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February 4, 2021
Board Game Review: Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Case 5: The Cryptic Corpse
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective is a solo or co-op board game that is ideally played by 1-4 players. It takes place in Victorian London (the 1880s-1890s) and you are trying to solve mysteries alongside Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion, Dr. Watson. The goal is supposedly to beat Holmes – solve the mystery with fewer clues than he does – but the real fun is if you follow all the clues, and get a picture of the entire mystery, including the parts Holmes doesn’t touch upon.
I previously reviewed the first four cases in this collection: The Munitions Magnate, The Tin Soldier, The Mystified Murderess and The Lionized Lions.
The fifth case is called The Cryptic Corpse, and it sure is a cryptic case.
In this case, Holmes is summoned to the morgue, where a rather peculiar murder victim has been autopsied by the coroner. The victim was stabbed in the neck and killed instantaneously, right in the middle of a theater performance he was spectating. No one noticed anything until after the play when his dead body was uncovered. The man’s identity is a mystery, his murder is an even bigger mystery, but the biggest mystery of all is the cryptic note the man was carrying with him, which is obviously written in code and can be cracked using a particular cipher.
Since we wanted to beat Holmes at all cost, we figured the only way to do so was by cracking the code. Of course, the master detective would no doubt crack the mystery in five minutes, but it took us the better part of an hour to crack the code. We quickly figured out how to solve it – at least we thought so – but then doing it for each syllable took quite some time. And in the end unfortunately what we had uncovered were actual words in the English language, but not a message that made any sense at all.
Murray told us some clues when we visited him, but nothing that rang any bells with us. Maybe we’re just not great at cracking codes. Even when visiting Sherlock, he only gave us a few cryptic hints, but we were nowhere closer to solving the code. Meanwhile, clues came piling in as to the dead man’s identity and despite the cryptic clues left on his body, solving his death felt a little anti-climatic because it was so straightforward and obvious.
We were worried that the cipher would completely change the meaning of the case, but – spoiler warning – it doesn’t!
When searching through reviews online, a lot of people seem frustrated by not finding the boarding house, which gives a lot of clues, but we figured when going to the hotel since the victim only spent one night there and not any of the other nights, that he had to be staying somewhere else, and then following the original hints, we found the boarding house as our second clue right away. I can imagine the case gets a lot more frustrating if you don’t find the boarding house, since the most important hints are dropped there.
Despite not being able to crack the cipher, this was one of my favorite cases so far because it allowed me to think outside of the box: with the cipher, with finding the boarding house, with coming to the conclusion of the mystery, and more. Definitely one of the more challenging but also most rewarding cases in this box set.
If you like Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective, then I recommend…A Study in Shifters (The Adventures of Marisol Holmes Book 1)
“The game is afoot.”
Seventeen-year-old Marisol Holmes wants to live up to the family legacy; after all, she is the great-great-great granddaughter of Sherlock Holmes. What’s more Holmesian than a grisly murder? The Conclave, an underground organization of detectives solving supernatural cases, is giving her just one chance to catch a killer and join them. After all, as a half-blood jaguar shifter, Marisol is uniquely qualified to solve this murder—since every scrap of evidence points toward the culprit being a fellow jaguar shifter.
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
There’s more to this than just evidence. Is one of her own people really involved, or is this all a ploy to kick Marisol’s mother off the shifter throne?
When Marisol discovers her handsome best friend, Roan, is missing, she realizes Roan may be the killer’s next target. The stakes just got higher than political intrigue.
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
Just when things couldn’t get worse, Marisol’s ex-boyfriend-turned-nemesis, Mannix, starts leaving sinister clues for her. In her last case, Mannix broke her heart and ruined her case, and Marisol isn’t sure which is worse. Marisol fears this case too might be far more personal than she could’ve imagined.
“Elementary.”
It’s time for Marisol to prove her worth, or her people could fall into chaos while her best friend loses his life.
This book is perfect for fans of: shapeshifters, steampunk, paranormal, high school drama, teen romance, Sherlock Holmes and deadly intrigue.
Purchase from Amazon.
