Night School by C.J. Daugherty
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Released on May 21, 2013
Source: Edelweiss
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Allie's world is falling apart...
She hates her school. Her brother has run away. And she's just been arrested.
Again.
Now her parents are sending her away to a boarding school where she doesn't know a soul.
But instead of hating her new school, Allie finds she's happy there. She's making friends. And then there's Sylvain, a suave French student who openly flirts with her. And Carter, the brooding loner who seems to have her back.
Soon, though, Allie discovers Cimmeria Academy is no ordinary school. Nothing there is as it seems. And her new friends are hiding dangerous secrets. (from Goodreads)
I have HUGE mixed feelings about this book, more like a love and hate relationship with it. I thought it was good but not as great as I wanted it to be but somehow even though I kept rolling my eyes and annoyed at the main character I was still really invested in it. I didn’t really want to put it down for too long because I wanted to know how it would end. Not once did I think of ever not finishing it.
I liked the whole boarding school theme in books, I haven’t read one in a while that took place in a boarding school so this was already pretty interesting to me from the beginning. Our main character Allie gets sent to this boarding school after getting in trouble and kicked out of her last school but this isn’t your typical boarding school. From the beginning you can tell something strange is going on in this school, you’re not sure what it is but Allie starts to notice little things, like how some students get more privileges than others, how there’s a “secret club” called night school and why is she even there in the first place when it’s so obvious that she’s not like the others. I was pretty intrigued by the mystery of the whole school and wanted to find out all the answers during that first half of the novel. I wasn’t really sure what to expect at the beginning, I thought maybe something supernatural would happen, it certainly felt that way at first.
Unfortunately around the middle of the book I was able to predict pretty much everything, I had found all the answers on my own even though Allie was still pretty much in the dark which I thought was hard to believe because the truth behind why she was there was so obvious now. I don’t know if she was just very naïve or just not smart enough. It was infuriating that she kept wanting to get answers and was supposedly going to confront the lady in charge of the school but when the time came she wouldn’t ask the most important questions. Ugh!! That annoyed me a lot, but even though I already knew what was happening and how this would end I kept reading it anyways, hoping to maybe get some sort of surprise at the end that I didn’t see coming, but that didn’t happen. I was disappointed by the whole “big plot” and the reason behind the violent acts happening at the school, it felt kind of a let down. For some reason though I still want to read the sequel to this one, even though I had a lot of problems with it and found it predictable about halfway through it was still entertaining enough that to want to know what happens next. That’s what I meant about having mixed feelings for Night School, I liked it in some parts and was annoyed in others, but overall a fun read that kept me interested enough to finish it.
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