Book Blurb & Info
Welcome to Blythewood.
At seventeen, Avaline Hall has already buried her mother, survived a horrific factory fire, and escaped from an insane asylum. Now she’s on her way to Blythewood Academy, the elite boarding school in New York’s mist-shrouded Hudson Valley that her mother attended—and was expelled from. Though she’s afraid her high society classmates won’t accept a factory girl in their midst, Ava is desperate to unravel her family’s murky past, discover the identity of the father she’s never known, and perhaps finally understand her mother’s abrupt suicide. She’s also on the hunt for the identity of the mysterious boy who rescued her from the fire. And she suspects the answers she seeks lie at Blythewood.
But nothing could have prepared her for the dark secret of what Blythewood is, and what its students are being trained to do. Haunted by dreams of a winged boy and pursued by visions of a sinister man who breathes smoke, Ava isn’t sure if she’s losing her mind or getting closer to the truth. And the more rigorously Ava digs into the past, the more dangerous her present becomes.
Vivid and atmospheric, full of mystery and magic, this romantic page-turner by bestselling author Carol Goodman tells the story of a world on the brink of change and the girl who is the catalyst for it all.
Toot's Review by Stephanie Silva
A school full of secrets—
and a girl who can unlock them all
I always knew there was something strange about my family not only because my mother asked for the most dark and strange books in the library or because I didn’t know who my father was. I mean, those things happen, right? What made me think there was something wrong were those bells that ring inside my head everything something bad is about to happen. They rang when we met that dark and strange man that scared my mother before she became an addict and finally died cause of it. They rang, the same day the factory I worked for was consumed by a mysterious fire. It can be called intuition, right? Surely, there was some way to explain it. I tried my hardest to find some logical explanation for all the strange things and the dark secrets that started to resurface a while before my mother died but I can’t fool myself any longer.
I am not crazy like I thought and probably wish I was, sometimes. There is much more in this world than what our eyes let us see. When things fall suddenly a fairy may have pushed them, when you see a beautiful girl in the middle of the forest well she may not be what she seems. All those fairy tales we were told as children may me more real that we expect but maybe…they aren’t as bad as we are told they are.
My name is Avaline Hall, daughter of a runaway heiress that was legacy to the biggest secret the world has to offer—the existence of Fae—and a responsibility even bigger, protecting the world from them. The problem is…I am not so sure all of them are as bad as everyone tells me they are. He seems different and for some reason every time I see him a bell rings, it isn’t a warning but a sweet tone.
Join me in Blythewood and let’s uncover the secret of my legacy.
3.5 STARS
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