📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 A Lesson in Vengeance
AUTHOR: Victoria Lee @sosaidvictoria
Publisher: Delacorte Press @delacortepress
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ + 🐢
Published: August 9, 2021
The Review 📚 A Lesson in Vengeance
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- Dark academia! I will read them all, it doesn’t matter what it is. This one came in an #Owlcrate so I was psyched to read.
💜 What I liked:
- We follow Felicity as she returns to school after a hiatus. Her best friend has died and she is still reeling from her involvement (or lack thereof – we don’t know). There is a lot of doubt about not only how Alex died but also the connection to the past 5 deaths of girls who lived in the same house. The story is perfect for fall.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- The ending fell apart just a tad for me. However, there are some major twists you might not see coming if you just let the story take you on a journey.
🚦 My face at the end: 😺
💭 5 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Spooky fall atmosphere
- 2. Dark Academia
- 3. Unreliable narrator
- 4. Mental health and magic
- 5. Books books books
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Felicity returns to school after her best friend’s death. She tries to fit in with a new group of girls in her house, but can’t escape the past.
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
📘 Summary 📚 A Lesson in Vengeance
Felicity Morrow is back at Dalloway School.
Perched in the Catskill mountains, the centuries-old, ivy-covered campus was home until the tragic death of her girlfriend. Now, after a year away, she’s returned to graduate. 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. The Dalloway Five all died mysteriously, one after another, right on Godwin grounds.
Witchcraft is woven into Dalloway’s history. The school doesn’t talk about it, but the students do. In secret rooms and shadowy corners, girls convene. And before her girlfriend died, Felicity was drawn to the dark. She’s determined to leave that behind her now; all Felicity wants is to focus on her senior thesis and graduate. But it’s hard when Dalloway’s occult history is everywhere. And when the new girl won’t let her forget.
It’s Ellis Haley’s first year at Dalloway, and she’s already amassed a loyal following. 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. So when Ellis asks Felicity for help researching the Dalloway Five for her second book, Felicity can’t say no. Given her history with the arcane, Felicity is the perfect resource.
And when history begins to repeat itself, Felicity will have to face the darkness in Dalloway–and in herself.