Conversion

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.