Without Tess By Marcella Pixley
***** 5/5 stars Fiction
Some girls like to play pretend when they are little. Tess and Lizzie Cohen did as well. As time went on Lizzie let go of the fantasies and moved on while Tess still pretended at age twelve. Tess became more and more involved with her fantasies and eventually went insane. Lizzie began to realize that Tess’s belief in her pretend games was a serious matter when Tess starved herself, but fed chocolates to statues. Tess’s fantasies led to madness and madness led to her death. Fifteen years later, Lizzie is still not getting over her sister’s death. With the help of her sister’s Pegasus Journal and the school counselor, Lizzie learns to move on and accept Tess’s death.
