Tracy Wolff
Translation: Pura Lisart and Roser Granell
Editorial: Planet
Original publication year: 2023
Living in a school doesn’t have to be easy. I have never experienced it, but my father has and I always remind him to talk to bitterness and with a lot of resentment of those years. It is true that it is not a prison for children but, precisely, for those who live there it may seem quite similar.
For some time now we have works of fiction that have focused a lot on that live in a boarding school. And if children and adolescents are already difficult on their own, imagine doing it with vampires, werewolves or witches. Well, those are precisely the companions of Clementine, the protagonist of Sweet nightmarethe novel with which the new best-selling series begins Tracy Wolff.
A monstrous boarding school
This teenager is 17 years old and lives in the calder academya place designed for rebellious young people of a paranormal nature. All those who, in addition to having a special condition, They break the rules and have problems with authority and with anyone who crosses their path.
To make matters worse, Clementine’s mother is the director of the academy. So he has it harder than any other student. In addition to dealing with the tyranny of his mother, he has to endure being the crosshairs of most inmates just for having the same last name as the one in charge. Typical of any teenage environment, in short.
Her only hope is to ally herself with the boy she hates the most but with whom she falls madly in love.
But the bad doesn’t end here. Sweet nightmare has more surprises in store for us. To start with, a mysterious storm It hits the academy leaving it without electricity and causing each and every one of the students’ nightmares become reality. Locked in the academy, Clementine will have to ally with the person you hate the most Calder has to do everything to survive: a boy who makes her life impossible but with whom she falls madly in love with each passing day.
Tracy Wolff and ‘romantasy’
Tracy Wolff has become in a youth phenomenon. Only in Spain does it have a legion of more than 350,000 young people who devour every book that comes into their hands and is signed by her. In fact, in 2020 she already swept the generation Z with the saga Crave, a series that already has six installments.
Now with Sweet nightmare It starts a new story but it does so without leaving the same universe. We are facing a spin off of Crave. Come on, it is to be expected that throughout these stories we will see several vampires (the main characters of the series Crave) to visit the pages of the Calver Academy, either in the form of a cameo or with more important roles. At the moment, we neither confirm nor deny, but we must pay attention because there will surely be surprises.
There are very violent and very explicit murders, gore, blood or bullying among many other things.
Wolff has in the romanticasy their fetish genre. Translating these terms that English speakers like so much, we are talking about youthful romance mixed with fantasy. But be very careful because just because there is love does not mean that we are facing a kind novel.
The author herself warns clearly at the beginning and end of the novel: in Sweet nightmare there are very violent and very explicit murders, there is gore, blood, bullying and phobias. That is why Wolff strongly requests that everyone read his new book at his complete discretion. Of course, if you enter, there is no turning back. You will be more than hooked. You are warned.
