Previously wanting to be in the medical field, but soon after developing a distaste for the field, Richard promptly decides to turn to studying the classics. Of course, when Richard arrives, he completely falls in love with Hampden and its very "Dead Poets Society" vibe to the school. Richard, desperate to leave Plano and his unattentive parents, decides to go to college at Hampden, a school in Vermont, specializing in Humanities. The Secret History follows insecure Richard Papen, a somewhat timid boy from Plano California. Reviewer Grade: 11 Reviewer's Name: Michelleĭonna Tartt and her debut novel The Secret History is one that will stick with me for quite a long time. I wouldn't say that this novel was the worst book I read, as it was a pretty fast and easy read, but I doubt that I'd ever consider picking this book up again. Truth be told, while the plot was creative enough, everything else seemed pretty surface-level, and the huge plot twist at the end really unraveled any scrap of importance that the story had left. I also really didn't like the cliche stereotypes Wolitzer scattered throughout the novel, and there was a lack of good character building and the arcs built for the side characters all seemed rushed and sloppy. I honestly found her to be a bit self-absorbed and delusional, and maybe Wolitzer did this deliberately, but I found Jam to not be a favorable protagonist. The plot of this novel was interesting enough, however, I found that as I continued to read, I began to not be able to stand Jam.
But the catch is this: the students are only transported to this dream world when they're writing in the journal-and there's only a limited amount of pages left. Q hands out special journals to each of the students, but the journals are far from normal, and instead teleport each of the students back into the time before their lives were ruined. Jam is currently attempting to get over her boyfriend-of 41 days, death. Jam and her friends at Special Topics all suffer from prior trauma, leading each of them to the Wooden Barn. Special Topics only admits very few students each year, and we soon learn why that is so. Jam, although wary of the Wooden Barn, soon meets an interesting circle of friends, most of them in her Special Topics English class, led by Ms. We follow our protagonist, Jam, a troubled high-school girl sent to the Wooden Barn, a place to help teens with mental illnesses. In a teen fiction romance meets Sylvia Plath's Bell Jar, Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer is a very interesting "spin-off" from Plath's breakout novel.
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