Dark Companion
by:
Marta Acosta (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: 12436013
Publisher: Tor/Macmillan
Pages no: 368
**A review copy of this novel was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.** I don’t know where to begin with this review. Let me say now that I loved DARK COMPANION. I truly loved this gothic tale of an orphaned girl making her way in the world. And while I had s...
This book wants to be a Gothic vampire romance. It is not. It is dull, the main character is annoying, acts, and talks unlike any teenagers I know. Her newfound friends at the Academy are a stupid, brainless breed of teens, and the love interests had me yawning, so cut from an YA mold were they. I t...
I feel like I'm reviewing two different books, so I'm going to set up my review that way.First half: 4 starsThis book is haunting and lovely, with fantastic characters and creepy undertones. Despite the generally dark tone these characters make me laugh out loud. Where else am I going to find charac...
Hmmmm What to day about this book. I liked it and I didn't like it. First off I'm not sure how I feel about the main character, Jane. When we first see Jane she is telling off the woman who ran the group home she was staying at. When I read that, I thought "All right- a kick ass character who doesn'...
Jane Williams is excited – she’s worked long and hard and managed to win a scholarship to the prestigious Birch Grove Academy, on a beautiful campus far away from the foster homes she grew up in. The headmistress is nice and welcoming. She gets her very own cottage, and makes friends. And there are ...
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