A novel about a young student in America who settles in a small town for her last year of high school after a long childhood of constant moving with her lecturer father. The student, Blue, befriends Hannah a film studies teacher at her high school and becomes part of a group of students who attend Hannah's exclusive weekend dinners. As the teacher apparently becomes more unhinged the students start to wonder if there is something deeper going on.
The novel is excellently written and whilst the book is easy to read there are a lot of academic references and metaphors. I did enjoy the language, but I found the characters and the plot a little unrealistic. In fact, the plot itself seems to be forgotten about for the middle 300 pages of this novel. Whilst this is not a great disappointment because of the quality of the writing, it but could detract if you were looking for a gripping mystery story which the back page summary seems to suggest.
This is an enjoyable book, particularly the writing style, but in my view the rather slow plot lets it down somewhat, especially in the middle.
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