Not for me. My first issue with Ghost Lover is the way the description of the book implies much more of a magical realism tone than the reality. The titular story in essence contains no actual content regarding this “ghost lover” service but instead is a story of a middle aged woman pining after a man who doesn’t want her, and that might as well be a summary of all the stories in this book. I can’t say any of the stories really stood out, because they all felt like slight reworks of the same concept, over and over and over again. I think perhaps I could forgive some of this if it felt like any of these stories had compelling characters, interesting reflection, or stellar writing but they all felt like the same bleh stories of women who hate themselves or their bodies, love men who don’t even like them, and hate the women who do have those men, sprinkled with the most out of the blue bits of fat phobia, ableism, and haphazard and careless depictions of mental health. These sensitive topics were thrown in with no consideration or reflection, which continues to lend itself to either being a book for depressed privileged selfish straight older white women with no aim to grow and instead only commiserate that other women and people are living free and happy lives and relationships, or such poor writing it can’t create a narrative of anything different. Waste of time in my opinion.