Madison P.’s Reviews > An Education in Malice > Status Update

Also, I wish both main characters were more than observers in the events leading up to the climax.

The climax of this book is not nearly as compelling as it’s set up. S.T. Gibson wants her reader to anticipate danger for her characters, but this anticipation is dulled due to her use of multiple narrators. The story begged for a more dimensional climax that didn’t depend on one character being left out of the loop of a carefully laid out plan that the reader was (mostly) privy to.

I really enjoyed the set up of this book. From the start, S.T. Gibson creates compelling characters and describes an intriguing autumnal New England landscape. The cut throat atmosphere of academia enhances the budding conflict between characters. However, following the exposition, S.T. Gibson spends more time telling the reader how her character’s flaws impact the narrative than showing us.

I despise De Lafontaine.

I am in love with this modern day retelling of Carmilla.