Author: Viv

secrets of sable island is a story written off the coast go Halifax Nova Scotia famous for its ship wreaks and its wild horses. Caleb Mackean lives in a lodge with norse who saved him after he was washed off board of a ship, Caleb eventually makes a friend Marin who is struggling to take care of his sick mother and her cruel father who wants to take her back tot he main land and send her to a conversion school to teach her some manners.

Rodney – so thats what you’ve been sneaking off to gallivanting around up to God knows what when you should’ve been back taking care of your mother! go home and pack. we’re leaving on the supply ship tomorrow …the whole family!

marine  but mother docent want to leave!

Rodney – don’t defy me girl I’ve made up my mind. I should’ve put your mother in the hospital and you and that  convent months ago!

the family slowly begins to fall apart after Rodney lost his leg during a rescue and tends to take it out on his daughter and the others around him while his wife tries to fight it even though she’s in critical condition

 

Secrets of Sable Island by Marcia Pierce Harding is about an island at the edge of the Continental Shelf or the southern side of Halifax Nova Scotia. The island sounded by sandbars that go on for miles and is covered by an almost constant wind pushing the sand around burring buildings and shifting the island into different shapes unexceptionally. The story takes place with a boy names Caleb on a bout sailing through a storm past sable island and is swept off the side go the boat by a rough wave, he’s swept to sable island and lays in the mushy sand as he feels the water rising higher and higher till he feels the warm breath of something on his face to see a big horse standing over him. He passed out again watching it run away and wakes up when hes grabbed and thrown over a mans shoulders “as a sack of potatoes” he explains. He wakes up in a cabin that smells like smoke and the breakfast the man is preparing for the two, Caleb realizes theres a bandage on his head and wood planks wrapped around his leg. The man preparing breakfast see’s Caleb awake and explains the horse came and got him throwing a fit outside his window and leading him over to Caleb saving his life.

good girls guide to murder by holly Jackson takes place in Fairview where Andie bell was allegedly killed by her boyfriend sal singe. We find out at the end of the book that Andie bell wasn’t killed and was in a relationship with Elliot Ward a teacher at Fairveiw and threatening to out him if he stopped doing what she wanted. We are also told that Andie went to Elliots house one day and was upset about sal leaving for university. she began destroying paintings that Elliots wife had made a few days before she had died. Elliot pushed her away from them but pushing her towards his desk hitting her head. He ran to get the first aid kit but when he was back she was gone. Following the times Andie went missing Elliot began to panic and decided to kill Sal this is how the conversation with Elliot and Pip went:

Elliot:  I called in sick for work and dropped the girls off at school. I waited outside, and when I saw sal alone in the parking lot I went up too talk to him. he wasn’t copping well with her disseverance. so I suggested that we go back to his house and have a chat about it. id planned to do it with a knife from the Singhs house. but then I found some sleeping pills in the bathroom and I decided to take him to the woods; I thought it would be kinder. I didn’t want his family to find him. we had coffee and I gave him the first three for his headache. I convinced him that we should go to the forest and look for and ourselves; that it would help his feeling of helplessness. he trusted me. he didn’t wonder why I hasdnt taken off my leather gloves. I took a plastic bag from their kitchen and walked out into the woods, and when we walked far enough into the woods. I had a penknife and held it up to his neck and forced him to swallow more. I said I was helping him that he wouldn’t be a suspect if it looked like he’d been attacked too. he swallowed a few more and then he started to struggle. I held him down and forced him to take more. when he’d started to get sleepy I held him and started to talk about Yale, about the amazing the librarys, how beautiful campus looks in spring just so he would fall asleep, thinking about something good when he fell asleep, when he lost consciousness I put the bag around his head and held his hand while he died.

pip: then u sent the confession text to his dad.

Elliot: yes.

pip: and Andies blood?

