This “Private School” series might be too private.

91. Private School: Nightmare Session – Steven Charles

Maybe this is a case of not realizing a series should have complete stories the whole way through – even in book one. Maybe it’s not. I guess I’ll find out if book two doesn’t seem complete either or abandons these characters completely. It is quite annoying to not have a feeling of completeness after you finish a book though. Quite.

I’m going to blame the “posh” part of “Posh Thaler Academy,” as the blurb starts, for the idea that nothing about the supernatural elements needed to be explained with any actual details. For me, the central mystery of the story is “what’s going in the lab” and not “did they get rid of that body Jenny found and then insult it,” which is the only real resolution. I mean, Jenny’s a scholarship-type student, not a normal rich kid attending a boarding school, so, of course she has ideas and asks questions and must be hysterical thinking she’s seen a teacher with a furry arm. So entitled.

When she finds her fellow student dead in the woods while sneaking around and tries to investigate, she almost gets to an answer, but then the lab blows up. So nothing is answered that might be interesting like how the student died or what’s going on in the lab. I really hope that’s explored at least a little bit in the next five books or so, otherwise the horror is just incompleteness.

 

Salem knows that in order to investigate, you need to be good at keeping quiet and not asking questions until it’s really time to ask questions, Jenny.

 

Snuffy, Thorfy, Salem, and Hen Wen could definitely run into some werewolves or aliens or just scared students in these woods in I Remember Pigoween.
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