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A review by theputridshelf
The Four by Ellie Keel
3.0
Okay, so again I feel I'm in the minority here-maybe I just don't gel with dark academia type books. I found it quite slow and felt that the story could have been about 100 pages shorter!
The Four tells the story of Marta, Rose, Sami and Lloyd, all of which are on a very prestigious scholarship to the hoity toity private school, High Realms. They are deemed as a bit of an experiment, as the school requires more funding and to appear more charitable. The Four are immediately deemed as outsiders. Bullying, name calling and jealousy soon develops between the four and the elite. When Marta seriously injures one of those elite, Genevieve, all hell breaks loose.
Now, this is where my interest started and stopped. What Marta was asking of her friends was absolutely ridiculous. There was something very obviously wrong with the girl and she needed help. It just seemed like an overreaction to the situation. I couldn't fathom why they were all doing what she asked of them? Teenagers are obviously very different to what they were when I was in school.
I did enjoy the close knit relationship between them all. I liked that they all had a hard time in their personal lives and came together to support, love and care for one another.
The Four tells the story of Marta, Rose, Sami and Lloyd, all of which are on a very prestigious scholarship to the hoity toity private school, High Realms. They are deemed as a bit of an experiment, as the school requires more funding and to appear more charitable. The Four are immediately deemed as outsiders. Bullying, name calling and jealousy soon develops between the four and the elite. When Marta seriously injures one of those elite, Genevieve, all hell breaks loose.
Now, this is where my interest started and stopped. What Marta was asking of her friends was absolutely ridiculous. There was something very obviously wrong with the girl and she needed help. It just seemed like an overreaction to the situation. I couldn't fathom why they were all doing what she asked of them? Teenagers are obviously very different to what they were when I was in school.
I did enjoy the close knit relationship between them all. I liked that they all had a hard time in their personal lives and came together to support, love and care for one another.