Given her history with the arcane, Felicity is the perfect resource.Īnd when history begins to repeat itself, Felicity will have to face the darkness in Dalloway–and in herself. So when Ellis asks Felicity for help researching the Dalloway Five for her second book, Felicity can’t say no. A prodigy novelist at seventeen, Ellis is a so-called “method writer.” She’s eccentric and brilliant, and Felicity can’t shake the pull she feels to her. It’s Ellis Haley’s first year at Dalloway, and she’s already amassed a loyal following.

MENTIONED: Alexandra Roselyn Previous Reviews. And when the new girl won’t let her forget. Hey hey folks Today I'll be reviewing A Lesson In Vengeance by Victoria Lee, a YA dark academia book with mysteries galore. But it’s hard when Dalloway’s occult history is everywhere. She’s determined to leave that behind her now all Felicity wants is to focus on her senior thesis and graduate. And before her girlfriend died, Felicity was drawn to the dark. In secret rooms and shadowy corners, girls convene. The school doesn’t talk about it, but the students do. Witchcraft is woven into Dalloway’s history. The Dalloway Five all died mysteriously, one after another, right on Godwin grounds. She even has her old room in Godwin House, the exclusive dormitory rumored to be haunted by the spirits of five Dalloway students – girls some say were witches.

Now, after a year away, she’s returned to graduate. Perched in the Catskill mountains, the centuries-old, ivy-covered campus was home until the tragic death of her girlfriend. The history of Dalloway School lives in the bones it was built on. The dangerous romance and atmospheric setting makes it a perfect read for fans of dark academia. For fans of Wilder Girls and Ninth House comes a dark, twisty, atmospheric thriller about a boarding school haunted by its history of witchcraft and two girls dangerously close to digging up the past.įelicity Morrow is back at Dalloway School. A dark, twisty thriller about a centuries-old, ivy-covered boarding school haunted by its history of witchcraft and two girls dangerously close to digging up the past.

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