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In a fast-paced, sexy, ghostly adventure, a publicist at the top of her game must confront her secret mystical past. To be a client of Gwendolyn Montgomery’s—New York’s most powerful publicist at Sublime Creative—is to be infused with a certain oomph, a mysterious glamour. She seems to have created the ideal life with her handsome new boyfriend, the perfect match. But Gwendolyn has a legion of long-buried secrets that could unravel everything. After a grisly, bizarre incident at the Brooklyn Museum, Gwendolyn begins to realize that something nefarious is happening tied directly to her past, right as Fonsi Harewood comes back into her world. Fonsi is a queer Latinx psychic from the South Bronx who’s caught up in a love triangle with a ghost and his mortal ex. He’s able to communicate with the dead, and he comes with a dire warning for Gwendolyn that the barrier between humans and spirits is weakening. Gwendolyn would prefer not to have anything to do with ghostly drama. Yet in order to get to the bottom of the spookiness derailing her life and threatening the world, she must face the demons she’d long left behind. The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery is a sensuous, funny, mystical adventure that will leave you spellbound as you keep the pages turning.
Publication Year: 2025
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The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery is a campy horror-fantasy that is in turns ridiculous and horrifying. Thing start to go wrong for Gwendolyn, a high-powered publicist, when her star-studded events are sabotaged by mysterious means. At the same time, Fonsi, a queer psychic shopkeeper in a forbidden relationship with a ghost, discovers that the line between the human world and the place beyond is becoming dangerously thin, and Gwendolyn might be the only one who can save New York from an incoming horde of ghosts. I really loved the premise, and Gwendolyn and Fonsi were both sympathetic and likable characters to follow; the sabotaging of Gwendolyn's events and Fonsi's ghost affair were great starts that pulled me in. Unfortunately, though, the story suffered from an overload of flashbacks and memory scenes that really dragged down the pacing, so I sort of lost interest by the time I got into the second half and things started coming together. Still, if a ghostly romp through NYC sounds like a good time, this one might be for you! —— Is it queer? Yes! Is it diverse? Yes! How long did it take? Totally forgot to time this one, my bad.