“Power did not lie in the tip of a pen. Power did not work against its own interests. Power could only be brought to heel by acts of defiance it could not ignore. With brute, unflinching force. With violence.”

Need a moody mystery where nothing is as it seems, the world is literally falling apart, and the main character’s grip on reality hangs by a thread? Here you go.

Coming of age story where a disgraced girl in a secret society must complete trials to become a monster hunter in a magical forest and rejoin her society.

Secret societies, trapped gods, and magic from the Moon! A new series with dark academia vibes releases October. Just in time for sweater weather.

The sequel to Naomi Novik’s dark academia fantasy, A Deadly Education. Can El, Orion, and their graduating class survive their senior year long enough to make it through the gate or will their enclave drama and a horde of starving mals end up killing them all?

Review of M.L. Rio’s dark academia, Shakespearean murder-mystery.