I read The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Palace by Julie Berry. I really only chose this book because I needed to find one last minute, and it was a mystery book. I have read many books, but I have not read many mystery books, so it intrigued me. This book takes place in the 19th century, and it’s about a group of girls in an etiquette school to prepare them to be “good” wives. It starts off with two people dying the girl’s mistress and her brother. Instead of freaking out they mostly celebrated then started to freak out not because they are dead, but because they were going to be separated. They make a plan to cover up the murder, so that they could all stay together. It goes on like this until their lie is discovered.
This book was interesting, but I am not really sure if I would recommend it. It’s not boring, but for some reason I just couldn’t get that into it. There wasn’t really any major plot twist which disappointed me a lot. Usually with mystery books there are some type of really good plot twist, or more clues that could lead you to believe it to be another person. This book did not do much of that. That is mostly why I would not recommend this book. Still it did have interesting points in the book that I did enjoy. I liked the way that their lie came to light, and it was ironic too. It made me laugh a little at the irony.
I honestly do not find mystery books that intereting in general at all either. However, the story does seem very dramatic with a school murderer. Even more so considering that it takes place during the nineteenth century, deaths back then were more than just simply the shot of a gun. Mostly because the advances in technology that we have now were simply unthinkble in the nineteenth century. I mean we are talking TWO centuries ago! That is like how it is hard right now to imagine a car driving itself, when Google is actually making self-driven cars already. And perhaps in another two centuries, it will be " normal " to see self- driven cars. If we look deeper into technology we can see that in the future, schools and teachers will have no place in education. For example, My dad is an educator of Los Angeles School District, and he recalls about nine years ago when the district gave the fifth graders Ipads to do a math test on. Of course, being from LA these kids from the projects in Watts never had the priveledge of using an Ipad. Suddenly he said " it was like music in the making, all the kids were in unison, all the eyeballs of the students were on the ipads, he felt useless, he found himself holding onto the pencils and papers in case it didn't work, he had doubts of the technology. Suddenly the kids were so quiet, he usually told them to be quiet but they were so much in their own world with the Ipads, they didn't need a teacher. The test was there as he stood in the corner of his desk in the back with the pencils and papers. He recalls by saying " I felt useless in that moment, suddenly the kids were so quiet. He usually told them to be quiet but they were so much in their own world with the Ipads, they didn't need a teacher. The test was there as he stood in the corner of his desk in the back with the pencils and papers. It was scary and aastonishing". Because, this was the very moment he realized how soon educators were not going to be necessary in the future. This is a prime example of advances in technology that are affecting our everyday lives for the better and unfortunately for the worst. Which is why wwe must always be catious and aware.
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