The Reading Rebels! discussion

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hi everyone! can't wait to start this discussion! :D

Hi guys! So excited to chat to you all about The Accident Season!

Hi rebels! Let's get this party started *throws confetti*

HELLOOO Mer & Cherry! :D

Hi everyone!!! Let's go!!!!! :D

SANDRA IS HERE!!!

Hi!

Yes!! Haha, hi everyone! ;)

hi R.A.! or should we call you Rachel? :)

omg hi Taryn! glad you could make it!!

Yay Taryn, you're my hero,it's 7 am in OZ!!!

You can call me Rachael! LOL It's weird but when they converted my profile page to an author page they made my "first name" R.A. Someday I'll figure out how to fix it. My tech skills are pretty low...

Yay hello!! And Taryn!! You made it!

Hello Rachael!! Well, how did you enjoy the Accident Season then?

I've done live discussions for school but never on Goodreads. This is new and fun. I want to talk about Elsie. She was the most fascinating character, I thought, because she is the most mysterious.

Sandra, I loved this book. It was crazy and spooky and so well written. <3

Sorry I'm late! Hi, everyone

Elsie was definitely fascinating, from beginning to end! I was a little scared of her character in the beginning, but after finding out who she really was, my mind was blown.

Hi Lara! Welcome to the discussion *waves*

Did anyone else see the twist coming?

Anyone... Not anyone else!

yeah, in the beginning, i was a little freaked out by the fact that Elsie was in all of the pictures with Cara because it was so bizarre hahaha

Hi, Lara!

Taryn, That was a big twist at the end. I thought she was alive until the summer before this book starts but it turns out that she was dead when she was a baby, from what I understand. Also, there was the crazy twist with Sam's dad.

no, i definitely did NOT see that coming in the end, Lara *gapes* i was sitting in my bed with my mouth hanging open

I think it was clever that some people didn't think the 'evidence' was as compelling as Cara. Made me question her reliability as a narrator.

Yes, I agree! The writing style was really captivating! What impressed me most is that I never saw the ending coming. The author was able to really surprise me, and that rarely happens. And yes, Elsie was a complete mystery and that was also so well done by the author

I had a suspicion that Elise died on the bridge because of that newspaper clipping, but definitely not when she was a baby! That part got me

Hi Lara!

I did see the stepdad and Nick being abusive coming though. The stepdad being the Tin Man was a little surprising to me.

Hi Sandra! Yes, Taryn, I'm also confused about the secrets booth. If Elsie didn't start it... Who did?

Ah, good one Lara! Yes, everyone questioned Cara and what she saw in the pictures!

Oh me too - she is such an inspiration. I really feel I learned a lot from her writing style.

I definitely felt like Cara was meant to be an unreliable narrator. I think it added a level of complexity to the book.

Definitely. That was so important, Rachel. Personally, I think I would have preferred it if it remained ambiguous...

I was a little confused about the secrets booth because, like you said, there were newspaper articles about it so someone had to have been doing it.

Exactly Rachael, if not Elsie, who did it?

I'm still trying to figure that one out too Rachel, if Elsie died long ago, who could have started the secrets booth? Unless she was able to do that as a ghost..?

Well she did manage to set the traps as a ghost...

Hey guys! Sorry I'm late.

yeah, i totally agree with everyone! the secrets booth is the only thing that's killing me because it couldn't have been Elsie since she's a ghost... and we can't really think of a good explanation to how it got starts *rubs forehead* *thinking*

Hey Ghadir! But did anyone really really see her? All the teachers couldn't remeber her...if you run a booth you need to get in contact with the pupils, no?!

Hi Ghadir!

Also... Why did she have to go away for a month every year? And now that she is gone (for good?) will they be in danger all the time??

Is it possible that the dream-catchers and the doll in the trap were part of some spell to make her able to interact with the mortal plane of existence? There was some talk of witches and there was a file for Elsie with the witch house as an address.

Hi guys!!

Cara did say she set the traps...but how? Also, can someone remind me why she set the traps in the first place.

Is it possible that Elsie possessed Cara and did all those things while in her body? I'm just throwing theories out there now lol

Cara did mention a story about fly paper before she found fly paper on the trees, right?

When she went away, wasn't she trying and searching to "eliminate" the danger? That's what I thought. Or maybe that was the timeframe she died so many years ago.

I truely believe that by remembering what happened to Cara and her family it was like some kind of catharsis that put the danger at bay. Also, Elsie's disappearance marked closure for me.

Wow a live chat? o: Hi guys! Sorry for just bumping in your conversation.

Another Sandra! HI!

I also don't know what to write, but yes I also feel that there was a lot of unanswered questions in the book.

I really liked the secrets booth though!

Hello Ann and Sandra!! :-D Welcome!