SuitabookThe weight of souls
Bryony Pearce
- Reading
- Consider reading alongside your young person, or checking in after the murder and ghost-related scenes. This offers space to pause if the suspense or bullying feels intense for them.
- Themes
- Justice and resentment: Taylor is asked, by the circumstances of the case, to help her former bully after his murder. The premise sets personal resentment against the prospect of helping; it does not establish that forgiveness is required or that Taylor’s choice is judged.
- Belief and being believed: Taylor tries to persuade her father that her curse and encounters with ghosts are real. The premise includes a gap between Taylor’s experience and her father’s belief, but does not show how either character is treated or whether they reach understanding.
- Worth knowing
- Murder, a dead character, ghosts and a threat from the Darkness are central to the premise.