Seventeen-year-old Ivy's mother has committed suicide. She doesn't feel like she's lost much since she and her mother had a hard life, and at one point, her mother had tried to kill Ivy. For real. Ivy is surprised that she has an uncle who lives off the coast of Maine in a huge house on an island. She goes to live with him and plans to just bide her time until her 18th birthday when she can leave. Things are very weird and creepy around this house and on the island. There is a feud with the only other family living on the island. Ivy's great-grandfather killed six people. Her grandmother was in an asylum before she died.
Once on the island, Ivy begins to have very realistic dreams and hallucinations. And she's discovering a lot about her mother's life on this same island. She thinks her episodes have to do with the family history of mental instability. Is she like her mother? Is she going crazy?
Dreaming Darkly is a quick read that is quite compelling and parts were very spooky. The atmosphere is very dark. The mysteries are abundant. But many of the plot twists are very convenient. However, I didn't really know what was going on until Ivy did. So if you can just go with the flow, it is a fun reading experience.
Teens who enjoy gothic mysteries with some creepiness will enjoy Dreaming Darkly.
Published by Katherine Tegen, April 9, 2019
eARC obtained from Edelweiss
368 pages
Rating: 4/5
I think teens would totally be able to go with the flow in suspending disbelief. I have a difficult time with that when a book is supposed to be realistic, but that's on me, not the books.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to read this one.
ReplyDeleteI like Gothic creepers, so I'll definitely check this one out!
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