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Don't Let The Forest In
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This book is marketed as "Wilder Girls meets A Deadly Education in this queer dark academia YA thriller" and I cannot agree with any of that, really. I guess Wilder Girls is coming from the plant-based body horror (although House of Hollow would have been the better comparison for that), but nothing here was even close to A Deadly Education. I don't understand where the dark academia prompt is coming from at all. Yes, the book takes place in a school, but none of the characters are academically motivated in any way, they are not learning anything and we only ever see them attending classes to show how awful that one teacher is.
Anyway, I did actually enjoy this book! The forest horror and strange fairytale creatures were very much to my liking, the intense relationship between Andrew and Thomas was portrayed very well and the ending was surprisingly twisty. If you're looking for a book that is actually similar to this, I would recommend The Wicker King by K. Ancrum.
Anyway, I did actually enjoy this book! The forest horror and strange fairytale creatures were very much to my liking, the intense relationship between Andrew and Thomas was portrayed very well and the ending was surprisingly twisty. If you're looking for a book that is actually similar to this, I would recommend The Wicker King by K. Ancrum.
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November 5, 2023
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Ja, also wenn ich es für den Dark Academia Part gelesen hätte, hätte ich hier nichts bekommen. Zum Glück gab es genug anderes, das mich abgeholt hat.



Ich habe das Gefühl, dass Dark Academia einfach bei so vielen Dingen genannt wird, die einfach nur ein wenig düster sind und in Schulen spielen tbh ... :'D (ist halt glaube ein großes Verkaufsargument, wenn man Dark Academia sagt, kann aber voll falsche Erwartungen setzen ...)