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Devastated by an injury that broke her leg and destroyed her career as a ballerina, 17 year old Sylvie Davis reluctantly goes to visit a cousin in Alabama. There, for the first time, she sees the imposing family home, now being turned into a B&B by Cousin Paula, and Sylvie begins to wonder why her recently deceased father never returned or even mentioned Bluestone Hill. While investigating secrets of the past and present that threaten her life and possibly her sanity, Sylvie is also faced with t
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After her father dies and her mother marries her therapist, former ballerina Sylvie is sent to stay with unknown relatives in a small town in the South, where she discovers that her family has an ancestral mansion and a long local history. Are some of their secrets supernatural?
If this storyline sounds familiar, that's because it is. Clement-Moore does some original things with it, but the strongest aspect is Sylvie's vivid voice. Without that I would have given up halfway through, as the many i ...more
If this storyline sounds familiar, that's because it is. Clement-Moore does some original things with it, but the strongest aspect is Sylvie's vivid voice. Without that I would have given up halfway through, as the many i ...more
This had a lot of potential, but for me, at least, it all fell apart. Sylvie is an interesting character, and the writing is tight; even when the plot is dragging it's hard to put the book down. Then suddenly the pace picks up at rocket speed and everything starts to seem a little silly and confusing, and the story goes from being a Lois Duncan-esque paranormal ghost/mystery story to a straight up paranormal romance. Several of the slow-burn mysteries zoom to a conclusion, and an epilogue ties e
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I like the Old South atmosphere in this book, but I didn't like the characters and story as well as TEXAS GOTHIC. I did think it was really weird that I would read a book that talked about ley lines, then immediately start reading ANOTHER book that had ley lines as an integral part of it (RAVEN BOYS by Maggie Stiefvater).
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Nov 21, 2013
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marked it as find-and-read
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