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A review by captkaty
Conversion by Katherine Howe
5.0
At an elite private girl's school in Danvers, Massachusetts, teenage girls have been coming down with mysterious ailments. Is it contagious? A reaction to the HPV vaccine? Or maybe an environmental toxin? Colleen starts to see similarities between current events and the events among another group of teenage girls in Danvers (previously known as Salem Village) over 300 years ago...
Conversion is told via two narrators, Colleen, in the present day, and Ann Putnam, one of the Salem witch accusers, confessing her sins and her part in the madness many years later. I usually hate this technique, but it actually worked very well for me here.
There was a lot I really enjoyed about this book and a lot I found smart and compelling. I did not love the end, although sounds like others did.
Conversion is told via two narrators, Colleen, in the present day, and Ann Putnam, one of the Salem witch accusers, confessing her sins and her part in the madness many years later. I usually hate this technique, but it actually worked very well for me here.
There was a lot I really enjoyed about this book and a lot I found smart and compelling. I did not love the end, although sounds like others did.