![]() ![]() If one likes spooky YA, this would be a good fit. It isn't in the same league as a "Daughters of Eve" but it is well written and compelling.as well as genuinely creepy. The tension is unbelievably high and please do not expect light reading. ![]() Although this story is fiction, what happened in Salem is not and Duncan really does well in switching from past to present. This book is contemporary but mixed with the past and the Salem Witch Trials. This reaction is very much like the Salem Witch Trials as Sara becomes regarded with more and more hostility, mimicking the past, which becomes intersperced with the present, in more ways than one. It is a very conservative very close knit town and Sarah is regarded with suspicion that quickly turns to hostility and then to paranoia and outright hysteria. It doesn't take her long to discover the town isn't quite what she thought it was. Sara has just settled in to a sleepy town in Missouri with her family. This is a seriously creepy little read that combines both historical and contemporary fiction. This is sure different then most of Duncan's books. "In that instant of dislocation, as she fought to maintain her equilibrium and keep from tumbling headfirst into the pit of darkness, a voice seemed to shout directly into her right ear". ![]()
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