She Was the Quiet One

In Michele Campbell's She Was the Quiet One, this thriller is quite disturbing, twisted, and all shades of crazy. For fraternal twins Rose and Isabel "Bel" Enright, their grandmother sent them to a top-notch boarding school in Connecticut after their mother died.  They had been close and good friends, right until they stepped inside Odell Academy. Things had changed between them, when Bel hung out with the wrong crowd. Ever since they were a slipper attack against Rose and her roommate, it had caused a nasty rift between them, though Bel had been loopy from her pain medicine and had gotten off scot-free. But Bel had a secret crush with one of the nearest teachers that had lead to an infatuation and later a scandal. Besides Rose, other classmates were suspicious of her behavior and had caught off with their dirty secret. For Sarah Donovan, she thought she had a perfect marriage to Heath, her high school sweetheart, until he acted strangely to her and had an affair with Bel. But with more tension between Rose and Bel over the past couple of days, it had made other students hate Rose and gave her a hard time. As Bel took her affair to another level, someone knew about it and blackmailed the Donovans at the school--someone else other than Rose. And then later when Bel was killed in the woods, people blamed Rose and tried to frame it on her. She would do anything to prove her innocence when everyone was out to get her until she could convince someone else to take her side in the matter of life and death.

This was a well-done and well-written fascinating thriller that has its own dark side. I did feel sorry for Bel, who was caught up with the wrong crowd, and had gotten hurt--later killed--in the midst of it.  I did feel the most sorry for Rose, who wanted to do the right thing from the wrongs, even though it made her look like a pariah. I also did feel sorry for Sarah who had dealt with the most shocking things that fall, when she had to see Heath in a different light. I did love the vast locations in the Connecticut area, inside and outside the school with vivid imagery and compelling gripping scenes. This would make you hold on to your seat and to buckle up with a wild ride with non-stop action, intense drama, lots of intrigue and suspense on every page.

Will you be there to read She Was the Quiet One tonight?