SOLVED. The Last Academy - YA Fiction About A Girl in Boarding School, Classmates Disappearing, and Deaths [s]

[Alex]

This novel was about some girl who gets sent to/starts to attend some sort of fancy boarding school or something like that. I know she falls for a classmate and they sneak out on one sort of date, even though they're not allowed. I remember that it had something to do with a strange coin or medallion being found, and classmates start disappearing. It ends up that these classmates are dying/are already dead (I can't remember) and I think are passing on to the afterlife. The main character girl eventually figures this all out in like the last 50 pages of the book, and she encounters whoever is in charge of what might've been the River Styx? I think she argues with him while coming to terms that he controls the River Styx, and (view spoiler)[she's been dead the whole time or something like that- that's why she's at the school (hide spoiler)]. It came out in the last five years, for sure, and was certainly a young adult novel. I remember lots of people liking it but being frustrated that the entire novel basically happens in the last 50 pages; the rest is build up. I think the cover was purple, with silhouettes.

[Lisa]

Maybe Dead Beautiful

[Alex]

Mm, nope. I'm pretty sure it had a purple cover, and this one came out a little later than 2010. And I think her parents were still alive throughout the novel, though I can't be 100% certain. But Dead Beautiful sounds interesting. Good try!

[Lou]

The Last Academy

[Alex]

Yes, that's it! Thank you so much!!

[Lou]

You're welcome.