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How can Ms. Barnett be teaching history with Tori and Emma when Emma gets called to the office and also teaching Latin where Henry is when he hears the page for Emma?

So she met with her dad and things didn’t go as planned. A main plot point of the synopsis was discovering the mystery of where and why he left and that was barely discussed and it already resolved…. Is there really another 140 pages of underwhelming teenage angst romance?

Does it get better….? While, tbf, the characters are very developed at this point. It’s just that instead of developing them while the story is being told the story is only them chit chatting and there’s nothing happening plot wise at all.

I feel like by now- something interesting should have went down or a question should be raised to pique our curiosity. 57 pages in and still dealing with a ‘welcome to your new home’ boarding school theme. While fleshing out the characters well through banter there’s nothing in the story so far to really care about said characters. Our FMC mentions a missing dead but even those mentions are dull.

*for transparency I wanted to note prior to reading updates begin that this was received as an ARC from NetGalley to read in exchange for an honest review.

Originally published in 2022 in Germany and then translated and published in 2023 in Great Britain, and officially made its way across the pond and was published in the U.S October 2025.

This is a trilogy with plans to release the rest of the series in the U.S