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Expected 22 Jul 25A deeply dark academia novel from USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw, perfect for fans of A Deadly Education and The Atlas Six who are hungry for something a little more diabolical.
The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted is the premier academy for the dangerously the Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks, the world-eaters and apocalypse-makers.
Hellebore promises redemption, acceptance, and a normal life after graduation. At least, that’s what Alessa Li is told when she’s kidnapped and forcibly enrolled.
But there’s more to Hellebore than meets the eye. On graduation day, the faculty go on a ravenous rampage, feasting on Alessa’s class. Only Alessa and a group of her classmates escape the carnage. Trapped in the school’s library, they must offer a human sacrifice every night, or else the faculty will break down the door and kill everyone.
Can they band together and survive, or will the faculty eat its fill?
Also by Cassandra Khaw:
The Salt Grows Heavy
Nothing But Blackened Teeth
A Song for Quiet
Hammers on Bone
The Dead Take the A Train (co-written with Richard Kadrey)
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted is the premier academy for the dangerously the Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks, the world-eaters and apocalypse-makers.
Hellebore promises redemption, acceptance, and a normal life after graduation. At least, that’s what Alessa Li is told when she’s kidnapped and forcibly enrolled.
But there’s more to Hellebore than meets the eye. On graduation day, the faculty go on a ravenous rampage, feasting on Alessa’s class. Only Alessa and a group of her classmates escape the carnage. Trapped in the school’s library, they must offer a human sacrifice every night, or else the faculty will break down the door and kill everyone.
Can they band together and survive, or will the faculty eat its fill?
Also by Cassandra Khaw:
The Salt Grows Heavy
Nothing But Blackened Teeth
A Song for Quiet
Hammers on Bone
The Dead Take the A Train (co-written with Richard Kadrey)
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Expected publication July 22, 2025
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Cassandra Khaw
130books2,611followersCassandra Khaw is an award-winning game writer.
Their recent novella Nothing but Blackened Teeth was a British
Fantasy, World Fantasy, Shirley Jackson, and Bram Stoker
Award finalist. Their debut collection Breakable Things is now
out.
Their recent novella Nothing but Blackened Teeth was a British
Fantasy, World Fantasy, Shirley Jackson, and Bram Stoker
Award finalist. Their debut collection Breakable Things is now
out.
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February 6, 2025
AAAAHHHHH they came to my store with this ALREADY INSCRIBED to me and i didn't even notice until i started reading it on the train home!! i was trying to be all cool, but i was seriously fangirling, folks.
this puppy starts out BLOODY AS HECK and i am already in love.
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December 13, 2024Whenever the words "for fans of A Deadly Education" are used to describe something I immediately materialize out of thin air, so here I am.
April 13, 2025
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There’s dark academia, and then there’s The Library at Hellebore, the latest dark fantasy horror from the mind of two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author Cassandra Khaw. Modern fantasy literature is rife with magic schools, but none as grim or as brutally dark as Khaw’s Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted.
The Hellebore student body consists of world-eaters and apocalypse-makers known, respectively, as Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks. With a campus environment like that, it’s no wonder that the primary means of student recruitment is through abduction.
Although Hellebore promises its students a normal life after graduation, the school harbors a much darker secret: on graduation day, the faculty embark on a hungry rampage, feasting ravenously upon their students. A small group of students escape to the school library, forced to work together if they want any hope of survival. However, the sanctuary of the library proves to be short-lived.
The ensemble cast is led by Alessa Li, the first-person narrator of the novel who, like many of her peers, was kidnapped and forcibly enrolled at Hellebore. Alessa’s narration shifts back and forth through time, building suspense while creating a disorienting feel that deepens the unsettled mood of The Library at Hellebore.
As someone who is usually left unsatisfied by the dark academia aesthetic, I appreciate how Cassandra Khaw cranks the darkness nob to its pitch-black setting and then splatters it with blood and a heavy dose of entrails.
Cassandra Khaw’s prose in The Library at Hellebore is their best since The Salt Grows Heavy, a darkly beautiful nightmare of a novella that weds Han Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid with a cannibalistic apocalypse. While The Salt Grows Heavy reads like a hallucinatory nightmare, The Library at Hellebore feels more grounded in its vision of unforgiving horror.
