The book opens in Bombay, India. We learn right away that Gemma has a bit of a fiery, rebellious personality. It is obvious her family has money because they have a housekeeper and talk about having tea with friends. her and her mother argue about sending her to boarding school in London, which her gradmother desrcibes to be a wonderful city.
It is Gemma's 16th birthday when the book opens. Her and her mother disagree on many things. As her and her mother wait for the train, two Indian men bump into them. Gemma finds the younger one quite attractive, though she thinks she shouldn't because he is Indian. The older man whispers to her mother, "Circe is near." This causes her mother to panick and leave Gemma. She offers her her strange necklace, with the crescent eye on it. Gemma runs through the streets until she is lost. She gets a strange feeling which she later discovers is her first vision. It is of her mother and the older indian man she saw earlier. She watches as her mother kills herself and the man is devoured by a darkness. She is suddenly back on the streets, fighting off the younger indian boy who tries to keep her under control. She runs to find her mother and discovers it is true, her mother is dead. Two months later her and her brother are on their way to Spence Academy in London. While on the way there she has another vision of a little girl with a doll in an alley. She tells Gemma that Mary is looking for her. A shadow moves closer to the little girl and gemma tells her to run, and then the creature turns Gemma with "unseeing eyes". It has decaying lips and spikes for teeth.
Sorry to be so descriptive, I felt this was an important part.
That part about the little girl creeped me out because the way she came out of nowhere and was talking about this Mary lady. At first it confused me because I was thinking to myself who is Mary, and then when that lady started shouting out to her when Gemma was still on the bus, at thought that was Mary, until I got towards the end and realized who Mary REALLY was.
ReplyDelete&& oh yeah, Did you see Twitches the movie or Twitches Two, doesn't the picture of the crescent eye remind you of the necklace the twins wore in that movie too? It reminded me of that.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Edina, and this was what wewere talking about in our discussion i class. I was also a little creeped out but then again that little creeping out thing just made me want to read more so yea. I think this was a good part of the book
ReplyDeleteI also was confused about the weird things that were happening in the beginning because it didnt really make sense. And so when we had our discussion in class it really did help because then when i continued reading i understood more.
ReplyDeleteAnd Edina, when I read the part about the necklace, i also remembered the twitches movie!