February 1, 2021
Sims 4: Family Home (no cc)
Family home with landscaped front yard and large backyard with swimming pool. Spacious house with one bedroom, perfect for a couple. I imagined this as the house of two grandparents looking forward to having their grandkids visit during the summer.
Side view of the house, showing the landscaped garden.
View on the garden, with a large swimming pool and terrace.
The view from the other side of the garden.
Floor plan of the downstairs. The house has a grand foyer with a marble staircase (honestly, the foyer is huge!). To the right is an office and a powder room. To the left are the living room and dining area. The kitchen is in the back, with a door leading to the outside area.
Floor plan of the first floor. The upper hallway is again quite large, but I used the empty spaces for crafting areas: painting, playing the organ, and a desk for other craftiness. To the right is the bathroom with double vanities, bath, and shower. To the left is the master bedroom with ensuite dressing room.
Below are a few close-up pictures of the interior and exterior:
Value: 109.403 Simoleans
Lot size: 30 x 20
Uses the following packs:
Have fun!
January 28, 2021
Board Game Review: Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Case 4: The Lionized lions
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective is a solo or co-op board game that is ideally played by 1-4 players. It takes place in Victorian London (the 1880s-1890s) and you are trying to solve mysteries alongside Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion, Dr. Watson. The goal is supposedly to beat Holmes – solve the mystery with fewer clues than he does – but the real fun is if you follow all the clues, and get a picture of the entire mystery, including the parts Holmes doesn’t touch upon.
I previously reviewed the first three cases in this collection: The Munitions Magnate, The Tin Soldier and The Mystified Murderess.
The fourth case is called The Lionized Lions.
The Lionized Lions starts off differently from the other cases, meaning that there is no case you are presented with. All you get is a cryptic note from Sherlock Holmes himself telling you to check The Times for a potentially interesting case.
When checking The Times, several cases sounded interesting, but the title of the case already spoiled for us that we should look for something related to lions. As it follows, and this is a spoiler so don’t continue on if you don’t want to read any spoilers, two lions were killed in Hyde Park. And that’s where the mystery begins.
To some people, this is one of their favorite cases, as I determined while browsing through forums about this board game. For me, it was far from it – in fact, while I liked the content of the case and the guesswork, what really annoyed me endlessly is that for one of the side quests / secondary characters, there is no resolution.
Fair warning: don’t read on if you haven’t played this game and don’t want any spoilers. Spoilers ahead.
Into spoiler territory now, but what about the dead seaman, Stephen Dirks? Who killed him? I don’t mind running around chasing a false lead – as I at first thought the two cases were related; turns out they’re not, which is fine – but I do want a resolution at the end. If not something I can figure out myself, then maybe Sherlock can shed some light on the case.
Alas, when I came to the end and found no answer, I was extremely frustrated. I had hopes that the solution would be in a future article in The Times for one of the next cases (maybe there would be a follow-up article indicating who had murdered the unfortunate seaman) but unfortunately, this was not the case. There are some fellow sleuths who took a stab at solving this mysterious murder, but although plausible, none of the answers are definitive.
Although proving a nice challenge and with a good storyline that lets you connect the dots between several different threads, ultimately this case falls short because of its inability to bring a satisfying conclusion to the abovementioned mystery – as if it doesn’t matter! While it may not matter to the great Sherlock Holmes, it certainly did to me as I spent over an hour trying to solve it.
If you like Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective, then I recommend…A Study in Shifters (The Adventures of Marisol Holmes Book 1)
“The game is afoot.”
Seventeen-year-old Marisol Holmes wants to live up to the family legacy; after all, she is the great-great-great granddaughter of Sherlock Holmes. What’s more Holmesian than a grisly murder? The Conclave, an underground organization of detectives solving supernatural cases, is giving her just one chance to catch a killer and join them. After all, as a half-blood jaguar shifter, Marisol is uniquely qualified to solve this murder—since every scrap of evidence points toward the culprit being a fellow jaguar shifter.
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
There’s more to this than just evidence. Is one of her own people really involved, or is this all a ploy to kick Marisol’s mother off the shifter throne?
When Marisol discovers her handsome best friend, Roan, is missing, she realizes Roan may be the killer’s next target. The stakes just got higher than political intrigue.
