Classical Pap
Comparing this book (as done on book jacket) to Donna Tartt's, The Secret History, is like comparing the Aeneid to a Danielle Steele novel. It starts off compelling enough but devolves into a schmaltzy piece of pabulum. A mystery set at a girl's school in New England, the characters, setting and subject are all pretty good. It's the plot that kills it. I knew everything that was going to happen in the first 1/3 of the book - especially the big secret that was "revealed" at the end. It was so obvious it was painful, and I'm not a mystery reader. And then the last chapter wraps everything up in a cartoonish pollyana bow. My one star rating is for the ease of read. It would be o.k. for a rainy Sunday quilty pleasure. Personally I'd just reread, The Secret History.