After Lorelei's school burned
down a new one goes up in almost no time at all. They think the school burned down because of
a wiring issue, but her new teacher Miss Morrigan says something about leaving
their ovens on. (I can't remember if it
says that it was wiring or ovens, but I would guess that Miss Morrigan had
something to do with it whichever one it was.)
Lorelei's parents don't want to
send her across town just to go to school, but what about the new one-Splendid
Academy?
The school seems perfect-there
are bowls of candy that magically refill themselves (awesome if they weren't
fattening the kids up), the playground is amazing, the kids give themselves
grades, and they can skip classes if they don't like them! This school is perfectly splendid.
But there's a dark side to their
new school. Miss Morrigan teaches not
one class, not two classes, but all
the classes except music, and there's a secret to the sand. It isn't what it looks like.
The characters in this book were
very real. The preteen girls acted
exactly like how preteen girls would act in real life. They use the same insults, talk about the
same things, the girl named Alison even reminded me of someone I knew. Even Lorelei's relationship with her older
brother Bryan seems realistic.
Lorelei's stepmother, Molly, is truly
evil, but not magical. If she had turned
out to be magical I would have been really surprised. At the wedding Molly was telling someone that
she thought it was fate that Lorelei's mother died just so she could be part of
their family. That is an evil thing to say but you don't
have to be magical to be nasty.
In the beginning of the book, it
hints at Lorelei's secret. I immediately
wanted to know what it was. I even
considered skimming the rest of the book to see what it was. (I didn't, though.) You'll just have to read it to find out for
yourself.
Even thought this was a great
book, it still had some flaws.
My mother gave me a new book to
read when I was in the middle of this book.
The new book is way better than this one and I wanted to know more about
the people from the new book than the ending of this one. (I don't blame the book for this,
though. I blame my mother but I highly
recommend The Ocean at the End of the Lane.)
Some people say that love is
blind, and in Lorelei's case it was.
Principal Trap treated her better than Molly did, she seemed like she
loved her, she seemed almost like a real mother. Because of this, Lorelei didn't want to face
the truth about her. If it had been me, I
would have guessed she was evil, not go back and forth about it.
The parents, even though they
were told about what was happening at the school, didn't believe Lorelei. Not that a parent would believe their child
if their child were saying all kinds of weird things about their teachers being
evil. But wouldn't they at least wonder
where they were getting all of these stories?
I would
give this book four stars.
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