‘I have read others’ opinions on this book and they are a mish-mash – people either love it or hate it, I guess it’s like Marmite!’
This book is set at St Joans Academy, a Catholic girls school. It follows the girls in their final year and the pressures of applying to college, the race for valedictorian and relationships. Colleen and her friends are meant to be keeping it up until they are unable to. Members of their class have uncontrollable fits and are rushed to hospital; it starts with the popular Clara Rutherford and spreads through the school. This is written simultaneously to the times around Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and what happened to the girls at that time.
When I read about this book I was fascinated by the inspiration of the famous LeRoy mystery, I thought it would make a clever plot line. The characters created to portray this story were realistic and truly represented the typical teenager. The connection to the past and The Crucible interested me but when I read it I found it disappointing and was constantly tempted to just skip it.
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