The Reformatory

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Paperback, 576 pages

Published Oct. 31, 2023 by Titan Books.

ISBN:
978-1-80336-653-1
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Jim Crow Florida, 1950.

Twelve-year-old Robert Stephens Jr., who for a trivial scuffle with a white boy is sent to The Gracetown School for Boys. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there.

In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school’s ghosts – only they have their own motivations…

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I was so looking forward to a new book from Tananarive Due! I enjoyed her books The Good House and The Between. But the time period of this one was not working for me, and I got the vibe that the supernatural would be pretty minimal. I was also dreading a dual POV story where it was clear that one of the POVs was going to be much more engaging than the other.

I’m glad the book is doing so well, but this one is not for me.

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