Book 4 of 2024
January Bookish Besties Bookclub Pick

I haven't read a dark academia book in a while and I think this one was a solid one to listen to!

Felicity Morrow comes back to Dalloway (a high society boarding school) after a break due to seemingly losing her mind and grieving the loss of her best-friend Alex. She then meets and is instantly obsessed with a new student, Ellis - who's a child prodigy when it comes to writing.

This book mostly focuses on Felicity and Ellis, a couple of morally-grey, rich girls. They both have secrets held close and both twisted in their own right. The atmosphere is very dark, but overall the magic is there to be mocked really. This is mostly character work at play rather than the backstory of the school, magic, background characters, etc.

I enjoyed it for what it was and would recommend to those that like a slow, atmospheric dark academia that mostly focuses on it's main characters!