![]() I kept waiting for a twist that would tie everything together, but there was nothing. They just… drifted around and occasionally acted protective of Olivia. I get that he was distant because he wanted to protect her, but the change was so abrupt that it felt shallow.Įven the ghouls didn’t have much of a purpose. They didn’t even spend that much time together. ![]() He switched from being hostile to treasuring Olivia more than anyone else, and did so across the span of a few days. Matthew changed as the book went along, but not in a way that felt organic. Hannah and Edgar only existed to help Olivia. The relationships among the characters were very surface-level. I’m surprised by how detached I felt while reading this. This book somehow managed to affect me in absolutely no noticeable way. Gallant left me feeling unsatisfied and indifferent. However, Gallant is hiding something even darker than the ghouls she sees around her, and Olivia is determined to solve this mystery. But when she’s given a chance to escape the bleak gray walls of her boarding school, she takes it. She carries her mother’s last written words with her: stay away from Gallant, her family’s manor. ![]() ![]() Olivia Prior can see ghosts, shadows of the long-dead: a bony hand here, a half-formed face there. ![]()
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