Sweet Nightmare (The Calder Academy #1) by Tracy Wolff | Blog tour

Genre: Young Adult Paranormal Fantasy

Publisher: Entangled Teen (Imprint of Macmillan Publishers)

Publishing Date: May 7, 2024

Synopsis:

The scariest school on earth
Is about to experience real fear…

Most schools are about being the best. This school? It’s about being the worst. Calder Academy is where the rogue paranormals go. The ones who break the rules or lose control. And when that happens for vamps, werewolves, witches, and dark fae? It gets pretty freaking scary.

I should know. Because I’m trapped here.

Look, every seventeen-year-old girl thinks their mom is a tyrant. But mine just happens to run Calder Academy, which paints a giant target on my back. The way I make it through these dark halls is by steering clear of the things―and kids―who go bump in the night.

Especially Jude Abernathy-Lee.

But when a freak storm hits our isolated island, I’m stuck without a backup plan. The power is gone. The lights are out. And our worst nightmares are suddenly real―and out for blood.
Now, the only way to survive is to align myself with one evil to avoid the other.

And the only thing worse than the idea of getting close to Jude? Secretly loving every minute of it.

my review:

Sweet Nightmare by Tracy Wolff is the first book in The Calder Academy. The story is set in a school on an island for paranormals. The last time I read a book with so many magical beings was House of Earth and Blood, even though that book doesn’t have this many supernaturals. Here there are Leopard Shifters, Banshee, Pixie, Fae, Phoenix, Time Wizard, Vampires, Wolf, Manticore, Dragon Shifters, Siren, Oneiroi, and I guess there are many more, but only these supernaturals play main roles.

I love this book so much. I still can’t believe the fact that the whole timeline in the book is just a couple of days. I started loving the protagonist, Clementine, right from the beginning. She was so humorous, stubborn, and loving. Jude, Oh Jude, is perfect boyfriend material. The chemistry and the tension between them were amazing throughout the book. This book reminded me that I love friends to lovers trope as equally as enemies to lovers trope.

The story starts off with the whole school evacuation because of a huge, weird storm. Literally, everyone was running for their lives, and it was total chaos. Clementine uncovers many more secrets about her life in 48 hours (which is the whole book) than in her seventeen years. It’s filled with running (mostly) and action. There were so many fight scenes, which I enjoyed a lot.

The side characters were all so great. They were given so much importance in the story. They were all so unique and excellent. My personal favorites are Luis, Simon, Remy, and Izzy. Never have I ever had this many favorite side characters. Izzy was such a total badass vamp. Luis was a sweet wolf. Remy was a handsome Time wizard. Simon was a charming siren. Oh my!! I love them all so much. I can listen to their conversations all day, and I would never get bored.

There were so many twists in the book that I managed to guess one right. But the rest are just mind-blowing. The best way to describe this book is in the title itself. It’s just a sweet nightmare. I can’t wait enough for the sequel, Sweet Chaos.

My rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Favourite Quotes:

You have the power to defeat the monsters inside of you.

He whispers, “Don’t you know I could never exist in a world without you in it?”

It’s not the nightmares themselves we have to fear. But the monsters that we create from them.

About the author:

New York Times and USA Today, bestselling author Tracy Wolff is a lover of vampires, dragons, and all things that go bump in the night. A one-time English professor, she now devotes all her time to writing dark and romantic stories with tortured heroes and kick-butt heroines. She has written all her sixty-plus novels from her home in Austin, Texas, which she shares with her family.