how they're going, if only in a small way. Dreaming of Amelia mightn't win an award for my favourite, but I enjoyed reading it and liked it much more than I expected to.
    • 2/5
      The final year of high school is a year full of changes, messing about, dreaming of the future, farewells, and of cause exams. But at Ashbury High, it is also a year full of ghosts. There are two new students attending Ashbury High this year, Amelia and Riley, and there is something very different about them, but no one can quite guess what...Amelia and Riley are hiding a secret, actually they are hiding more then one secret, but the secret that brought them to Ashbury High for their final year of high school has something to do with their new class mate Lydia.Lydia, however, seems to be the one person at Ashbury High who is not interested in Amelia and Riley. Emily, one of Lydia's best friends, has becomes increasing obsessed with the new students; and also with a ghost that's haunting the school. While Tobias, another class mate, finds himself drawn further and further into the past. But somehow it all seems related to Amelia and Riley.Dreaming of Amelia is a ghost story like you've never read before. Told through exam answers, essays, emails and blog entries, it is unique in its format. However, all the chopping and changing in this book seemed to draw the story out unnecessarily long, it also made it difficult to finish this book as it kept loosing my attention. While the story (when you get to it) is somewhat interesting, there was way too much back tracking and too many versions of the same events given over and over to keep this book from flowing.
    • 4/5
      The Good Stuff The note at the beginning helps clarify what is going on in the story, I think I would have been really lost if I hadn't read that Loved the gothic touches to the story Outstanding dialogue that makes you laugh your butt off at times The character of Tobias is so loveable and fun and introspective The scene between the ghost and is brilliantly funny! Descriptions makes the story and the people feel so real The chapter on the history of Australia -- spectacularly funny and interesting The chapter on the history of Ireland (see above why) Very unusual and intriguing The Not so Good StuffCould have been a little shorter This type of changing narrative can be confusing to the reader -- or just me -- just warning you to pay attention and no speed reading eitherFavorite Quotes/Passages"The dynamics of first impressions," said the question. My first impression of this question is that it sucks""Anyway, England goes: Not that country looks pretty -- we might take it! (That was their way in those days)""Eventually I realized what it was. If you can't ever escape, how can you come back to tell us that you can't escape?""Think about it. If I deserve good marks in some subjects then logically I deserve them in the rest. It's a mathematical equation and maths is always right. (Otherwise, what's the point of it.)""You thought that my haunting was restricted to this house? I like an occasional Coke from the 7-Eleven myself, you know."What I LearnedWhat a Fetch is -- and no I am not telling you, read the darn book already Many fascinating theories on black holes - makes you think Who should/shouldn't readPretty much anyone over 12 will find something to enjoy