![]() ![]() ![]() I mooned over Edward Cullen and dreamed of the day that I too could be as desirable and special as Bella was to all her supernatural hunks. That’s right readers, I was obsessed with Twilight. But what was the truth? That Ernessa was a vampire responsible not only for Lucy’s mysterious and wasting illness but for a series of other disasters at the school as well? Or that the narrator, fragile and unstable, had intricately constructed her own gothic nightmare? Thirty years later, rereading her journal, she is no more certain than we are. And just as easy for the unnamed narrator, isolated with her increasingly obsessive musings, to imagine that a schoolmate was slowly destroying her friend and roommate. Nothing existed outside the girls and the school where it was all too easy to confuse fantasy and reality friendship and lust dreaming and wakefulness. In the hothouse atmosphere of an exclusive girls’ boarding school during the late sixties, political activism, social revolution, and the war in Vietnam might never have happened. Genre(s): Fiction, Horror, Suspense, Young Adult, Vampires, Mystery, Thriller, Gothic ![]()
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