![]() But her father doesn’t see this as luck but as a sign of her inferiority. Her self esteem is flagging already what with a rejection letter from El Cameno college ( school of cool cars? ), and the fact that the summer camp she’d gone to as a counselor, for years has suddenly cut back on staff and as luck would have it she was the only one not asked back. ![]() ![]() Melissa is an average 18 year old but feels stifled in her wretchedly small town life, especially under the dictatorship of her father, a brusque misogynist who constantly compares her to her seemingly perfect older brother Bob. It wouldn’t be so bad had I not seen the same father-as-bigot attitude in her last gothic. The only flaw I might have against this offering of Woolfolk’s is the almost dated woman’s movement theme that infiltrates every aspect of the story. ![]() Some other reasons it maybe unfair to pit it against Lynch is that Lynch’s last book I read – Girl in the Shadows was only 155 pages and had a larger font – a skimpier read with less time to fool around with descriptions and character growth. In some ways it seems unfair to compare the two writers – especially by the time I got done reading the Girl Cried Murder – it’s got Woolfolk’s trademark feminist touch but it is also a darn good gothic mood piece. Well I’m down to my last Windswept ( for now ) in my pair off with Dorothy Woolfolk and Miriam Lynch. ![]()
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