They rebuff modern society, eschew cell phones, social media and computers, choosing instead to talk to one another and use typewriters to turn in assignments.įelicity, our main character, is an unreliable narrator at best.
They are not your typical group of students. The girls at Dalloway are mature, wear suits and dresses daily, drink bourbon and smoke. While Felicity’s other three roommates are enamored with Ellis, Felicity takes a while to trust her. A 17yo girl who has already won the Pulitzer Prize for her debut novel. Together, they are two of the five girls that live in the coveted Goodwin dorm.Īll of Felicity’s classmates have graduated, and she has four new housemates, including the mysterious and enigmatic Ellis. We meet Felicity Morrow (who is repeating her senior year following the mysterious death of her girlfriend) and prodigy novelist Ellis Haley (who is starting her first year at Dalloway). There is a very dark and complicated history of the infamous school, including 5 students (suspected witches) who murdered another student and then were each brutally murdered in the 1700s.
This novel takes place at Dalloway, an elite, all-girls boarding school founded by a survivor of the Salem witch trials. Victoria Lee has written a fantastic and creepy novel about dark academia and the secrets we keep. Whatever you think A Lesson in Vengeance is about, you are most likely wrong.
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