The Library at Hellebore packs a surprising amount of nuance for a body horror, a subgenre that I wouldn’t normally associate with subtlety. Cassandra Khaw also makes effective use of unreliable narration, building up to a conclusion that left me floored and speechless.
Altogether, The Library at Hellebore’s marriage of dark academia and body horror delivers just the right balance of physical gore and psychological dread. Cassandra Khaw blurs the line between the monstrous and the humane, while delivering a gut punch of a story that serves as an allegory of survival in a world of pain. The Library at Hellebore is highly recommended for readers looking for a new twist on grimdark.
There’s dark academia, and then there’s The Library at Hellebore, the latest dark fantasy horror from the mind of two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author Cassandra Khaw. Modern fantasy literature is rife with magic schools, but none as grim or as brutally dark as Khaw’s Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted.
The Hellebore student body consists of world-eaters and apocalypse-makers known, respectively, as Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks. With a campus environment like that, it’s no wonder that the primary means of student recruitment is through abduction.
Although Hellebore promises its students a normal life after graduation, the school harbors a much darker secret: on graduation day, the faculty embark on a hungry rampage, feasting ravenously upon their students. A small group of students escape to the school library, forced to work together if they want any hope of survival. However, the sanctuary of the library proves to be short-lived.
The ensemble cast is led by Alessa Li, the first-person narrator of the novel who, like many of her peers, was kidnapped and forcibly enrolled at Hellebore. Alessa’s narration shifts back and forth through time, building suspense while creating a disorienting feel that deepens the unsettled mood of The Library at Hellebore.
As someone who is usually left unsatisfied by the dark academia aesthetic, I appreciate how Cassandra Khaw cranks the darkness nob to its pitch-black setting and then splatters it with blood and a heavy dose of entrails.
Cassandra Khaw’s prose in The Library at Hellebore is their best since The Salt Grows Heavy, a darkly beautiful nightmare of a novella that weds Han Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid with a cannibalistic apocalypse. While The Salt Grows Heavy reads like a hallucinatory nightmare, The Library at Hellebore feels more grounded in its vision of unforgiving horror.
The Library at Hellebore packs a surprising amount of nuance for a body horror, a subgenre that I wouldn’t normally associate with subtlety. Cassandra Khaw also makes effective use of unreliable narration, building up to a conclusion that left me floored and speechless.
Altogether, The Library at Hellebore’s marriage of dark academia and body horror delivers just the right balance of physical gore and psychological dread. Cassandra Khaw blurs the line between the monstrous and the humane, while delivering a gut punch of a story that serves as an allegory of survival in a world of pain. The Library at Hellebore is highly recommended for readers looking for a new twist on grimdark.
May 19, 2025
Title/Author: The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw
Page Count: 288 pages
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
Format: Hardcover (special editions available)
Other Books I Enjoyed by This Author: The Salt Grows Heavy, Breakable Things (short stories)
Affiliate Link:
Release Date: July 22nd
General Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Dark Academia, Magic
Sub-Genre/Themes: Body Horror, "fight to the death", Cannibalism, Campus/Students, Morally grey characters
Writing Style: Dual timelines, "before & present", if you didn't enjoy the lyrical/stylish prose of 'The Salt Grows Heavy', you most likely won't appreciate here--I love it. I delight in seeing new words and looking them up. The tone/vibes are different though
What You Need to Know: : "The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted is the premier academy for the dangerously the Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks, the world-eaters and apocalypse-makers.
Hellebore promises redemption, acceptance, and a normal life after graduation. At least, that’s what Alessa Li is told when she’s kidnapped and forcibly enrolled. But there’s more to Hellebore than meets the eye. On graduation day, the faculty go on a ravenous rampage, feasting on Alessa’s class. Only Alessa and a group of her classmates escape the carnage. Trapped in the school’s library, they must offer a human sacrifice every night, or else the faculty will break down the door and kill everyone.
Can they band together and survive, or will the faculty eat its fill?"
My Reading Experience: I just enjoy being in Cassandra Khaw's imagination and storytelling style. I'm a fan. This review will be slightly skewed toward my personal preference for Khaw's very stylish brand of dark fantasy/horror.
I love the premise of The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted, a secret school filled with diabolical minds capable of dangerous students.
