4 stars - YA

Violet Constantine is beginning her second of three years at the famous Dark Cove Arts Academy and she’s already behind. She had a meltdown down during her monologue that was a large part of her grade in her very important introductory acting course and was humiliated in front of students and staff. Her grade point average has dropped so that now she only receives as partial scholarship and she must do work study to make up the rest and the faculty has encoura-forced her to leave acting behind, so she’s changed her focus to playwriting.

Then, however, as a surprise to everyone, a guest director casts her in one of the lead roles in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” along with Frankie Lim, the school’s star and Hunter, her crush. As a result she also becomes a part of the school’s most important club, the Dark Cove Theatre Society. There’s a rumor of a Society curse - one star of the play always drops out just before the show starts and the President of the Society, Magpie, one of Frankie’s best friends believes it will be Vi.

This was a very nicely done YA book. It included some mixed media in the form of newspaper clippings and the like which are always fun, in fact I wish there had been more of that. I wish the other departments of the school had been a little better represented, I found it a bit hard to believe that the theatre department would rule all at such a well known school, but maybe a YA wouldn’t notice that. It was nice to see Violet find her way (along with Kay, the best friend ever.)

Really fabulous story. Excellent characters, setting is perfect. It kept me reading and wondering and wanting more. Truly enjoyable. I would absolutely read another one!

Thank you NetGalley for this arc.
I love to read anything that has to do with a school setting. read this in one sitting.