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What is it about boarding schools that attract so much trouble?! In The Nightmare Affair, the Arkwell Academy, a special school for magickind, is being plagued by a string of murders. It's Dusty, the school's only Nightmare, who stumbles upon the first body...sort of. She sees it in a dream while she's out feeding, then gets picked up the campus cops where she learns that the murder she saw did indeed take place that very night. Now the school is bringing in its first "ordinary" student, so that Dusty can continue to feed from him in hopes of being able to identify the murder.

This ended up being a really cute and fun mystery. Nightmares aren't something that pop up a lot in fiction, so I really enjoyed reading about Dusty and her mom. They're not just the bad dreams that we all suffer from occasionally. Nightmares have plenty of unique abilities, and Dusty is just now discovering what those are. In her urgency of uncovering the murderer, Dusty learns to manipulate the dreams that she's in, not always with the expected results. I really enjoyed these scenes, and wish there had been more of them, or at least more detailed ones.

The world is fabulous, too! My favorite part was how the inanimate objects around campus develop personalities and minds of their own with continued exposure to magic. Electricity speeds up this process, so you probably can't trust your computer to not take a nap while you're working on a term paper! There's even blocking spells in the bathrooms to prevent the toilets from giving anyone too much trouble. It's all very imaginative, and the world is the main reason why I'll be continuing the series. I can't wait to see more of it! I also want to see more of Selene, Dusty's best friend and siren. She's working against the objectification of sirens, which is mentioned a few times, but we don't get any real details about it.

In the end, I did really enjoy The Nightmare Affair, but I found that the mystery started to really drag in the last quarter. I was busy fitting together the clues with along with Dusty, but I did get it wrong. When the big reveal happens, it kind of happens in stages, which made it kind of convoluted and confusing. All of a sudden all of the suspects are around and you think they're up to something bad, but then it turns out that they're not, but then they are, but then they're working with someone else, but that person isn't really bad, but someone else is.....and, well you get the picture. It was just kind of a mess.


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The Nightmare Affair Arkwell Academy Mindee Arnett Books Reviews

Not sure why I didn't mark the date when I read this the first time because that was back when it was still and ARC and I actually tried to write real reviews instead of just my random thoughts on the book. With the third book in the series out now I had to read this again because it's just not the same reading a series book if it's been years since you read the previous novels in the series. Besides that Dusty is one of my favorite characters and I love Arkwell Academy.

It's hard not to feel for Dusty. Even though she always had a magical heritage she didn't actually come into the powers that no one ever expected her to have until later in life, as a teenager. So she spent most of her childhood living the life everyone else does and among ordinaries she was fairly popular and well adjusted, smart, pretty and athletically talented, it's not a surprise that she fit in well. At Arkwell Academy she's never have magic until recently so it's not a surprise that she doesn't control it well. And she's going to school among Sirens so her pretty is really more average looking. In this school athletics really aren't a thing and what matters is magic ability that she doesn't seem to have so it's not a surprise that the easy acceptance she found among ordinaries isn't there among magickind. Though it's sad to see how very little acceptance there is at all. Her mom who wasn't around for most of her childhood is pretty much a notorious criminal among magickind so everyone holds that against her too. At Arkwell Academy she's an outcast and her only friend is her roommate Selene, a Siren who thinks the boat needs to be rocked because she doesn't want to spend her life thought of as a sexual object as Sirens currently are.

The story begins when Dusty goes to a routine assigned feeding only to find that the subject is the cool guy from her own high school, you know that guy that most girls have a crush on. She doesn't have a choice about feeding on him because the Will which controls all magic won't allow her not to. She doesn't expect to find herself in a dream of a murder scene at her school of one of her classmates. She definitely doesn't expect the dreamer to find her boot her out of his dream and then for her magic not to work on him when she's trying to get away and she definitely doesn't expect to learn she and he are part of a dreamseer pair and to find him going to her new school resentful of her because of all he lost coming there. Fortunately for him he fall right into the popular crowd there too despite his lack of magic, but still not having magic makes him feel like an outsider and he blames Dusty for it making her life even worse.

What follows is this really interesting mystery filled with myth and magic as Eli and Dusty become unlikely allies in search of a killer on the campus of Arkwell Academy. This book is a page turner from beginning to end and a definite must read for anyone who likes urban fantasy type novels. Highly recommended.
What is it about boarding schools that attract so much trouble?! In The Nightmare Affair, the Arkwell Academy, a special school for magickind, is being plagued by a string of murders. It's Dusty, the school's only Nightmare, who stumbles upon the first body...sort of. She sees it in a dream while she's out feeding, then gets picked up the campus cops where she learns that the murder she saw did indeed take place that very night. Now the school is bringing in its first "ordinary" student, so that Dusty can continue to feed from him in hopes of being able to identify the murder.

This ended up being a really cute and fun mystery. Nightmares aren't something that pop up a lot in fiction, so I really enjoyed reading about Dusty and her mom. They're not just the bad dreams that we all suffer from occasionally. Nightmares have plenty of unique abilities, and Dusty is just now discovering what those are. In her urgency of uncovering the murderer, Dusty learns to manipulate the dreams that she's in, not always with the expected results. I really enjoyed these scenes, and wish there had been more of them, or at least more detailed ones.

The world is fabulous, too! My favorite part was how the inanimate objects around campus develop personalities and minds of their own with continued exposure to magic. Electricity speeds up this process, so you probably can't trust your computer to not take a nap while you're working on a term paper! There's even blocking spells in the bathrooms to prevent the toilets from giving anyone too much trouble. It's all very imaginative, and the world is the main reason why I'll be continuing the series. I can't wait to see more of it! I also want to see more of Selene, Dusty's best friend and siren. She's working against the objectification of sirens, which is mentioned a few times, but we don't get any real details about it.

In the end, I did really enjoy The Nightmare Affair, but I found that the mystery started to really drag in the last quarter. I was busy fitting together the clues with along with Dusty, but I did get it wrong. When the big reveal happens, it kind of happens in stages, which made it kind of convoluted and confusing. All of a sudden all of the suspects are around and you think they're up to something bad, but then it turns out that they're not, but then they are, but then they're working with someone else, but that person isn't really bad, but someone else is.....and, well you get the picture. It was just kind of a mess.