booklover469 's review for:

Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert

3.0

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Scoring this one is tough for me. I think the students who like witches and the supernatural will really enjoy this story. In fact, students who like a creepy mystery may gravitate to it. However, both the cover and the name do not scream that it is a creepy mystery so they may not pick it off the shelf. Overall the story has depth and the reader can be drawn into the two POVs; the daughter’s and mother’s stories are intense and intertwined. For me, I felt uncomfortable throughout the story; torn between wanting to know what happens in the end and who was the strange girl in the water, and wanting to stop reading it. I just didn’t enjoy it. That being said, I don’t always share my students’ taste in books and overall this meets fairly good marks according to the rubric.