"Every single item was embossed with Hellebore’s heraldry: fig wasps and the school’s namesake threaded through the antlers of a deer skull, its tines strung with runes and staring eyes."
Can I have a tattoo of this? Also, I will never eat a fig again, ever.
My only complaint is the school is really more of a setting/battleground and not a fully developed magic system or curriculum. That was the only failed expectation--I was excited to see how Khaw would put a unique flourish on trad Dark Academia tropes but the focus is more on relationships between students and the survival story--which is fine, I'm not mad about it. (dropped a star though)
At first, the dual timelines are challenging--we go back in time to "The Beginning" to watch the MC, Alessa, navigate her new surroundings after waking to learn she has been kidnapped and forced to enroll in a secret academy.
Then there are chapters that fast forward in time where Alessa already has fully formed relationships and we're inching toward graduation day.. Eventually, the past timeline catches the reader up enough to where the present chapters make more sense.
The kill scenes and the body horror are unmatched in the genre. I read certain scenes with my jaw dropped open in shock and awe. Khaw's imagination is wickedly clever and disgusting. I love it! I had so much fun with this book.
Final Recommendation: For horror fans who appreciate twisted, gruesome and intricately detailed deaths/kills, a touch of dark academia--more of a setting/vibe instead of a deep dive into the academia elements, themes of cannibalism, morally grey characters, strong (sassy) female protagonists, video game "final boss" battles (imagery), survivors banding together & group dynamics.
Comps: Hunger Games + The Faculty, An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson
Page Count: 288 pages
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
Format: Hardcover (special editions available)
Other Books I Enjoyed by This Author: The Salt Grows Heavy, Breakable Things (short stories)
Affiliate Link:
Release Date: July 22nd
General Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Dark Academia, Magic
Sub-Genre/Themes: Body Horror, "fight to the death", Cannibalism, Campus/Students, Morally grey characters
Writing Style: Dual timelines, "before & present", if you didn't enjoy the lyrical/stylish prose of 'The Salt Grows Heavy', you most likely won't appreciate here--I love it. I delight in seeing new words and looking them up. The tone/vibes are different though
What You Need to Know: : "The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted is the premier academy for the dangerously the Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks, the world-eaters and apocalypse-makers.
Hellebore promises redemption, acceptance, and a normal life after graduation. At least, that’s what Alessa Li is told when she’s kidnapped and forcibly enrolled. But there’s more to Hellebore than meets the eye. On graduation day, the faculty go on a ravenous rampage, feasting on Alessa’s class. Only Alessa and a group of her classmates escape the carnage. Trapped in the school’s library, they must offer a human sacrifice every night, or else the faculty will break down the door and kill everyone.
Can they band together and survive, or will the faculty eat its fill?"
My Reading Experience: I just enjoy being in Cassandra Khaw's imagination and storytelling style. I'm a fan. This review will be slightly skewed toward my personal preference for Khaw's very stylish brand of dark fantasy/horror.
I love the premise of The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted, a secret school filled with diabolical minds capable of dangerous students.
"Every single item was embossed with Hellebore’s heraldry: fig wasps and the school’s namesake threaded through the antlers of a deer skull, its tines strung with runes and staring eyes."
Can I have a tattoo of this? Also, I will never eat a fig again, ever.
My only complaint is the school is really more of a setting/battleground and not a fully developed magic system or curriculum. That was the only failed expectation--I was excited to see how Khaw would put a unique flourish on trad Dark Academia tropes but the focus is more on relationships between students and the survival story--which is fine, I'm not mad about it. (dropped a star though)
At first, the dual timelines are challenging--we go back in time to "The Beginning" to watch the MC, Alessa, navigate her new surroundings after waking to learn she has been kidnapped and forced to enroll in a secret academy.
Then there are chapters that fast forward in time where Alessa already has fully formed relationships and we're inching toward graduation day.. Eventually, the past timeline catches the reader up enough to where the present chapters make more sense.
The kill scenes and the body horror are unmatched in the genre. I read certain scenes with my jaw dropped open in shock and awe. Khaw's imagination is wickedly clever and disgusting. I love it! I had so much fun with this book.
