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I just finished the book
The Broken Girls by Simone St. James
I needed a change from the typical thriller or missing children, so I picked up this ghost story!!
The story goes back and forth between Vermont 1950 where four roommates go to a spooky boarding school named, Idlewill Hall…
Vermont, 1950. There’s a place for the girls whom no one wants—the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. It’s called Idlewild Hall. And in the small town where it’s located, there are rumors that the boarding school is haunted. Four roommates bond over their whispered fears, their budding friendship blossoming—until one of them mysteriously disappears…
And a journalist living in Vermont 2014, trying to “solve” the mystery of her sister’s already solved death and why someone wold want to restore and reopen Idlewild Hall.
Vermont, 2014. As much as she’s tried, journalist Fiona Sheridan cannot stop revisiting the events surrounding her older sister’s death. Twenty years ago, her body was found lying in the overgrown fields near the ruins of Idlewild Hall. And though her sister’s boyfriend was tried and convicted of murder, Fiona can’t shake the suspicion that something was never right about the case.
Through the entire book I kept thinking, “Please Please Please don’t make this story be a traditional ghost story where the ghost is put to rest and “released” and happy at the end.” Let me just say, it has a good ending. I really liked the story about the four roommates and how they are also included in them 2014 portions of the book. Unfortunately, I really don’t know why there’s a ghost in the story. It didn’t take away from the book, but didn’t add much either. Maybe I missed something!
I would give this book 3.5 out of 5 stars!! (Would give it 4 if I could have figured out the ghost part.)