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
Just when things couldn’t get worse, Marisol’s ex-boyfriend-turned-nemesis, Mannix, starts leaving sinister clues for her. In her last case, Mannix broke her heart and ruined her case, and Marisol isn’t sure which is worse. Marisol fears this case too might be far more personal than she could’ve imagined.
“Elementary.”
It’s time for Marisol to prove her worth, or her people could fall into chaos while her best friend loses his life.
This book is perfect for fans of: shapeshifters, steampunk, paranormal, high school drama, teen romance, Sherlock Holmes and deadly intrigue.
Purchase from Amazon.
January 26, 2021
Sims 4: Flower Cottage (no cc + basegame only)
This cottage, nicknamed “Flower Cottage” is a small one-bedroom house that is perfect for a single sim or a couple. This house uses no cc and no content from any of the expansion packs – base game content only!
The back yard reminds me of an English garden. There’s a small porch, and then a staircase leading down to a flowery path and a small seating area in the shade of two trees.
View on the garden, this time from the other side.
The floor plan of the house. The entrance also serves as an office, and then there is the rather cozy dining / living room. In the front of the house is the fully-equipped kitchen, and to the right is the bathroom with a bath. The bedroom is in the back of the house, and has a door leading straight into the garden.
Here are some close-up pictures showing the details of the house:
Value: 40.271 Simoleans
Lot size: 20 x 15
Uses the following packs: No expansion packs required. This cottage uses base game materials only.
How to install:Download here or search for my ID on the Gallery: ETERNALISED and download from there.Use bb.moveobjects on before adding your lot.Have fun!
January 21, 2021
Board Game Review: Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Case 3: The Mystified Murderess
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective is a solo or co-op board game that is ideally played by 1-4 players. It takes place in Victorian London (the 1880s-1890s) and you are trying to solve mysteries alongside Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion, Dr. Watson. The goal is supposedly to beat Holmes – solve the mystery with fewer clues than he does – but the real fun is if you follow all the clues, and get a picture of the entire mystery, including the parts Holmes doesn’t touch upon.
I previously reviewed the first case in this collection: The Munitions Magnate, and the second case: The Tin Soldier.
The third case is called The Mystified Murderess.
This is arguably the worst case in the collection, judging by reviews I have read online. At the moment of writing, I haven’t finished all cases in the collection yet, so I can’t say for sure, but this was definitely my least favorite of the seven cases I’ve played and reviewed so far.
At Halliday Hotel, a man named Guy Clarendon was found murdered. Miss Frances Nolan has been charged with the crime and is currently detained at Old Bailey. Gerald Locke has requested the aid of Sherlock Holmes, the world’s greatest detective, in order to solve this crime, as he is convinced Miss Frances Nolan is innocent, despite evidence pointing to the contrary. It’s up to you to figure out who really killed Guy Clarendon; Miss Nolan, or someone else…
In this case, the title of the case already insinuated a lot about how the case would turn out, which was a bit disappointing. Holmes, in his solution, jumped to conclusions as usual, but there is never really any solid evidence presented for the outcome of the case. Even when visiting all the leads, like we did when playing since we were still not entirely convinced of the potential culprit, the evidence is circumstantial at best. The eventual culprit has no real motivation for committing the murder, at least not a sufficient motive, in our opinion, and evidence actually points to another suspect – one who apparently, in the original version of the game, actually was the murderer!
Some people recommend to skip this game, but I don’t recommend to skip it: you might miss out on information that could be useful in other cases. I think it’s best to give the case a shot anyway, but keep in mind that it’s not a very spectacular or even logical case.
If you like Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective, then I recommend…A Study in Shifters (The Adventures of Marisol Holmes Book 1)
“The game is afoot.”
Seventeen-year-old Marisol Holmes wants to live up to the family legacy; after all, she is the great-great-great granddaughter of Sherlock Holmes. What’s more Holmesian than a grisly murder? The Conclave, an underground organization of detectives solving supernatural cases, is giving her just one chance to catch a killer and join them. After all, as a half-blood jaguar shifter, Marisol is uniquely qualified to solve this murder—since every scrap of evidence points toward the culprit being a fellow jaguar shifter.
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
There’s more to this than just evidence. Is one of her own people really involved, or is this all a ploy to kick Marisol’s mother off the shifter throne?
