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good creepy ghost story, This book is just the right combination of creepy, romantic, and sad, I have heard of fear of water but i never imagined that her fear would turn into such an amazing story.
Seventeenyearold Molly's recurrent nightmares become waking visions after she nearly drowns at a party, Soon she's witnessing events through the eyes of a girl who lived in her father's house nearly a century before.

Although I adored Reiss's Blackthorn Winter as a preteen, I never came across this one until now.
It's an imperfect but delicious YA read, One I wanted to reread as soon as I finished it, Also, as a native blonde Ohioan with a highpowered lawyer for a mother and repetitive nightmares, I enjoyed having a protagonist who is another blonde Ohioan with a highpowered lawyer for a mother and repetitive nightmares.


It's rather melancholic, with a dreamy quality to the narrative or, more accurately, a nightmarish one.
The respective stories of Clementine, a girl in, and Molly, ayo girl in the modern world with an inexplicable phobia of water who has been haunted by a certain nightmare her entire life, and who is presumed to be Clementine reincarnated, were artfully woven together.
Ditto Hob/Jared.

From what books I've read from Reiss before now, shes great on character development.
I appreciate nuance in a YA book, and Reiss delivers here, Clementine is no hero. Molly is understandably ashamed of being her reincarnation, Still, while Clementine isn't the greatest, Reiss makes it clear that shes not the devil either.
Like everyone, she's a mixed bag, and realistically brought to the page as is Molly,

The idea of reincarnation appeals to me, and compared to the more common ghost or timetravel tropes, I think reincarnation is an underused concept.


Quality read. Reiss is a solid writer adept at dispensing chills and thrills, Favorite book from my adolescence

I read this book over and over in my middle school years and its still just as good fifteen years later I read this book for school, so I had to read it in aweek time period instead of likeweeks or something.
It's a really good book! Even though it is gothic, it still also doesn't feel too gothic and towards the end of the book, there were so many connections! Some parts were kind of creepy, but for the most part I love this book!! Good mystery.
This book kept me hooked from start to finish, I loved the mystery of it, and Molly's fears were so irrational but felt so real.
Even though I was sure no harm would come to her in the water in the beginning bits, each encounter with it made me scared for her.


The mystery of things moved along at the right paceenough to keep me wanting more, but not slow enough to bore me.
My one complaint with it has to do with the label on the book itself, saying this is part of a Time Travel mystery series.
I can kind of see why it falls under that series name, but it was also misleading, as I could kind of see where the book was going with Molly, but then I thought I was missing a piece because the time travel had yet to come into it.
I mean, there are a few bits you can claim are time travelesque, but it had more to do with mental things rather than time travel.


Aside from that one problem, I loved this book, It's one that has been sitting on my shelf to read for years, and I wish I had picked it up sooner.
The characters were great, the mystery and reveal of it all was great, and I loved how everything tied together.






SPOILERS BELOW!!!









I just had to mention Clementine.
I feel so bad for her, how she was a slave in all but name, but then I feel bad for the people she used.
Hob and Abner didn't deserve the way she lied to them and manipulated them, Yet, I can't blame Clementine for her doing all she could to be free, It wasn't too hard to guess her fate, but a part of me wanted her to survive and live out her dreams.
I almost want a sequel book, about the adventures she goes onand her learning to care about others.
Maybe she could have ended up finding a guy and having a kid of her ownand then she could have gone back to the village, and apologized to those she had hurt.
But this is no longer a review, This is just a story that can't happen, no matter how much I would like to read it.


So, overall, I loved the book, and I think it will stick in my head for awhile.
This was one of the books I got when I was younger at a book fair.
It's the most tattered book on my bookshelf simply because I keep going back to it whenever I have a chance.
It's a simple read, I finish it within the day, But it's a good book to read whenever I want to revisit my childhood favorites, I love the suspense and twistd in this book, It was hard for me to put this one down, Now this is a book that'd i like to see get turned into a movie! Quite a quick read.
The writing is not the greatest, However the story draws you in, Youll be turning pages till the last one hoping for more, Don't you hate that feeling when you wake up in a cold sweat from a dream you thought was real Dreadful Sorry by Kathryn Reiss is about Molly, a young teen terrified of the water, struggles to keep reality and her dreams of Clementine a girl who Molly believes she has reincarnated into separate from each other.
Hints and clues along the shoreline of her father's beach house lead her to expect that reincarnation and reliving someone else's life is able to happen.


Molly is a seventeen year old who has nightmares and visions of a girl named Clementine.
Molly soon discovers that her and Clementine take the same footsteps in life, but Clementine takes them just a hundred years before.
Molly finds herself falling for the same kind of boys and most importantly, having a petrifying fear of water similarly to Clementine.
Throughout the book the visions and "memories" constantly bring up the song "Oh My Darling", Molly figures out that Clementine drown with her lover Hob, Molly worries on that the same will happen with her and her boyfriend, Jared,

One scene from the book I thought was good was when Jared pushed Molly into a pool at a summer party.
The author created this eerie mood to go along with this event and hinted that they knew each other somehow, but without even meeting in the first place.
I overall enjoyed this book because of the suspense and the genre of the novel, Being a mystery, this book allowed me to infer and make assumptions about what was going on and going to happen in the plot.


