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Dark Academia

  • Submitted: 2nd May 2025

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Nearly time to break up for the summer, but before you do, you might want to head back to university for this little lot.

Some very dark academia novels here and reunions where you really would not like to go in real life! Or places where you can get revenge.

Dark Academia

Best days of your life? Well in these books, they are….

Reunion gone bad –

The Reunion – AJ Arlidge and Steph BroadwoodThe Reunion M A Hunter

High school reunion

Jennie Whitmore had one real friend at school – Hannah. However, she disappeared years ago.

Arriving at her school reunion, Jennie, now a police officer, finds out that Hannah never actually left the school – her body has been found.

What on earth happened and will Jennie be able to discover the real truth?

 

 

 

When We Were Killers CF BarringtonWhen We Were Killers  C F Barrington

University

One misfit and one heck of an adventure

Finn is a misfit until he makes some new friends. but wait until you see what his new friends are into. And what becomes of Finn.

 

 

 

 

This Book will Bury Me – Ashley WinsteadThis Book Will Bury Me Ashley Winstead

Now you can read this book in two ways – the retelling of a very real university massacre or an examination of how people love to try and solve a crime. How people become armchair detectives/

The massacre in question only happened in 2022 so even though they are named something different and certain bits are altered, some might find this more disturbing for that reason.

 

 

 

The Eights Joanna MillerThe Eights Joanna Miller

Now this is gripping!
For the first time in its 1000-year history, the world’s most famous university has admitted female students. It’s 0nly the 1920s. The 1920s!!

 

 

 

 

 

Dark and deadly for the last one….

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls Grady HendrixWitcraft for Weyward Girls

Weyward girls are those who are considered loose or immoral.

They are sent to a school for unwed mothers in Florida and then some of them find a book on witchcraft so decide to learn how to use it…..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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