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White Crow by Marcus Sedgwick
If you like truly scary movies that never reveal the monster, this book is for you!
Sixteen-year-old Rebecca is forced to move from London to a shrinking seaside village with her dad, a police officer, who is running from a controversy involving the death of a young girl. The tiny village, Wintertown, is the last place on earth Rebecca wants to be, and she certainly doesn’t want to make friends with the weird locals. But that doesn’t stop Ferelith, a village orphan, from trying. Ferelith feels like she has been waiting her whole life for Rebecca to arrive.
White Crow is told by three narrators, Rebecca, Ferelith, and the town’s priest from 200 years earlier. The priest tells his story through his journals, which describe gruesome experiments aimed at discovering what happens to the soul when someone dies. These very true stories have become local legend.
When Rebecca’s loneliness finally sets in, she agrees to start a dangerous game of truth or dare with Ferelith, who harbors a strange attraction to and hatred for her. Ferelith is intent on messing with Rebecca and torturing her with her dares. Some of the dares would drive a sane person crazy. And when one dare goes too far…
This is the best book, scary or not, that I read in 2011, and at less than 250 pages, you won’t be able to put it down until you too find out what’s on the other side of death!
Review by Annica, CLP-Main