Elliot: it dried under my desk, I missed some when I had first cleaned, so I placed some under his nails with tweezers and put Andies phone in his pocket and I left him there.

Pip finds out the rest of the story and discovers and bell in the addict of Elliots old home where he had been keeping her but pip believes it’s not Andie.

Good girls guide to murder by holly Jackson is about Pippa fitz-amobi trying to solve the murder of Andie bell for a school project, now from where we left off Pip was going through phone interviews with family and friends of Andies as well as the evidence that was left and trying to find leads. Since then Pip has received a note telling her to stop digging, multiple messages from an anonymous number and whoever was behind all of it broke into her house, looked over her research and left hundreds of lines telling her to stop and back off. Besides all the threats from whoever was sending them, Pip managed to prove sals innocence, she found out Andie bell was dealing drugs and who she was getting the drugs off of and a few people she was selling too, how Andie bullied a girl named Nat De’silvia and Nat got charged with aggravated assault a few years later, Her best friends got in a hit and run while drunk driving then crashed the car and the first police officer who arrived at the scene was Nats older brother (Daniel De’silvia) who’s best friends with Jason bell (Andies father)  and when Sal was killed and Ravi tried to ask questions he would shut them all down and told him its better to forget about it.

Pip: “Nat said her brothers a police officer, lets look him up.”

Ravi: “hey I know him”

Pip: “you do?”

Ravi: “yeah. Back when I started asking questions about Sal, he was the officer that told me to give it up, that my brother was guilty beyond doubt. He does not like me.”

Pip was out walking one day after finding out sal was innocent and had let her dog off leash. she had her headphones in so she couldn’t here but when she got home and called her dog (barney) he didn’t come back. She later received a message from the anonymous number to bring everything with her project on it to a tennis club walk into the forest and destroy it if she wants to see her dog again. She packs all her stuff up without thinking destroys it and goes home but when she had gotten home her dad told her they had found barney in a ditch and he had drowned.

Good Girls Guide too Murder by Holly Jackson is a story based on a girl (Pippa (Pip) Fitz-Amobi) who lives in Fairview Connecticut where Andie Bell was murdered and was allegedly killed by her boyfriend (Sal Singh) who later killed himself in the fairview woods. He was declared a monster by the towns people, an example of this is when Pip was in an interview with Stanley  who mainly reported the case in the Fairview Newspaper the conversation went like this

Pip: okay in a lot your articles about the case you refer to Sal as a “killer”, a “murder” and even a monster you are aware without a conviction you are supposed to use the word allegedly when reporting crime stories.

Stanley: not sure I need a child to tell me how to do my job anyway it’s obvious that he did it and everyone knows it he killed her and the guilt drove him to suicide.

Pip: and why are you so convinced Sal guilty.

Stanley: too many things to list evidence aside he was the boyfriend right and it’s always the boyfriend or the ex-boyfriend not only that Sal was Indian.

 The conversation went on but because of this interview Pip had decided she is going to dig deeper into the case to find out what actually happened as she is still strong and believes Sal didn’t do it. She goes through phone interviews with some of Sals best friends and his family as well as Andies friends and family as well as teachers and people involved in the case and managing to get her hands one crucial bits of evidence and becoming friends with Sals brother Ravi Singh who starts to help in the case.

 

After reading Master and Man I was glad it was over but did enjoy the little details such as the hanging clothing, the backstory to Nikita and his development through the story and the dreams Vasili Andreevich and Nikita where having when they died or was close too death. The book was well written it just didn’t have very much going on through the beginning and the middle of it but towards the end is where it felt like it began to pick up with Vasili Andreevich trying to save himself but then getting brought right back to the sledge and seeing Nikita in the sledge decided to save him instead of himself. I think the development of Vasili Andreevich’s  character through the story is subtle but noticeable like how he had felt he was not the same person he was before he fell asleep in the sledge, while again deciding to give up his life for Nikita’s. the story was good but I probably wouldn’t read it again.