History YMMV / TheGhostNextDoor

* AntiClimaxBoss: The Shadow Spirit is dealt with very quickly in the end with little resistance, due to being [[SmugSnake way too sure of his victory for his own good]]. Despite being a phantom, he [[DidntThinkThisThrough didn't come prepared for the possibility that]] [[spoiler:[[DidntThinkThisThrough since Hannah is a ghost herself, she might just walk through him]]]]. This is one of several reasons why readers have criticised him for being [[PlotIrrelevantVillain thrown in for the sake of having an antagonist when the story didn't need one]].
* HilariousInHindsight: The plot -- Hannah thinks her next door neighbor, [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Danny, is a ghost.]] [[spoiler: And the villain is [[WesternAnimation/TheUltimateEnemy his evil future self]]]]

* TheScrappy: The Shadow Spirit [[spoiler:AKA Future!Danny Anderson]] is an odd instance in that he isn't particularly odious or insufferable, but many readers cite him as the weakest part of the book. This is due to him being a PlotIrrelevantVillain who feels shoehorned into a story that didn't really need an antagonist, and he doesn't even provide much of an obstacle to Hannah in the end. His origin reveal also raises more unnecessary questions and comes off as rather silly and out of place for a more sombre, subtly placed plot. The TV episode rectifies this somewhat by giving him more of a presence and making his nihilism a {{Foil}} to Hannah's optimistic care for Danny.

** Another about the plot, it became hilarious once Film/TheSixthSense came along.

* AntiClimaxBoss: The Shadow Spirit is dealt with very quickly in the end with little resistance, due to being [[SmugSnake way too sure of his victory for his own good]]. Despite being a phantom, he [[DidntThinkThisThrough didn't come prepared for the possibility that, since Hannah is a ghost herself, she might just walk through him]]. This is one of several reasons why readers have criticised him for being [[PlotIrrelevantVillain thrown in for the sake of having an antagonist when the story didn't need one]].

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* HilariousInHindsight: The plot -- Hannah thinks her next door neighbor, [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Danny, is a ghost.]]

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: The ending, in which Hannah crosses over to a better place with her family after saving Danny from the very same fate she herself suffered.

* NightmareFuel: The ColdOpening is horrifyingly graphic in its description, essentially allowing you to experience firsthand the raw terror felt by an adolescent girl waking up to the sight of her house burning down around her and slowly coming to the realization that she's about to be ''incinerated alive''. The rest of the book is relatively tame in comparison, which just makes the opening stand out that much more. Needless to say, this one most likely made a lot of kids terrified of even ''dreaming'' about such a scenario, since as TheReveal goes on to demonstrate, [[ParanoiaFuel how do you know]] [[AllJustADream whether or not]] [[ThatWasNotADream it's actually a dream]]?
* TearJerker: The ending (both the book and the TV episode). The protagonist, after discovering that she was in fact the ghost that the title is referring to and has been dead all along, saves another kid from dying in a fire like she did. Then she rejoins her family in the afterlife.

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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Hannah saves Danny from a burning building...[[ItMakesSenseInContext by playing piano.]]

* HilariousInHindsight: In ''The Ghost Next Door'', Hannah thinks her next door neighbor, [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Danny, is a ghost.]]