I Love How, Having Little To No Training, Grace Decides Its A Good Idea To Throw Rocks At Demons.

I love how, having little to no training, Grace decides it’s a good idea to throw rocks at demons.

My personal holy trinity of knife-wielding female YA protagonists are Inej Ghafa, Jude Duarte and Emma Carstairs

YA paranormal romance peaked at the mara dyer series. we've gone downhill ever since

If any of you guys read webtoons check this one out!! A lot of dark academia elements are involved and the art is just simply gorgeous. The story is by Olivie Blake and art by @littlechmura !!

Just finished Our violent ends and I am not doing well 😊

A comparison I’ve been very interested in since I finished the stories has flown very much under the radar but I really wanted to dip into it. The two books that are often dropped in the same category of ‘dark academia in a college setting’, If We Were Villains and the Secret History, both created a character that the rest of the members of their groups tended to gravitate towards. What I found intriguing was that when you compare the two in a) real life and b) fictional world, the difference is like day and night.

James Farrow, who in the book has an unassuming, melancholic presence that goes almost unnoticed, and Henry Winter, who in the book is dynamic, unbreakable and his presence is felt in the bones.

That is how they are seen in the fictional world. Now take these two in the real one. James turns into a friendly, somewhat mysterious person in your friend group who seems to always disappear when you get too close while Henry becomes an odd occurrence, someone who lives in a big apartment with no furniture, has secret conversations with your professor and locks his belongings away while in the privacy of his own home.

The roles of the two reverse when crossing worlds of life and paper like the day turns from light to dark. It’s funny how on paper Henry is the perfect character, and in real life turns into a borderline psychopath and James is a background character in the book and becomes one of the most interesting people you’d ever meet in real life - which is sort of what Henry is supposed to represent.