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After the death of her disfigured, shut-in mother, Barrie Watson moves to her aunt's South Carolina plantation, which is guarded by an ancient spirit who cursed one of the island's three founding families and gave the others magical gifts that become compulsions.
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Honestly, I didn't like most of the characters names. They were just kind of weird, but that is an easy thing to get over when the rest of the story is so incredibly interesting and especially when that was my only problem with this book.

This story is set in the south on Watson Island. I love the south, I'm from it, and I love hearing stories about it, so that gave this story a bonus for me. There are three plantations, two still standing and one destroyed. The setting and the way it is described is beautiful and so easy to imagine. The main character, Barrie, is staying at Watson Landing, a huge house that is falling apart. "The house emerged slowly from behind the violet-shadowed trees. Where at first there was only an impression of whitewashed bricks, fluted columns, and gabled roofs..." "A shutter hung drunkenly on a nearby window like it was going to crash down at any moment. Paint peeled from one of the tall columns, and mortar had crumbled from between the bricks." The descriptions are rich with detail throughout the book, a must for me to stay interested.

The characters were alive and vibrant, so different and interesting. Barrie makes a few stupid decisions just to prove that she can do what she wants, and to make Eight mad, I wanted to scream at her more than once. But she is smart and interesting. She and Eight together is just amazing. Eight... The dream guy, Charles Beaufort the eighth. I loved him. I love both southern boys and baseball players, lucky me that he is both. He is a great match for Barrie. They challenge each other throughout the book and are a cute YA couple.
Cassie and Wyatt... I can't even imagine having to deal with one of them.

There were twists throughout the story, and so many at the end. The supernatural elements were like none I have ever read, with Native American influences and a unique type of magic. The mystery kept me guessing and surprised more than once. I can't wait to read the next book. If it is anywhere close to the quality of this one, I am sure to love it too. ( )
  CaitlinDaugherty | Aug 28, 2023 |
I wanted to like it more than I ultimately did. It has all these excellent Southern Gothic hallmarks and teasers. It has paranormal elements. It seems really promising, but I found it very contrived in many ways. There's a mystery you aren't expecting. There's a romance, which at least isn't a triangle. There's an overly complicated plot and several things left unresolved. I think the thing I had the hardest time with is the very flat character relationships.

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  jennybeast | Apr 14, 2022 |
También en: El Extraño Gato del Cuento

Cuando vi la portada más la asociación con el título, me esperaba… no sé, creo que no el escenario que trae Compulsion. La portada me dice otoño, la chica recostada en el piso… ¿quizá una tragedia? ¿Pérdida? ¿Sueño? Y el título “Compulsión” (traducción literal al español), la verdad pensé que era sobre una chica que cleptómana que sea tropieza y cae al suelo en uno de sus episodios. A veces creo que tengo demasiada imaginación cuando se trata de interpretar imágenes, deberían ver mis pruebas psicológicas, son bastante curiosas.

Misticismo Sureño (del gringo)

Luego de leer tropecientos libros ambientadas en Estados Unidos una llega a cansarse y sentir que ya conoce todo acerca de ese país, muchas de las locaciones son casi siempre repetitivas. En Compulsion la historia gira entorno a una leyenda y una especie de Dios/Demonio Indio (no me pidan nombre que ya no me acuerdo, es un poco difícil de recordar u.u), una cultura de la que no sé nada y fue interesante aprender siquiera una poquita cosa (de seguro inventada) de historia. No hay muchos libros en Young Adult que usen como recurso creencia popular, el único otro libro que recuerdo que tiene un poco de eso es en la serie Night Huntress, con el vudú y el Mardi Grass. Así que por ahí, tiene para mí, un punto a favor.

Romance

Dije una vez que cuando hay algo paranormal o no-humano en un libro, el insta-love no me molesta. Es que, si puedo creer que tal o cual cosa tiene poderes imposibles ¿Por qué habría de ser imposible también enamorarse a primera vista? Creo que eso ya son pequeños traumas míos con que el amor entre humanos normales no existe y demás. La relación entre Barrie Watson y Eight “8” (se cree el doble de Tobías *badatumbs*) Beaufort es extraña, el secreto de la familia Beaufort es bastante curiosa y, créanme, mataría por tenerla. Así la vida sería tan sencilla, podría dominar el mundo sin más esfuerzo del que hago ahora. La manera en la que su relación se desarrolla no me molestó pero tampoco tiene el efecto “DESMAYO”, no es memorable porque estuve más interesada en la historia central.

Mansión Watson

Cómo comenté al inicio de esta reseña, la portada me tuvo en conflicto porque no dice “Esta es la historia de una chica que tiene el poder de encontrar cosas perdidas y que si no lo hace tiene horribles dolores de cabeza”, al menos para mí no. La portada no me dice nada fuera de lo común, más allá de un drama sobre una chica. Yendo al punto, el escenario central del libro es esta mansión bella y antigua, y aquí tengo que decir que tengo un pequeño amor por la arquitectura. Y lo antiguo. Y rebuscar entre las cosas ¿Qué mejor lugar para encontrar pequeños tesoros y secretos que una mansión antigua? Mientras leía la mano me picaba porque quería estar ahí abriendo cajones, buscando pasadizos secretos, cajas con fotos antiguas. Compulsion sería un muy buen y sencillo video juego (de esos de Facebook, como Criminal Case)

Leí Compulsion un domingo en la tarde que quería descansar, distraer mi mente un rato y lo logré, ha sido muy entretenido leerlo

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  Ella_Zegarra | Jan 18, 2022 |
So apparently I have a "thing" for Southern Gothic tales of romance and mystery. I loved this book, the character all steeped in backstory- of which neither we nor the main character (Barrie) knows anything about, the mystery of who she and the other founding families have their "powers" and the repercussions of using those same powers and the blossoming romance between Barrie and Eight (he's the eighth in the line with the same name).

It was so interesting to focus on the psychological aspects of magic and what it does to your psyche- in terms of the limitations that Ms. Boone has put on her characters and the definite limitations they have BECAUSE of the powers, not the actual abilities those powers provide.

It's not perfect, but it's so darn close, I was rooting for Barrie and wanted her cousin to get her comeuppance, and hopefully that will happen in the next installment- ( )
  lollyletsgo | Aug 10, 2017 |
2/3rds Beautiful Creatures series with a dash of Lauren Oliver's Rooms. ( )
  Kaytron | Feb 28, 2017 |
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