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The biggest question I have about this book is its ethics:
(1) You're in your granddaughter's body to keep it safe, but you go out and smoke to ruin your granddaughter's lungs, go out and hang out with a bad crowd, dye her hair orange, and talk on the phone with a stranger from myspace using your granddaughter's home phone number so that he'll call there again?!
-How could a real grandmother, who supposedly love you, use your body to do things like that! The eating of three/four bowls of ice cream was not ethical but it did not harm her as much as these.
-How could you NOT want to get back to your body back when you're grandmother is doing such things? I would be afraid that she was going to have sex with the stranger!
-This part made me actually think that the grandmother was going to steal her body and that's why she couldn't get back.
(2) The guy you like obviously only thinks of you as a friend, so you use another girl's body to date him?
-He obviously doesn't like you because he never invited you to the party. Unless he just didn't want to invite you because he was afraid you wouldn't like the drinking, but that's never mentioned so obviously not.
-He obviously has the hots for this girl and you're egging it on! Don't you want him to like you, not this girl. Stop flirting with this girl's body and return to your own and buy some girl's clothes. If you really want a guy, use your own body to do it with!
-Keeps making them matchy-matchy. Like I know all of your favorite spots, because you revealed it to the real me and not the me-Larissa.
(3) You don't even want to return to your body?
-Grandmother is ruining you life and you don't want to immediately get back?
-Swim try-outs and you're still thinking about staying in Larissa's body one more day?
-Larissa is suffering in the ghost-like stage and you don't even care? And while she says she does, she obviously doesn't or she would have tried harder to get back to her own body.
-Using her body to date the guy you like, making out with him, sneaking out which could end up making her lose any chance of seeing her father again!
(4)Guy obviously doesn't like you-stop chasing after him.
-Doesn't invite you to parties.
-Tells Larissa he thinks of you as a guy.
-Obviously ignores you at the picnic table while he stares at Larissa.
-But he cares enough to make sure you get home okay and gives you a shoe he only got back so that he could give it to Larissa.
-Where's your self-pride?
The only good ethical things about this book was that she used Larissa's body to save one of the little boys and she helped Larissa get her father back. So on a scale of one to ten of ethics, one being no ethics and ten being ethical, this book scores a two [and I'm really being generous with the two].

Unanswered Questions
-I still don't even know how she got back to her body because she obviously still wanted to be Larissa, unless worrying about her mom earlier did it?
-Is her grandmother ever going to back the afterlife?
-How is her grandmother going to help her when she goes to college or moves out if she's bond to the house?
-Does Nate really care for her more than just one of the guys now? And was it proof when he had to make them follow her home?
-Is she ever going to get some girl clothes to wear? [other than the sandals]
-Her dad's identity?
-What was really the point of Avon? She could have left her out of it.
-Is she going to dye her hair back to normal? Orange seriously?

Cover:
Is such a misrepresentation!
-Only thing that is correct is the lightning on her shirt.
-She would never wear such a girly outfit.
-She wasn't supposed to look good-supposed to look like a swimmer.
-Would have been better representation if she was at least wearing a pair of boy's jeans (maybe boyfriend's jeans)or a pair of jogging pants with only the lightning tee, the cardigan was too girly.
--Another cover had Larrissa next to her, but Larissa almost looks like her other than the outfit and blonde hair.

All in all:
This book had too many ethics questions for me, I didn't like it that much at all. The only reason this book got a 2/5 is because I was able to read it in one night, and I didn't want to put it down because the suppense of wondering if she'd ever get back kept me reading. I stayed up til 3 a.m. just to finish. The book is really good when you read it.
After you finish though and really think about it though, and think about all the ethics, you realize just how bad it truly was. It leaves out too many answers, questions my ethics like crazy, and the main character isn't really all that likeable.
The main character, Claire, left Larissa off in that "space" thing, wouldn't return to her body, dated a guy using another girl's body, complained about her looks but didn't even try to improve them with other clothes and make-up instead only wore clothes from the boy's department, and didn't even want to return to her body at the end. All in all, a better main character would have made me like this story more.
I don't like this book, I'm not going to recommend it to any of my friends. Too many undeveloped characters, unethical choices, and lack of a real storyline. It was such a good idea, a girl switching bodies during thunderstorms, but it could have been written so much better. I'd also want a storyline where the girl can control the body switching and it wasn't involuntary. Great idea, just not used to its full ability.