Given her history with the arcane, Felicity is the perfect resource.Īnd when history begins to repeat itself, Felicity will have to face the darkness in Dalloway–and in herself. So when Ellis asks Felicity for help researching the Dalloway Five for her second book, Felicity can’t say no. A prodigy novelist at seventeen, Ellis is a so-called “method writer.” She’s eccentric and brilliant, and Felicity can’t shake the pull she feels to her. It’s Ellis Haley’s first year at Dalloway, and she’s already amassed a loyal following. We follow Felicity Morrow, who after the death of her ex-girlfriend, has finally returned to Dalloway School. And when the new girl won’t let her forget. A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee is a young adult new release that’s been pitched by the author as ‘dark academia but make it lesbian’. But it’s hard when Dalloway’s occult history is everywhere. She’s determined to leave that behind her now all Felicity wants is to focus on her senior thesis and graduate. And before her girlfriend died, Felicity was drawn to the dark. In secret rooms and shadowy corners, girls convene. The school doesn’t talk about it, but the students do. Witchcraft is woven into Dalloway’s history. That was my experience with A Lesson In Vengeance by Victoria Lee. A prodigy novelist at seventeen, Ellis is eccentric and brilliant, and Felicity can't shake the pull she feels to her. There are moments when you hear about a book and in that very moment you just know that you’re going to love it. The Dalloway Five all died mysteriously, one after another, right on Godwin grounds. It's Ellis Haley's first year at Dalloway. She even has her old room in Godwin House, the exclusive dormitory rumored to be haunted by the spirits of five Dalloway students-girls some say were witches. Now, after a year away, she’s returned to graduate. A Lesson in Vengeance follows genre conventions, but finds time to poke fun at them as well. Perched in the Catskill mountains, the centuries-old, ivy-covered campus was home until the tragic death of her girlfriend. Felicity Morrow is back at Dalloway School.

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