I think it’s just a case of reading the wrong book at the wrong time. Will I read something like this again? I don’t really know. For all of my complaining and nitpicking, I will say that Katherine Howe knows how to create a good mystery.

I also enjoyed how the mystery just keeps you guessing all the way through. I DID enjoy the mild romance that plays out in the novel and how it doesn’t overtake the storyline. Some of the major issues that I had with this one were the editing (it seems that the editor was afraid of commas), the protagonist and her friends–there’s a particular part where the protagonist, Colleen, gets told off by a friend for how she treats another friend, which is such a load of bull crap once the road knows what really happened–, the interludes (I know, it IS interesting to see what happened back during the Salem Witch trials, but honestly, it was frustrating having to go back and forth), and the last few chapters, which were just brutal to get through. There were times where I found it so hard to get back into the story, simply because it just didn’t quite grip me. The storyline, however, felt like something that was being dragged out. I enjoyed it in the sense that it was an intriguing topic and slightly different in its approach to a genre that the young adult age group has basically wrung dry. What I DIDN’T know was that this would also be one of those stories where the narrative is split into two different voices, one from the past and the other from 2012.ĭid I enjoy this story? To be honest, it was a bit bland for me.

What I saw on the web was about how this would be a slightly creepy read with a touch of the paranormal. I did have some vague recollection, however, of what the story might be about because of what I’d seen on YouTube. I went into this one without having read the synopsis, because I’ve learned that this is the best way to enter a book. This was nothing like what I was expecting.

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