From the moment 16 year-old art prodigy Anne Merchant is thrust into Cania Christy, an elite
boarding school flowing with the world’s most privileged teens…and secrets. Anne finds herself
automatically taking part in the Big V race, an intense race to the top of the class. Anne discovers that
the parents of her peers surrender million-dollar possessions to enroll their kids in Cania Christy, leaving
her to wonder what her lowly funeral director father could have paid to get her in… and why. However,
when people start disappearing, Anne uncovers a stunning truth she must face head on and accept or be
destroyed by it.
My initial opinion of “The Unseemly Education of Anne Merchant” by Joanna Wiebe was a thrilling
and paranormal read that would…show more content… Having read the summary and first few pages of “The Unseemly Education of Anne Merchant”, the
purpose must have been to have the reader think of this book as suspenseful and thrilling with a touch of
horror. “As a beautiful senior struggles to help Anne make sense of this cloak-and-dagger world without
breaking the rules that bind him, she must summon the courage to face the impossible truth—and
change it—before she and everyone she loves is destroyed by it.” Mystery? Unanswered questions?
Romance? First glance, and this book contains everything you’d love from a horror book. “Like four
slightly oversexed dolls, they stand at arm’s length from me, thrusting out their cleavage, tossing their
straightened silky hair over their shoulders, and pursing their pouty, glossy lips.” However, after a few
more pages I had the feeling “The Unseemly Education of Anne Merchant” would turn out to be a
“Mean Girls” complex. From Anne’s description of her fellow classmates to her high and