Review: Sleep all day, school at night. Sounds good to me.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 26, 2012
15 year old Angel's supernatural problems begin on her birthday, October 31st, yep Halloween as luck would have it.  This is the first time she has the disconcerting vision of the little girl with wriggling worms in place of where her face should be, some kind of portent of bad events to come.  After the mysterious disappearance of her parents, Angel (her real name is a lot fancier: Dasheen Bellamy) enrols in Ame Academy, a wicked looking Gothic-style castle with her younger brother Jordan.  Jordan attends the Academy's Night School.  I found it strange that no one would question the existence of a school that operates after dark but anyhew, we'll move on.Once you get past the history lesson about Angel's past, things start to get interesting.  What exactly is going on in this Night School? Is the good looking principal Mr. M more than human?  And why does everyone have such unusual names?  I liked Angel; she's a tough-talker and has to grow up quickly in order to look after her brother.  Night School is written from the perspective of a 15 year old, so I felt I was a little too old to keep up with Angel's thoughts.  She tends to ramble a lot, but I enjoyed the blogging style of the narrative.  Angel dreams of a boy she has never met; she knows somehow he is coming, but not who he is or what they mean to one another. Elin, Bella Donna and Ismet, her fellow pupils are three characters I'm looking forward to spending more time with in the next book. I preferred the second half of the story as this is when the plot really got moving.Since I love artwork, I have to mention the spooky and mystical front cover and the font type that reminds me of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer logo.  The haunting and gothic architecture of Ame is captured perfectly in this book cover. With lamia, day walkers, vampires, dhampirs and even a Jinn (that's genie to you and me), this Night School is teeming with the supernatural, just my kind of place!