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New Girl. New School. Old Evil. From the author of the Chicagoland Vampires novels. A new series about a boarding school filled with something worse than homework. Lily's parents have sent her to a fancy boarding school in Chicago filled with the ultra-rich. If that wasn't bad enough, she's...
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New Girl. New School. Old Evil. From the author of the Chicagoland Vampires novels. A new series about a boarding school filled with something worse than homework. Lily's parents have sent her to a fancy boarding school in Chicago filled with the ultra-rich. If that wasn't bad enough, she's hearing and seeing bizarre things on St. Sophie's creepy campus. Her roommate, Scout, keeps her sane, but keeps disappearing at night. When one day Lily finds Scout running from real-life monsters, she learns the hard way that Scout is involved in a splinter group of rebel teens. They protect Chicago from demons, vamps, and dark magic users. It's too bad Lily doesn't have powers of her own to help. At least, none that she's discovered yet...
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780451228864 (0451228863)
Publish date: 2010-01-05
Publisher: Signet
Pages no: 246
Edition language: English
Series: The Dark Elite (#1)
Lily Jones has been sent to the elite St Sophia's Boarding School where she finds she has questions as well as the regular issues with dealing with a new school and petty classroom games. Her friend and roommate Scout is apparently up to something and when Lily investigates she finds herself caugh...
Enjoyed it. The romance is, eh, okay - not bad, but nothing I got too excited over, either. Seemed to be just sorta thrown in there, ya know? For me, it was all about Scout & Lily's friendship & adventures. Those 2 seriously rocked it, Scout especially. I must admit, having read this author's Chicag...
I would probably say more like 2.5 than 3. I liked the idea for the story and I love CN's other series, but these characters just didn't have as much depth as CLV. However, I am intrigued enough with the world that she built that I'll probably grabbed the next one to read