Final Recommendation: For horror fans who appreciate twisted, gruesome and intricately detailed deaths/kills, a touch of dark academia--more of a setting/vibe instead of a deep dive into the academia elements, themes of cannibalism, morally grey characters, strong (sassy) female protagonists, video game "final boss" battles (imagery), survivors banding together & group dynamics.
Comps: Hunger Games + The Faculty, An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson
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February 13, 2025''[...]the Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks, the world-eaters and apocalypse-makers[...]''
Ah yes, my friend group
Ah yes, my friend group
January 11, 2025
Twisted, extreme, and haunting, it is a must-read for fans of body horror and dark academia. Khaw’s extensive vocabulary and relentless scenes of violence and sacrifice make this novella a compelling and horrific reading experience - one I won’t soon forget.
did-not-finish
May 16, 2025I got about 23% into this one. I should’ve known the Fantasy genre wouldn’t really be my thing, but the gore aspect of it was pretty cool! I just didn’t like the extreme floweriness of the prose or the dialogue. I also found a lot of it confusing.
March 11, 2025
Squishy, squelchy dark academia. It’s about one of those schools that seems more interested in killing its students rather than imparting knowledge. A fleshy fever dream.
March 8, 2025
Disclaimer: I won a copy of this book through ŷ Giveaways.
I was excited to be a lucky winner of an uncorrected advanced reading copy of The Library at Hellebore. I have several other Cassandra Khaw novels on my TBR list, but had not actually read anything by them before. Horror mixed with dark academia seemed like a perfect place to start......then I started reading. I struggled with this one, and seriously contemplated not finishing. However, by the end of the book, I was glad I pushed through.
Let's start with the negatives. First off: So. Many. $10. Words. Abattoir, effluvium, chelicerae, athame, haruspicy, autophagy, epiphyte, etiolated. These and more are on every other page. This seemed like overkill to me, and is just not my style at all. Once I decided to just skim over, do my best with context clues, and move on, I was much happier in my reading.
Second, I found the first half of the book or so somewhat confusing. It slips back and forth between the main character's first days at Hellebore and the current situation where they are hiding in the library from the school's faculty who wants to eat them. The way the characters spoke and interacted with each other in the "before" sections made it seem like there was history between them, while this seemed like it was the first day of school. Then during the "Days" sections of the book, the interactions between the characters were still confusing as we have just jumped an undetermined amount of time (a semester??) into the future.
About halfway to two thirds into the book, I will admit the story kinda caught me. The closer the past came to the present, the more I understood the characters and what was happening. That, coupled with my mechanism for dealing with the thesaurus style writing, drastically increased my reading enjoyment. A word of warning, this book is fairly violent, and has a lot of gruesome and descriptive body horror. While this did not bother me, if you are sensitive to this kind of thing, this is probably not the book for you.
Overall, I would rate this between 2.75 and 3 stars. I am definitely going to keep the other books by Khaw on my TBR list, and give them a try.
I was excited to be a lucky winner of an uncorrected advanced reading copy of The Library at Hellebore. I have several other Cassandra Khaw novels on my TBR list, but had not actually read anything by them before. Horror mixed with dark academia seemed like a perfect place to start......then I started reading. I struggled with this one, and seriously contemplated not finishing. However, by the end of the book, I was glad I pushed through.
Let's start with the negatives. First off: So. Many. $10. Words. Abattoir, effluvium, chelicerae, athame, haruspicy, autophagy, epiphyte, etiolated. These and more are on every other page. This seemed like overkill to me, and is just not my style at all. Once I decided to just skim over, do my best with context clues, and move on, I was much happier in my reading.
Second, I found the first half of the book or so somewhat confusing. It slips back and forth between the main character's first days at Hellebore and the current situation where they are hiding in the library from the school's faculty who wants to eat them. The way the characters spoke and interacted with each other in the "before" sections made it seem like there was history between them, while this seemed like it was the first day of school. Then during the "Days" sections of the book, the interactions between the characters were still confusing as we have just jumped an undetermined amount of time (a semester??) into the future.
About halfway to two thirds into the book, I will admit the story kinda caught me. The closer the past came to the present, the more I understood the characters and what was happening. That, coupled with my mechanism for dealing with the thesaurus style writing, drastically increased my reading enjoyment. A word of warning, this book is fairly violent, and has a lot of gruesome and descriptive body horror. While this did not bother me, if you are sensitive to this kind of thing, this is probably not the book for you.
