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From the acclaimed author of Lies We Tell Ourselves, Robin Talley, comes a Shakespeare-inspired story of revenge and redemption, where fair is foul, and foul is fair. Maria Lyon and Lily Boiten are their school’s ultimate power couple—but one thing stands between them and their perfect future: campus superstar Delilah Dufrey. Golden child Delilah is a legend at exclusive Acheron Academy, and the presumptive winner of the distinguished Cawdor Kingsley Prize. But Delilah doesn’t know that Lily and Maria are willing to do anything—absolutely anything—to unseat Delilah for the scholarship. After all, it would lock in Maria’s attendance at Stanford—and assure her and Lily four more years in a shared dorm room. Together, Maria and Lily harness the dark power long rumored to be present on the former plantation that houses their school. But when feuds turn to fatalities, and madness begins to blur the distinction between what’s real and what’s imagined, the girls must attempt to put a stop to the chilling series of events they’ve accidentally set in motion.
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Everything about this book said it should've appealed to me more than it did. Ghosts, retellings of Macbeth, diversity of the characters. However, it was just okay. I have no problems with unlikable characters main or otherwise, but these characters never got that strong of a reaction in either direction. I did like the ghosts instead of the witches in this retelling though. Overall just okay.
Issues I ran into before DNFing at 13%:
-Apparently the mean popular girl “isn't gay enough” to be president of the GSA.
-A gay male character finds out two girls are queer (one is bi and one is lesbian) and his reaction is as follows: “[He] didn't believe it at first. Both those girls seemed way too uptight to like pussy.””
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