The Furies
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**YOU'D KILL TO BE ONE OF THEM**
**A SCHOOL WITH A DARK HISTORY. FRIENDS WITH AN INTOXICATING BOND.** In this stunning, page-turning debut, the campus is reeling after a sixteen-year-old girl is found dead on the grounds. A new student, Violet, has troubles of her own and is desperate to fit in. A tight-knit group of friends offers her a place in their circle, leading her where she never imagined she would go...to dark, dangerous, violent places. How far will these young girls gone to protect--or destroy--one another?
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2.5 stars. Very dark academia - witchcraft, petty jealousies, murder. Unlikable characters - all of them! I don't think there was one I liked. Yet I was darkly fascinated by it all.
At this rate I am going to have to start describing myself as a YA reader! I thought this book was fabulous, very well written and gripping.
The story is told by Violet, who is looking back on the events that happened to her and her friends. After a tragic accident which leaves her and her mother alone, she is sent to a girls' school which was the site of witch trials. Violet attracts the attention of Annabel, one of the teachers, who has set up an exclusive club for girls she considers exceptional. Along with her three friends they attend to discuss women through history and through their lessons they become interested in witchcraft themselves. Robin in particular is drawn to performing rituals and they start to believe they have real power.
I thought the witchcraft elements were really well handled and I loved the way the author incorporated elements of mythology into the story. The perils of being a teenager in the 1990s are brilliantly and very accurately described, as is the friendship between the girls. I loved the way that the mystery of the missing girl unfolded and I thought that the plot was quite unexpected. Violet is a great narrator, looking back at her teenage years with some regret. Some of the book gets a bit far fetched at times, but overall, I really enjoyed it.
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Op basis van de synopsis dacht ik dat ik dit boek geweldig ging vinden. Atmosferisch, een beetje griezelig en mysterieus, gelinkt aan duistere mythologie, geheime genootschappen, heksen, etc.
Helaas nam dit boek mij nooit echt helemaal mee en vond ik het geheel saai en kleurloos, wat toch verbazingwekkend is gezien de verschillende intrigerende elementen.
Ik was weinig geëngageerd, voelde mij te weinig betrokken met de personages en ik had moeite in hun echtheid te geloven.
Ook het ganse concept van de geheime genootschap had fascinerend en spannend moeten zijn, maar het kon me niet boeien. Ik had geen idee waarom die lessen geheim moesten worden gehouden, gezien ze gewoon over kunst en literatuur gingen.
Alle elementen waren er om een fantastisch en fascinerend verhaal te weven - en de proloog had me ook meteen beet - maar daarna verloor ik snel mijn aandacht. Het uiteindelijke verhaal was zowel saai, te ongeloofwaardig en onvoldoende opgebouwd en uitgewerkt.
