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If you're in the mood for a dark academia story, An Academy for Liars is exactly what you're looking for. The premise of a hidden school with secret magical abilities? Absolutely intriguing! Though the book starts off slowly as it builds its world, it soon picks up momentum. We're introduced to a number of characters,… Continue reading An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson
“In a different life, in a fair one, I would've kept you until my eternal soul withered away to dust.” When Ophelia and her sister discovers their mother brutally murdered, there is no time to grieve: Ophelia has inherited both her powerful death-driven magic and enormous debt on their home. Circumstances go from dire to… Continue reading Phantasma by Kaylie Smith
“You’re the mountain I build my castle on, brick by brick. You stand, I soar. You crack, I crumble.” An outcast her entire life, Corvina Clemm is left adrift after losing her mother. When she receives the admission letter from the mysterious University of Verenmore, she accepts it as a sign from the universe. The… Continue reading Gothikana by RuNyx
“Above Rowan and Yew, the Elm tree stands tall. It waits along borders, a sentry at call.” In the luscious, dark sequel to One Dark Window, Elspeth must face the consequences of what she's wrought. Elspeth and Ravyn have gathered most of the twelve Providence Cards, but the last, and most important one remains to… Continue reading Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig
“There once was a girl clever and good, who tarried in shadow in the depths of the wood. There also was a king - a shepard by his crook, who reigned over magic and wrote the old book. The two were together, so the two were the same...The girl, the King...and the monster they became.”… Continue reading One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
In order to protect her kingdom from the wrath of a vengeful goddess, Princess Candra must remain locked inside a tower for seven years. Seven long years without a friend, or a lover, by her side. And shut inside the tower with her? A Fellian, the enemy of her people, a fearsome warrior race complete… Continue reading Bound to the Shadow Prince by Ruby Dixon
Six roses. Six vials of blood. Six visits to a vampire who could be her salvation… or her damnation. Lilith has been dying since the day she was born. But while she long ago came to terms with her own imminent death, the deaths of everyone she loves is an entirely different matter. As her… Continue reading Six Scorched Roses by Carissa Broadbent
“Maybe the king always knew that his greatest love would be his ruination. Maybe he knew it the moment he met her. He’d know it the second time he died, too.” In the wake of the Kejari, everything Oraya once thought to be true has been destroyed. A prisoner in her own kingdom, grieving the… Continue reading The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King by Carissa Broadbent
“I realized that fear, when embraced, hardens and sharpens. That it becomes rage. That it becomes power. I would not die here.” The adopted human daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, Oraya carved her place in a world designed to kill her. Her only chance to become something more than prey is entering the Kejari,… Continue reading The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent
This isn't my typical genre but Fairy Tale by Stephen King was worth the read. I think it could have been 100-200 pages shorter, but still a classic King read. Charlie Reade is a typical teenage boy who is living with his father, as his mother died when he was younger. He is a baseball and… Continue reading Fairy Tale by Stephen King