The soil under her feet is bloody with Dalloway's history. Felicity Morrow is back at Dalloway School.Perched in th. But when the past begins to invade on the present, Felicity needs to decide where she stands. Read 3,238 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. So when Ellis asks for help researching the Dalloway Five for her second book, Felicity can't say no.ĭalloway's occult lore is everywhere, and the new girl won't let Felicity forget it. A prodigy novelist at seventeen, Ellis is eccentric and brilliant, and Felicity can't shake the pull she feels to her. It's Ellis Haley's first year at Dalloway. She even has her old room in Godwin House, the exclusive dormitory rumored to be haunted by the spirits of the five Dalloway students who died there-girls some say were witches. And now she's back to finish her senior year after the tragic death of her girlfriend. It wasn't until Felicity enrolled that she fell in love with the dark. Sometimes you can still smell the blood on the air.

Five violent deaths in the first ten years of its existence. 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. (Aug.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. With queer primary characters, an irresistible gothic atmosphere, and unrelenting creeping dread, this propulsive work of dark academia is both thrilling and thought-provoking. Lee touches on abusive familial and romantic relationships, classism, mental health stigma, racism, and sexism while providing clever commentary on-and near-constant references to-women in the genre of horror. As the girls grow closer, forming a coven with their housemates, Felicity, haunted perhaps literally by both Alex and the Five’s leader, begins to realize that everything is not as it seems-not within her own mind, and not within Godwin House. Though she’s determined to abandon magic following the previous year’s events, she’s soon drawn into the orbit of eccentric white, gray-eyed novelist Ellis Haley, 17, a fellow Godwin House denizen who persuades Felicity to help her research the murders for Ellis’s next book. The year before, her obsession with the Dalloway Five-purported witches who were brutally murdered in and around Felicity’s residence hall 300 years ago-led, she suspects, to the mysterious death of her girlfriend Alex. In Lee’s (the Feverwake series) deliciously unsettling standalone thriller, 18-year-old Felicity Morrow, who is white, is reattempting her senior year at Dalloway, a small prep school in the Catskills.

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee