Dark Academia

Dark Academia is an aesthetic and subculture concerned with higher education, the arts, and literature, or an idealised version thereof with undertones of the darker, hidden aspects of the culture.
It’s about obsession with truth, obsession with perfectionism, obsession with death and beauty. The search for knowledge and uncovering a hidden truth comes at a cost.

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Magdalene Nox by Milena McKay: Book Review

From our review: “For thirty years Magdalene Nox has had a dream to seek retribution from the people and place that so callously discarded her. It should have been simple. Except.”

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Strange Attractors by Ana K. Wrenn: Audiobook Review

From our review: “It shines a light on the darkness that is so often hidden in the world of academia not only by the abusers but also by faculty, staff, and students just too scared to speak up.”

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The Book of Promises by Tammy Bird: Book Review

From our review: “It would have been easy for Bird to write Spencer as purely good and Molly as purely evil. Instead, Bird goes to great lengths to give the reader a complex view into what’s made each of them the young women we meet as they’re becoming young adults.”

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