Name: In the Serpent's Coils
ISBN: 9780786942299

Tiffany Trent

After the death of her parents in the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Corrine is sent to reform school in Culpeper, Virginia, where she discovers a sinister plot involving a race of faeries and the disappearance of some of the students.

In the Serpent's Coils

Kirsten Simkiss

While not a total waste of paper, I mist say that I have never met a dumber main character. This is one of those MCs that sees a hole in the floor, someone warns them to be careful about it, and then step through it and fall three floors anyway. It’s ridiculous. Despite every single character warning her not to do things, she did them anyway! It was really frustrating as a reader seeing this character be so naive. Ultimately, that, more than the relatively boring plot, was what killed this book for me.

As far as the world went, that was really its strong point. Dark fae and fae mythology, crossed with witchcraft and post-Civil War America? It was really an interesting world to be thrust into. However, the story never would have worked if the main character weren’t the dumbest kid on the block.

I will definitely not be reading on in this series and I would warn others to find other books.