Not for me on this occasion....

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People I know and respect have really enjoyed this book, I can understand totally how you could feel it is an incredibly written book and could easily get caught up in the characters and story but unfortunately I just didn’t get it. Couldn’t connect, endear to the characters or really get off the starting blocks with this one. I lost interest in Louisa and why she and Mr Lavelle went missing and by the end couldn’t have cared why they disappeared. I also found it exceedingly hard to believe a strict Catholic boarding school run by nuns would exist in the manner it’s depicted and have lessons run by the likes of the bohemian Mr Lavelle.
“Temple House Vanishing” by debut author Rachel Donohue is a unique story with a YA feel to it, who for the right person with an interest in dramatic teenage angst with flawed characters, will enjoy but unfortunately on this occasion it was a case of ‘its not you, it’s me’.

2 stars but that’s my opinion only.