The synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Holly Mullen has felt lost and lonely ever since her boyfriend, Rob, died in a tragic accident. But she has no idea that as she goes about her days, Rob’s ghost is watching over her. He isn’t happy when he sees his best friend, Jason, trying to get close to Holly—but as a ghost, he can do nothing to stop it. As their uncertain new relationship progresses, the past comes back to haunt Holly and Jason. Her Alzheimer’s-stricken grandfather claims to be communicating with the ghost of Rob. Could the messages he has for Holly be real? And if so, how can the loved ones Rob left behind help his tortured soul make it to the other side?

My thoughts: I loved this book for a bunch of different reasons.  There's a lot of intensity in many, many different facets of Holly's life, starting with the fact that she's essentially the caregiver of her little sister, her mom, and now her grandfather.  And she's wrestling with coming to terms of the loss of her boyfriend, in an accident she was in with him, on both an immature - and mature - level.  The fact that it's also written from the perspective of Rob - which provided a completely different story than I've read before- and Jason, who was not only falling for Holly but was Rob's best friend and realizing that Rob was the glue that held a lot of things together, and dealing with the fallout of seeing things in a different light without Rob holding it together.  It could have been a great story from that alone, but adding in not only the grandfather, and then the grandfather and Rob's relationship?  One of the most unique, and best, stories of this year.