![]() 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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