Thursday, June 18, 2009

The Dreaming by Queenie Chan

The Dreaming, by Queenie Chan, is an ultimate pleaser of eeriness in art as well as in plot. Jeanie and Amber, teenage twins with very different personalities, are sent to an all girls school that seems like the epitome of class. But once there they are forced by their aunt, who works at the school, to lie about their ages. According to the rather senile headmistress, twins are absolutely banned from the school, due to something that had happened many years before within its walls. The claim is that twins are bad luck, but the girls know it is something much more. While Jeanie is all for investigating, Amber seems in the slums and sleeps all day. As Jeanie talks to some of the girls in the dorms and learns more of the school's frightening history, it becomes apparent that something is horribly, horribly wrong. For years, girls have been vanishing from the school grounds after wandering into the thick forest that surrounds the building for miles. Jeanie knows it has something to do with the headmistress' past, as well as the haunting paintings posted all about the hallways, all depicting a picture of a women with short hair, dressed in a Victorian style gown. When girls start to go missing again and Amber begins to act like an entirely different person, Jeanie is the only one who can dig up the past. But She may also be swallowed within the mystery and darkness of the school, never to be seen again.
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