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The Secret History

★★★★☆  book

The Secret History

A coterie of beautiful Classics students at an elite New England college conspires to commit murder in service of beauty and belonging. The canonical text of dark academia, simultaneously seductive and glacial. The horror resides precisely in your desire to join them.

what it left me with

The yearning for admission into something so exquisitely arcane can imperceptibly exact the price of your moral compass. Attend carefully to the person you must become to gain entry.

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