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A review by annettebooksofhopeanddreams
A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
5.0
There are a few things you can always tempt me with. An all girls boarding school is a good start already. If you add a touch of secret society to it it gets better. If you add a mystery, both in the past and in the present, to it it becomes almost impossible to not read the book. I was therefore quite happy when Titan Books approved my Netgalley request to get a review copy of this book. If they hadn't asked me to hold my review until February I would have read the book straight away.
Everything about this book worked for me. I was only gonna make a start yesterday, a few chapters, just to get me going. At the end of the day I had passed the halfway point of the book, because it was simply impossible to put the book down. And that's mostly because the atmosphere in this book is simply amazing. I could feel the cold winter air. I could almost touch the snow. I could smell the blood and the smoke. I could hear the whispering of the ghosts.
I could also really understand what Felicity is going through. Not because I've been through something similar myself, luckily, but because Lee managed to describe her struggles, her fear, her panic, her love and all her other emotions so incredibly well. Although there are people trying to make her believe that she is going insane, as a reader I truly felt how serious this all was, how real everything was to her, how scared she was.
Since the book stays vague for a long time on whether or not everything that's going on is supernatural the story is also very thrilling and exciting. Although just before the half way point I had an inkling what might be going on and I wasn't that far off. Not that I mind. It means that Lee managed to build up the story perfectly. She left clues and hints, she made sure that things didn't simply come out of nowhere, she gave every scene and wink and smile a purpose.
I'm addicted and I can't wait to check out her other books!
Everything about this book worked for me. I was only gonna make a start yesterday, a few chapters, just to get me going. At the end of the day I had passed the halfway point of the book, because it was simply impossible to put the book down. And that's mostly because the atmosphere in this book is simply amazing. I could feel the cold winter air. I could almost touch the snow. I could smell the blood and the smoke. I could hear the whispering of the ghosts.
I could also really understand what Felicity is going through. Not because I've been through something similar myself, luckily, but because Lee managed to describe her struggles, her fear, her panic, her love and all her other emotions so incredibly well. Although there are people trying to make her believe that she is going insane, as a reader I truly felt how serious this all was, how real everything was to her, how scared she was.
Since the book stays vague for a long time on whether or not everything that's going on is supernatural the story is also very thrilling and exciting. Although just before the half way point I had an inkling what might be going on and I wasn't that far off. Not that I mind. It means that Lee managed to build up the story perfectly. She left clues and hints, she made sure that things didn't simply come out of nowhere, she gave every scene and wink and smile a purpose.
I'm addicted and I can't wait to check out her other books!