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Ratings11
Average rating3.4
When girls start experiencing strange tics and other mysterious symptoms at Colleen's high school, her small town of Danvers, Massachusetts, falls victim to rumors that lead to full-blown panic, and only Colleen connects their fate to the ill-fated Salem Village, where another group of girls suffered from a similarly bizarre epidemic three centuries ago.
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This was pretty good, but not great. Colleen was a bit too self-absorbed (but that's high school I guess). Everything and nothing worked out. I did like the references to Howe's The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane.
The girls at St. Joan's are academically competitive and work hard towards their collegiate goals. This is their life. Suddenly, girls are showing signs of an unknown affliction and it's spreading...fast. Throw in the fact that the town of Danvers used to be Salem Village and you have a real mystery on your hands. At least one would think so.
We follow two timelines, the 1706 Salem witch trials, and the present day timeline of the St. Joan's affliction. I expected these to somehow come together into an aha! sort of moment considering the emphasis on the Crucible. Instead it was more like 2 separate stories that had similarities in situation but no cohesive come-together moment. The book could have been written without the separate story of the Salem witch trials and it would have held up fine.
This had such an interesting storyline and promise of a “creepy, gripping novel” that I was excited to dive in. This was a good story and while I didn't hate it, I didn't love it either.
