The worst thing about my book is...
Switching the plot. The story switches between Taylor Markham in real life and Taylor's dreams, which are the same as her caretaker, Hannah's book. Hannah is the closest thing to a parental figure as Taylor has. She is her dorm adviser at the Jellicoe Private School. Hannah recently went missing, just as Taylor was promoted to her schools representative in the "territory wars" between the Cadets (a military school) and the Townies (the public school in town). The book starts off in Hannah's book, before you meet any characters. At first, you think the 5 people in the separate story are just in Taylor's dreams, but later as the puzzle pieces start fitting together you pick up on the fact that it is actually both her dreams and the book that Hannah has been writing since they met. The only message Hannah left when she disappeared was with the principle, that she was going to help a friend, Ms.Dubose, an allusion to To Kill A Mockingbird (which the principle doesn't get.) Taylor is failing at her job of being Jellicoe's rep, and her life is falling apart without Hannah there. Taylor has been sneaking parts of the manuscript of the book so that is how she has been reading it, and then leading to the dreams. The pieces are now starting to come together of Hannah's relationship to the book. The book has made more sense since I kept reading, but it is hard to stick with. I'm about halfway through and it is just now starting to come together.
I agree that it is hard to read a book where the plot is constantly changing, because not only the does the plot change but sometimes charactors change as well. It is really diffcult to read books where this happens almost every chapter.
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