This was a dark academia that didn't just focus on a student but also with professors too and so I thought that was unique. Usually it's all about the students and the adults don't adult like they should 

This had some very dark themes to navigate through. There are moral dilemmas in many regards to things that happen here. There are also a lot of philosophy stuff that I don't understand and that made some of this book sluggish to me.

Neil is our professor/amateur sleuth looking into the missing Lucia. He only briefly meets her but gets pulled into her dark circle after she disappears and the end will turn out  a lot closer to home than he might have wanted or realized.  I wish a major part of the ending had a different conclusion and closer.