Diversity win: sapphic dark academia book breaking boundaries by being a tepid waste of pages. This story follows a cast of English girls at a boarding school in 1928. The lead girl, Violet, dies horribly and mysteriously in the first few pages and then proceeds to literally haunt the narrative. The girls are convinced that their gay-ass French teacher killed Violet, and stir up a lot of trouble trying to prove the selves true.

As is the problem with dark academia books, I found it outrageously long on British schoolgirl bickering and devastatingly short on true spooky scares. The ending was a major flop, and I can’t say that the rest of it resisted floppery as well. I persisted through this book because I requested the library buy it and they did and I felt obligated to finish it before it is due back. Thank you for your service, Lincoln City Library.

Check this book out if you like extremely low scares, séances, unexplained spoiled milk, and PG lesbianism.

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