Review for "Night School" by C.J. Daugherty

Night School by C.J. Daugherty

Genre: YA/Mystery

Page Count: 454

Plot: "Allie Sheridan’s world is falling apart. Her brother’s run away from home. Her parents ignore her. And she’s just been arrested.

Again.

This time her parents have had enough. They cut her off from her friends and send her away to boarding school, far from her London friends.

But at Cimmeria Academy, Allie is soon caught up in the strange activities of a secret group of elite students.

When she’s attacked late one night the incident sets off a chain of increasingly violent events. As the school begins to seem like a very dangerous place, she finds out that nothing at Cimmeria is what it seems to be.

And that she is not who she thought she was." (Summary from goodreads.com) 

Review: Night School comes across at first like a typical young adult paranormal romance novel and the cover makes it look even more like a cheesy supernatural romance. It takes a while to figure out that no one is a vampire and there's no supernatural powers - over 200 pages.

At the beginning, the pace is fine and the characters are a little bit overly cliched high school age teenagers. As the story progresses, it slows down and gets kind of painful because it gets a bit boring. The driving force behind continuing through the middle of the book slump is two part. The first is that the characters develop and grow a great deal during this time. The second is the secret behind the whole book; Night School.

Things pick up right at the end, but the novel definitely sets up a series. It's for sure a starter book and I'm counting on the sequel to continue the story.

I'd recommend this book if you're looking for a good boarding school mystery. It is a bit reminiscent of a more grown-up Gallagher Girls series, but with boys.

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