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Title | Light as a Feather
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Author | Zoe Aarsen
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Publisher | Simon Pulse - 2018
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First Printing | Lovestruck Literary - 2013
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Title | Cold as Marble
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Author | Zoe Aarsen
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Title | Silent as the Grave
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Author | Zoe Aarsen
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Category | Young Adult
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Warnings | None
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Main Characters | McKenna, Violet, Trey
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Main Elements | Ghosts
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Website | zoeaarsen.com
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 Light as a Feather
It was supposed to be a game…
Junior year is shaping up to be the best of McKenna Brady’s life. After a transformative summer, McKenna is welcomed into the elite group of popular girls at Weeping Willow High, led by the gorgeous Olivia Richmond. For the first time in a long time, things are looking up.
But everything changes the night of Olivia’s Sweet Sixteen sleepover. Violet, the mysterious new girl in town, suggests the girls play a game during which Violet makes up elaborate, creepily specific stories about the violent ways the friends will die. Though it unsettles McKenna, it all seems harmless at the time.
Until a week later, when Olivia dies…exactly as Violet predicted.
As Violet rises to popularity and steps into the life Olivia left unfinished, McKenna becomes convinced Olivia’s death wasn’t just a coincidence, especially when a ghost haunting her bedroom keeps leaving clues that point to Violet. With the help of her cute neighbor, Trey, McKenna pledges to get to the bottom of Violet’s secrets and true intentions before it’s too late. Because it’s only a matter of time before more lives are lost.
I read this book when it was available free on the RivetedLit.com site. I must admit I'd never heard of the game Light as a Feather Stiff as a Board before and it sounded pretty morbid. I mean why would you want to invent gruesome deaths for your friends? And what if it did come true? One birthday party a friend had a Ouija board and that freaked me out enough, and that was with my friend not having any patience so was pushing it the wedge around all over the place before giving up after a couple minutes.
Well, this book delves into the "what if it does come true" part of the game. McKenna, the protagonist, finally got into the the cool girl club. Must admit that was more annoying than anything, personally I was never in the cool club, nor did I have any particular desire to be (as long as I wasn't picked on, being ignored was perfectly fine for introvert me) so I'll never sympathize someone who does dumb things they know are wrong just to be able to stay in the cool group. Thus I spent a certain amount of the book just annoyed at the main character.
That aside, it was an interesting concept. Was Violet the actual cause of the deaths she predicted or was she just predicting what would happen anyway? Where does Violet get her power from? And was there a way to stop the predictions from coming true? That part was interesting enough to keep me reading, and I think will be interesting enough to get me to run out to the library (post-covid mind you) to find out how it ends. To be honest, it could have ended just fine with one book but looks like it will be a trilogy. Seeing by the end how McKenna ended up doing the right thing, hopefully the next two books will have her grow in confidence and not just do whatever the cool girls wanted her to do (mind...most of the cool girls end up dead or in therapy after this...)
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