I’m going to call it now and say that this is the best book I have read this month. I was as entranced as I get when I’m reading a fantasy novel, I kept looking forward to all the free moments I would have in my day so that I could read more. I have been classifying a lot of the fiction books I have been reading lately as ones I would not read again. It was making me feel disappointed in the genre as a whole. This one, however, is going to be a repeat read in my future.
We get two first person points of view, one from first semester college student Carly, and one from English professor, Dr. Scarlett Clark. The two women couldn’t be more different, Carly being shy, reserved, and unsure, Scarlett meanwhile being confident, ambitious, and masterful. You wonder if they are going to cross paths, since they are both at the same college, but what the circumstances might be to land them in the same place, different as they are. Scarlett intrigued me from the very beginning, I love a villainous female lead, and an intelligent one at that. Her purpose in life is a mission that I would classify as lawful evil, what she is doing is wrong by the majority of civilized societies standards, but she has her reasons for why she chooses to deliver her form of justice. And I can’t say that I disagree with her reasons.
I don’t want to get too much more into it, I don’t want to ruin the plot for you because it is very good. It gets messy for a while, you are constantly on edge wondering if her secret is going to be discovered, it’s part of the reason why I couldn’t wait to read it every day. I will say this though, world’s do collide at some point but not in the way I expected at all and I think you might be surprised too. I highly recommend it!
Nonfiction and Nonsense 