Book Review: The Nightmare Affair

I got a new vampire/magic/nightmare series from the Goshen Public Library...I'm trying to decide if I need to buy this whole series for MCPL.

The Nightmare Affair

by Mindee Arnett

Being the only Nightmare at Arkwell Academy, a boarding school for magickind, and living in the shadow of her mother’s infamy, is hard enough. But when Dusty sneaks into Eli Booker’s house, things get a whole lot more complicated. He’s hot, which means sitting on his chest and invading his dreams couldn’t get much more embarrassing. But it does. Eli is dreaming of a murder.

Then Eli’s dream comes true.

Now Dusty has to follow the clues—both within Eli’s dreams and out of them—to stop the killer before more people turn up dead. And before the killer learns what she’s up to and marks her as the next target.

Finally the era of the Twilight story is over. Vampires are not shimmery, crossed-in-love blood suckers.  Nightmares are real, and there are magical persons that feed off of them.  This story combines a murder mystery with the magical creatures we have all grown up knowing and loving.

The story has a kind of Taming of the Shrew or Pride and Prejudice vibe, as Dusty and Eli do not, at first, get along...but when they truly understand one another and what they can accomplish together, there may be a bit more to them.

On the flip side, Dusty's closest friends and lovers may not quite be who they say they are--and will stop at nothing to retrieve the Sword in the Stone for Merlin's dark purpose.

MCPL currently does not have this title, but I know Goshen does, and I will get it through Inter-Library Loan if you want!