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The Dead House (The Dead House, #1)
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SOLVED: Children's/YA > SOLVED. YA (?) Paranormal novel about a girl with two souls in one body, one coming out in the day and the other at night, at a boarding school or college and at the beginning of each chapter there is a countdown to a fire. [s]

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C | 5 comments Read late 2010s. The main character(s) were two souls in one body, but one came out at day and the other at night and they had no recollections of the other's memories. They would communicate with each other using notes (sticky notes?) but one of them, probably the daytime one, disappears at some point. The book probably takes place at a college or boarding school. The 'daytime' personality also had a lot of friends, whereas I believe the 'nighttime' personality might only have had one or two. Each chapter contained a countdown of days until a fire consumes the school. I believe at some point a character also cuts out their tongue for some reason and feeds it to a snake (?) That could just be faulty memory, though, as I mostly skimmed the book at the time. I think that the cover (Maybe not on all editions, but on the one I had) contained a girl staring out from the front of the book in a somewhat disconcerting manner.


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C | 5 comments Rainbowheart wrote: "What's Left of Me?"

No; I've been told that but I have read that book as well and it's definitely not the same one. Thanks for trying, though!


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Becca (beccalikesbooks) | 5545 comments The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich?
The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich


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C | 5 comments Becca wrote: "The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich?
The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich"


I think you're right! Thank you so much; I've been looking for this book for years.


message 6: by Kris (last edited Jul 16, 2021 12:43PM) (new)

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Glad you found your book, C. Here's the Google Books preview of Becca's find - The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich:

https://books.google.com/books?id=04o... There are different cover images.

Quotes from the book:
- It used to be Carly and me agains the world - her notes guided me through the hours of darkness, and mine gave her courage in the brightness of the sun.
- We wrote Postit notes, which we hid in unlikely ppaces and swallowed after reading (not the nicest thing for force down your esophagus, but they checked the...


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