Katherine Harbour's Blog - Posts Tagged "boarding-school"

Liv, Forever
Artistic Olivia gets into an exclusive boarding school called Wickham Hall (where, unbeknownst to her, some young women have met gruesome ends). She's befriended by one of the school's elite, Malcolm Astor, and Gabe, another scholarship student who is shunned. He's weird, and interesting, and he can see the dead.
It's no spoiler to reveal that Liv ends up murdered and must discover why and who did it, with Malcolm and Gabe. Malcolm, Gabe, and Liv (who can only communicate to Malcolm through Gabe) have great chemistry, and their desperation when they learn who has been killing girls at Wickham Hall for years is wrenching. Liv's beautiful knowledge of the world of art, shared by Malcolm, is also a high point. The revelation isn't a surprise, but the journey to it is full of them. A poignant and very dark ghost story.

The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School
Set in an alternate version of what seems to be the 1940s, the story begins with teen Amy's secret--she floats, mostly at will. By the time she discovers that others at her all-girls school have equally strange talents, it's too late-- menace has arrived in the form of a hooded cult called the Red Flame and a diminutive, insect-loving, teen tyrant named Antoinette Rowley Rayne. Amy loses her two best friends--a staunch British girl named Freckles and an Indian girl named Kali, who learned English from gangster films.
Amy is soon creating the Moth Club to fight the Red Flame and save Kali. But she isn't prepared for the cruel reign of Miss Rayne.
An exquisitely written fantasy with a nearly all-female cast, about superheroes of a sort, and dangerous school cliques gone wrong. For anyone who loved A Series of Unfortunate Events.