All Books Considered

Only Daughter  by Anna Snoekstra Blurb from Goodreads : In 2003, sixteen-year-old Rebecca Winter disappeared.   She'd been enjoying her teenage summer break: working at a fast-food restaurant, crushing on an older boy and shoplifting with her best friend. Mysteriously ominous things began to happen—blood in the bed, periods of blackouts, a feeling of being watched—though Bec remained oblivious of what was to come.   Eleven years later she is replaced.  A young woman, desperate after being arrested, claims to be the decade-missing Bec.   Soon the impostor is living Bec's life. Sleeping in her bed. Hugging her mother and father. Learning her best friends' names. Playing with her twin brothers.  But Bec's welcoming family and enthusiastic friends are not quite as they seem. As the impostor dodges the detective investigating her case, she begins to delve into the life of ...

I Love This Trope, Sub-Genre, Setting is a new feature on my blog in which I discuss a trope, sub-genre or setting that I love and tell you about books that are shining examples of said trope, sub-genre or setting.  Feel free to play along and please let me know about your favorite books in this realm and whether you like this trope, sub-genre and/or setting as much as I do! Today I am spotlighting the setting of:  Boarding Schools , which I would define as any book that largely takes place at a boarding school and, more often than not, in which the characters are full-time students at a boarding school! Don't get me wrong, I loved my family and I liked high school but I also always had these dreams of going to boarding school (specifically, on the east coast).  I think it's because boarding school seems like more of a precursor to college than regular high school and something about that independence appealed to...