Dust to Dust

by Melissa Walker

Overview

Perfect for fans of If I Stay or Imaginary Girls, Dust to Dust is the mysterious, thoughtful, and poignant sequel to Melissa Walker’s haunting and heartbreaking novel Ashes to Ashes.

When Callie McPhee miraculously recovers from a tragic accident that should have taken her life, she thought her connection to the ghost world would be severed forever. And that she would never see Thatcher—the ghost she fell in love with in the hereafter—again. But when she receives unexpected signs from Thatcher, she’s led down a dark road toward the angry souls who once tried to steal her soul’s energy for another chance at life.

Now Callie must prevent the real world and the spirit world from colliding, and that could mean saying good-bye to people she’d never imagined she’d lose.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062077394
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	03/19/2024
Series:	Ashes to Ashes (Callie McPhee) Series , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	832 KB
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Melissa Walker grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and is the author of eight young adult novels, including the Violet on the Runway series and Small Town Sinners. In the nonfiction world, she is a magazine editor and writer who works from the comfort of coffee shops in Brooklyn, where she lives with her husband and two young daughters. Find Melissa on Twitter @melissacwalker or visit www.melissacwalker.com.

Melissa Walker grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and is the author of eight young adult novels, including the Violet on the Runway series and Small Town Sinners. In the nonfiction world, she is a magazine editor and writer who works from the comfort of coffee shops in Brooklyn, where she lives with her husband and two young daughters. Find Melissa on Twitter @melissacwalker or visit www.melissacwalker.com.

Editorial Reviews

Paranormal romance done well.” — Kirkus

Praise for Ashes to Ashes: “A beautiful novel about the power of love over life and death.” — Alex Flinn, New York Times bestselling author of Beastly

“An appealing and sometimes-poignant blend of savvy adolescents, young romance and paranormal evil suggests there’s no escaping teen drama—even in the afterlife.” — Kirkus

“Walker infuses standard romance with larger issues of mortality, afterlife, forgiveness, and morality.” — ALA Booklist

From the Publisher

Walker infuses standard romance with larger issues of mortality, afterlife, forgiveness, and morality.

ALA Booklist

Praise for Ashes to Ashes: “A beautiful novel about the power of love over life and death.

Alex Flinn

03/01/2015
Gr 7 Up—In this sequel to Ashes to Ashes (HarperCollins, 2013), Callie is recovering after two months in a coma and catching up on all that she's missed on Earth. While she's reconnecting with her dad and her closest friends, Carson and Nick, Callie dreams of a place where ghosts live—the Prism. As her memory starts to come back, Thatcher risks breaking the rules to warn Callie that not all is well in the Prism. Reena and Leo, the two poltergeists stealing Callie's energy in the Prism, are missing and somehow able to stay on Earth. Callie will not only need to remember what happened to her in the Prism but also to channel her memories to save her closest friends and herself. Callie tells her story in the first person, sharing her experiences as she remembers what happened while she was in between life and death. The narrative focuses more on the relationships between the protagonist and her loved ones, who are recovering and rebuilding after Callie had worked on helping them move on from her "death" while in the Prism. VERDICT Readers need to have read the first book to understand this sequel; fans of the previous installment will find that the story lines and themes are more deeply explored in this follow-up.—Natalie Struecker, Rock Island Public Library, IL

School Library Journal

2015-02-03
Second in a two-book series—but nicely readable as a stand-alone—after Ashes to Ashes (2013), this continues the dual-world adventures of teen Callie. Torn between two lovers and caught between two worlds, Callie is recovering from the coma that thrust her into the Prism, where spirit-guide Thatcher wooed her and ghosts Reena and Leo played with the dark side, attempting to possess bodies of the living and displacing their souls, possibly permanently. Now Callie's coming to terms with both strange truths ("one thing is for sure: My body may have been in that hospital bed, but my soul sure as hell wasn't") and normal teen dramas. Steadfast mortal boyfriend Nick isn't quite as cozy as before, and poltergeist Reena is eyeing best friend Carson for a takeover. Callie's return to the mortal world allows for new characters (Thatcher's living sister; a potential boyfriend for Carson with a convenient knowledge of the occult) and introduces some mystery. Callie's present-tense narration provides access to typical teen thoughts, high jinks and melodrama; "guilt ravages" her mind as she faces "the horrifying truth. A truth that I couldn't prevent. A truth that I brought upon all of us." The intriguing worldbuilding of the initial book is missing; though Callie retains the obliviousness that got her in trouble to begin with, her self-reflection is purely emotional. But with a watery homage to the movie Ghost, will anyone mind? Paranormal romance done well, with a warning: When it comes to incantations, always read the fine print. (Paranormal romance. 12-18)

Kirkus Reviews