Sweet Nightmare Series: The Calder Academy #1 on May 7, 2024
Genres: Young Adult Fiction / Horror, Young Adult Fiction / Loners & Outcasts
Pages: 496
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The scariest school on earth
Is about to experience real fear...Most schools are about being the best. This school? It’s about being the worst. Calder Academy is where the rogue paranormals go. The ones who break the rules or lose control. And when that happens for vamps, werewolves, witches, and dark fae? It gets pretty freaking scary.
I should know. Because I’m trapped here.
Look, every seventeen-year-old girl thinks their mom is a tyrant. But mine just happens to run Calder Academy, which paints a giant target on my back. The way I make it through these dark halls is by steering clear of the things—and kids—who go bump in the night.
Especially Jude Abernathy-Lee.
But when a freak storm hits our isolated island, I'm stuck without a backup plan. The power is gone. The lights are out. And our worst nightmares are suddenly real—and out for blood.
Now the only way to survive is to align myself with one evil to avoid the other.And the only thing worse than the idea of getting close to Jude? Secretly loving every minute of it.
The Calder Academy series is best enjoyed in order.
Reading Order:
Book #1 Sweet Nightmare
Book #2 Sweet Chaos
Book #3 Sweet Vengeance
Review:
Sweet Nightmare by Tracy Wolff is a spin-off to the Crave series, and while you meet a character or two from Crave, you can read this book without feeling like you are missing too much. I do highly recommend reading the Crave series as well, though. Calder Academy is the school for the paranormal kids who have done something wrong. As a result, this school locks down the student’s powers from the moment they step on the island school grounds to the moment they graduate. Clementine, the daughter of the principal in charge, thinks this is the worst idea cause if they are dangerous because of their powers, wouldn’t it be wiser to teach them how to use them for good and have control before being set loose in the world? Just like in Crave, we have one central character’s eyes that we see the story through, and this time, it is Clementine, the half-manticore human who has no idea how to be a manticore and who has never left the island and who soon finds out she may never do so. There are a lot of secrets brewing, and this book kept me on my toes. Like its predecessor, the chapters are short and flow quickly, one after the other, making the book very hard to put down and walk away from. I am excited to see what the sequel brings next year.
About Tracy Wolff
Tracy Wolff is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of sixty-four novels that run the gamut from young adult action adventures to new adult romance and from women’s fiction to erotica. A long-time lover of vampires, dragons and all things that go bump in the night, Tracy loves nothing more than combining her affection for paranormal creatures with her love of writing tortured heroes and kick-butt heroines. When she’s not writing (which is a rare occurrence), she can be found trying out new recipes, offering make-up tips online, wandering comic book/gaming stores with her sons, and watching movies or plotting stories with her besties. A one time English professor, she now writes full-time from her home in Austin, Texas, which she shares with her family. She also writes as Tracy Deebs and Tessa Adams.
