A sapphic enemies-to-lovers retelling of Jekyll & Hyde with a touch of dark academia, rituals, and murder! At the elite school called Carvell Academy of Arts, four students died in an infamous unsolved case that happened ten years ago, forcing the school to shut down. Now, ten years later the school is open again....

Lottie Fitzwilliam is sunshine personified, but her real reason for wanting to attend Carvell is to solve the murder cases and find out what really happened. Alice Wolfe just wants to focus on her career, but the only thing holding her back is her anger that keeps growing inside her, and her violent impulses. Alice and Lottie are made roommates but immediately get off on the wrong foot, especially when Alice nearly stabs a guy at Lotte's birthday party. No matter how hard Lottie tries, Alice wants nothing to do with her and Alice keeps indulging in her anger and violence. Things take a turn when Alice stumbles upon a sinister book in the library that offers to help her split her soul in a ritual... maybe that will finally be the answer to all her anger issues. Alice doesn't want to be angry and violent, so she takes the ritual and actually does it.... but then people end up murdered again... and now there's a killer on the loose. It doesn't help that Lottie is finding herself sleep walking with no recollection of whats happening to her and the fact that rubies have started appearing on her neck, literally embedded into her neck. Alice is also losing her mind, both girls are trying to figure out what is happening to them but they'll have to work together to solve the case, unless the killer finds them first.

I loved the idea of a sapphic enemies-to-lovers retelling of Jekyll and Hyde with a dash of dark academia, sadly however this one fell flat for me. I was so excited and ended up being disappointed by the actual book. Alice and Lottie don't have any chemistry at all and it was hard to believe they fell for each other. The overall mystery and resolution felt lackluster, I mean the story had murder, possession, secret society, and it still wasn't good (WHICH IS SO SAD). The plot felt all over the place and cluttered and the flow was clunky at best, I really wish I could like this more because it had all the pieces to being one of my favorite books ever and it just didn't work,

If you like dark academia stories with a bit of mystery and possession, then give this a go, maybe you'll have a better time with it then I did.

*Thanks Netgalley and Random House Children's, Delacorte Press for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*