Waverly queer, quirky, autistic scholarship girl, coming from low income family, living in Queens, trying so hard to adapt in high school where her parents work is so much adorable character. Well, this book hooked me at the beginning. Waverly’s fairy tale has turned into a nightmare, and she, Ash, and her friends must navigate through a dizzying maze of freight elevators, secret passageways, and back rooms if they’re going to survive the night.Īnd even if they manage to escape the Masquerade, with technology wiped out all over the planet, what kind of world will they find waiting for them beyond the doors? Before she can escape or contact the authorities, a mysterious global blackout puts the entire party on lockdown. This gala is harboring far more malevolent plots than just opening parents’ pocketbooks. All Waverly wants to do is shed her mask and be with her, but the evening takes a sinister turn when Waverly stumbles into a secret meeting between the dean and the school’s top donors-and witnesses a brutal murder. The Masquerade is everything Waverly dreamed of, complete with extravagant gowns, wealthy parents writing checks, and flowing champagne.
So when her tutoring student and resident “it girl” asks Waverly to attend the school’s annual fundraising Masquerade disguised as her, Waverly jumps at the chance-especially once she finds out that Ash, the dean’s daughter and her secret ex-girlfriend, will be there. While her classmates are the children of the one percent, Waverly is getting by on tutoring gigs and the generosity of the school’s charming and enigmatic dean. You are cordially invited to spend one fateful night surviving an elite private school’s epic masquerade ballĪs an autistic scholarship student at the prestigious Webber Academy in New York City, Waverly is used to masking to fit in-in more ways than one.
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