When Marisol discovers her handsome best friend, Roan, is missing, she realizes Roan may be the killer’s next target. The stakes just got higher than political intrigue.
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
Just when things couldn’t get worse, Marisol’s ex-boyfriend-turned-nemesis, Mannix, starts leaving sinister clues for her. In her last case, Mannix broke her heart and ruined her case, and Marisol isn’t sure which is worse. Marisol fears this case too might be far more personal than she could’ve imagined.
“Elementary.”
It’s time for Marisol to prove her worth, or her people could fall into chaos while her best friend loses his life.
This book is perfect for fans of: shapeshifters, steampunk, paranormal, high school drama, teen romance, Sherlock Holmes and deadly intrigue.
Purchase from Amazon.
New Release: All Hallows Academy Season One: Thirteen Days of Halloween – Episode Two
Are you ready for Halloween in January?
ALL HALLOWS ACADEMY is one of the most prestigious universities in the world for witches and wizards and being accepted into All Hallows is an honor Lavinia Bloodbane and her best friend Jensen have been dreaming about for years.
The academic year at All Hallows starts with its most renowned tradition: Thirteen Days of Halloween. Each day of the thirteen days leading up to All Hallow’s Eve, a famous witch or wizard from the past is called upon and asked to reach through the veil separating the living from the dead.
Lavinia wants nothing more than to fit in at All Hallows, but when something from beyond the veil reaches out to her on the First Day of Halloween, fitting in at the academy will be the least of her concerns…
On the Second Day of Halloween, Lavinia has to navigate between new-found friendships, a wizard hell-bent on getting her into trouble, and the overprotective older brother of her best friend, all while trying to keep quiet about the spirits trying to contact her from beyond the grave.
Start reading episode two today on Amazon.
Episode One is exclusively available in the A Cursed All Hallow’s Eve Box Set.
What the reviews said about Episode One:
“ALL HALLOWS ACADEMY: THIRTEEN DAYS OF HALLOWEEN BY Majanka Verstraete is a extremely good story. It is full of drama and action. It shows that there is another book after this one and I can’t wait to read it. I loved the characters and their personalities. The descriptions are vivid and allow you to easily picture the scenes. It is definitely worth reading.”
January 18, 2021
Sims 4: Modern Tiny House (no cc)
This Modern Tiny House is perfect for a couple or a single Sim. It has room for a car, there’s a swimming pool, and a minimum of flowers that give the garden a modern, contemporary look. The house is tiny but doesn’t feel so small, because it has a lot of windows that let in natural light.
The back yard has a large terrace, with a swimming pool attached to it, room for some garden furniture and a few flowers that fit with the contemporary style of the building.
The downstairs exists of a living room / dining area, with a small space for a desk, and a large (well, for the size of this house), L-shaped kitchen. The back wall of the kitchen is covered in glass, which makes it look more spacious. A double door leads from the kitchen to the terrace. The bathroom is also downstairs, and looks sleek and modern like the rest of the house. The color used throughout is black, but with some flashy other colors mixed in: orange/red for the downstairs and green/yellow for the upstairs floor.
The upstairs features a loft-style bedroom with double bed, and a small washing room. As you can see from the top view, the kitchen has a glass roof to make it look more spacious.
Here are some close-up pictures showing the details of the house:
Value: 35.387 Simoleans
Lot size: 20 x 15
Uses the following packs:
How to install:Download here or search for my ID on the Gallery: ETERNALISED and download from there.Use bb.moveobjects on before adding your lot.
Have fun!
January 14, 2021
Board Game Review: Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Case 2: The Tin Soldier
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective is a solo or co-op board game that is ideally played by 1-4 players. It takes place in Victorian London (the 1880s-1890s) and you are trying to solve mysteries alongside Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion, Dr. Watson. The goal is supposedly to beat Holmes – solve the mystery with fewer clues than he does – but the real fun is if you follow all the clues, and get a picture of the entire mystery, including the parts Holmes doesn’t touch upon.
I previously reviewed the first case in this collection: The Munitions Magnate. Check out my review here.
The second case is called The Tin Soldier.
