Week 4- The Finale

If you've read the title, you might have guessed what happened... I finished Conversion! Yay!
So, a few things.
First: my prediction about Wheez was wrong. Completely, utterly wrong. She had absolutely no purpose in the story. What the heck, Katherine.

Second: It was exactly the kind of ending I was hoping I wouldn't get. Which is, open-ended. In some cases, they're cool. And the way it was written was very interesting in the moment, but at the same time, not really as satisfying as some other open-ended books I've read.

Third: Because of this open ending, it's kind of unclear what's happening and what the true reasoning behind the events were. I think I mentioned last week that Colleen seemed unsure of the true reason for the Mystery Illness. She saw the parallels between the girls at her school and the girls in The Crucible, but at first she thought everyone was faking, but towards then end experts diagnosed the symptoms as conversion disorder (ha, ha, Katherine. Nice title drop), an actual illness. Colleen, because of how her symptoms had started around one of her (frankly kind of forgettable) friends, Emma, when she was upset, decided that this was being caused by Emma, either on purpose or without knowing, and it sure feels that way. The thing is, though, that because it's told from the point of view of a girl who, according to experts, has a mental health issue, we can't actually know if the glowing eyes or energy emanating from Emma are real or in her mind: that's the problem with an unreliable narrator. Plus, the story ends with a motif from Ann's story. There's a yellow bird (like the one on the cover. We get it, Katherine, you're very clever).

I'm guessing this implies that everything really was caused by witchcraft. But then it cuts to an epilogue with Ann, who admits that she was lying about being attacked by witches. So it's all kind of confusing and not very satisfying.
I think that was everything I wanted to talk about in the finale, so there you go! Thanks very much for reading. I'll be starting a new book, and I'll tell you about that either this week or next week, depending on how I feel! Bye~