Ghostly Bodies

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Description

John, an introverted medium, meets a ghost named Lona, an extroverted poltergeist. He is the first person she could speak to in what felt like forever to her. So, she follows him home and now he's stuck with a new roommate. She finds out she can possess dolls, which is pretty handy and they decide to buy her a sex doll and to learn American Sign Language. They fall for each other in the process.

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Information

Status: Completed
Year: 2020
Author: SakkaofPi

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Rating: 4.2/ 5.0
Followers: 37
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Community Reviews(3)

AdtfrostRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This author is doing very well for himself dipping his feet in the water here. I really like the direction he takes things & his writing style in general. I cannot wait to see what is in store for us in the future. Taking a chance on a small new author is always a gamble. This one consistently delivers in every creative medium he's in. The stories are great, but so is his YouTube channel. It's nice to see this kind of passion from a creative type these days. It's easy to give up, it's hard to put yourself out there when nobody knows you & most likely nobody is going to give you recognition for a long time, if ever. I'd say he's worth looking at in that regard. 5/5 story & 5/5 author.
Witchbug13Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I highly recommend this for anyone interested in a slice-of-life style story that has a little more meat on its bones. The characters have a certain depth and charm to them that make them easily relatable and lovable. (Honestly, Lona and Karen are the best.) The pacing is very forgiving and it is an easy thing to set down to continue reading later. It's very easy to get right back into the story without feeling lost and needing to backtrack too far, if at all. The humor is a little niche but it is certainly right up my alley so no complaints there. If I had to make any complaints, it is just the rare typo. The whole package so far, despite the core theme centering around ghosts, is light hearted and funny. This is simply just a good read and I look forward to future chapters.
An Update
As it has been a while, I've gone back and reread this story. I feel that my original review still stands as I enjoyed this story just as much on my second read-through.
The organization and overall style was very interesting to track as you can practically map out the author's progress as he learned what he was doing and became more comfortable with his writing. It takes a few chapters to find his feet, but he does this rather quickly. The characters become more tangible and relatable in such a way that its a sheer treat for this reader to watch them grow into this amazingly complex cast. Admittedly, I did find the ending to this tale to be bittersweet, but it fit in with the themes present in Ghostly Bodies. The humor is still right up my alley and I know I've had my fair share of laughter and tears.
My only major criticism (and in the grand scheme of things, this is a very trivial matter) would have to be word choice in certain scenes, hence the 4 ½ stars for the style. There are very, very few instances of this happening and I think a part of that might have been a dawning awareness that there are certain phrases that can be jarring enough to disrupt the readers' immersion. Right
NewbageRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
Update: everything I said below is still true. Except the ending, which had no buildup, was extremely abrupt, and fairly unsatisfying. We're talking game of Thrones final season levels of disappointment here.
So if you're someone who didn't think the final season of game of Thrones was bad, then I still recommend this story, because it was fairly good except maybe for the last 3 or 4 chapters.
Otherwise, it might not be worth the feeling of disappointment at the end for you to start reading this. I'll be updating the story and overall score to reflect this new development.
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Decent grammar. Compelling plot. Believable world building. Realistic and and sympathetic characters. A mature subject, handled in a relatively tasteful way, and balanced out by good humour and comic relief. The author does a good job making you care about the characters' plights which is ultimately what you want in a story.
The main character seems believably introverted loner (as one would imagine anyone who grew up sing ghosts would end up becoming) without being a off-putting loser. The key is in how he'll stand up for himself when necessary, and isn't particularly incompetent, spineless, or deliberately self sabatoging.
For those not turned off by the idea of a ghost using a sex doll as a body to interact with the world, I do indeed recommend it.
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Decent grammar. Compelling plot. Believable world building. Realistic and and sympathetic characters. A mature subject, handled in a relatively tasteful way, and balanced out by good humour and comic relief. The author does a good job making you care about the characters' plights which is ultimately what you want in a story.
The main character seems believably introverted loner (as one would imagine anyone who grew up sing ghosts would end up becoming) without being a off-putting loser. The key is in how he'll stand up for himself when necessary, and isn't particularly incompetent, spineless, or deliberat