I would definitely be interested in reading the next book in the series, Legacy, to see how Allie makes out. And even if the payoff isn’t quite there, there’s more than enough to keep readers turning the pages. There are creepy moments aplenty in Night School. People aren’t always who they seem to be.” So be careful, okay? Things are not what they seem. Then there’s the woods though, according to Jo, “we don’t actually do much in the woods, and they kind of discourage it because of, I dunno, health and safety or something.” Then there’s Carter’s cryptic warning: “You haven’t been at Cimmeria long enough to understand how things are here. Only very few select students are offered this opportunity if you are not among them, you must not attempt to interfere with or observe Night School, and the fourth floor of the class-room wing is off limits. Students in certain advanced areas of study take part in Night School to prepare them for life after Cimmeria so you will sometimes hear them working late in the evening. Well, first of all there’s ‘Night School’, but like ‘fight club’ – you’re not supposed to talk about it. The food is great and the school is beautiful. Jo is nice and Sylvain is paying special attention to her. There – cut off from the outside world (no technology allowed) – she meets Isabelle, the school’s headmistress, and a cast of intriguing teenagers, among them Sylvain, gorgeous and French Katie, the snotty rich girl down-to-earth, Jo and Carter West, he of the endless brown eyes and bad reputation. They are all staying on at Cimmeria for the summer term. (School breaks up about mid-July in England and then goes back after Labour Day, early September…so about a six week break.)Īllie soon falls into the school’s rhythms and discovers that she kind of likes it at Cimmeria.

Finally her parents can’t take it anymore and decide to send her to Cimmeria Academy, an elite private school in the middle of the English countryside. She used to be a good kid, but then her older brother, Christopher, disappeared under extremely mysterious circumstances, and Allie’s been hanging with losers, defacing school property and just generally getting into trouble ever since. Sixteen-year-old Allie Sheridan is always in trouble these days. Still, as soon as I finished the book, I had to go online to see whether the sequel(s) was out. It’s just that it’s such a commitment of reading time and that’s in short supply in my reading world.

(I don’t really have anything personal against series. Daugherty’s YA novel Night School is so much fun! Even when I discovered – about half way in – that the book is the first in a series ( and you know how I feel about series), even then…I had to keep reading. Over 400 pages and I read them all lickety-split.

Night School by C.J. Daugherty