Just finished Impossible by Nancy Werlin. Overall, it was an okay book. Impossible was rather silly, over dramatic, and cheesy. I would recommend the book for teenage girls, not teenage boys.
The story takes place in some suburbs outside of Boston, and the story follows the tale of Lucy Scarborough. Lucy was raised by foster parents when her mom went mad after her birth. Lucy becomes pregnant at 17, just like her mother, and when she does she finds her mom's old diary. The diary tells Lucy about the Curse, and how she will go mad after she gives birth unless she can complete 3 impossible tasks. These tasks are named in the Scarborough Fair ballad (a different version) and they are, make a seamless shirt, find and acre of land between saltwater and sea strand, and plow the field with a goat horn and sow it with one grain of corn. The Elfin Knight, (the one who brought the curse upon Lucy's family) lurks in the background as he tries to make completing these tasks more difficult.
Overall it was a pretty fast read. The book was fast paced, and the end of the book will suprise you! Right now I'm reading a dark and depressing book called The Boy From the Basement. The book is scary, but good. I'd recommend reading The Boy From the Basement as well as Impossible.
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