There was no summary for the book, and the cover looked as boring as lima beans. But I took the chance and checked it out, instantly falling in love after the first chapter.
This story is about Sylvie Davis, a ballerina who can no longer dance due to a broken leg that unfortunately ends her career. But Sylvie’s problems run deeper than a healing broken leg. What hurt her most was her father’s death, and what is tearing at her spirit is her mother’s remarriage to a psychologist, who thinks Sylvie needs to be evaluated.
The only way Sylvie’s mother is able to tame her unhappiness, is to uproot her from her Manhattan apartment and ship her to Alabama. There, Sylvie’s father’s cousin is restoring the family estate in a town overflowing with her family’s history.
Upon her arrival, Sylvie comes to the realization that her family has a lot more history than she ever knew. An even more unsettling thought is about the two guys that she cannot stop thinking about. Shawn Maddox, the residential prize boy, seems to be perfect in every way, but underneath all of that perfect, is a sinister mind. Rhys—a handsome but very mysterious foreign guest of her cousin, has Sylvie lost in confusion about who he really is.
As an avid reader of supernatural novels, the imagery in this particular book truly captures the essence of a modern supernatural story. I managed to finish reading this over 500 page book in around 12 hours, with some interruptions, but could not bear to put it down after the first chapter.
I highly recommend this book for teenage girls because of its pure genius. I do not think I have ever encountered a book like this one. At first the story comes off as being normal, like a story about a regular person’s life, but then it changes. At first the transition caught me off guard, but then it all seemed to come together to a great finish.
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