Week 12 Review: Where Sleeping Girls Lie

From Goodreads:

In Where Sleeping Girls Lie ― a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Times-bestselling author of Ace of Spades ― a girl new to boarding school discovers dark secrets and coverups after her roommate disappears.

It's like I keep stumbling into a dark room, searching for the switch to make things bright again. To make me remember. But the switch isn't there. Was it there before?

Sade Hussein is starting her third year of high school, this time at the prestigious Alfred Nobel Academy boarding school. After being home-schooled all her life and feeling like a magnet for misfortune, she's not sure what will happen. What she doesn't expect though is for her roommate Elizabeth to disappear after Sade's first night. Or for people to think she had something to do with it.

With rumors swirling around her, Sade catches the attention of the most popular girls in school – collectively known as the 'Unholy Trinity' – and they bring her into their fold. Between learning more about them - especially Persephone, who Sade finds herself drawn to - playing catch-up in class, and trying to figure out what happened to Elizabeth, Sade has a lot on her plate. It doesn't help that she's already dealing with grief from the many tragedies in her family.

And then a student is found dead.

The more Sade investigates, the more she realizes there's more to Alfred Nobel Academy and its students than she realized. Secrets lurk around every corner and beneath every surface…secrets that rival even her own.

My Review:
Oh, this was such a great read! I loved getting Sade's story, of this time spent at this boarding school, the friends she made-and dealing with the school politics. Between the Unholy Trinity, and the boy's swim club espcailly, there was a lot going on! 

We knew that Sade was dealing with he past, that she was seeing a ghost, a echo, a memory, but we didn't know who-just that they thought that Sade shouldn't be there. And the reveal of who it it was, and how that was connected to the plot, that hurt! 

I really enjoyed the way that this story was told, mainly in the present from Sade's perspective, but then we'd we get key points from various characters about events in the past, and it all came together so well! And boy where there twists and reveals! 

There was so much in this book that made me enraged, that girls were treated like that, and shrugged off, because it might hurt the boy, so who cares about the actual crimes that they're committing, they're bright young lads. And oh, that ending, was so true to life, and I wish it could be better in both! 

Loved reading this book, and I can't wait to read more by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé! 

Author: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Read: March 20th, 2024
Source: NetGalley
Reason Why: Loved her first book and it sounded really great, and it's a SAC 2024 Book and a Sophomore Challenge Book! 
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Published: March 19th 2024

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars