 to use animals like bees and crows, and put all this legend around them and make the whole thing something dark and cursed is great, never heard nothing like it before.At first I wasn’t sure if it worked, I found the whole thing a little bit weird, but ended up working and being something unique. I also liked that the whole plot takes place in a small town where appearances deceive and everything has an mystery aura, that has been great, it gives a touch of tv serie, something like The Vampire Diaries or Supernatual. In fact I think if you enjoy some of those shows you like the book too
There is nothing really amazing about the characters, they are quite normal and typical in this type of story,. at one point I thought it would exist a kind of love triangle and I was really worried about that, but it ended up being the opposite and didn’t fall into that topic, which sometimes bothers us so much, was a good thing
What I want to highlight and what I most enjoy was the Meg Kassel writing style, is incredible, super cool and easy to read, I also sincerely think that you could read this book easily in one day, it’s so addictive and fast-paced, I sadly didn’t have the chance to finish it so fast because life lol, but I would have liked to do it if I could. Once you start with it is very difficult to put it down.I’m 100% sure that I’ll read anything by this author in the future. I highly recommend this book if you’re in the middle of some reading challenge, it’s perfect for such occasions.
I feel that at one point there was a lot of action going on and I was terrified by the result and then PUM!, the book ended, and here I am, still with a million questions. So I don’t know how to feel about the end, I think it was rushed. Easily I could have devoured 100 pages more of this story without getting tired and maybe I would have more answers to my questions or at least to know more about what happened with the secondary characters, that is why I hope there is a continuation. And although the book, as I said, ends quite well, I feel that it is not one of my favorite endings and it’s from those books that you stay waiting for more.
I highly recommend it if you want a funny paranormal reading, you’ll read it very fast and you’ll surely enjoy the writing style that is cool and it’s not heavy at all. I also want to add that if you don’t mind the typical Paranormal YA topics then surely you’ll enjoy it, it’s a fresh and entertaining reading, GO FOR IT!
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Great review!
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Thanks 💕💕
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Great Review! I’m so looking forward to read this book! 🙂
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Thanks honey! I hope you enjoy it 💕
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Aww I was worried about this book… I LOVE Entangled Publishing but couldn’t get to this book… now I’m sorry I missed it! Your review made it sound divine! ♥️ I’ll have to check it out now!
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Thanks for reading my review honey!, I’m glad you enjoyed it. Happy Reading💕💕
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Great review!! I just finished this last night – I stayed up until 3:30am to do so, lmao – and gave it 4 stars as well. I thought it was such a fun book and I read most of it in one sitting. Reece was so precious and sweet!
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Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it 😊, it’s definitely an addictive reading, it was so hard to put it down. Alot of fun indeed 😄💕
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Above: Saoirse doing her research.
Saoirse Hill-Shearman is a Year 10 student at Cashmere High School in Christchurch.
She wrote the following article as part of a science communication assignment set by her teacher Leith Cooper.
Read about this particular unit of work, communicating the nature of science at Cashmere High School, and Saoirse's research process in the article Finding authenticity: school-wide perspectives on the nature of science.
Living with retinitis pigmentosa: one patient’s story
Saoirse Hill-Shearman
Meet Zoë. She is 33, a mum-to-be, and was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) when she was just eight years old. She is one of around one thousand RP sufferers in New Zealand. RP is a hereditary disease that slowly degrades the vision and leaves most sufferers legally blind by the age of 40.
For Zoë the first signs of vision loss were diminishing peripheral (upper, lower and side) vision (often called tunnel vision) and a loss of night vision. This is when the light sensitive parts of the eye (rods), which are used to seeing in low light, are destroyed. It also affects the ability to judge the changes in levels, e.g. stairs, gutters. She clearly remembers tripping over a low concrete wall at Brownies, aged nine, and realising that her sight made things different for her. Now, she no longer drives at night and needs to wear polarised sunglasses to reduce the glare in the sunlight.
In some cases of RP, there is a loss of colour vision and sometimes the central vision is affected first, making detailed work extremely difficult.
Zoë’s strand of RP is called PFPR31, which is a mild and changeable form that is either present and visible to specialists by the age of 14 or can manifest later in life; Zoë was eight, her sister was 14 and her cousin was in her 20s.
The strand affecting Zoë is autosomal dominant, which means the disease is present when a single copy of the gene is defective. As Zoë’s mother has RP (with one normal and one defective gene), Zoë had a 50 per cent chance of being born with the disease. There is also no average rate of degeneration as it varies from sufferer to sufferer.
Currently, there is no cure for RP but there is a new vitamin A palmitate (the ester of retinol (vitamin A) and palmitic acid) currently in development. At present, however, this medication has too many potentially toxic side effects to be prescribed to RP sufferers.
Zoë was taking a tablet called Diamox (acetazolomide), which drains fluid build-up from the back of the eye. Unfortunately, it drains fluid from the rest of the body also, which puts pressure on the kidneys and can lead to kidney stones. She is now taking the same medication in drop form, which is much better for her kidneys.
Another form of treating RP under development is gene therapy, and wearing sunglasses to protect from harmful UV rays can also help sufferers.
Zoë belongs to Retina International, which is a voluntary, charitable organisation that supports people struggling with low vision and includes member societies from New Zealand (Retina New Zealand), Australia, South Africa, and the UK.
This group is invaluable as a low vision support and information network as RP sufferers with some sight have no access to the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind. The key difference of this organisation is that it is patients helping other patients.
As editor of the Retina New Zealand national newsletter, Zoë offers advice on assistive technology such as phone apps that can help with low vision, special lighting strips for the home, rails on oven slides to prevent accidental burning, as well as providing recipes with ingredients that may improve sufferers’ eyesight and gardening tips for growing scented gardens.
For those seeking more information, go to Retina New Zealand’s website or pick up one of their pamphlets at your local doctor’s office.
Information sources
Learning about Retinitis Pigmentosa (n.d.). Retrieved 20 February 2015 from
Newton, K. (coll.) (2006). The Good Look Book: Stories of living with losing vision (p. 52). Paraparaumu: Retina New Zealand.
Retinitis Pigmentosa (pathology) (n.d.). Retrieved 18 February 2015 from
What Is Retinitis Pigmentosa? (n.d.). Retrieved 15 February 2015, from
Your Blue Book: A beginner's guide to coping with vision loss (p. 36). (2014).
Paraparaumu: Retina New Zealand.
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