In this second case, General Armstead, one of the six surviving Waterloo Tontine ticket holders has been murdered. The Tontine is a lottery of sorts, and was set up in 1815 to aid the veterans of the Battle of Waterloo, Wellington’s victory over Napoleon. The last person alive out of all the participants in the Tontine, wins the grand prize. Armstead is one of the remaining survivors – is his death linked to the Tontine? Or was he murdered for other nefarious reasons?
I enjoyed the second case more than the first for two simple reasons. First, it relies on some historical tidbits, which I liked a lot, and secondly, it is in part a combination of two cases in one – but don’t let yourself get fooled by that.
The case is also slightly more difficult than the first one, and there were again some red herrings that could potentially put you on the wrong track. I was deluded for a while, thinking the killer was someone else than he turned up being, but once I followed the majority of the clues and put all the different stories together, only one killer really made sense.
As a downside, I didn’t beat Holmes on my playthrough – I’m always more interested in solving the entire mystery, even the secondary questions, rather than just jump the shark to get to a quick answer, like Holmes often does – and I think in general it will be very hard to beat Holmes on this one. However, that doesn’t diminish the fun!
If you like Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective, then I recommend…A Study in Shifters (The Adventures of Marisol Holmes Book 1)
“The game is afoot.”
Seventeen-year-old Marisol Holmes wants to live up to the family legacy; after all, she is the great-great-great granddaughter of Sherlock Holmes. What’s more Holmesian than a grisly murder? The Conclave, an underground organization of detectives solving supernatural cases, is giving her just one chance to catch a killer and join them. After all, as a half-blood jaguar shifter, Marisol is uniquely qualified to solve this murder—since every scrap of evidence points toward the culprit being a fellow jaguar shifter.
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
There’s more to this than just evidence. Is one of her own people really involved, or is this all a ploy to kick Marisol’s mother off the shifter throne?
When Marisol discovers her handsome best friend, Roan, is missing, she realizes Roan may be the killer’s next target. The stakes just got higher than political intrigue.
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
Just when things couldn’t get worse, Marisol’s ex-boyfriend-turned-nemesis, Mannix, starts leaving sinister clues for her. In her last case, Mannix broke her heart and ruined her case, and Marisol isn’t sure which is worse. Marisol fears this case too might be far more personal than she could’ve imagined.
“Elementary.”
It’s time for Marisol to prove her worth, or her people could fall into chaos while her best friend loses his life.
This book is perfect for fans of: shapeshifters, steampunk, paranormal, high school drama, teen romance, Sherlock Holmes and deadly intrigue.
Purchase from Amazon.
January 11, 2021
Sims 4: Medieval Cottage (no cc)
Are you a Sim looking for a rustic, cozy cottage ideal for one or two people? A hideaway from your otherwise hectic Sim-life?
This medieval cottage features a nice front yard, complete with a water well and tree. It’s a perfect house for a witch, for use in fairytales (Snow White maybe?) and for a medieval Sims 4 village.
The back yard has a small plant garden surrounded by a stone wall, and also has an outer section for working with flowers.
This is the entire floorplan of the cottage. It has a large, fully-equipped kitchen, a dining area, a comfy couch with a bookcase, and a double bed in the living room, as was customary for this era. There’s a separate toilet and a bathroom with a bath and shower.
Here are some close-up pictures showing the details of the house:
Value: 33.385 Simoleans
Lot size: 20 x 15
Uses the following packs:
Have fun!
January 10, 2021
TV Series Review: Tiny Pretty Things
Tiny Pretty Things is what would happen if you take Pretty Little Liars and dump it in the world of ballet, where everyone hates everyone and friendship only lasts until the next role comes up.
Competition is fierce in this ballet school, and Neveah, the main character, only got accepted because the star dancer, Cassie Shore, tumbled four stories down and was injured severely when she hit the pavement. In fact, if not for the interference of a police officer who reanimated Cassie after the accident, she might have died. Now, she’s severely injured and in a coma, but that barely seems to scare her fellow students, not even when it turns out Cassie didn’t jump down herself in a botched suicide attempt, but she was pushed, likely by another student.
