Lilibet Bombshell's Reviews > The Hawthorne School

Real Rating: 3.5 Stars

While this book wasn’t full of surprises, it was charismatic and full of ambience. What it lacked for in originality, it made up for in gothic mystery and all-too-human emotion.

I loved the psychological aspects of this book. I loved the pointed commentary on private schooling versus public schooling and the importance of literacy. As the mother of two neurodivergent children, I deeply identified with Claudia (the FMC) and her struggle to be the best mother she could be to her child (even though I was at a loss as to why it seemed she hadn’t ever taken him to see a pediatrician or a child psychiatrist). And I loved the compelling, cultish atmosphere of The Hawthorne School and its denizens.

I just wished it had been less predictable.