This is literally theth time I have read this book!!!!

It's a great book about a girl who starts remembering her past live and you start to see the links between both her lives.
As the book pulls you in you start to connect all these pieces together and realize that there is a reason she has started to remember and it is not just for love.



This book takes place in a quaint little town on the water in main and you fall in love with it wishing you could visit and meet the other characters for real.
It is a good love story not only between soul mates but between family, It shows how ties and bonds that are formed can last through a person's life, It also shows how strongly family can influence

you life in good and bad ways,

Please if you pick up any of Kathryn Reiss' books please read this one.
It is one of my favorites from her, I have also read her book "Time windows" just as many times as I have read this one and highly recommend it as well.
Also "Paperquake" I have read at least twice now as well which is another fabulous book by her.

Here is another annoyance, In pretty much all the YA mystery/thriller books I've read lately, there is a super annoying mother.
And for some reason it's always the mother, The father either completely backs up the mother or else the father is the "understanding" parent but for some reason can't overthrow the mother's wishes.


In every one of these books, the mother is a cold, SUPER practical person who reacts violently to their child's experiences, saying that their child is either lying or imagining things, and REFUSES to even listen further, even going so far as to yelling at the child and/or punishing them.


In this book the main character is deathly afraid of water, and rather than being understanding, the mother is dismissive and cruel.
When the main character almost drowns, the mother is even more heartless, saying that she needs to face her fear and tells her she can't do anything else until she learns to swim.
WTF The mothers in these books are so completely unrealistic, They are only in the story to move the plot along, to set up roadblocks for the main character from investigating whatever it is they are trying to find out.
It's really really annoying, and it's gotten old, I don't know any real life mother who is like this,

This book was pretty bad, I figured out what happened halfway through the book and then basically skimmed through the rest to confirm my guess.
Other than the horrible mother, there is once again the unrealistically sensitive yet hunky high school boy who helps the main character solve her mystery.
Actually every character was totally stereotypical, This is a mustskip book, Okay, so I actually enjoyed this book despite the rating I gave it, The story was interesting and definitely drew me in, But the beginning of the book was slow, I also feel like the writing wasn't that good, I did like Molly and her dad, Paulette was annoying, but also adorable and waaaay more tolerable than Molly's mother, Overall, not a bad book at all, I liked the overall concept and all the interconnected clues but found the book just OK.
This is the first book I have read in a while that I actually can say I really enjoyed.

In the beginning, I wasnt too sold on it but just like any book based in Maine, it pulled me in and made it difficult for me to put down.

I was even satisfied with the ending, which is rare for me, I always like to ridicule the thought process behind a good books bad ending, But this book was great, Oh my darlin, oh my darlin, oh my darlin Clementine, you are lost and gone forever, dreadful sorry Clementine.


Seventeenyearold Molly has had a recurring nightmare her entire life she is walking down a long hallway to the end room, where she knows something horrible is happening.
She also has an incurable fear of water, and continues to hear that old Clementine song in her head.
After a neardrowning experience at a pool party, she leaves to spend the summer with her father in his new house in Maine.
But the carefree summer she was hoping for disappears when she goes upstairs in the house and sees the same hallway that has been plaguing her dreams for years.
Then Jared, the boy who threw her into the pool, comes to Maine demanding Molly talk to him.
Now Molly is experiencing visions of a girl named Clementine who lived in her fathers house a century earlier.
As the summer continues Molly stumbles across a series of connections between her and Clementine that begin to form an eerie pattern.
Mollys “visions” begin to feel more like memories memories that appear to be reliving themselves in her life and Jareds.
Can Molly prevent the past from repeating itself

This book moves slowly at times, so those who need a very fastpaced novel would have a difficult time getting through the slow parts.
There are also many predictable aspects about the book, however, overall it is a great read and would appeal to many teenagers and adults alike.
I enjoyed the unique plot of the story and liked how it introduces the possibility of both ghosts and reincarnation as an answer to Mollys nightmares and visions.
As is the case in most YA novels, many relationships are examined in “Dreadful Sorry”: Molly deals with her father and his young, pregnant wife Mollys relationship with Jared turns from onesided hatred to friendship to something more and Molly attempts to mend the multiple broken relationships from Clementines life.
This supernatural mystery mixed with romantic intrigue demonstrates the power of second chances and was one of my favourites as a teenager.
I highly recommend “Dreadful Sorry”, Those with an interest in reincarnation will especially enjoy this book,
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