The Academy

This is a typical Little novel, with a cast of normal everyday people thrust into a surreal situation caused and manipulated by evil Evil. A Spielbergian California high school decides to convert itself to a charter school, resulting in lots of uncomfortable sexual hijinks and odd violence. It's mor......more

This is my 6th (or maybe 7th) Bentley Little book in the last two years, and while The Academy is as whacked-out as the others, it's definitely the weakest one I've read. Not to say I didn't enjoy it, because I did, but it just felt a little random and lazy plotwise when compared to the rest of them......more

my god this author has fantasy and can write! page turner... also like the sex descriptions with bentley.........more

A Charter School Horror Story I am not a huge fan of the horror genre, but as an education writer I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to read a horror story set in a charter school. That has to be a high-water mark for the charter school movement, to become a subject front and center in a mass-market......more

The storyline in this novel isn't nearly as bad as some reviewers here would have you believe. My main complaint is that the ending was fairly unsatisfying. Like a number of Bentley Little books that I've enjoyed overall, this one ends too abruptly after spending 300 pages building an atmosphere of......more