“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