When girls in their final year of St. Joan’s Academy start
coming down with symptoms of an unknown illness, as school officials scramble
for explanation or something to blame. As more girls fall ill, the world descends
on the school, desperate for the latest scoop. But when Colleen figures out that the school
is on the site of Salem village she’s determined there’s something more…
I thought that Conversion is not only perfectly had two
ongoing narratives, but captured the crushing, claustrophobic pressure that
today’s students are under. Colleens striving in her school work blinded her
almost to her friends around her and comprised her in other ways. The mystery
‘illness’-eventually called conversion- was cleverly done in a realistic way
that set fear and paranoia in to the minds of students and parents alike. I
loved the way that you couldn’t just predict what was happening, everything was
unknown and to be found out. Overall, I adored Conversion and how terrified and
in the dark I felt reading it! Katherine Howe captured teenage life extremely
well and, although I do not expect on I would love a sequel or something
similar!
Hope you enjoyed this,
Izzy
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