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pacey1927 's review for:
The Tenth Girl
by Sara Faring
This is a pretty long story but YA standards. I became absorbed quickly in the tale of a young woman named Mavi who is running from her past to teach at an isolated boarding school with a odd history. There are some kind of spirits haunting the rooms at night and they start to affect the teachers and the nine young female students. We learn quickly that there should be a tenth student and the mystery of her identity becomes a main focus of the story. Also in the house is a quirky cast of characters to the point they almost feel like characters in an Agatha Christie who done it novel. There is another character named Angel who isn't exactly what she seems. Doesn't this sound intriguing? Well it was and the writing was lovely, if a tad long winded. However the last quarter of the book changed everything. Literally it was out of left field and extremely over the top and suddenly all the earlier pages really meant nothing. I had read through some earlier reviews of the book which weren't flattering and I can truly say that at three hundred pages in I was baffled by the negative feedback. I was engrossed. Until I was suddenly shocked out of state. I need to make up an alternative ending to this one in my head and forget the published version.