Now, after a year away, she’s returned to graduate. Perched in the Catskill mountains, the centuries-old, ivy-covered campus was home until the tragic death of her girlfriend. I am glad others found joy, but it was not for me.Felicity Morrow is back at Dalloway School. It is because of these lingering questions and my dislike of the protagonists that I personally could not enjoy this novel. Please help me understand these loose ends if you have read this because I am still lost. Why did they think Felicity would want Ellis's flask after discovering she murdered someone? There are so many more unresolved questions I have but those are the ones off the top of my head.

Why did they Godwin girls not expect Felicity to return after Thanksgiving. They were expected to cook for themselves? At a prestigious and extremely expensive boarding school? Mmm. Some other things I had issues with is the coven, that was never ever explained on how it came to be and why they were even important, how the Dalloway Five actually were relevant to the story, and how so many underage teenagers were left alone. Why was Felicity so easily manipulated? And how was Ellis able to stick her claws into the other Godwin girls so quickly?īecause I found both protagonists to be impractical, this led me to enjoy their character arc less and their ending was 'eh,' despite me liking the overall vibe of the ending.

The only thing I found in common with them was they were both lesbians and killers, I couldn't wrap my head around why they would want to be together? It wasn't enough for me to understand the rationale behind why they liked each other, I wanted more depth to their relationship and why Felicity would do anything for her. A girl she stalked and truly knew nothing about. A writer who required immersion to write. You could break her down to two things - a southerner and a writer. Maybe she was the ultimate manipulator but as a reader, I never got that vibe and is a prime reason why this novel didn't land for me.Īnd Ellis, terrible. I will give her the benefit of doubt and say maybe she was intentionally a pushover so people wouldn't believe she had the capacity to kill. Who even knows if Alex was actually an accident as Felicity warped the memory to cope and she may have pushed her like she did with Ellis leading me to ask, if she had the capacity to murder two people, how in the world was she steamrolled constantly? Felicity was such a pushover and it led her to be shallow because the only arc she had in the novel was none. Why the heck did she agree and go along with everything Ellis said? Did she have no backbone - oh wait, she did because she killed two people. I found Felicity to be a dislikable and pithy narrator.

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