"The town likes to demonize shit up here. They think we all have orgies and worship the devil or something."

I mean, ya'll do have mysterious disappearances/murders every 5 years minimum spanning back for at least the last hundred years, additional murders/suicides other times, the school is still somehow operational, and the students and staff are all made up of people with questionable pasts and origins.

But yeah, sure, the townies are the weird ones. 🙄

While I've never been to a masquerade ball before, I have gone Halloween trick or treating.

And I don't think it's that hard to stick with your friends as long as you know what they're wearing, what their mask is, etc.

Me and my friends and family always found one another by putting on glow stick bracelets-- I'm sure they can figure something out.

"Steer clear of me, little crow. You might be luring siren, but I'm no ordinary sailor. I'm a mad pirate, and I'm trying to resist your call if I land on your shores, I'll plunder and take everything worth having. Be very careful giving me those eyes."

Aaand there's his insta-lust.

I keep hearing his voice in my head as the same voice of Professor Palladium in the Winx Club animated TV show, and reading the above quote in that voice does not make me take it seriously.

Dr. Kari... 🤢 Bro gives the ick.

The sentence structures are a little strange at times. The author does have a bit of a habit creating run-on sentences, and I'll have to go back and break it down further to understand what's being said. At times, there are also sentences that are worded strangely and in a way where it does not flow off the tongue easily; by mixing the words around and adding a verb here or there, it could flow better while reading.

An example of this was a sentence describing the entryway of some place, and at first it sounded like there were additional sculptures next to weeping angels on either side of a doorway.

After rereading it, though, the sentence was actually describing a place where, on either side of a massive doorway, two weeping angel structures stood, their gazes cast above to the ceiling held by the numerous columns of stone.

So, the author has described gargoyles as being grotesque in appearance twice within a few pages, and I'm curious to know if the wording is intentional or not.

Gargoyles are stone implementations in architecture that have a rain spout, but if there's no rain spout, then it's actually not a gargoyle, but rather is called a Grotesque.

All Gargoyles can be Grotesque, but not all Grotesques can be Gargoyles.

I went nearly a week without touching this, and as I start this back up again, I'm finding the new-book (or audiobook) feeling has faded, and this is sort of... Boring.

Thats not to say it's no good, though. I think it's adorable. I think the characters are decent, but I'm finding myself bored of this story.