Author: Miranda Beverl-Whittlemore
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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Summary: Mabel Dagmar just wants to belong. On scholarship at her East Coast college, her roommate is the beautiful, enigmatic and blue-blooded Geneva Winslow, Ev for short. Ev ignores Mabel for a good part of the year until one day Ev invites Mabel to spend the summer with her as her guest at the Winslow family's Vermont compound. Mabel sees this opportunity to ingratiate herself with Ev and belong to a well-known and very wealthy family. As she becomes more and more ingrained with the family, Mabel is faced with a decision of whether to expose the secrets this family has kept hidden for so long or to accept them and become one of them.
Review: Wow. I've expressed some frustration recently about books (like this one, this one, and even this one) where the characters are wealthy and are dealing with their own challenges. But give me a book about a very wealthy family with some truly f***ed up stuff and I'm smitten. Mabel's character is pathetic in her desperation to be liked by Ev and her family. But she's also manipulative in her own ways. At the end you truly don't know who to trust. This book was awesome and just what I needed to cleanse my palate on "why do I keep reading books about wealthy people".
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