She seems to be able to keep coming out, even as Jess tries to yell the words that should send her away. And Bloody Mary uses this space to start to crawl out of the mirror, in what I pictured as the girl crawling out of the tv in the movie The Ring. But this second time, Jess has put the salt in a line, but left a little room between it and the mirror. Now Jess knows you must put the salt in front of the mirror to keep Mary there, as well as they must not let go of each others' hands during the ritual. The 2nd time they do it because they want to actually see more than the shadow and tips of fingers. And she also gets rid of Bloody Mary with the words 'I believe in you Mary Worth.' But it has to be her, at least according to all the information Jess has found on the ritual. Or one person does at least, and in this case it is Jess. As you probably know, to get Bloody Mary there, you have to say her name three times in front of a mirror in a room lit only by a candle. But when Kitty gets really scared and tries to let go of Shauna's hand, the stop the game. The first time is really creepy, the kind of see Bloody Mary in the mirror. And Kitty, who is really best friends with Anna, and also used to date Bronx, who is best friends with Jess's boyfriend. Then there is Anna, whose house they play at the first two times. And it is her idea to play the game in the first place. Jess, really Shauna's best friend, is the one who did all this research on Mary from the town where her grandparents live. The main character is really Shauna, although the whole story centers around her other 3 friends, as the four of them together play the Bloody Mary game. It had all the good events and descriptions of Mary to really scare someone watching a movie like this. And I could totally see it being made into a movie. This book was definitely a good scary story. So I did pass it on to someone else about 6 years ago. Mainly because of all the scary movies, as well as beginning to watch shows like Paranormal State. I live by myself, and have for about 18 years now, and just got to be a bit scared, more nervous than scared. And I was a little uncomfortable having it in my house after awhile.

I'll admit that in college I did play around with a Ouija board with my sorority sisters, but never by myself.

While I do enjoy watching scary movies, and even going to supposedly haunted places, I'm not a fan of doing something like that. Now, I'm not one who ever played Bloody Mary. Thanks to Disney-Hyperion and Netgalley for allowing me to read an e-galley of this title.

Mary by Hillary Monahan