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Loading... Dominanceby Will Lavender
   Dark Academia Novels (21) Books Read in 2014 (537) No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) pagemother | Apr 5, 2023 |  I really enjoyed reading this book. The plot was interesting, and so were the characters. Professor Aldiss was scary and you could feel his condescending hatred of others in his dialog. The story follows Alex Shipley as she and eight other students take a special night class in 1994, and their subsequent gathering in the present day. The book alternated between 1994 and today, with the events of 1994 mirroring the events of the present day. The reader learns the details as Alex learns them. And knowing whom to trust is always in question. Much of the book concerns "the procedure", a game where the participants try to get inside of a book. I could just see a bunch of pretentious college students playing this game and feeling like they are a part of an elite group. I knew some people like that when I was in school. But of course, the problem becomes who is playing the game and who is telling the truth. For me the book became more interesting the more I read. By the end, I was flying through the chapters, trying to find out what happens next. I look forward to reading more from Will Lavender. (  ) readingover50 | Jun 11, 2019 | It was interesting, I like the premise. But the writing didn't really hold my interest, and I wasn't really invested in the ending. I would have liked more info on the stories in the Fallows novels. (  ) SoubhiKiewiet | Mar 20, 2018 |  ) bnbookgirl | Jun 17, 2017 |  ) jen.e.moore | Mar 30, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
THE PROCEDURE HAS BEGUN . . . Fifteen years earlier. Jasper College is buzzing with the news that famed literature professor Richard Aldiss will be teaching a special night class called Unraveling a Literary Mystery--from a video feed in his prison cell. In 1982, Aldiss was convicted of the murders of two female grad students; the women were killed with axe blows and their bodies decorated with the novels of notoriously reclusive author Paul Fallows. Even the most obsessive Fallows scholars have never seen him. He is like a ghost. Aldiss entreats the students of his night class to solve the Fallows riddle once and for all. The author's two published novels, The Coil and The Golden Silence, are considered maps to finding Fallows's true identity. And the only way in is to master them through a game called the Procedure. You may not know when the game has begun, but when you receive an invitation to play, it is an invitation to join the elite ranks of Fallows scholars. Failure, in these circles, is a fate worse than death. Soon, members of the night class will be invited to play along . . . Present day. Harvard professor Alex Shipley made her name as a member of Aldiss's night class. She not only exposed the truth of Paul Fallows's identity, but in the process uncovered information that acquitted Aldiss of the heinous 1982 crimes. But when one of her fellow night class alums is murdered-- the body chopped up with an axe and surrounded by Fallows novels--can she use what she knows about Fallows and the Procedure to stop a killer before each of her former classmates is picked off, one by one? No library descriptions found. 
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