Welcome to Yale, home to some of the brightest - and perhaps most unstable - minds of the country. Alex has been recruited as a member of the Lethe - a secret society overlooking the eight other secret societies, all of which deal with their own kind of magic. She is furiously keeping her head down and staying away from trouble - for a change - but when a woman is murdered and the ghosts keep bothering Alex, she has no choice but to get involved.
This dark academia book pays hommage to Donna Tartt's The Secret History while also offering its own original take on the subgenre. I'd been eyeing it since it came out because the blurb ticked all my favourite boxes, but the content warnings had convinced me to stay away from it. Well, let me just say I'm glad such a thing as content warnings exists, and I was even happier to find them on the first page of this French edition. Without them, I would clearly have had a rough time because some of the scenes are absolutely gruesome and chilling. But I also think they're not gratuitous and are dealt with really well - something Bardugo had already convinced me she could handle in Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom.
This book was dark and deep and twisted, and I flew through it. It was hard to put down. I loved how flawed the characters are, and the little thrill of finding out some of them may not be quite reliable is priceless.