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First off, I have to sat that I adore this cover and the whole story is one that I adored as well. I the description it tells that this is a re-telling of Baroness Orczy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel and since I haven’t read anything about it, I went into this just thinking that it was a ghost story. And it’s told from Jeff’s POV, which by the way, was great…
It centers around Jeff, who is the new kid at school, who happens to be the only one who can see Kimberlee. Jeff isn’t a bad kid at all, he seem to be down to earth and doesn’t really fit into the whole snobby rich kid stereotype, even though that is exactly where he ends up going to school with a whole school filled with kids just like that. I really liked him, he was sarcastic and funny. But the story really doesn’t revolve around him, it is mostly about Kimberlee. The ultimate mean girl kleptomaniac, that died a year ago and has been hanging around in the halls of the school. She has very few, if any redeeming qualities. I will give her some credit, she did do some thing that me didn’t make me despise her, so I guess you can say she did end up making me like her, just a little.
With a ghost that had some unfinished business made the pace was fast and fun. The characters were realistic with flaws and secrets that they held closely. Of course there is a budding romance, but I just never really felt the connection between Jeff and Sera. She had many secrets, that I believe made her hard to know anything about. One thing that I think really stood out for me is this isn’t a ghost reformed because she found some new found nice personality, she remained the same till the end. It was just who she was and she certainly was one complex girl. There were a few twists thrown in, some you could see coming but it didn’t bother me at all, because everything did come together at the end.
There is some funniness, new loves and closure. Life After Theft is a fun book, that I really did enjoy. If you’re looking for a light and quirky book, this is just that book.