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This book had a lot going for it. The cast of characters is diverse. The story is set in both present-day Danvers and the Salem village when the witch panic starts. The narrator is reading The Crucible. (Which the book mentions isn't really about Salem but the 1950s.) On top of that, I really enjoyed Howe's debut The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane and was incredibly excited to hear she was writing a YA novel.
Sadly, this one wasn't for me. While it had all the right pieces, none of them came to ...more
Sadly, this one wasn't for me. While it had all the right pieces, none of them came to ...more
Things are shaken up at a Catholic girls' school in Danvers, MA when one girl has a seizure and seems to set off an epidemic among the students. Colleen can barely focus on trying to be the valedictorian and getting into an Ivy League school with all the commotion - the reporters, the gossip among the students, and her new relationship with Spence. Who is the mystery person who keeps texting her to read "The Crucible"?
This book reminded me a bit too much of The Fever, which is the only reason I ...more
This book reminded me a bit too much of The Fever, which is the only reason I ...more
I know this and The Fever came out pretty close together and were inspired by the same events, and honestly I cannot remember a single detail about The Fever, which is probably good because it meant I wasn't comparing the two books. What's more interesting for me to think about is reading this book after having gone through conversion disorder myself, suffering numerous absence seizures and having speech and muscle problems due to....none of your business, but serious things that could all be (a
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May 05, 2014
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
marked it as to-read
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Meg
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Dec 19, 2014
Morgan
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Lisa Vegan
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