My Never Ending List

There was a plethora of characters in this novel from teachers to parents to teens; everyone wanted a piece of the action.  Did I just say plethora? Something is happening to the teenage girls in this novel and they’re landing the hospital with bizarre symptoms. It started with convulsions while others started to claw at their throats claiming of a lodged foreign object trapped inside as they dug with their fists in their mouths. Others started to seize, faint and get sick, such a collection of symptoms but why only females and why now?   It began with Lise and now her close friend Gabby, while performing on stage is not able to control her cello as “her chair skidded loudly, her neck thrown back so far that, in the darkness, it looked like her head had disappeared. For one terrifying instant, gone.”  They along with other females of Sea-of-the-Star are being admitted at the local hospital and have the medical team scrambling to find the cause.  Is there a connection between these individuals and if so, what is that link?  Healthy girls are starting to panic, along with their parents and the school community.  There’s talk of an epidemic, there’s accusations of public abuse, everyone wants to point the finger and only a few have some type of a lead to go on.  Samples are taken, interviews are conducted and some individuals are getting hysterical. Tempers fly but only a few really knows the answers and I myself, couldn’t believe the outcome.

Oh, the life of being a high school student.  Trying to mange school and the drama with all your friends and your family, it is a juggling affair.  In The Fever, I was thrown right back into the mix, yet there is something odd going on with the females in this high school. How something can only effected them had me baffled and I was thinking along the lines of Criminal Minds as they threw out their assumptions to me.  Was it the river, could it only effect the females? Could it be the vaccination?  Could it be something totally different, yes I can pull a rabbit out of a hat and save the day? The author had me going, tugging me in many directions, as there were a few strings left dangling in front of me.  This would have been a good case for Dr. Reid but Megan put everything together and “Maybe we don’t really know anybody, Deenie thought. And maybe nobody knows us.”

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