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The Haunted High Series Complete Boxed Set: Books 1-5
Haunted High has a perilous history with werewolves. Can Finn survive to find the truth of his heritage?
A life-threatening accident reveals that Finn is a werewolf; the next morning, he receives an invitation to a secluded high school.
Finn quickly realizes that the school is in fact an academy for monsters and is far more perilous and full of adventure than he ever expected.
But Haunted High has had a dangerous history with werewolves.
Can Finn survive monster politics, life-threatening pranks, and teachers more likely to kill him than help him?
This is the complete five-book Haunted High Series!
Reader Reviews
***** I laughed & I cried. I fell in love with the characters. This was so much more than a YA fantasy.
***** The author did an excellent job of storytelling and character development!
***** Best series I've read in a long time!
***** Super fun books to read. LOVED IT!!
***** After I finished each book, I was immediately tempted to begin reading the next one, resulting in a series of really late nights!
Fans of Jim Butcher, Stephanie Meyer, Harry Potter, and the Vampire Diaries are loving these books! If you are a fan of fast-paced young adult paranormal thrillers, then this urban fantasy series is sure to please.
A life-threatening accident reveals that Finn is a werewolf; the next morning, he receives an invitation to a secluded high school.
Finn quickly realizes that the school is in fact an academy for monsters and is far more perilous and full of adventure than he ever expected.
But Haunted High has had a dangerous history with werewolves.
Can Finn survive monster politics, life-threatening pranks, and teachers more likely to kill him than help him?
This is the complete five-book Haunted High Series!
Reader Reviews
***** I laughed & I cried. I fell in love with the characters. This was so much more than a YA fantasy.
***** The author did an excellent job of storytelling and character development!
***** Best series I've read in a long time!
***** Super fun books to read. LOVED IT!!
***** After I finished each book, I was immediately tempted to begin reading the next one, resulting in a series of really late nights!
Fans of Jim Butcher, Stephanie Meyer, Harry Potter, and the Vampire Diaries are loving these books! If you are a fan of fast-paced young adult paranormal thrillers, then this urban fantasy series is sure to please.
1014 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 6, 2022
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About the author
Cheree Alsop
171 books493 followersCheree Alsop is an award-winning, best-selling author and the mother of a beautiful, talented daughter and amazing twin sons who fill every day with joy and laughter. She is married to her best friend, Michael, the light of her life and her soulmate who shares her dreams and inspires her by reading the first drafts of each book. Cheree is a fulltime author and mother, which is much more fun than work! She enjoys reading, riding her motorcycle on warm nights, and playing with her twins while planning her next book. She is also a bass player for their rock band, Alien Landslide.
Cheree and Michael live in Utah where they rock out, enjoy the outdoors, plan great adventures, and never stop dreaming.
Check out Cheree’s other books at www.chereealsop.com
Cheree and Michael live in Utah where they rock out, enjoy the outdoors, plan great adventures, and never stop dreaming.
Check out Cheree’s other books at www.chereealsop.com
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April 27, 2022
An adequately engaging and admirable protagonist kept me slogging through the seriously inept copy editing and occasional timeline, plot, and worldbuilding issues, but all of those did detract significantly, and took my rating down to three stars.
Not just another Potterclone, which is what got me to buy it. You could make a few parallels, but they're not close; more a matter of characters that are superficially similar in their role but are taken in a completely different direction. That's good. There are too many made-from-box-mix supernatural school stories and not enough original ones.
In the first couple of books, the MC skips an absurd number of meals and nights' sleep. He's a 16-year-old boy, an athlete, and a werewolf; you'd think he needed a lot of food and rest. Fortunately, that settles down a bit after a while. Also in the first book, The kids never seem to face any consequences from absenting themselves from school without permission to do things that adults couldn't do, either (though the question of "why can these kids do it if the adults can't?" is at least addressed).
