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**IVY BLOODGOOD'S MOTHER IS DEAD,** and she should probably be sad about it.
But she isn't. Mariah Bloodgood was a confusing mix of protective and abusive, a manipulative personality who never told the truth--about where she came from, who Ivy's father was, or why they were living their lives on the run.
Now that Ivy has been sent to Darkhaven, an island off the New England coast, to live with a rich uncle she didn't know existed, she is forced to reckon with her mother's past. Ivy can tell right away there are long-held family secrets buried within these walls, but when she wakes up from one of her nightmares covered in someone else's blood, Ivy fears that whatever demons her mother battled while she was alive have come to roost in her own mind. Scared that she can no longer trust what she sees, Ivy seeks the help of a boy who thinks her episodes are connected to the sordid history of Darkhaven--but what they don't know might kill them both.
A moody and twisted gothic mystery with an impossible romance, *Dreaming Darkly* is an atmospheric, fast-paced page-turner written by comics veteran Caitlin Kittredge.
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A creepy falling down manor on an isolated manor in Maine with family secrets and a cute neighbor boy? Yes! This was everything I was hoping for. I definitely saw many of the twists coming, but I enjoyed Ivy's character and seeing how she was going to deal with everything. There were only a couple little annoyances. Early on she indicated that she doesn't have many clothes, but she keeps changing clothes! Where did she get all of the clothes? Also there were a couple times when Ivy was too trusting considering her background. Those are minor issues, but the did take me out of the story a couple times. Not enough to keep from finishing it in one day though!