The reader is forced to feel the story, but unlike the choose-your-own-adventure books by R L Stine, you are strapped in for the character’s wild obsession with love and dealing with the
Lisa Taddeo’s ability to tap into the psyche of a character is enviable. In her latest collection of short stories, Ghost Lover, she presents a complex array of women with each of their voices distinct. They are so real you can almost touch them on paper, feel their presence and relate to their perspective. The nine stories here read like biographical snippets on the minds of these women, exploring their desires, anxieties and truths.
Each story has something a little different. The titular Ghost Lover is written in the second person, which is quite an effective way to sit the reader squarely in the shoes of its lead character who runs a dating service that helps clients craft the perfect text messages to the person of their desire. “You are a clinician of the text. You can eviscerate, palpate, abrogate with a mild word, combined with cunning punctuation,” Taddeo writes.
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