The main character is a bit of a paragon, but not a complete Gary Stu; a lot of people dislike him (at least initially, though they do tend to become his allies too easily), he can't automatically do everything (though sometimes he, and other characters, suddenly develop previously unforeshadowed capabilities at convenient moments), and things often don't go his way, at least not without a lot of effort and suffering (though sometimes he comes up with solutions on the fly which work despite, again, no foreshadowing of how they would do so). There's an in-universe, plausible explanation for why he's always getting into the situations he gets into:
The copy editing is woeful. Mostly homonym errors (including multiple instances of it's/its and you're/your), but all of the common issues turn up at one time or another. One of the teachers is named Briggs, and when his name is used in the possessive it's almost always punctuated as "Brigg's" instead of "Briggs'". A number of missing commas before terms of address, which to me always screams "amateur". Lots and lots of sloppy typos, too, and several fumbled idioms. I have definitely seen worse, but this is a shockingly low level of quality for an author who claims to be bestselling and award-winning. If it was copy edited at all, it was either by someone who wasn't good at their job, or else started out so incredibly awful that even after a lot of work it's still bad.
The Kindle book is not formatted into chapters in a way that allows you to navigate between chapters or see how much reading time is left in the chapter you're reading.
A warning, too, that there's a great deal of suffering, violence, cruelty and torture in this one. There's a group setting out to destroy the "monsters," and I'll give you one guess as to who the true monsters are. I got a bit sick of all the cruelty after a while, and started to wonder how, given the death rate we're shown, the obviously large population of "mythics" manage to keep themselves hidden from modern society, especially when many of them can't pass as human. Also, why the school isn't bigger. Maybe there are several, but if so, wouldn't there be more separation of the different groups, since they supposedly can't work together at all? Even though going to school together (or anything that gets different groups interacting) is one of the strongest ways of breaking down exactly that kind of prejudice? There are several very large groups (and at least one individual) equipped with headquarters, vehicles, weapons, fancy and (presumably) expensive stun ammunition (necessary so that the protagonist is not a mass killer and can be shot repeatedly without dying, but not all that plausible otherwise), and no visible means of support. Are they dealing drugs? Knocking over banks? If so - or even if not - why do they not ping the radar of the mundane authorities? The worldbuilding doesn't bear close examination, in other words. In an action movie, you might get away with it by keeping the explosions and chases going as a distraction, but in book form it works less well, especially since the many prose errors kept throwing me out of my immersion, so the thinness of the logic in both the plot and the setting became especially noticeable.
Overall, it's a somewhat original and engaging story with a promising premise that unfortunately fails to reach a professional standard of quality in the execution. I won't be looking for more from this author.
Not just another Potterclone, which is what got me to buy it. You could make a few parallels, but they're not close; more a matter of characters that are superficially similar in their role but are taken in a completely different direction. That's good. There are too many made-from-box-mix supernatural school stories and not enough original ones.
In the first couple of books, the MC skips an absurd number of meals and nights' sleep. He's a 16-year-old boy, an athlete, and a werewolf; you'd think he needed a lot of food and rest. Fortunately, that settles down a bit after a while. Also in the first book, The kids never seem to face any consequences from absenting themselves from school without permission to do things that adults couldn't do, either (though the question of "why can these kids do it if the adults can't?" is at least addressed).
The main character is a bit of a paragon, but not a complete Gary Stu; a lot of people dislike him (at least initially, though they do tend to become his allies too easily), he can't automatically do everything (though sometimes he, and other characters, suddenly develop previously unforeshadowed capabilities at convenient moments), and things often don't go his way, at least not without a lot of effort and suffering (though sometimes he comes up with solutions on the fly which work despite, again, no foreshadowing of how they would do so). There's an in-universe, plausible explanation for why he's always getting into the situations he gets into:
The copy editing is woeful. Mostly homonym errors (including multiple instances of it's/its and you're/your), but all of the common issues turn up at one time or another. One of the teachers is named Briggs, and when his name is used in the possessive it's almost always punctuated as "Brigg's" instead of "Briggs'". A number of missing commas before terms of address, which to me always screams "amateur". Lots and lots of sloppy typos, too, and several fumbled idioms. I have definitely seen worse, but this is a shockingly low level of quality for an author who claims to be bestselling and award-winning. If it was copy edited at all, it was either by someone who wasn't good at their job, or else started out so incredibly awful that even after a lot of work it's still bad.
