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A review by taylorfennerwrites
The Revenant by Sonia Gensler
5.0
When Willie learns that she must leave school to come back to the farm her mother lives on with her new husband and children she steals a classmate's teaching certificate and runs away to Cherokee Indian Territory.
When she arrives in Tahlequah, in what is present-day Oklahoma, she expects to find uncivilized people living in teepees. What she finds is a bustling city and a female seminary for the Cherokee elite. The school, however, is cloaked in darkness after the mysterious drowning of a student the previous spring.
All of the students believe the school is haunted by the dead girl's spirit. At first Willie balks at the idea of ghosts but when a series of unexplained occurrences begin she doesn't know what to believe. Soon Willie finds herself participating in midnight seances and falling into a forbidden romance with Eli Sevenstar, a boy from the male seminary. But is Eli a cold blooded killer? Or is the killer someone nobody has even considered?
I love this book. It's an amazing ghost story combined with rich history of the Cherokee Nation during and after the Trail of Tears. My only disappointment is at the end when Eli asks Willie to marry him and she tells him they must wait a year. If I were her I would have married him immediately!
When she arrives in Tahlequah, in what is present-day Oklahoma, she expects to find uncivilized people living in teepees. What she finds is a bustling city and a female seminary for the Cherokee elite. The school, however, is cloaked in darkness after the mysterious drowning of a student the previous spring.
All of the students believe the school is haunted by the dead girl's spirit. At first Willie balks at the idea of ghosts but when a series of unexplained occurrences begin she doesn't know what to believe. Soon Willie finds herself participating in midnight seances and falling into a forbidden romance with Eli Sevenstar, a boy from the male seminary. But is Eli a cold blooded killer? Or is the killer someone nobody has even considered?
I love this book. It's an amazing ghost story combined with rich history of the Cherokee Nation during and after the Trail of Tears. My only disappointment is at the end when Eli asks Willie to marry him and she tells him they must wait a year. If I were her I would have married him immediately!