Summary:
Newly escaped from her stifling small town, Laura is all in for her freshman year at Silas University. But when her roommate, Betty, vanishes and a sarcastic, nocturnal philosophy student named Carmilla moves into Betty's side of the room, Laura decides to play detective. Turns out Betty isn't the first girl to go missing -- she's just the first girl not to come back.
As Laura looks for answers, her new roommate tries to shut her down. Does Carmilla know more than she's letting on about the disappearances? What if she isn't just selfish and insensitive, but completely inhuman? And what happens when Laura starts falling for her anyway?
My Thoughts:
Disclaimer: as of writing this review, I have not seen the web series.
Okay back to the review.
I was expecting to hate it based on all of the negative reviews, but I ended up really loving it.
Laura and Betty become friends pretty instantly despite Betty being the polar opposite of Laura. She's a party girl while Laura spends the nights with textbooks.
Then Betty suddenly disappears, only leaving a weird, unsettling note on the bed. The police are absolutely no help at all, and the dean doesn't seem to care. Then Laura finds out that there have been lots of missing girls throughout the years with the help of Danny.
Carmilla shows up as Laura's new roommate, but Laura suspects that something's up. The milk container in the fridge doesn't contain milk -- it contains blood. And Carmilla doesn't like going out during the day.
This makes her a prime suspect -- but it gets worse. The dean is her mother, and Will is her brother.
Carmilla used to help her mother until she decided that she had enough, and she's been messing with her mother's plans ever since.
The only way to successfully save the other students is by killing the dean and Will. But they need Carmilla, who is reluctant to take part, knowing what happens when her mother gets angry.
The reading is very easy to breeze through. It seems to be a lower reading level than what it is promoted for.
At the beginning, Laura is in love with Danny. At the end, she is in love with Carmilla.
It was so refreshing to see lesbian main characters in a fantasy novel. As a lesbian myself, it made me happy.
My Rating: 4 stars
