Review: A sucker for Salem - yeah, that's me....
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 18, 2013
I'm a sucker for anything that has to deal with the Salem Witch trials. Seriously, The Crucible is one of my most favorite reads...EVER!!! I had no idea going into this book that there would be a link to Salem in this story. (Yeah, I totally didn't read the teaser....) What a pleasant surprise!!The story opens with our main character, Scarlett, and her first day in her new high school in Salem, MA. She had just moved there with her mom from Washington, where she had lived her whole life. Now, I know what it's like to move around from school to school, especially so late in high school. To have to leave a place you're so comfortable, with people you have known forever, and move to a new place during your Senior Year of high school....hard, as, hell.What happens even as she first sets foot into the school sucks you into the story. Without giving things away, you're left thinking, "Hmmmmm....there's more here...I just know it."As in any new high school situation - Scarlett has to find her place. Does she hang with the "in-crowd", the nerds, the jocks, the cheerleaders? Just so happens that Scarlett finds herself with Lydia and Taylor - two girls who seem to be loners, but not so far on the outside that they don't know what's going on. Quickly Lydia gives Scarlett the DL on the student population. Including the "oh-so-yummy" and "oh-so-untouchable" Jake....yeah, he's THAT guy.And what happens, yep, Jake's in Scarlett's English class...and yeah, does he talk to her? Willingly? Yeah, he does....and her heart does what any teenage girl's heart would do....she falls.The relationship that develops between Scarlett and Jake is just so super cute and so sweet. There's a connection between them from the start. From the first time Scarlett has one of her....oh, wait....you're gonna have to read yourself to find out what I'm talking about.Scarlett immerses herself in finding out as much about her "condition" as she can....spending countless hours researching the blood-tainted past of Salem during the Witch Trials. What she finds out will forever change her life. For good? For bad?I found myself on the edge of my seat as things started to fall into place. All I have to say is keep an eye on Jake's dad....And as usual, I'm left waiting patiently for book #2....yeah, I don't wait patiently.Very well written, I really really really enjoyed this one!!!