YA chiller
"The ouija board was Lily's idea.
Maria warned her not to go through with it, but Lily didn't listen. She went onto EBay while Maria was at soccer practice and bought the prettiest board she could find."
After you finish reading Robin Talley's As I Descended I think you'll agree with Maria. Lily should not have bought the board. But then again if not for her lapse in judgment you wouldn't have the chance to devour a classic in the be glad that you didn't go to a pricey private school subgenre.
Acheron Academy has two elements that, when mixed together, practically guarantee all hell breaking loose. One is its history. It goes back to plantation slavery days. In fact the academy dorm was the plantation owner's manor house. Through the decades a lot of people have perished under tragic and gruesome circumstances and stayed on as ghosts. It you could calculate the dead to living ratio it would be pretty damn impressive.
If the dead constitute one source of peril the living make up the other. We're talking about teenagers making the turbulent transition from child to adult in an insular and intense community. Delilah is the campus alpha student. Every award, honor, and leadership position goes to her. Lily and Maria have decided that enough is enough already. They plan to end her reign...
...no matter what it takes to achieve this goal.
One night, Lily, Maria, and their friend, Brandon, accompanied by the two dorm 🐈 😻 🐈⬛️, use the board to conduct a seance. The room temperature drops. There are mysterious noises. The cats 🐈 😻 🐈⬛️ behave strangely. The planchet starts spelling out cryptic messages.
The seance abruptly ends when a huge chandelier falls from the ceiling, shattering on impact. In the ensuing chaos the teens forget to do one crucial thing--send any unleashed spirits back where they came from. It isn't long before things begin to happen and life at Acheron begins to spiral perilously downward.
If you're a true, hard core chiller affecianado you'll take to As I Descended like Tobago takes to prime quality nip.
On a purrrsonal note, today I got to arrange the clothes I'd sorted out in the dorm room for the Upward Bound summer ☀️ program. We have a great room with big windows. It also makes a difference that we didn't lug all the clothes down and that I got the room set up before the students arrived. I am so excited for the program to begin!!! (Jules)
So how about some good quality nip for the 🐈😻🐈⬛️? (Tobago)
A great big shout out goes out to the crew getting everything ready for the students.
Tobago and Jules Hathaway
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