As she and Ellis start to dig into the occult rumors, the tension builds at a well paced rate. We know that Felicity has been through some kind of trauma involving her former girlfriend Alex, who also died, and whose death is haunting Felicity for various reasons. Lee builds this history up through Felicity’s perspective, as well as research that she and new student/prodigy author Ellis are conducting. It has a long history of educating women, but a notorious past involving five students who were supposed witches, and who died under strange circumstances. The thing that worked best in “A Lesson in Vengeance” was the eerie setting and atmosphere of Dalloway School, the prestigious boarding school that our protagonist Felicity attends. So obviously when I read about “A Lesson in Vengeance” by Victoria Lee, I definitely wanted to give it a read. And if you throw in witches, or even the rumor of them, I’m even MORE interested. Review: You give me a YA thriller that involves a boarding school with a bloody history, and I am one hundred percent here for that kind of narrative. And when history begins to repeat itself, Felicity will have to face the darkness in Dalloway–and in herself. Given her history with the arcane, Felicity is the perfect resource. 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. And when the new girl won’t let her forget. 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. The Dalloway Five all died mysteriously, one after another, right on Godwin grounds. 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. Perched in the Catskill mountains, the centuries-old, ivy-covered campus was home until the tragic death of her girlfriend.

Publishing Info: Delacorte Press, August 2021īook Description: Felicity Morrow is back at Dalloway School.

Book: “A Lesson in Vengeance” by Victoria Lee

A lesson on vengeance