Morning Glory Academy is the most prestigious and
secretive prep school in the country.
Students are dying to get in, but the students at Morning Glory are just
plain dying. The newest crop of students soon discovers that the school has
dark secrets, murderous teachers, and tests that are pass/die.
This is an intriguing new mystery. Spencer does an excellent job of putting a
slew of twists and turns to confound the reader ate every turn. Every couple of pages we are introduced to a
new freaky character, someone is brutally murdered, characters hint at
mysterious unrevealed secrets, or other insanity pops up. There are mysterious artifacts with unexplained
power, doppelgangers (Clones? Evil twins? We don’t know yet!), psychic ghost
like murderers, and secrets galore. The
plot moves fast and furiously and keeps the reader off balance through each
page. My only real complaint is that a
lot of the dialogue sounds like Joss Whedon (Writer/Creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Dollhouse,
etc.) light. Modern teenagers do not
make super detailed Star Wars jokes.
Sorry, they just plain don’t and they won’t and your nerd fixations are
not his generation’s nerd fixations, Mr. Spencer. That being said, there is loads of humor that
does not feel like it was written by 30-somethings for teenagers and the book
is one of the genuinely surprising comics I have read in years.
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