The Kindle book is not formatted into chapters in a way that allows you to navigate between chapters or see how much reading time is left in the chapter you're reading.
A warning, too, that there's a great deal of suffering, violence, cruelty and torture in this one. There's a group setting out to destroy the "monsters," and I'll give you one guess as to who the true monsters are. I got a bit sick of all the cruelty after a while, and started to wonder how, given the death rate we're shown, the obviously large population of "mythics" manage to keep themselves hidden from modern society, especially when many of them can't pass as human. Also, why the school isn't bigger. Maybe there are several, but if so, wouldn't there be more separation of the different groups, since they supposedly can't work together at all? Even though going to school together (or anything that gets different groups interacting) is one of the strongest ways of breaking down exactly that kind of prejudice? There are several very large groups (and at least one individual) equipped with headquarters, vehicles, weapons, fancy and (presumably) expensive stun ammunition (necessary so that the protagonist is not a mass killer and can be shot repeatedly without dying, but not all that plausible otherwise), and no visible means of support. Are they dealing drugs? Knocking over banks? If so - or even if not - why do they not ping the radar of the mundane authorities? The worldbuilding doesn't bear close examination, in other words. In an action movie, you might get away with it by keeping the explosions and chases going as a distraction, but in book form it works less well, especially since the many prose errors kept throwing me out of my immersion, so the thinness of the logic in both the plot and the setting became especially noticeable.
Overall, it's a somewhat original and engaging story with a promising premise that unfortunately fails to reach a professional standard of quality in the execution. I won't be looking for more from this author.
July 27, 2025
It was entertaining, a fresh look at monster mis-fits in the heart of New York City. It took over a week to read all 5 books, but then I have a life, too. I would recommend this series to werewolf/vampire/dragon/witch/other readers.
May 3, 2022
Great Book
I enjoyed the characters and how they developed through the stories. I really liked reading the books and spent many late nights because I wanted to finish the chapter.
I enjoyed the characters and how they developed through the stories. I really liked reading the books and spent many late nights because I wanted to finish the chapter.
July 17, 2022
Great read
Best book I've read in a long time. Its got great imagination and a good story without to much detailing, it was perfect . I hope to read more from this author
Best book I've read in a long time. Its got great imagination and a good story without to much detailing, it was perfect . I hope to read more from this author
January 8, 2023
Exciting and suspenseful!
What a great set of books. Interesting characters and a great story line. Super fun books to read. LOVED IT!!
What a great set of books. Interesting characters and a great story line. Super fun books to read. LOVED IT!!
September 24, 2024
I have reviewed each book in this series set after listening to the audio book of each title. Those reviews can be found on the individual title's pages. (Audible Membership)
December 6, 2023
I really love a box set !
Great great series, highly recommend if you like a fast pace action fill series with a lot of supernatural characters. I love that this author does not feel the need to kill off main characters just because she can. She understands that it is not necessary to the storyline. Get her books and leave your reviews.
Great great series, highly recommend if you like a fast pace action fill series with a lot of supernatural characters. I love that this author does not feel the need to kill off main characters just because she can. She understands that it is not necessary to the storyline. Get her books and leave your reviews.
June 29, 2022
This series was so good
This series was so good! I couldn't put it down! I read the entire series in a matter of days. It's got a uniqueness in the way the monsters behave that was so good but made since and flowed with the story. If you let me wear wolf's , vampires and lots of different monsters I recommend giving it a try. You won't be disappointed.
This series was so good! I couldn't put it down! I read the entire series in a matter of days. It's got a uniqueness in the way the monsters behave that was so good but made since and flowed with the story. If you let me wear wolf's , vampires and lots of different monsters I recommend giving it a try. You won't be disappointed.
May 25, 2022
Pretty charming
The adventures of an unsuspecting werewolf shifter who goes to Haunted High and forms a pack of diverse friends that save the world from demons.
The adventures of an unsuspecting werewolf shifter who goes to Haunted High and forms a pack of diverse friends that save the world from demons.
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