Felicity has been hospitalised before and, alongside her studies and everything that’s happening, she has to deal with the reactions (and prejudices) of those around her to her history. The uncertainty set up also allows a great space in which to explore mental illness. It sets her up as an unreliable narrator, not because she’s deliberately holding things back (a la a thriller where it will eventually be revealed that the MC did it, because information was held back), but because she has been through trauma and blocked and altered memories. Part of that comes from hearing multiple versions of the same event – all from Felicity. That flexibility really fit the overall feel of the book. However, I felt there was still space for another option to be true – and you can pick which one you prefer. Until the end, that is, when you’re given an explanation. But Felicity is firmly of the occult opinion, which balances it all out so you’re never quite sure which it is.
Her doctor, teachers and mother think it’s the later, and her classmates are a mix of in her head and rationality. You are constantly being made to question whether there’s really magic/the occult, whether there’s a non-supernatural reason for it to really happen, or whether it’s just in Felicity’s head. That very much happens in A LESSON IN VENGEANCE. You never know exactly where that line is, how much is in the mind of the character thanks to (frankly) unhealthy amounts of time focused on one idea. The thing I like about Dark Academia books is that they toy the line between what is real and what is imagined due to obsession. And when history begins to repeat itself, Felicity will have to face the darkness in Dalloway―and in herself.Īnd when history begins to repeat itself, Felicity will have to face the darkness in Dalloway–and in herself.īlurb taken from Goodreads. So when Ellis asks Felicity for help researching the Dalloway Five for her second book, Felicity can’t say no. A prodigy novelist at seventeen, Ellis is eccentric and brilliant, and Felicity can’t shake the pull she feels to her. It’s Ellis Haley’s first year at Dalloway. And when the new girl won’t let her forget it.
She’s determined to leave that behind her now but it’s hard when Dalloway’s occult history is everywhere. She even has her old room in Godwin House, the exclusive dormitory rumored to be haunted by the spirits of five Dalloway students―girls some say were witches.įelicity was once drawn to the dark legacy of witchcraft. Felicity Morrow is back at the Dalloway School to finish her senior year after the tragic death of her girlfriend.
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