Hours of Darkness

Hours of Darkness started off as a very classic High School drama, reminding me heavily of the 2004 Mean Girls movie. I thought the whole book was going to be that classic coming-of-age High School drama, so I was surprised to find that Hours of Darkness took a drastically 'dark' turn. Lauren Daniels goes through immense trauma in this book. She also begins learning how to cope with all that has happened to her. I believe the book should have ended around Chapter 13. The ending felt rushed, and could have been the introduction to the second book instead, though it does lead quite nicely into the second book where she will be dealing with the memories of all that happened in High School, and a devastating loss from the end of book 1, all while navigating Adulthood on her own in Hours of Light.