Angela Cardenas has not been an angel, and she knows it.  By the time she goes to live with her grandfather, she’s been expelled from every school that will have her, and is ready for a new life.  Instead, she meets a guy, the love of her life, and goes further than ever to make him happy.  When her grandfather dies during a heated confrontation, Angela’s parents decide to send her to Hidden Oak, a last-chance boarding school for girls on the brink. 

Hidden Oak is more than a normal reform school.  Combining psychoanalysis, mind-games and physical abuse, Hidden Oak is clearly a dangerous place.  As girls begin to disappear one by one, Angela and her friends begin to suspect that there is a dark secret at the school that goes beyond even the everyday horrors of the place.

The School for Dangerous Girls is a fun read.  It doesn’t really stand up to close examination, but as a mystery and a thriller, it is satisfying.  Angela is a bad girl with an essentially good nature, and you’ll find yourself hoping that she manages to get out of Hidden Oak alive.