Author: Joanne Wiebe
Publisher: BenBella Books
Release date: January 14th 2014
Genre/Age group: Young Adult Fantasy/Paranormal
Source: Received for review by publisher
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Rating: DNF
So many secrets for such a small island. From the moment Anne Merchant arrives at Cania Christ, a boarding school for the world's wealthiest teens, the hushed truths of this strange, unfamiliar land begin calling to her - sometimes as lulling drumbeats in the night, sometimes as piercing shrieks.
One by one, unanswered questions rise. No one will tell her why a line is painted across the island or why she is forbidden to cross it. Her every move - even her performance at the school dance - is graded as part of a competition to become valedictorian, at title that brings rewards no one will talk about. And Anne discovers that the parents of her peers surrender million-dollar possession to enroll their kids in Cania Christy, leaving her to wonder what there lowly funeral director father could have paid to get her in and why.
As a beautiful senior struggles to help Anne make sense of this cloak-and-dagger world without breaking the rules that bind him, she must summon the courage to far the impossible truth - and change it - before she and everyone she loves is destroyed by it.
When I was contacted by the publisher to review this book I was actually really excited because the synopsis seems rather interesting. However I've read 41% and I was still not interested in the characters and the progression of the plot. First Anne instaloved Ben and she was extremely annoying about it.. I don't mind instalove but I do when all they can think about is the other when they haven't even had a decent conversation! And secondly the whole valedictorian battle seemed very intriguing and I want to know more about it, but the story revolving around it was just so slow and I had to force myself to continue on. Something you have to force yourself through the start because the story picks up later, but after 41% and still nothing I need to stop forcing and just give up.
Maybe this is a temporary decision on my behalf. In a couple of months I could think: 'Hey what ever happened with Anne Merchant?' and I'll pick it up again, but not today. I couldn't give this book a star rating because I didn't finish it and to me that would be unfair.
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