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Now I'm in charge, the gates are my gates. The rules are my rules. It's an incendiary moment for St Oswald's school. For the first time in its history, a headmistress is in power, the gates opening to girls. Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. Barely forty, she is just starting to reap the harvest of her ambition. As the new regime takes on the old guard, the ground shifts. And with it, the remains of a body are discovered. But Rebecca is here to make her mark. She'll bury the past so deep it will evade even her own memory, just like she has done before. After all... You can't keep a good woman down.
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Thanks to NetGalley and OrangeSky Audio for this audio-ARC. I offer my review freely.
I did not know this was the third book in a series, but I can honestly say it completely felt like a standalone the whole time. I never felt like I was missing anything.
This story is told in dual POV, also jumping from the eighties to the aughts. Rebecca is a young woman who's life was was forever changed when her brother disappeared. Roy is a professor extremely set in his way who teaches at the school where the boy vanished.
I almost gave up in the first half of the book. This slow burn was simply just too slow. I felt like the story wasn't going anywhere. The only reason I stuck it out is because I really enjoyed the work of the narrators.
I'm glad I kept going though, because so much happened in the second half! Twist, turns, questions, answers, more questions, more answers... As slow as the first part had been, the second unfolded at super-speed.
Definitely worth the read if you manage to push through the beginning, but I'm afraid a lot of readers won't stick around.
I did not know this was the third book in a series, but I can honestly say it completely felt like a standalone the whole time. I never felt like I was missing anything.
This story is told in dual POV, also jumping from the eighties to the aughts. Rebecca is a young woman who's life was was forever changed when her brother disappeared. Roy is a professor extremely set in his way who teaches at the school where the boy vanished.
I almost gave up in the first half of the book. This slow burn was simply just too slow. I felt like the story wasn't going anywhere. The only reason I stuck it out is because I really enjoyed the work of the narrators.
I'm glad I kept going though, because so much happened in the second half! Twist, turns, questions, answers, more questions, more answers... As slow as the first part had been, the second unfolded at super-speed.
Definitely worth the read if you manage to push through the beginning, but I'm afraid a lot of readers won't stick around.
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