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👀Tropes: Dark Academia Romance, Enemies to Lovers, Friends to Lovers, Why Choose, Secret Identity, Unequal Social Status, Forbidden Love, Age Gap, Magic, Slow Burn/Fast Burn

☠️CW: Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Classism, Cursing, Death, Drug Use (Monster Magic sort of way), Emotional Abuse, Grief, Racism (For this World), Toxic Relationship, Violence, War

📚Read Method: Kindle eBook ARC

✨Initial Reaction: I don't normally read Academia books. I don't like the coming of age, mixed with smut. It's a fine line that doesn't sit well with me. I took the chance because of the description and that it's labeled Dark. Love dark romance.

✨Final Reaction: This book does NOT have that line. They are post college, in a special magic school as adults. There are SO many characters, so much plot, and so much reading that I absolutely had a hard time reading and keeping up with it all. I had to read it a second time to make sure I got all the details. I'm now DYING for the second book because it does end in a sort of cliffhanger and I need to know what happens!!

💖Quotes:
"I want to reach out and take hold of her hand, but I don’t. Bri is strong on her own. She doesn’t need mine. My. Girl. Is. Strong."