Book Tour Review & Favorite Quotes: Sweet Nightmare by Tracy Wolff

Title: Sweet Nightmare
Author: Tracy Wolff
Series: The Calder Academy #1
Pages: 496
Publication Date: May 7, 2024
Publisher: Entangled Pub
Genres: Young Adult Fiction / Fantasy / Romance
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.

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I’m so excited to be on the book tour today for Sweet Nightmare, a new series by Bestselling author Tracy Wolff. It was a fantastic read, and I have some thoughts!!

Sweet Nightmare is the first book in The Calder Academy series, a spin-off of Tracy Wolff’s Crave series. The story takes place in the same world as the Crave series but with a new setting and cast of characters. Though you don’t have to have read the original series before reading this, there are characters and references to events that Crave readers will recognize.

Like the Crave series, the first thing I noticed about the book was the author’s exceptional use of chapter titles. She does titles so well, and I look forward to them in all of her books! They’re quirky and funny while still relating to and giving hints about the upcoming chapter. The chapters are also relatively short, which makes it feel like a fast read.

I also noticed the strong voice right away. Wolff is really skilled at creating dynamic and fully realized characters that you want to learn more about. The story is told from Clementine’s point of view. She has a distinct and entertaining perspective, and the first-person narration really immerses you into her story, thoughts, and feelings. Clementine is the daughter of one of the leaders of the academy, and she has never left the island. She goes through a lot in her personal life as she deals with broken relationships, missing and murdered ex-students, secrets, lies, and more.

As much as I love Clementine, I really need to talk about Jude because I love a dark and mysterious MMC, and Jude is all that and a bag of chips. I can tell why Clementine is so hung up on him because he sounds like a broody, angsty, and gorgeous enigma with some dangerous secrets. And the ex-best-friends-to-lovers romance between Jude and Clementine is the best! There’s so much angst between them, and the chemistry is fantastic.

The story also has two great found families that start merging into one. Love it so much!! There are so many intriguing secondary characters, and I have a feeling many of them will have large roles in the next book. As far as the plot, it’s suspenseful and mysterious, and the whole story has this eerie, ominous feel to it. With secrets, lies, a dark academia setting with a massive storm about to pummel the isolated island, murders, an island of supernatural students who can’t access their abilities, unusual and dangerous creatures, and so much more, there’s a lot to sweep you away in Sweet Nightmare.

Special thanks to TBR & Beyond Tours, NetGalley, and Entangled for providing me with a copy of the book. All thoughts are my own.

I never wanted anything more in my life than to know that you were mine.

His kiss is everything. Magic and mystery. Power and persuasion. Right and oh so wrong in all the best, most important ways. It’s every escape I’ve ever dreamed of. Every wish I’ve ever made. Every crash of the deep and endless ocean against the shore.

Everyone wants control – over themselves, over their lives, over the school they go to and the world they live in. But there’s a fine line between control and chaos, and where you end up can often take you by surprise.

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

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 onetime 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

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