When Allie Sheridan's brother ran away from home, it turned
her life upside now. Acting out has caused her to be
arrested yet again and her parents have had enough. Shipped
off to Cimmeria Academy, a boarding school two hours away
from London but what feels like the middle of nowhere,
where no modern day electronics are allowed, Allie finds
the rules are as strict as they get. Failure to follow the
stated rules can you get detention and even lead to
expulsion.
Prepared to loath everything about her new surrounding,
much to her surprise, Allie finds a place where she feels
she can belong. Things are going relatively well until the
night of the summer ball, when a murder is committed at
Cimmeria, thrusting Allie into the middle of a battle she
knows nothing about. When school officials label the murder
a suicide, Allie sets out to discover what is really going
on. Mysteries of her own origins soon come to light and
Allie doesn't know who to trust, especially since the
biggest lie of them all may be who she truly is.
C.J. Daugherty's NIGHT SCHOOL is shrouded in much intrigue.
The first in what promises to be a must read series,
Daugherty has lain the ground work for an addictive series
that'll keep readers up until the wee hours of the morning.
While there are plenty of cliches, such as two of the
school's hottest guys vying for Allie's affection, there
are also plenty of moments that'll more than pique your
interest. Daugherty does a great job of mystery building
without giving anything away. One of the things about this
book that I did have a hard time swallowing though was
Allie's one-eighty with her attitude. As soon as she's
shipped off to this new school she drops the whole bad girl
persona she had going on and straightens up her act,
hitting the books and towing the line. How does a girl
who's been on a downward spiral do an about face so
quickly? Regardless of the minor irritating quirks, NIGHT
SCHOOL is a captivating first book full of drama, romance
and mystery. I can't wait to read the second book in the
series and see where it takes us.
Angry and upset over the loss of her brother, Christopher,
Allie's vandalism gets her expelled from school--again. Her
exasperated parents pack her off to Cimmeria Academy, a
boarding school in the remote English countryside.
Puzzlingly, her classmates aren't troubled youth like Allie
but the gifted offspring of wealthy families educated at
Cimmeria for generations. Everyone, especially Allie,
wonders why she's there--and why the school's hottest guys
are smitten with her: smooth, uber-male Sylvain and
smoldering, bad-boy Carter. Although readers can plot the
triangle's romantic trajectory early on, other narrative
twists and turns remain pleasurably unpredictable.
Cimmeria's as much an enigma as its students. They're not to
enter the woods after dark; computers and cellphones are
forbidden. A few, Sylvain and Carter included, attend the
mysterious Night School but refuse to discuss it. Even
Allie's best friend, Jo, keeps secrets from her.
Frustratingly, whenever love or attraction is in the air,
Alllie's gutsy leadership dissolves into old-fashioned
passivity (somewhere between Bella and Katniss on the
heroine-autonomy spectrum). But when the summer ball ends
horrifically, Allie's ready to take action.
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