Morning Glories Academy is an illustrious school for genius children, but there's more to it than appears. Shrouded in mystery, the school is a home for murder, backstabbing, time travel and strange powers, and in volume four, things come to an explosive head.
Man, I have such mixed feelings on this series. On the one hand, I love it. Boarding schools! Murder! Time travel! Created families! Varied and competent female characters! It hits so many of my buttons! On the other hand, the mystery is occasionally a bit much - more than simply mysterious and heading towards totally disorienting. It can take pages to refind your footing in the narrative, and when you finally regain it, so much has happened you have to reread it a few times to catch everything. The designs are gorgeous, but occasionally characters can look very similar, which does little to help with the disorientation. You're expected to retain a lot of knowledge about characters, which I appreciate given my tendency to inhale that, but with a rapidly growing cast, it can make it difficult to absorb everything.
Great story, great characters, but it's not always easy to keep up with.
3.5 out of 5 time reset circles.
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