I’ll be honest: I just didn’t vibe with this book. It’s got all of those genuine dark academia vibes I love (not just in aesthetics!), which made for a compelling and entertaining plot, but I wasn’t vibing with most of the characters and got the ick a few times while reading, which affected my enjoyment of the story as whole. 

I’d love to say that I have a whole lot to say about this book, but I don’t. If the plot had been any less compelling or entertaining, or the dark academia vibes had been any less on point, I’d have DNFd this book. The fact remains that I kept reading it because the vibes were there and I was entertained enough that I found the book to be an average read by the end. 

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File Under: YA Fiction/YA LGBTQ Romance/YA Thriller