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Aug 23, 2015
Erin
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"What a dump."
I hope this book resonates far better among its intended audience, for I found it to be a misguided, over-long mess. Kaitlyn/Carly suffers from dual personality disorder. There's some secret about the death of her parents. So, naturally, some genius school has her room with some sort of practitioner of witchcraft who, naturally, is the only one who can help her. And there are these three other students who kind of come and go and their relationships t ...more
"What a dump."
I hope this book resonates far better among its intended audience, for I found it to be a misguided, over-long mess. Kaitlyn/Carly suffers from dual personality disorder. There's some secret about the death of her parents. So, naturally, some genius school has her room with some sort of practitioner of witchcraft who, naturally, is the only one who can help her. And there are these three other students who kind of come and go and their relationships t ...more
In a series of documents, the mystery of what happened at Elmbridge High is examined, especially now that the diaries of Carly/Kaitlyn Johnson have been released to the public - because Carly/Kaitlyn's body was never found. Now we discover that Carly and Kaitlyn shared a body - Carly during the day, and Kaitlyn at night, and while the doctors and Kaitlyn herself believed she was going insane, there were darker forces at play.
While I enjoyed the overall aesthetic of this book - the pages look lik ...more
While I enjoyed the overall aesthetic of this book - the pages look lik ...more
idk.
Like, I was into it, and then I wasn't, but I obviously was enough to keep reading until the end? So I just don't know. For a book that was a bit overlong, I think it was too evenly split between mental illness and supernatural, which meant that neither was convincing (maybe that was the point? but in that case, I don't like the connecting of one with the other). I was glad to find out in the end that (view spoiler) ...more
Like, I was into it, and then I wasn't, but I obviously was enough to keep reading until the end? So I just don't know. For a book that was a bit overlong, I think it was too evenly split between mental illness and supernatural, which meant that neither was convincing (maybe that was the point? but in that case, I don't like the connecting of one with the other). I was glad to find out in the end that (view spoiler) ...more
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Lisa
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