A review by zoemcswainjackson
The Raising: Novel by Laura Kasischke

2.0

I really wanted to like this book. It started off with a promising concept- a beautiful, all American sorority girl is killed in a car crash and the people around her are trying to make sense of it, although some of them are paranoid that they keep seeing her around...is she really dead? I liked how this book was told from several points of view. The writing was stellar. But about 2/3 of the way through the book, the story kind of fell apart and the ending left a lot to the imagination (which works for some books...not so much for this one). Also, I feel like the author has some sort of beef against sorority girls- they were portrayed in such a negative light in this book, which wasn't really cool. However, her writing was what kept me turning the pages of this book and finishing it in less than 24 hours. I will definitely be giving her other books a chance.