Literature -- 1 1/2 stars
On move-in day at a posh, private, all girl boarding school, the road to the campus is marred by signs claiming that a girl had been raped by a teacher there. The girls have four years to discover the details. ----- The promise of the first few chapters quickly fades. The book is divided into four sections--one for each year of the girls' time at the school--though I will admit it took me a while to figure that out. The closure of each section is clumsy with very little effort put into connecting anything before with what is to come, making for an awkward transition to the new year. Even the focus on the rape allegation becomes meaningless as the question of who and when is uncovered half-way through the book, treated with a shrug, and leaving no coherent theme for the last few hundred pages. I am a sucker for boarding school stories, but when one lacks any sign of a story arc, it becomes a major disappointment.
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