{"id":2689,"date":"2013-10-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2013-10-28T07:34:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T12:34:40","slug":"thorn-abbey-by-nancy-ohlin-book-review-love-beyond-death-vengeance-beyond-the-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=2689","title":{"rendered":"Thorn Abbey, by Nancy Ohlin (book review) – love beyond death, vengeance beyond the grave?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>Perfect beauty,
\nideal love,
\nno room<\/a> for the merely average?<\/p>\n

Tess feels like a sparrow among peacocks when she transfers from her huge urban high school in upstate New York to private Thorn Abbey, with its ultra-wealthy students and palatial buildings. Peer pressure there is strong, but her growing feelings for Max are stronger – surely she can help him get over the tragic death<\/a> of his girlfriend last spring…<\/p>\n

Ask for Thorn Abbey<\/em> at your local library<\/a> or favorite independent bookstore<\/a> and shiver through this spooky tale of love and obsession, a retelling of Daphne du Maurier’s classic Rebecca<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0 Thorn Abbey \/ Nancy Ohlin. Simon Pulse, 2013.\u00a0 [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 [video author visit<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Whatever Tess expected at private school, it wasn’t moving into a dead girl’s room, falling for her still-mourning boyfriend, or encountering a malicious spirit after English class!<\/p>\n

Tess came to Thorn Abbey for academics; her privileged classmates are mostly there to party and gossip on this picturesque New England coastal campus. The so-tragic drowning death of Becca last spring has left Max terribly depressed, and there are bitter undercurrents in conversations that Tess overhears in their dorms.<\/p>\n

Finding out that she’s in Becca’s old room is a shock, Max’s growing attraction to her is a delight, but the eerie nighttime apparitions and attacks are starting to freak out Tess.<\/p>\n

Whose advice should Tess follow at Thorn Abbey?
\nCould ultra-rich Max from Manhattan really fall in love with a shy middle-class girl from nowheresville?
\nWas Becca’s death really an accident?<\/p>\n

Devon was Becca’s roommate, is now Tess’s roommate, and definitely has secrets that are giving her nightmares in this modern-day retelling of Daphne du Maurier’s classic Rebecca<\/em>.\u00a0 (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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