Conversion

This week I read Conversion by Katherine Howe. I would recommend this book to people who like books like In a Heartbeat or 13 Gifts, books like that. Imagine if every day, when you went to school, there was a risk of getting Ebola. That's basically what this book's like. This was a book about a girl named Colleen, living in the same town that the Salem Witch Trials were held in hundreds of years earlier. She is a senior in a private christian girls high school, and is stressing out about getting into college, among other things. Suddenly, the popular girl in the school becomes sick, suffering from seizures and different stuff like that. Suddenly the school becomes a prison, with people getting sick one after another, and nobody quite sure what it is. Colleen and her friends have to survive school, dealing with boys, college, and family problems all under the spotlight of the mystery illness; until she thinks she might just have figured it out. This book was great. Maybe not especially deep or anything, but it was really entertaining. The characters in my opinion were kind of two dimensional, but slightly relatable in their situations in their school and it was a really fast-paced book. It also flashed back and forth between scenes from the Salem Witch Trials, when they were held, and the school, so I guess you learned some history. There was a plot twist at the end, and you found a connection within the book, but otherwise it was actually a pretty shallow book with a weak plotline, even if it was a really quick, fast, and entertaining read. Overall, this book is realistic fiction, has some inappropriate stuff, but not too bad, and is overall good if you don't want anything especially deep to read.