The Secret History

Do you love dark academia but have been searching for the right book? This is the one. The Secret History has got to be the best dark academia that I have read so far. It‘s right up there with If We Were Villains for me.

I'm once again going to attempt to be quite vague on my thoughts on this book because I don't want to spoil anything for anyone.

I went into this book, anxious that it wouldn't live up to the great expectations that follow it and I left with anger that I hadn't read it until now. I want to reread this book for the first time every single day.

This book was dark and haunting and it left me wanting more, despite it already being 600 pages. Most stories with multiple characters can become quite repetitive or similar but each character from The Secret History brought something so unique to the story.

I attempted multiple times to figure out what was going to happen next and I found myself unable to. I never wanted to put this book down because I became absorbed with these characters and the events surrounding them. The best word to describe this book? Unhinged. It was pure chaos and I loved every minute of it.

The betrayal, the violence and corruption... This is absolutely deserving of the title ‘Modern Classic'.

This was the perfect book to review the day before my birthday. I will be revisiting this in the future and checking out more works by this author.