The characters were barely even likeable. Instead I'll broadly state: The drive behind every character was unrealistic. And I'm not talking about the ghosts! I'm not going to do well giving examples without spoilers, so Im not going to try. This story had great building blocks: Haunted motel, unsolved mystery, unresolved family history, female sleuths who confront the supernatural whilst solving these hitherto unknowns! I see the term "fell flat" a lot in reviews. So perhaps there's a difference in target audience with this one(?), as well as a difference in my expectation as a fan of Simone St. I also don't understand the rave reviews! I did notice that a lot of the popular reviewers of this book have not reviewed any of this author's other works. James' other books with my utter disappointment in this one. I'm having a hard time reconciling my adoration for Simone St.
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Her chauffeur's voice was properly polite, but there was no mistaking the look of concern in his dark eyes. Where were all the laughing children? Where was the old man with the guitar who always sat on the curb, singing love songs in the strange Spanish dialect of the hills?Įlena looked into the car. The square wasn't as she remembered it, she thought, gazing at the makeshift stalls. She hesitated for a moment, the lacquered nails of one hand resting on the car's brightly waxed door, her green eyes narrowing as she looked around her. She could feel her white linen dress start wilting as the humidity and the smell reached out and wrapped her in unwanted embrace. Elena knew it as soon as she stepped from the icy chill of the Cadillac Brougham into the fetid heat of the marketplace in the centre of Santa Rosa. It had been a mistake to come to the market. Then a suicide focuses a police investigation on Coach and her squad. Only Beth, unsettled by the new regime, remains outside Coach's golden circle, waging a subtle but vicious campaign to regain her position as "top girl" - both with the team and with Addy herself. Now they're seniors who rule the intensely competitive cheer squad, feared and followed by the other girls - until the young new coach arrives.Ĭool and commanding, an emissary from the adult world just beyond their reach, Coach Colette French draws Addy and the other cheerleaders into her life. Beth calls the shots and Addy carries them out, a long-established order of things that has brought them to the pinnacle of their high-school careers. From the award-winning author of The Turnout and Give Me Your Hand: the searing novel of friendship and betrayal that inspired the USA Network series, praised by Gillian Flynn as " Lord of the Flies set in a high-school cheerleading squad.Tense, dark, and beautifully written." 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Joaquín takes off for San Francisco to seek his fortune, and Eliza, pregnant with his child, decides to follow him. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen prey to feverish dreams of wealth. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquín Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende, comes a passionate tale of one young woman's quest to save her lover set against the chaos of the 1849 California Gold Rush. Bayes, Sam Ragan, Dan Jaffe, Millen Brand, Sonja Prins, Norman Macleod, Emily Mae Murphy, Carl Rakosi, Soni Martin, Beth Jackson, Eugene Toran, Pinkie Gordon Lane, Margaret M. ORTIZ, Simon J., Grey Cohoe, Duane Niatum, Ronald H. Vines, plates XXXIX and XL - pages 417 to 464 wrappers damaged and repared, without significant missings, few foxings, otherwise near fine copy 200. Green : On the Organs of Secretion in the Hypericaceae, communicated by Dr. Potter : On the Development of Starch-grains in the Laticiferous Cells of the Euphorbiaceae, communicated by Dr. Orpen Bower : On the Structure of the Stem of Rhynchopetalum montanum (Fresen.), plates XXXVI to XXXVIII - 5. Bennett : Reproduction of the Zygnemaceae a Contribution towards the Solution of the Question, is it of a Sexual Character ?, with 8 woodcuts - 4. Lister : On the Origin of the Placentas in the Tribe Alsineae of the order Caryophylleae, communicated by Arthur Lister, plates XXXII to XXXV - 3. Starkie Gardner : Alnus Richardsoni (Petrophiloides, Bowerbank), a Fossil Fruit from the London Clay of Herne Bay, communicated by E.T. 10 plates (complete) Book Condition, Etat : Moyen paperback, original editor's wrappers In-8 1 vol. 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