Summary:
Every year, Dr. Clark searches for the worst man at Gorman University and plots his demise. Thanks to her planning, she's avoided drawing attention to herself - but as she's preparing for her biggest kill yet, the school starts probing into the body count on campus. Determined to keep her enemies close, Scarlett insinuates herself into the investigation. Everything's going according to her master plan . . . until she loses control with her latest victim.
Meanwhile, Gorman student Carly Schiller is simply trying to survive her freshman year. Finally free of her abusive father, Carly just wants to fade into the background. Her roommate has other ideas. Allison Hadley is cool and confident, and the two girls quickly form an intense friendship. So when Allison is assaulted at a party, Carly becomes obsessed with making the attacker pay . . . and turning her fantasies about revenge into a reality.
My Thoughts:
The book is told from two POVs: Scarlett and Carly. Scarlett is a professor at Gorman and is tired of terrible men getting away with hurting women. She secretly kills them, but stages them as suicides. Her next target is one of her colleagues - Kinnear. But then Mina, Kinnear's ex-wife, comes onto the scene to investigate the deaths of students, and Scarlett has to lay low and get sneaky. Carly is a new student who comes from an abusive family and wants to be able to be herself away from them. She quickly befriends Allison and her friend Wes, and things are finally looking up for her. But when she sees Allison - who was most likely drugged - being assaulted, she steps up to take care of her and wants the man to pay. Carly quickly learns that even the men you think you can trust, can secretly be horrible people, as evident when she goes to report the assault, and when Wes starts acting seemingly out of character.
I loved this novel. Carly and Scarlett are perfectly developed as characters, and the writing is powerful. Revenge stories are always some of my favorites, and this one did not disappoint. The twist towards the middle was so mind-blowing, and it took a while for it to settle in my brain. The only thing that I would have changed about this book was that there wasn't more kills. I would absolutely recommend picking this one up.
My Rating: 5 stars
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