This book was recommended in a list with gothic ghost stories. NONONONONONONONO It is WAY just YA Fiction with supernatural hints, I wouldn't even classify it as fantasy. 
 So this book sounds like it would be super awesome, kind of creepy with a dark-people-killing-each-other kind of vibe.... And parts of it WERE really good; Gardnerville, the teens turning wild and crazy during the fourth year....an evil reformatory... The past chapters have titles of 80's songs, which I dig. 
 But... I was also like, "meh...whatever." About the first part of this book where the MC basically spends like 100 pages doped up on purple forget-me-not pills and wanders around in a doped up drug induced state, kind of remembering her maybe sister Piper and kind of remembering other important stuff that may or may not be happening. 
 I didn't care too much for the characters, what happened to them or why they acted the way they did. I DID like the place they lived and the creepy things that happened during fourth year, that seemed WAY more interesting than the crap that was actually going on. I did like Piper, who had an interesting end game and a surprising character twist. 
 I had some serious issues with a few of the plot points; like Elton, the high school teacher who is in his twenties, but acts like a teenager and no one seems to care that he was banging two high school girls and got one knocked up. And he killed a bunch of people too, apparently cause this town is PERFECT there are no police? No officials? I don't know...and I didn't really care. The other issue was the reason behind the magic of this town is never fully explained, there is a creepy backstory about rats, that doesn't make any sense... Magical rats, maybe? ROUS??? Who knows, but that's it. 
 So I like/hated this book, not sure I recommend it, not sure I would read anything else by this author either. 
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