2/5 ⭐️: bleak, distressing, and difficult to get in to. This book is a Spanish gothic, and deals with a lot of dark issues: rape, sexual coercion, suicide, and animal abuse/death in the context of a mysterious school. It examines structures and misuses of power, but leaves so many threads untied. Plot points are left open or not fully developed, and there are so many characters that few (if any) are fleshed out. By the time I finished reading, I was unsure of what had actually happened.