The Raising
Last year Godwin Honors Hall was draped in black. The university was mourningthe loss of one of its own: Nicole Werner, a blond, beautiful, straight-A sororitysister tragically killed in a car accident that left her boyfriend, who was driving,remarkably—some say suspiciously—unscathed. Although a...
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Last year Godwin Honors Hall was draped in black. The university was mourningthe loss of one of its own: Nicole Werner, a blond, beautiful, straight-A sororitysister tragically killed in a car accident that left her boyfriend, who was driving,remarkably—some say suspiciously—unscathed. Although a year has passed, as winter begins and the nights darken, obsession withNicole and her death reignites: She was so pretty. So sweet-tempered. So innocent. Tooyoung to die.Unless she didn’t.Because rumor has it that she’s back.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780062042385 (0062042386)
Publish date: March 15th 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 360
Edition language: English
[SPOILERS]This book. THIS BOOK. I finished reading it at 11pm and my first instinct was to put my shoes on and take it across the street to the library drop box (yes I live across the street from the library, envy me), because this book! I had to get it out of my house immediately.Okay, so, last yea...
This book was a lot different than I was expecting. I thought I was getting a ghost story, but instead I got an intriguing mystery with conspiracies and some ghost story elements. The Raising was a pretty good book. The year before, Nicole Werner was killed in an accident, but now people are sti...
Alright, it scared me how much I enjoyed this book. Not because it was necessarily it was a gripping storyline, but because I found it so light, I could whip through it and still be somewhat entertained. One of my goodread friends, who happened to read the book at around the same time I did, called ...
I'm out of my reviewing comfort zone again. The Raising is Not My Thing. I'm a genre person, obviously, so fancy books that fall under the heading of plain old "literature" have the potential to go over my head. And maybe that's what happened with The Raising. Maybe there was this whole other layer ...
This book had me from the first page, really the first paragraph. I was entranced from the beginning and could not put it down. I spent many way too late nights staying up to read it and long after I put the book down I would be thinking about the characters in the book. Ms. Kasischke draws compl...