The School for Dangerous Girls

The School for Dangerous Girls
Author: Eliot Schrefer
Series: ---
Publisher: Scholastic
How Received: ARC

Angela's parents think she's on the road to ruin because she's dating a "bad boy." After her behavior gets too much for them, they ship her off to Hidden Oak. Isolated and isolating, Hidden Oak promises to rehabilitate "dangerous girls." But as Angela gets drawn in further and further, she discovers that recovery is only on the agenda for the "better" girls. The other girls -- designated as "the purple thread" -- will instead be manipulated to become more and more dangerous... and more and more reliant on Hidden Oak's care.

I didn't go into this book with high hopes and ended up enjoying it more than I thought. I didn't, however, like what happened when [SLIGHT SPOILER] Angela switched from the gold thread to the purple thread. It seemed to me that, when she was a gold thread, worse stuff happened then when she was a purple thread, and the purple thread was said to get the worst punishments. [/SLIGHT SPOILER] That's just me.

All in all, it was a very enjoyable book. I was able to put it down, but simply didn't want to. Angela was relate-able, as were all the other characters, and the teachers were the people we love to hate.

Overall Rating: 9/10. With a purple-and-gold badge.

Happy reading!

~Nicole