Jane has no memories after being in an accident. She grew up in foster care until the age of 16 when she is granted a scholarship for Birch Grove, a private school for girls complete with it's own cottage! Jane settles in well at Birch Grove, she has made friends and everything seems good. She meets the handsome Lucian or Lucky and his slacker brother Jacob aka Jack. But things are not quite what they appear at Birch Grove.

I loved the characters, Jane was a strong character, I liked how she grew within the story. Jack was my favorite, he was so funny. Mary Violet was another great character. I disliked Lucky, he was selfish and arrogent.

The cover caught my attention, like every book. It was a little slow at first. I really enjoyed trying to unravel the mystery.

Thank you to Tor/Macmillian and NetGalley for sending me a copy of this book for review!!

Jane Williams is a foster child from the rough streets of Helmsdale (‘Hellsdale’). Jane could have sunk into drugged ether like her fellow foster-kids, or sold her body on the street corner like her friend Wilde. But thanks to her intelligent and dearly-departed reverend brother, Hosea, she managed to use her brain and get plucked out of ghetto-obscurity with a scholarship to the elite Birch Grove Academy for Girls.

I have had this on my TBR for a long time. Sadly, I got about 10% in and knew it wasn't for me. I didn't care for the characters. Again, they were uninteresting and dull. I could see a love triangle coming into play and I was not interested. Maybe if I was younger, I would have loved this.

Thank you to Netgalley for furnishing this book for my review.

This is not a book that I would normally read, so I went out of my comfort zone reading this one. However it was very gentle on me, no where near as genre critical as it could have been.

Jane Williams has won a scholarship to an elite school, Birch Grove Academy. She believes it is her first big break in life, having grown up in foster care since losing her parents at age eight. She is even given her own cottage within the grounds of the academy. She knows she has worked hard for this break and vows to remain at the head of her class. She makes friends and is well liked by the schools Headmaster. She is asked to tutor one of the Headmasters sons in chemistry, Lucien, or Lucky, as he is called. She finds she has very different reactions to Lucky and is brother Jack, but is not completely sure why.
Inquisitive as she is, Jane starts to learn of the academy's past, and realizes something is being kept secret - things are not on the up and up. Jack seems to appear at her elbow at the most unusual times and the very handsome Lucky, who Jane is falling for, begins to act differently also. At this point Jane begins to ask herself what the ulterior motive of Birch Grove Academy was for giving her a scholarship and selecting her to live on the grounds.
As the story heats up it becomes all to apparent what Jane has to surrender, to be in her Headmasters graces, and to receive what she has worked so very hard for.

I was very happy with the writing of Marta Acosta. The story moves along nicely, the characters are well developed and her tact in writing the scenes of this genre was superb.

This book just wasn't for me. DNF so no review is currently posted.

Thank you for providing me the review copy.