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(More customer reviews)I know there is supposed to be ambiguity in this book, so that it's not "really" about a vampire but about a disturbed girl who imagines the new girl at boarding school is a vampire.
However... honestly, I think that's a bit of a joke on reviewers that the author perpetrated to keep the book from being dismissed as "mere" fantasy. Yes, the heroine has a tragic past (father killed herself). Yes, she is taking a course on supernatural fiction... and ultimately has a dangerous flirtation with her teacher. yes, the new girl steals her best friend's affections.
These are all red herrings-- and the reason nobody takes her seriously. It's like the old saying, "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you."
This is a chilling book... and I can't imagine that the blonde best friend wasting away is named "Lucy" (did none of the reviewers even READ Dracula or Carmilla?) by accident. Real deaths happen, mysterious illnesses and other elusive things that have only one of two explanations: a "real" gothic vampire, or a psychotic narrator.
To me the story only makes sense with the former... and that the narrator herself, as a grown woman, decides it must have been the latter is part of the novel's tragedy.
This is a witty, sly, haunting modern version of Carmilla. Chilling and very sad... perhaps the saddest is how we blind ourselves to real danger and evil in the name of "normal."
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