The song 'Scarborough Fair' takes the starring role as a curse. Lucy is a regular girl living with her foster parents. Her life takes a dramatic change; her crazy birthmother shows up just as Lucy is heading off to her first prom, a strange and enchanting man shows up for dinner at her parent's house, her long time neighbor/best friend Zach, moves into her house, and her prom date becomes posessed and rapes her.
Lucy realizes that the song 'Scarborough Fair' isn't just a song her looney mother sang because she was nuts. It is a curse, a riddle, and a warning. Lucy has to find a way to accomplish all of the tasks in the riddle, in order to break the curse put on all of the women in her family by an Elfin Knight. She only has a short amount of time to break the curse before she becomes crazy......as all of the women before her have.
Lucy was easily likeable. She is quiet and determined and makes the strange plot easy to believe. Lucy and Zach quickly fall in love despite their ages. Zach, along with Lucy's very supportive parents, help her unwind the riddle that will soon take her mind. I didn't really end up liking Soledad (Lucy's foster mother) very much. I think somehow I took her to be a liberal, granola......and she never sat well with me most of the time.
Rating 4 Loved Lucy and Zach together. I loved the magical quality and unique way that the song was turned into a curse. The characters where a great group that I became attached to.
Rating PG 13 Rape, teen pregnancy, information about abortion, evil magic used to cause a mental disorder and to coerce someone into being a sex slave.
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