Real Teen Award
-Most Annoying Couple in 2010: Evie and Sebastian
-Most Annoying Couple in 2010: Evie and Sebastian
The Gist
When Evie Johnson’s grandmother is sick and in the hospital she is sent to Wyldcliffe Abbey School for Young Ladies. She is forced to leave her home and the sea behind and enter the world of moors and the socialist society. Not to mention that she is a scholarship student which is frowned upon in the school. She is extremely unhappy, especially when she meets weird and mysterious Sebastian on her first day. The school is haunted by the recent death of a student that was very important to the “popular kids” in the school. Being an outcast of the school, she feels drawn to solitary areas, especially the spot of the drowning of the previous schoolgirl: the school pond. That is where she meets Sebastian again. She falls in love with him and he is in love with her. As she finds out about the forces that control the school and the powers inside her she is haunted by a mystery women that lived long ago. She is strangely connected to her but she has no idea how. Along with the new things she is discovering about her she is trying to balance her difficult and forbidden relationship with Sebastian who she feels is hiding something from her. When she discovers new things about herself she unearths more mysteries about Sebastian. Can she keep her relationship with Sebastian? Who is he? Who is she? What is her destiny?
What We Think
What We Think
Reviewed By ShoreWhisperer
Number of Pages: 368
North showed me this book, she had started it but once again not finished it. She let me borrow it and I read it as fast as I could so that she could read it. I thought that at first it was pretty good. It reminded me of the series by Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty. Then it had a twist: that twist would be Sebastian. Aah yes… Sebastian. He is quite a strange character. You see, today we are used to reading books with the beautiful, sexy hero who wins all the girls hearts. I was prepared for Sebastian to steal mine. My heart was sadly not stolen. I didn’t find him appealing in any way. At first he was sweet and sometimes egotistical so I dealt with it. Figuring that he would grow on me. He didn’t. He turned out to be more like a control-freak boyfriend who had a diagnosis for bi-polar syndrome. Not to mention that he was super sketchy… no he was SKETCHY!!!!! Like seriously sketchy… he was just one of the strangers that you knew that you shouldn’t talk to even though his mysteriousness was appealing and sexy. Evie, on the other hand, was more desperate than Bella was. She couldn’t stand to be without him for like two seconds. She would then be all depressed and emo, and all like “I can’t live without him, he is my whole life”. Together they are a strange couple. My favorite characters ended up being her two friends Helen and Sarah who are the best and caring friends that anyone could have. Evie didn’t even appreciate them until the end. The whole story isn’t bad though. I liked it to an extent. The plot was strange and unique and sometimes predictable. I enjoyed reading it, especially when it was in the older time periods. The whole magic aspect to the story is interesting and resemblance to the Great and Terrible Beauty series. All in all, I enjoyed the plot of the book but did not like the characters.
Real Teen Rating~ C+: Well I guess it was good…
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