Luce meandered down the dank dormitory hallway toward her room, dragging her red Camp Gurid duffel bag with the broken strap in her wake. Dafuq is “Camp Gurid” and why do I need to know it?  Google did not help me in this matter; it either changed Gurid to Guide or sent me to online…

Luce had a piece of paper with her schedule printed on it, a half-empty notebook she’d started to fill at Dover in her Advanced European History class last year, two number two pencils, her favorite eraser, and the sudden bad feeling that Arriane might have been right about the classes at Sword & Cross. ……

So, we start the book proper with our main character, Luce, arriving late for orientation at her new reform school. Late.  At her new…reform…  Wait.  Reform school is for kids who have behavioral problems and need special, corrective attention.  Supervision and schedules are a big part of that.  Not just for the sake of reforming…

This review was originally written and published in January 2014. Alright, time to start up a new book.  And just in case there was any confusion about what kind of book this is, it starts out with some nameless male character drawing a nameless female character and angsting about how hard it is that he…