At first, it was a bit boring and slow, but then once I got into it (after a handful of pages) I had to keep reading it to see what happened next. Although I have never been at a school where murders occured, I have been to an all girls' highschool and suicide and old tales of the place certainly did happen...the secrets in the book and the ties and the actual murders are very close together, condensed really...it seems unrealistic, but then entertainment is rarely realistic is it? I found parts very hard to believe, cannot remember which, but could feel myself going "yeah whatever" in my head to them.
I liked the Latin and the old feel (the history of the place), it reminds me of clever or intellectual people who have to remind others that they are just that, and the author in doing so, is reminding us that this is where she came from, she is a Latin major and was a teacher (not saying she WAS the main character in the book (was that Jane?), but guess she took some real life experience and put it into the characters/main character)...sorry I like to read the backgrounds of the writer as well as the acknowledgements and the reserch they did (find it fascinating)...her daughter was part of the inspiration in this book...great to think that the ordinary can be turned into the extraordinary or the entertaining at the very least...by writers...
I enjoyed it, even though, in places I was a bit unsure if things worked...some of it seemed over contrived and other parts seemed clever...I'm glad I finished it...I didn't have any favourite characters in this, they all seemed in some way too far from my personality to identify with them...I liked the police man but found his mannersims a bit weird...um, not sure what else to add...I liked the adventures they all seemed to have though, the swimming in the lake and the ice skating...reminds me of when I was young and carefree...