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A review by booksrbrainfood
The Divines by Ellie Eaton
3.0
I love a boarding school novel and this one has all the drama and angst. The divines are a group of girls who attend an exclusive private boarding school and personally have all the privilege associated with this. Despite this privilege, the girls are full of insecurity and cliques and the sort of problems common to teenage girls.
The protagonist, Josephine, is especially uncomfortable in her own skin, having difficulty seeing in herself what others see. Her roommate is an outcast who was a figure skater, which separated her from the other girls. A tragic event happens close to the time the school is merging with another, rival school.
The story is told with a dual timeline, alternating between the school days and years later when Jo is an adult, married and a mother. Her relationship to her past is much more important to her current life than she realizes.
I enjoyed the story, although there were characters who would have been fun to know more about following their time as students. I really enjoyed Imogen Church as the narrator. She adds an additional atmosphere to the story.
Fun read. 3/5 stars
#TheDivines #NetGalley #ImogenChurch #HarperAudio
The protagonist, Josephine, is especially uncomfortable in her own skin, having difficulty seeing in herself what others see. Her roommate is an outcast who was a figure skater, which separated her from the other girls. A tragic event happens close to the time the school is merging with another, rival school.
The story is told with a dual timeline, alternating between the school days and years later when Jo is an adult, married and a mother. Her relationship to her past is much more important to her current life than she realizes.
I enjoyed the story, although there were characters who would have been fun to know more about following their time as students. I really enjoyed Imogen Church as the narrator. She adds an additional atmosphere to the story.
Fun read. 3/5 stars
#TheDivines #NetGalley #ImogenChurch #HarperAudio