The other students are far too preoccupied with themselves and their careers to worry about something as low-key as a potential murderer on the loose. One by one, they reveal their ugly sides: Oren, who is supposedly in love with Bette but is also sleeping with his roommate Shane on the side and who is obsessed with his weight although he looks like a Greek statue come to life; Shane, who struggles to find a meaningful relationship with any man because of his feelings for Oren; Bette, who would throw anyone under the bus if it meant she could take a star role – which, when looking at the way her mother treats her since her sister is the big star and she’s not, comes as no surprise. Even Neveah is no angel: she’s as self-obsessed as all the others, and she often lashes out at the wrong people for all the wrong reasons.
The show had some good moments. The mystery is engaging, the dancers are mesmerizing – nearly all of the actors are trained in ballet, I believe, so that comes as no surprise – and the acting varies from mediocre to good. I liked Casimere Jollette as Bette Whitlaw, and she managed to portray the queen bee in such a way that even if Bette kept pushing people away, and kept doing bad things to advance in life, in the end, I felt a certain amount of sympathy toward her. She was ruthless, but so was the world around her. I also liked Daniela Norman as June, although I felt that at times June lacked personality, but I can’t blame this on the actress, it’s rather the writing and the show itself that make June look kind of like a pretty Barbie doll without depth.
Who was not convincing to me, was Neveah. Her personality kept switching, and one moment she was willing to fight for something only to drop it right the next minute. It seemed as if she could never make up her mind: one episode walking to the bar in the middle of the room to dance on, as if she was claiming to be the next queen bee, and the following episode going back to the side to stand next to Shane, supposedly as the outcast. Stop changing your mind every second. First, she was interested in Nabil, then she was dillydallying around with Oren, and neither of these relationships felt very genuine.
Everyone had a chip on their shoulder and none of the characters could be considered as actually good people, not even comatose Cassie Shore, and she gets major sympathy points for what happened to her. Nabil is the only character that is somewhat likable as a person, and that is saying something. The other characters are cliched, some of the drama is plunged into the series just for the sake of drama, and relationships are as feeble as who is playing the starring roles in the upcoming “Ripper” ballet the students are working on – a character can be kissing one person one scene and another the next, without any consequences. Even cheating on one’s girlfriend with one’s best friend is apparently not that big of a deal, nor is suggesting a threesome with your ballet teacher.
Sometimes, the series tries too hard. It tries too hard to be edgy and different, and thus forgets to focus on what is really important – its reliability. Because of how paper-thin the characters’ personalities are, it’s near impossible to relate to any of them, and that’s a shame, because the potential for good character arcs was demolished this way.
Still, if you like a good mystery and you are intrigued by the world of ballet, Tiny Pretty Things is not a bad choice for a rainy weekend.
If you like Tiny Pretty Things, then I recommend…
Symphony of the Departed (Allegro Academy Book One).
Allegro Academy is haunted.
I didn’t want to believe it at first. This school is my one chance to fulfill my life-long dream of becoming a famous violinist, and it’s a miracle I passed the auditions in the first place.
Still, no matter how much I try to deny it, the eerie noises in the night, the trance-inducing symphony written by my friend Dante without him even remembering it, the creepy cemetery on the property and the off-limits and boarded-up wing are all proof of the haunting.
When the ghost takes an interest to me, I have no choice but to get to the bottom of this mystery, even if that requires delving into the academy’s blood-soaked past.
Gorgeous, swoon-worthy Nate may know more about the academy’s history, and I suspect my new friend Dante is also hiding secrets that are linked to the academy’s past.
Who can I trust when the ghosts of Allegro Academy want me dead?
Purchase from Amazon.
Why is it perfect for fans of Tiny Pretty Things?
The main character in Symphony of the Departed, Alanis, gets to enroll in one of the world’s most prestigious academies for the musical arts, similarly to Neveah getting invited to a prestigious ballet academy.
From the moment Alanis arrives at Allegro Academy, she starts to get threatened by secrets of the past.
If you loved the nightmare scenes in Tiny Pretty Things, then you’ll enjoy Symphony of the Departed, where nightmares become reality.
Symphony of the Departed features a love triangle and plenty of romance-related drama.
Alanis struggles with body-weight issues, similarly to Oren from Tiny Pretty Things.
