num_pages: 343
description: 2017 eLit Awards Gold Winner in Fantasy/Science-Fiction Ive always known I was a monster and I dont mean some teenage vampire shit either. My mother abandoned me when I was ten years old because I have a freakish mutant disease that makes me incapable of feeling pain. I bounced from one foster family to another because too many people like to test my medical condition in a game of Try To Make Ollie Scream. At sixteen I killed a man for taking that game too far. Two years later Im still on the run in Kodiak Alaska. Here Im the most dangerous person around until I come face to face with a creature that should only exist in folklore. The monster is an aswang and I with my medical anomaly am uniquely qualified to hunt the beast that haunts the night. At least thats what the two scarred mostly crazy swang hunters tell me when they kidnap me and take me to Fear University a school where young students learn to hunt and kill aswangs. I arrive at the university a prisoner but I stay because I finally find my freedom. For once in my life I belong. Im needed. I make a home for myself inside the university masquerading as an old Alaskan prison. Something close to happiness warms my icy heart when Im with my scarred still mostly crazy tutor Luke Aultstriver. For a murdering runaway like me Fear University is a haven where I can put my skills to good use hunting monsters in the night. But when certain truths come to light and even more lies are exposed I fear that I Ollie Andrews am the worst kind of monster of all. And maybe they should be hunting me. This book is recommended for mature readers due to sexual content violence and language.
language: English
title: Fear University
publisher: Meg Collett