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by Rachel Klein (Author) "My mother dropped me off at two ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber; Children's ed edition (7 April 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571219713
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571219711
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.6 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 441,807 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"'The Moth Diaries delves deeper into the nueroses and psyche of female adolescence than anything I've ever read. It is dark and dangerous, gothic, brutally revealing, regularly shocking and perfectly controlled.' Guardian; 'A wonderfully Gothic story, even though it's set in the 1960s, and I adored every word of it... my advice is: read this terrific, skilful, fascinating book at once before they decide on casting.' Times Educational Supplement"

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At an exclusive boarding school, a sixteen-year-old girl records her most intimate thoughts in a diary. The object of her growing obsession is her roommate, Lucy Blake, and Lucy's friendship with her new and disturbing classmate. Ernessa is a mysterious, moody presence with pale skin and hypnotic eyes. Around her swirl dark rumours, suspicions and secrets as well as a series of ominous disasters. As fear spreads through the school, what is true and what is dreamed bleed together into a waking nightmare of gothic menace, fuelled by the anxieties, lusts and fears of adolescence. At the centre of the diary is the question that haunts all who read it: Is Ernessa really a vampire? Or has the narrator trapped herself in her own fevered imagination?

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A book to haunt me in years to come!, 23 Jul 2004
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This review is from: The Moth Diaries (Hardcover)
This book had me completely absorbed. It's rare for a book to linger on in my mind days after reading it. I still can't decide whether the narrator's experiences and feelings were real, or a product of her imagination.

Was Ernessa really a vampire who is sucking the life out of her friend Lucy? Perhaps Lucy distintegrates because of anorexia & possible abuse from her repulsive father? Maybe the author was simply projecting her negative feelings of grief & jealously onto Ernessa and making her out to be something gross and unnatural. However, weird going-ons, untimely deaths, & the dark gothic atsmosphere of the boarding school suggest that the narrator's experiences are very real.

Well-written and very compulsive, the book finishes off with more questions than answers.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars THE MOTH DIARIES, 13 Feb 2004
This review is from: The Moth Diaries (Hardcover)
Its hard to say you could enjoy this book but it did make a compelling and fascinating read. Don't read this book if you want easy answers as this book is not about that - its the questions and possibilities that stay with you for a long time after reading it. Its extremely well written and gets under your skin and I did find it fascinating and enjoyable, even if I craved a clear answer at the end. You really do feel like you are reading someone else's diary and it throws up so many things that happen during adolescence while avoiding all the usual clichés. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wants something different to read.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Buffy The Metaphor Slayer, 31 Aug 2005
By J. J. O'neill "rotgut" (Warrington UK) - See all my reviews
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This pyschological thriller, despite its packaging, seems to me to be a long way from being a Gothic vampire story. It reads more like a modern take on the classic American short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" where the reader witnesses the mental disintegration of the female narrator from her own journal.

In fairness to the author, the prosaic forward removes all realistic chance of reading this book as a genuine ghost story, although I suppose the epilogue could be seen as being slightly ambiguous.

The interesting point raised in the narrative, is if the narrator has been "cured" of her madness...certainly this point, much more than imagined monsters, is left very much open.

Moths occur at several key times in the story, never fatally being drawn to flames, I am glad to say, this, a too obvious image for the brilliant "A" student obsessing over books, school, teachers, father, friends, is never used. Most tellingly, the narrator describes fruitless nights searching with her father for a beautiful moth they saw when she was younger.

As much as being about going mad, the book is about growing up, both themes are much more horrific than a castle full of vampires.

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Rarely have I been so disappointed by a book. The Moth Diaries is written in the style of the diary of the whiniest teenage girl ever brought into creation - and it works. Read more
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