Vaught's gradual building of her ghost-busting team nicely juggles attitude and fright, and she excels at bringing each story to a conclusion while still driving to an overall climax. Readers not ready for full-on nightmares will eagerly check into this madhouse.

Booklist

Vaught mines a wealth of local history and urban legends to achieve her scares. . . . This is still a cinematic ghost story that requires only a dark and stormy night to complete the mood.

BCCB

Teens looking for an eerie ghost story will want to check this one out.

School Library Journal

An original and meaningful work that provokes thought about action, consequence, redemption, and renewal.

Booklist, starred review, on Trigger

An illuminating, recommended read.

Kirkus Reviews on Freaks Like Us

Vaught deftly manipulates stereotypes of a broad array of characters--"alphabets," delinquents, parents, siblings, even FBI agents--to reveal the question that reverberates through the densely constructed novel: are we defined by how we perceive ourselves or by how others see us?

The Horn Book Magazine, on FREAKS LIKE US