The It Girl meets The Exorcist in this chilling, haunted boarding school tale New-girl Lindsay discovers all is not right at the prestigious Marlwood Academy for Girls. Ethereal, popular Mandy and her clique are plotting something dangerous. Lindsay overhears them performing strange rituals, and sees their eyes turn black. It doesn't help that the school itself is totally eerie, with ancient, dilapidated buildings tucked into the Northern California woods, a thick white fog swirling through campus. There are hidden passageways, odd reflections in the windows at night, and scariest of all is the vast lake rumored to have captured the ghost of a girl who drowned many years ago. What Lindsay doesn't yet realize is that Mandy and her cohorts are becoming possessed by spirits who have haunted the school for two hundred years. Spirits who want someone dead... And that someone is Lindsay.
From Goodreads:
In this sequel to NYT bestselling author Nancy Holder's Possessions, Lindsay finds out that she too, is possessed, and must return to creepy Marlwood Academy in order to rid herself of the spirit. Lindsay's afraid of what the spirit is telling her to do. But the secrets of Marlwood go much deeper than Lindsay thought. Sometimes the girls who seem like enemies are actually on your side. And the voices you trust the most - the voices that come from within - are the ones that want you dead.
My Review:
These books were really creepy! Put together magic, mean girls, a cute boy who may or may not still be with his ex, one of the mean girls, ghosts, and a lot of creepiness, and you have these books, and yeah, I'm not sure whether or not to read the 3rd book, because yeah, while I enjoyed them, it felt pretty resolved to me!
First off, Marlwood is creepy to the extreme. I mean, it used to be a reformatory for wayward girls, a place where they administered lobotomies, as well as various other unpleasant medical practises that nowadays, I'm pretty certain are classified as torture. And they made it into a school. Not the smartest decisions on their part!
I really enjoyed the romance, with Troy, and the threat that Mindy poses, and then the one that Miles, Mindy's brother poses, as well as the ghosts throughout both the books, possessing people and not. Because yeah, it was really creepy!
These were 2 really great books, but that doesn't mean that I'll read them again-they are way to creepy and just missing that element that makes me want to reread them!
Author: Nancy Holder
Series: Possessions #1, 2
Read: January 2nd-3rd, 3rd-4th, 2012
Source: Library
Publisher: Razerbill
Published: August 29th 2009
Possessions:
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| 4/5 Hearts |
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| 3/5 Books |
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| 3/5 Stars |
The Evil Within:
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| 4/5 Hearts |
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| 3/5 Books |
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| 3/5 Stars |
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