The Dollhouse Academy is a departure from previous books by Margarita Montimore as her first psychological thriller. This story centers two young women , Ramona and Grace, who sign with an exclusive acting agency that requires them to live and train at their isolated academy. When mysterious notes begin arriving for one of the two, their mental headspaces are driven in opposing directions and their friendship becomes precarious. 

Told mostly from the perspective of Ramona, we also read chapters from the diary of an older actress who has been a huge star of the eponymous Dollhouse Academy. Her journal entries are sporadic throughout, with more towards the end, and are perhaps the only thing that kept me reading this circuitous and slow paced book. They were truly the only pages building tangible suspense. 

I could really complain about how this book did not work for me, but I'll leave it at this: it was repetitive, slow, and overly long. I think the idea of this story would make an excellent short story or novella. This might work for you if you like stories about the cost of fame and near realistic science fiction.