Name: Possessions
ISBN: 9781595142559

Nancy Holder

When Lindsay Cavanaugh transfers to the prestigious Marlwood Academy after recovering from a breakdown at her previous high school, she discovers that there is something strange going on involving a clique and some unsavory activities from the school's little-known past.

Possessions

Olivera Mitić

I had a lot of issues conserning this book. The first and most obvious one is the insta friendship around which the whole plot rolls around. If there weren't Lindsay's irritating desire to protect her new best friend Julie, who is really mean towards Lindsay most of the time, this book wouldn't have had more than 50 pages. She would just realize that she could fucking die for a stranger and go home.
There. 
I said it. 
I feel much better now.
The second thing that really made me see red was the fact how Lindsay ignored the ghost face she saw on every single thing she could see her reflection on. Who reacts like that?! I freak out for smaller things than that. 
The writing was alright most of the time, but there were the parts with the visions our main character sometimes had that just came out of the blue and honestly gave me troubles understanding what was going on.
This was a really fine example of the first-book-in-a-series syndrom. 
That sums up all the bad things about this novel.
On the other hand, even though the reasons Lindsay did what she did were stupid, the whole story was quite interesting and made me want to read more. I read most of this book at night and was honestly scared of turning off the lights. The creepy part was definitely there.
The love triangle... well, I honestly hate love triangles, but this one wasn't that irritating, so that is for sure a plus.
As from what I heard, the series gets better with time, so I am really hoping that's true
All in all a 3 star read.

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Christy Markowski

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.

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