Overall, I would rate this between 2.75 and 3 stars. I am definitely going to keep the other books by Khaw on my TBR list, and give them a try.
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December 29, 2024A big thank you to the author, editors, and publisher for an ARC of the book for a blurb!
THE LIBRARY AT HELLEBORE is a kaleidoscopic spectacle of gothic surreality and absurdity—an infinite hallway of mirrors turned to highlight our every flaw and beckoning us to face them, showing us the monsters the world turns us into and the monster they try to keep us as for their own benefit. It is body horror in all its glory, exploring the numbing exhaustion of loss and seductive pleasures of death.
For fans of Jujutsu Kaisen, Tokyo Ghoul, Parasyte, Korean zombie films, Wednesday, dark academia.
Think of all those you love and lost because sometimes all that might remain of them is your memory of who they once were and were last when they were alive.
THE LIBRARY AT HELLEBORE is a kaleidoscopic spectacle of gothic surreality and absurdity—an infinite hallway of mirrors turned to highlight our every flaw and beckoning us to face them, showing us the monsters the world turns us into and the monster they try to keep us as for their own benefit. It is body horror in all its glory, exploring the numbing exhaustion of loss and seductive pleasures of death.
For fans of Jujutsu Kaisen, Tokyo Ghoul, Parasyte, Korean zombie films, Wednesday, dark academia.
Think of all those you love and lost because sometimes all that might remain of them is your memory of who they once were and were last when they were alive.
February 18, 2025
I cannot wait for this one to release. The Grip this book had on me is unreal. I would highly recommend to fans of AHS: Coven, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and The Boys.
did-not-finish
January 19, 2025Couldn’t get past the egregious use of a thesaurus and the immediate inelegant info-dump it jumps into after an intriguing prologue. Not a great writing style for me.
February 22, 2025
3.5
Once the audio book for this becomes available, I'd like to try this again. I am a huge fan of Khaw's prose and style of writing. Their ability to marry poetic with stomach-churning is unparalleled...however, I think this could have benefitted from being a bit longer in order to expand upon the world building--it felt like being thrown into the middle of a story and I just wanted more, which I think isn't necessarily a negative stance.
The Salt Grows Heavy still stands as being my favorite of Khaw and I will continue to read everything they write. You will still find the incredible prose Khaw excells in, that's for sure.
Once the audio book for this becomes available, I'd like to try this again. I am a huge fan of Khaw's prose and style of writing. Their ability to marry poetic with stomach-churning is unparalleled...however, I think this could have benefitted from being a bit longer in order to expand upon the world building--it felt like being thrown into the middle of a story and I just wanted more, which I think isn't necessarily a negative stance.
The Salt Grows Heavy still stands as being my favorite of Khaw and I will continue to read everything they write. You will still find the incredible prose Khaw excells in, that's for sure.
March 12, 2025
I finished this one at work and genuinely had to take a lap because that twist??????? Cassandra Khaw your mind is magic (and also slightly terrifying, but mostly magic)
The dual back-and-forth timeline took me a little bit to get into but overall? Easy 5 stars. This has all the hallmarks of a Cass Khaw book: lots and lots of gore, lots of darkness, descriptions of organs and orifices and creatures both queasy and captivating, a sprinkling of existential questioning regarding monsters and what makes them so awful in the first place and of course, garnished with the most lyrical, poetic and powerful prose.
I already want to go back in and reread this so I can catch all the foreshadowing bits I missed the first time round.
Also I think I speak for all librarians when I say I too crave death and wish I could spit acid at unruly patrons
The dual back-and-forth timeline took me a little bit to get into but overall? Easy 5 stars. This has all the hallmarks of a Cass Khaw book: lots and lots of gore, lots of darkness, descriptions of organs and orifices and creatures both queasy and captivating, a sprinkling of existential questioning regarding monsters and what makes them so awful in the first place and of course, garnished with the most lyrical, poetic and powerful prose.
I already want to go back in and reread this so I can catch all the foreshadowing bits I missed the first time round.
Also I think I speak for all librarians when I say I too crave death and wish I could spit acid at unruly patrons
March 29, 2025
4.5/5
Ok, wow. I didn’t expect to love this book as much as I did. I haven’t read any of this authors books before but I’m definitely changing that asap because this book was so freaking good!
