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Rebecca and her father move to the dilapidated cliff-top village of Winterfold. Lonely Rebecca is befriended by morbid and manipulative Ferelith, and the two begin an escalating series of dares. Sedgwick skillfully weaves Ferelith's confessional first-person narrative with Rebecca's reserved, third-person perspective--and the chilling journal entries of a long-ago minister. The atmospheric story presents thoughtful (if disturbing) explorations of betrayal and redemption.
Reviewer: Katie Bircher
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July, 2011