Week 8 Review: Dreaming Darkly

From Goodreads:
Ivy Bloodgood's mother is dead, and she should probably be sad about it. But she isn't. Myra Bloodgood was confusing mix of protective and abusive, a manipulative personality who never told the truth—about where she came from, who Ivy's father was, or why they were living their lives on the run.

Now that Ivy has been sent to Darkhaven, an island off the New England coast, to live with a rich uncle she didn’t know existed, she is forced to reckon with her mother's past. Ivy can tell right away there are long-held family secrets buried within these walls, but when she wakes up from one of her nightmares covered in someone else's blood, Ivy fears that whatever demons her mother battled while she was alive have come to roost in her own mind. Scared that she can no longer trust what she sees, Ivy seeks the help of a boy who thinks her episodes are connected to the sordid history of Darkhaven—but what they don't know might kill them both.

A moody and twisty gothic mystery with an impossible romance, Dreaming Darkly is an atmospheric, fast-paced page-turner written by comics veteran Caitlin Kittredge.

My Review:
Wow, this book was dark and twisted and down to earth-but with questionable events that could be Ivy going crazy or maybe something is up. There was just so much atmosphere, and it was so great to read this book!

Ivy is jaded. She does start to connect with people in this book, but given that it started with telling the story of how her mother tried to drown her when she was a kid, well, it's understandable that she has some problems with letting people close.

Coming to Darkhaven, her family home, to an uncle she didn't know she had, was pretty interesting. Like she says, she's been raised in cheap motels and trailer parks, and those were located in the landlocked states, not a little island on the New England coast. So there's that to adjust to.

Oh, and there's Doyle, who tells her about the feud between their families, and the curse on hers because of it. Yeah, I really enjoyed her skeptical side. And then things start happening, and it's like, what's going on? It doesn't come up in Ivy's head, but I was wondering if it was supernatural, because there was a lot of freaky things going on. It was so fascinating to read!

This book was a really fantastic read, and I enjoyed it so much!

Author: Caitlin Kittredge
Read: February 21st, 2020
Source: Edelweiss
Reason Why: Loved her other YA series, and it's a SAC 2020 Book!
Publisher: Katherine Tegan Books
Published: April 9th 2019

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars