~~Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC!~~

I went into this really wanting to like it, but the longer it went on, the more bored and confused I felt. By the end, I was just glad it was over.

Look, I'm a girlie who loves character-driven, dialogue heavy stories, but this book did not fit my standards of that. The characters, all four of them (Because there's no one else worth mentioning at this school besides a couple teachers and the principal), are pretentious in such a stilted, shallow manner. I was especially cringing when when the romance came into play; I was very glad Jennifer Pickens', the narrator, delivery made listening more tolerable and managed to keep my attention despite how bored I was.

I thought the fantasy elements were Marin hallucinating the ghost of her dead cousin until the last twenty percent or so when the magic is shown to be real?? I felt lost once the mirror became the magic item to blame for the whole plot, and the ending we got because of it rung so hollow to me.

Also, you really have to suspend your disbelief that an ultra rich private school would let a bounced-back enrollment check slide until the end of the semester, not in this day and age. Marin should've gotten caught a whole lot sooner, considering how bad of a con and detective she was throughout this whole book.

All in all, this was a disappointing read, but I'm glad I was able to finish it, at the very least.