A review by lifefanatic
The Raising: Novel by Laura Kasischke

1.0

It started off slow, but engaging. It had a lot of promise, and intrigued me. Then it had me ready to toss it across the room when I came to the end. There so many unbelievable strings left hanging that I was frustrated and disgusted with myself for having wasted a day reading it.

I won't go over the premise, that's been done in all the reviews. I will however tell you how it ends, o don't read this if you want to read the novel.

Spoiler

the ghost that is sen around town really is Nicole. She didn't die. The sorority faked her death and replaced the body with another girl, who died during a hazing. At the end, she is caught...but Perry is unfortunately shot (offscreen) and can't tell everyone. The whole book wound down in about 2 pages. Perry sees Nicole, then we move to a prologue where he is dead, and we see how everyone le off years later.

Nicole's family moved away and disappeared. So apparently her whole family was in on it. Why?? I don't get it the whole premise doesn't make sense