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In an unnamed city, the Elysian Society allows paying clients to reconnect with their lost loved ones. The workers, known as bodies, spend their days in a numb routine, wearing the discarded belongings of the dead and swallowing pills to summon spirits. Edie has been a body for five years, an unusual record. Her success depends on her carefulness. When she channels the wife of Patrick Braddock, an enigmatic widower, she becomes obsessed with the glamorous couple. Despite the strange circumstances surrounding Sylvia Braddock's death, Edie pursues Patrick outside the Elysian Society walls, moving deeper into his life. After years of hiding, Edie can't tell whether she's falling in love or whether she's being possessed by Sylvia. She takes increasing risks to keep Patrick within her grasp. But as a disturbing murder case brings attention to the Elysian Society, Edie feels her quiet life unraveling. She grapples with both Sylvia's growing influence and with her own long-buried secrets.
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This book was not what I expected. However, this book has it all: part mystery thriller, part supernatural ghost story, part romance. Perhaps that's why it was good not great, it tried to do too much.
Edie has worked as a body for five years - longer than anyone else has made it. She rents out her body to ghosts, allowing loved ones the opportunity to speak to their loved ones from the afterlife. The premise is spine tingling, and Edie's journey into a romantic relationship with one of her clients was "haunting" - for lack of a better word.
The romance part of this book was just too weird. I didn't buy it, and I didn't feel any connections to the characters, besides maybe Lee who was a background character.
The thriller/mystery part of this book wasn't enough. The book was slow, and I didn't really feel invested in the story at any point. I kept reading because I just had to see how the whole thing played out, mostly because I was so disturbed by the premise of bodies and the afterlife.
If you're looking for something unlike anything you've ever read - this would be it. If you're looking for something that will make you think about the afterlife and what happens to our loved ones after they die, The Possessions will keep you thinking. But if you're looking for a good page-turning thriller, I'd look elsewhere.
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