Shelly's Book Blog

I read Impossible, by Nancy Werlin, in just two days. Wow! I really liked this book. This one reminds me of Tithe, by Holly Black, and Wicked Lovely, by Melissa Marr, because the faerie folk cause trouble for the heroine in this story, too. In Impossible, Lucy Scarborough is a 17-year-old woman who grew up living with foster parents because her mother was mad. She soon learns that an evil Elvin Knight has been playing games with the women of her family for many generations, forcing them to have a female child when they are 18 years old and then possessing them (literally taking ownership of them) just after they give birth. It sounds kind of out there, but the author bases the story of the old folk song, "Scarborough Fair", and she makes it work, partly because so many people try to look at the situation rationally and are reluctant to believe that Lucy is cursed. This is another that is on the School Library Journal's Best Books 2008 list.