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She Was the Quiet One
by Michele Campbell
*Thanks to NetGalley and St Martin's Press for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.* The book starts with the knowledge that someone has been killed at Odell Academy, but the reader does not find out the victim until well into the book. This was a clever idea as it allowed for lots of foreshadowing throughout the novel. The protagonists are recently orphaned twins, Bel and Rose Enright whose grandmother has shipped them off to the same boarding school that their father attended, prestigious Odell Academy. The girls are put in Moreland Hall, a dormitory known for its troublemakers. Rose throws herself into the academic and co-curricular life of the school, whereas Bel falls in with the 'wrong' crowd.
One reviewer described this book as a cross-between 'Mean Girls' and 'Cruel Intentions' and I can't quite feel it is apt. My rating would be between 3.5 to 4 stars. 4 stars because it is compulsively readable. I wanted to know who was killed and by whom and why and was very engaged in the plot. 3.5 stars because the book did rely on a number of tried and true plot devices - twins that are radically different, a student developing a crush on an older man, a seemingly perfect family where not all is as it seems, snobby boarding school students and so on. Overall, an enjoyable read however.
One reviewer described this book as a cross-between 'Mean Girls' and 'Cruel Intentions' and I can't quite feel it is apt. My rating would be between 3.5 to 4 stars. 4 stars because it is compulsively readable. I wanted to know who was killed and by whom and why and was very engaged in the plot. 3.5 stars because the book did rely on a number of tried and true plot devices - twins that are radically different, a student developing a crush on an older man, a seemingly perfect family where not all is as it seems, snobby boarding school students and so on. Overall, an enjoyable read however.