Bliss

Bliss


By: Lauren Myracle
Reviewed by: Lizzie, 17
Rating: Really liked it


Bliss is a new girl at school (who is different than the other girls), and discovers odd things about Sarah.

This book was amazing! Usually, horror/suspense stories have cheesy story lines and are pretty predictable, but this one proved me wrong.

In the begining, we are introduced to Bliss. She come's from hippie parents, who esccaped the Vietnam draft. She now lives with her 'proper' grandmother in Atlanta. Bliss has a special sense, that makes her hear troubling voices in her head.

I liked Bliss, because even though she tries to befriend everyone and be nice, she is not naiive on the things that are happening around her. When she starts hanging around Sandy, she senses that Sandy's obession with Sarah Lynn [the school's most loved student] is above abnormal.

In the book, I could sense that Sandy's obession with Sarah Lynn would be dangerous later on. At first I admit, that I didn't think much of 'Sandy'. But the author put little things in the story that gave hints, that there was more to the character.

The way "Sandy" is described to be looked and the way she acts, gave me the creeps! The author did a pretty interesting job making the story more suspensful, in the fact that she added the right time references into the the book [ex. racism, murderers]. All these ingredients provided the right recipe for a horror like narration, in which Bliss writes in her Journal about the mysterious ways of the School and Sandy herself.

I really wasn't satisfied with the ending, because I didn't understand it fully. However, it was freaky, and unexpected.


Recommended to: Horror fans