![]() ![]() Sentences are clipped, descriptive prose is fleeting and the vocabulary is limited and therefore numbingly repetitive. Okay, so the writing in this book is absolutely horrible, beginning with the most brutally short paragraphs this side of a Guardian article. Eventually, Elsie gets the flu and dies, only to return as an angry ghost with a particular grudge against Rosie, the leader of the clique, and guilt-stricken Annie. ![]() There’s no doubt that Elsie brings it on herself, but she’s grossly outnumbered and Annie feels bad about her part in it (not that it stops her). Annie is prevented from making any other friends until Elsie is absent from school, at which point Annie is finally brought into the popular circle – and takes part in their ceaseless bullying of Elsie. Shy Annie Browne is new in school and on her first day is immediately “befriended” by Elsie Schneider, a lying, controlling, destructive little psycho whom all the other girls despise. It’s 1918 and the Spanish Flu is making the rounds of America. Historical fiction.įirst Sentence: Although I didn’t realize it, my troubles began when we moved to Portman Street, and I became a student in the Pearce Academy for Girls, the finest school in the town of Mount Pleasant, according to father. Prepare yourself for a rant, because there will be no prisoners taken, nor will I be using any spoiler warnings in this review…Įdition: Scholastic Inc. ![]()
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