A house which could be built better.
Catherine House, the world's prestigious and mysterious school where students push harder to enter and leave behind the world with absolutely no contact for three years in exchange for unimaginable excellence and creative exploration. Ines, an indifferent teenager who is running from a secret shame arrives at Catherine with a promise of nothing. Her days at Catherine pass as a blurred image of loitering, eating and barely passing exams while her roommate and some of the students study day and night to get into "new materials" concentration. Soon she finds that Catherine House contains a secret darker than what's revealed behind the name of plasm and "Friday meditation".
Thomas has masterfully crafted the atmospheric setting perfect for a gothic novel. Her writing captures the readers carrying us through the novel in a dreamy state. Despite the story's lofty start the lack of motivation in Ines and other characters make the Catherine House crumble from inside out.