So here's the deal. This is a nice wrap up for the series. And it was a good book. But I'm docking it for blatant straight-washing and sexism. It just bothered me so much that they said, "Oh well there could have been female guard for him to seduce!" WOW. Like a male couldn't seduce a male guard and gay men don't exist. Like women can't be prison guards. I run into sexism all the time but this just made me SO UPSET. The author's mean Christian bias was showing, and I figured it out when she thanks "God and his Son" every acknowledgement in the first line. And aside from the above mentioned, she also made light references to waiting for marriage in relationships and life after death that stuck out in the wrong ways after the blatant gay people don't exist message.

POINT BEING: in a fantasy world, if you can't even imagine gay people don't exist, how interesting can your world actually be? Not interesting enough, really.

Yes this was a rant but fiction and fantasy should NOT be exclusive in these ways.

This was a great end to a great series! I love Eli so much and while there are of course some problems with this book, the characters definitely make up for it!

As with the previous books this one isn't so much slow at the beginnings as it is that it picks up speed near the end. There were parts of this book I found really interesting and action packed, in which I read it with much more fervour than I regularly would. A good ending to the saga... I wouldn't mind seeing Arnett try to do one more of the Arkwell books but with a different villain.... they still have one more year left after all.

“I realized the real world had now become the dream. And I wanted to stay in it forever.”

The Nightmare Charade is the third and final installment in the Arkwell Academy series. It follows a nightmare and her dream-seeing partner/love interest in their latest mystery at a school for the paranormal.

This follows The Nightmare Affair and The Nightmare Dilemma. I was semi-disappointed with the second book, but I thought that Mindee did a great job tying up all the loose ends and concluding this trilogy. However, I do think that the ending was a little too perfect for my liking, but I suppose I prefer a little bit more of a twist than a happy ending.

I have said this in all of my reviews of the Arkwell Academy series books, but I feel the need to say it again: this book still feels so similar to me. I can’t really put my finger on it, but it feels like a book I have read before, not to mention the similarities to Harry Potter (i.e. school for magic kind, reoccurring villain that can’t seem to actually die, ending up in the school hospital and recovering from near death, the guilty professors, etc.). I do think that this book dug the deepest out of the three in the series and attempted more complexity, but I think at some points it just became too confusing to keep all the new pieces of info straight.

Read the rest of my review here: http://judgingmorethanjustthecover.blogspot.com

So slow getting to the last 80 pages that kept me locked into the book.

I was hesitant with how this book was gonna go. I really liked the first one, and enjoyed the second, but was scared that the third wasn't gonna live up to my expectations. Thankfully I was wrong, I really enjoyed this book. It was a nice end to the trilogy, all my questions were answered, nothing was left open, I am pleasantly surprised with how much I enjoyed this one. The last 100 pages were fantastic! The beginning was a bit slow and frustrating, but the ending totally made up for it.
All in all I really enjoyed this series and I'm sad to see it ending.

A good conclusion, but I feel like I would have enjoyed it more if it hadn't been so long since I had read the previous book.

This is a fun end to what has been a nice fluffy YA fantasy series. This one contained a little more angst than I was in the mood for, but it does fit well with Dusty and Eli's story and personalities.