Author: Joanna Wiebe
Series: The V Trilogy #1
Publisher: BenBella Books
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Source: E-book Purchase
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So many secrets for such a small island. From the moment Anne Merchant arrives at Cania Christy, a boarding school for the world’s wealthiest teens, the hushed truths of this strange, unfamiliar land begin calling to her—sometimes as lulling drumbeats in the night, sometimes as piercing shrieks.
One by one, unanswered questions rise. No one will tell her why a line is painted across the island or why she is forbidden to cross it. Her every move—even her performance at the school dance—is graded as part of a competition to become valedictorian, a title that brings rewards no one will talk about. And Anne discovers that the parents of her peers surrender million-dollar possessions to enroll their kids in Cania Christy, leaving her to wonder what her lowly funeral director father could have paid to get her in… and why.
As a beautiful senior struggles to help Anne make sense of this cloak-and-dagger world without breaking the rules that bind him, she must summon the courage to face the impossible truth—and change it—before she and everyone she loves is destroyed by it.
My thoughts:
Anne Merchant lives with her dad in a rich town in California where he owns a funeral home. Sometime after Anne's mom dies, her dad sends her to a boarding school for rich kids. Turns out the boarding school is really weird where they sign things in blood, they're all competing against each other for the "Big V" which is valedictorian and they all seem to know something that Anne doesn't.
100 Page Evaluation: Very mysterious. I'm not sure what's going on here. The school is very weird. It's like everyone is in on a secret that Anne is not. The island is constantly covered in a haze and the fog makes for a creepy setting. And what is up with the village. Very weird so far.
So clearly from my 100 page evaluation, I was pretty excited to figure out this mystery. It had so much promise at just one hundred pages that I thought that getting down to what was really going on would be fun. But I was wrong.
When it got down to around two hundred pages I just wanted to figure it out. It's not even that it got boring, it just that all the characters were acting weird the whole time and I just wanted Anne to figure it out or for one of her classmates to just tell her! It was getting to the point of frustration. I definitely thought that this book could be at least seventy-five pages shorter. I started speed reading just to get to the end.
After a while I kind of figured it out so I was basically waiting for my hunch to be justified. I was also just so annoyed by the characters at the end. I was so frustrated by this book that I'm not sure if I'm going to read the second one. The ending was almost worth it all because a lot of other stuff happened but again it was all just so weird. So I'm not sure if I will read the next one.
Sorry you didn't like it Crystal! I saw this book a few weeks ago at ALA and it looked pretty interesting, but given your review, I probably won't check it out. I hate it when I'm seriously frustrated with the characters by the end.
ReplyDeleteSad you didn't love this Crystal. It definitely sounds creepy but I hate when I feel like skimming or speed reading. That's a clear sign that I am not into the book.
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