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Jul 31, 2014pattyloucor67 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Imagine a prestigious girls's school in Massachusetts suddenly caught in the grips of an all-out mysterious illness. Colleen,a. Student at the school, watches her classmates fall prey to this - one by one, classmates experience seizures, lose hair, are unable to walk, and vomiting pins! What is causing this? Many make feeble attempts to diagnose the problem, and still more girls succumb to the illness. Parallel to this story, Katherine Howe recasts the story of the Salem Witch Trials, which happened in the same location as where the girls's school currently stands. Creepy! The author does a great job of building suspense - the resolution, however, falls a bit flat. However, this is a good read, and the cause of the illnesses leaves one to ponder the pressures young women, both in early Salem and now, undergo and how far the human mind and body will take us to purge that pressure from itself.