Readers will quickly become invested in Rachel’s story even when she’s making difficult-to-witness mistakes. Moldavsky’s tightly plotted tale weaves in dark humor, an impressive amount of horror trivia, and insightful references to Frankenstein. Mostly the teens just watch all sorts of horror films-classics, slasher, zombie, psychological-but membership also involves more sinister activities. She joins Freddie Martinez, a film geek on scholarship hot-tempered, Stephen King–adoring Felicity Chu charming Thayer Turner, whose political family is compared to the Obamas and brooding golden boy Bram Wilding. Soon, she is initiated into the Mary Shelley Club, a tightknit group that requires secrecy and rule-following from its members. After a school party ends in a ghost story, a séance, and screaming, Rachel-who immersed herself in horror movies as a coping device-notices a prankster amid the chaos. The middle-class daughter of a faculty member, Rachel feels invisible except for her one new friend, harmless school gossip Saundra Clairmont. Rachel, a 16-year-old trauma survivor, is initiated into her private school’s secret society for horror fans.Ī year after surviving a violent attack, high school junior Rachel Chavez becomes the new girl at Manchester Prep on Manhattan’s affluent Upper East Side.
Lingering threads suggest a sequel, but isn’t that part of the formula? (Paranormal romance. As she struggles to recall her past life and understand her current role, Lenzi must also reconcile her feelings for Alden and both their previous platonic, work-only relationship and the strict demands on their gifts. The only real action occurs when the pair battles Hindereds who have turned into Malevolents, including a court-martialed Civil War soldier still bent on revenge for Lenzi’s deception in a past life.
Reminiscent of Lauren Kate’s Fallen series and Alyson Noël’s Immortals series, the story builds slowly as Alden, who can (get ready to swoon, romantics) feel Lenzi’s soul respond to emotion, explains their roles as paired Protector and Speaker in helping Hindered spirits pass on to the next world. But somehow she’s developed past-life amnesia.
The 17-year-old should remember Alden and the last time she died, in the Galveston hurricane of 1900 after all, their souls have been cycling together for generations. When Houston teen, origami-loving Lenzi, begins experiencing hallucinations and disembodied voices, she’s sure that she’s succumbing to the same schizophrenia that recently claimed her father’s life, until Alden unexpectedly arrives. A formulaic forbidden-love story and teen debut featuring Lenzi, who serves as a conduit for ghosts with unresolved issues, and Alden, the guy she wants but shouldn’t have.
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