The Library at Hellebore is a fast paced dark academia horror novel that will hook you from the very beginning. I don’t know what it says about me that I fell in love with these morally grey characters and was rooting for them, but that’s what happened. This story is gory and bleak and emotional. I loved it.
Also, if you’re a fan of the movie, The Faculty, READ THIS.
Ok, wow. I didn’t expect to love this book as much as I did. I haven’t read any of this authors books before but I’m definitely changing that asap because this book was so freaking good!
The Library at Hellebore is a fast paced dark academia horror novel that will hook you from the very beginning. I don’t know what it says about me that I fell in love with these morally grey characters and was rooting for them, but that’s what happened. This story is gory and bleak and emotional. I loved it.
Also, if you’re a fan of the movie, The Faculty, READ THIS.
April 12, 2025
Reading for review in the June 2025 issue of Library Journal
Three Words That Describe This Book: Dark Academia meets Visceral Body Horror, conversational style, race against time
More words-- engaging if not completely trustworthy first person narration, conversational style-- Alessa is telling us her story, visceral and gross but also a strong emotional core.
unreliable narrator-- but Alessa tells the reader that she is a murderer and dangerous. We know she is not to be trusted completely, but we follow her through the story, hang on every word, and get invested in this brutal and visceral standoff.
The frame is deceptively simple-- It's a school for dangerous, magical monsters, people are there for many reasons, in the case of our narrator Alessa Li, she has killed many men who have tried to have their way with her, including her stepfather. She was kidnaped by government agents and forced into the school. The school is not government but is there to help the government control the most dangerous of the magical people, to educate them on how to control their magic and send them back out. Except-- and this is NOT a spoiler, as the book opens it is graduation day and the teachers are slaughtering-- and devouring-- the graduated. a handful-- including Alessa lock themselves in the Library and the faculty give them three days until they will force their way in.
But this story is not as simple as a race against time to get out. It is more than your typical dark academia. This is a story about power, who holds it, and how they wield it-- being smart is also the best weapon. This is a clever book and Alessa is very clever.
The details of the world and the characters are cleverly unveiled with "Before" chapters that enhance what is happening in the current chapters-- day one, day two, and day three.
The Back and forth enhances the emotional pul of the story as well- while keeping the pacing up.
Every details matters here. The powers of each of the students is used in the story and employed at key moments. That was cool.
This is ultimately a story about power, who holds it, and who wields it the best-- being smart is also the best weapon. This is a clever book and Alessa is very clever.
For fans of titles that put a dark, adult spin on the magical boarding school trope such as A Deadly Education by Novik or The Ninth House by Bardugo-- although Barudgo is a bit more methodically paced than this novel and the Novik. But note, this book is very visceral and it is predicated on the fact that the teachers are devoting the students-- so there is a high body count here. And a lot of body horror. There is a lot similar here to The Dead Take the A Train by Khaw (and Kadrey) as well.
Also for fans of The Library At Mount Char!
A little bit of I Was a Teenaged Slasher here as well-- sardonic, I know what is happening but I cannot stop it, and the narration-- that engaging and conversational narration from someone we should not trust but do.
Three Words That Describe This Book: Dark Academia meets Visceral Body Horror, conversational style, race against time
More words-- engaging if not completely trustworthy first person narration, conversational style-- Alessa is telling us her story, visceral and gross but also a strong emotional core.
unreliable narrator-- but Alessa tells the reader that she is a murderer and dangerous. We know she is not to be trusted completely, but we follow her through the story, hang on every word, and get invested in this brutal and visceral standoff.
The frame is deceptively simple-- It's a school for dangerous, magical monsters, people are there for many reasons, in the case of our narrator Alessa Li, she has killed many men who have tried to have their way with her, including her stepfather. She was kidnaped by government agents and forced into the school. The school is not government but is there to help the government control the most dangerous of the magical people, to educate them on how to control their magic and send them back out. Except-- and this is NOT a spoiler, as the book opens it is graduation day and the teachers are slaughtering-- and devouring-- the graduated. a handful-- including Alessa lock themselves in the Library and the faculty give them three days until they will force their way in.
But this story is not as simple as a race against time to get out. It is more than your typical dark academia. This is a story about power, who holds it, and how they wield it-- being smart is also the best weapon. This is a clever book and Alessa is very clever.
