Belzhar

Belzhar is a story about sorrow and love. The book was written by the New York Times bestselling author Meg Wolitzer and it is inspired by the famous author Sylvia Plath. Throughout the book you get to follow a girl named Jam Gallahue and her journey to accept the loss of her beloved boyfriend Reeve Maxfield.

Her parents decide to send her to The Wooden Barn, a school for teenagers that are suffering from grief, as a last resort. At The Wooden Barn she gets selected to a class called Special Topics in English where there’s only four other students. Their teacher, who is a mysterious elderly woman named Mrs Quenell, gives them a diary in which they are supposed to write in once a week. At first they are suspicious but when they decide to give it a go they realise that it’s not an ordinary diary. For when they write in it, they get to another place, a place where Jam can be with her beloved Reeve again, and that place is called Belzhar. But as soon as they’ve filled up the diary they won’t be able to go back to Belzhar, and as we get to the end you’ll finally know what truly happened to Reeve.

Meg Wolitzer has done a wonderful job writing this book. I can promise you that you will not want to put it away. I would highly recommend this book for those of you who are into fantasy, loves love stories and enjoy a good plot twist in the end.

Lovisa Edblad. Peer corrected by Axel Andersson, Nils Axelsson, Filip Stenegren, and Cecilia Hamstedius. NATE15