Sixteen Souls: The "TikTok made me buy it" sensation dubbed Heartstopper with ghosts!

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Despite the stress I was feeling at the time, I had an absolute blast filming it (I even dressed up for Halloween! Not every plan they make is pulled off, not every solution they find is correct, and not every villain they unveil is the right villain. It didn’t feel all that different to city of ghosts, or the haunting of Adeline jones and unfortunately for me I read those first where if I hadn’t I might have loved this. These sixteen are the descendants of Jacob by Zilpah, the slave woman whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah. The walls at this point, in York, are high, with a terrible vertical drop, and the pathway slopes treacherously in places.

And even though Sam and Charlie will not see eye to eye at first, when ghosts start disappearing in York, they will have to work together to find how to stop this. Though there is a large mystery element, the story is propelled by fun thrills and a growing tension throughout that culminates in an explosive finale.These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls. I think about Sam sat in the cafe, the tip of his pen jammed between his teeth, loose curls sticking up where he's run fingers through them.

And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.Just like his queerness, his disability is not a plot-point in itself, something he has to overcome, something that makes him special or gifted, something that’s forgotten about as soon as the action gets going, or any other kind of trope, it’s simply a consistent part of who he is. When self-destructive, 16-year-old seer, Charlie Frith, realises that one of his own ghostly friends has gone missing, he must put aside his own safety – and reclusive existence – if he is to find them.

It's rich, it's dark, it's gay af (I swear not a single one of these characters are straight), with a wonderully eerie atmosphere that perfectly captures the city of York in all its haunted, gothic glory. While I maintain that it can't be compared to anything else, because it's *just that good*, Sixteen Souls would be perfect for fans of William Hussey, Christine Lynn Herman, Patrick Ness, or Maggie Stiefvater. Everyone treating his assumptions as facts had me close to yelling at the characters to stop being so stupid! The humans – Leone and Mitch, primarily – were once Charlie's friends, until they misunderstood his experience in a ghostly deathloop (reliving that person's death, with real physical consequences) as a suicide attempt. Sixteen Souls popped up on my Instagram feed one day, with a stunning cover and a great review by a BookTok reader.These are the children of Zilpah, whom Laban had given to his daughter Leah; these she bore to Jacob—sixteen persons in all. Learning so much about York and all the rich history that goes along with it will be fascinating for the uninitiated, and give northern readers a rare chance to see something approaching their lives spotlighted. Our protagonist, Charlie, one of these seers, lives in York, the oft declared most haunted city in the entire world. It feels like a real triumph for UKYA to read all those Yorkshire colloquialisms and descriptions of narrow ginnels and trip-hazardous cobblestones in a book that feels so accessible and well-placed within the mainstream.