The details of the world and the characters are cleverly unveiled with "Before" chapters that enhance what is happening in the current chapters-- day one, day two, and day three.
The Back and forth enhances the emotional pul of the story as well- while keeping the pacing up.
Every details matters here. The powers of each of the students is used in the story and employed at key moments. That was cool.
This is ultimately a story about power, who holds it, and who wields it the best-- being smart is also the best weapon. This is a clever book and Alessa is very clever.
For fans of titles that put a dark, adult spin on the magical boarding school trope such as A Deadly Education by Novik or The Ninth House by Bardugo-- although Barudgo is a bit more methodically paced than this novel and the Novik. But note, this book is very visceral and it is predicated on the fact that the teachers are devoting the students-- so there is a high body count here. And a lot of body horror. There is a lot similar here to The Dead Take the A Train by Khaw (and Kadrey) as well.
Also for fans of The Library At Mount Char!
A little bit of I Was a Teenaged Slasher here as well-- sardonic, I know what is happening but I cannot stop it, and the narration-- that engaging and conversational narration from someone we should not trust but do.
Want to read
November 17, 2024absolutely buzzing, this sounds exquisitely sinister
December 29, 2024
Gross and a bit depressing. I can see why it's recommended for fans of the Scholomance series, but the world building in this one is incredibly weak in comparison.
April 2, 2025
I have to DNF this, but not because it's bad! It is, like all of Khaw's writing, freaking phenomenal - sharp, glittering, brutal.
...it's just too scary for me! I have been desperately trying to enjoy Khaw's horror since I fell in love with their sci fi All-Consuming World, but I think it's time to admit I'm just FAR too much of a wimp! Alas.
The set-up is fantastic, and the characters are all messed-up or unlikeable in interesting and entertaining ways - in just a few chapters, I fell HARD for our main character, who is ruthless and wary and full of sharp edges, and every other character was vivid and - just ALIVE. I was hungry for everyone's backstories, and fascinated by the huge plethora of magics Khaw has come up with here - we have a literal son of Satan, but also necromancers, family lines dedicated (or maybe owned?) by things calling themselves gods, spider-girls...magnifique!
And the horror is HORRIFYING - I doubt I'm the only one who's going to be kept awake late at night by the horrors Khaw has pyrographed into my brain. It's not just the graphic ick, although there's plenty of that (I specify *ick* rather than *gore*, because of course there is gore, but gore is not intrinsically nauseating or even disturbing (in fiction!) unless you're very sensitive to it. Ick is the stuff that makes you nauseated, that makes your skin crawl, that has you whispering 'no no no NO' to yourself as you brace yourself to turn the page. AND THERE IS SO MUCH OF IT HERE.) There's so much - in the backstories, the emotion, the situation - that claws at your heart. This is the kind of horror that makes you hide under a pillow and yell 'I REFUSE THE REALITY WHERE THIS EXISTS.' Because it's not just terrifying, it *hurts*. It's the tragedy and the broken hopefulness, the desperation to be loved, the desperation to LIVE when you're pretty certain no one is getting out alive.
I would love to know what happens, how this ends. But I think I would need a whole new level of therapy if I continued reading. (This is a compliment.)
KUDOS, KHAW. I wish I was badass enough to read your stuff! I shall simply have to adore your writing from afar.
...it's just too scary for me! I have been desperately trying to enjoy Khaw's horror since I fell in love with their sci fi All-Consuming World, but I think it's time to admit I'm just FAR too much of a wimp! Alas.
The set-up is fantastic, and the characters are all messed-up or unlikeable in interesting and entertaining ways - in just a few chapters, I fell HARD for our main character, who is ruthless and wary and full of sharp edges, and every other character was vivid and - just ALIVE. I was hungry for everyone's backstories, and fascinated by the huge plethora of magics Khaw has come up with here - we have a literal son of Satan, but also necromancers, family lines dedicated (or maybe owned?) by things calling themselves gods, spider-girls...magnifique!
And the horror is HORRIFYING - I doubt I'm the only one who's going to be kept awake late at night by the horrors Khaw has pyrographed into my brain. It's not just the graphic ick, although there's plenty of that (I specify *ick* rather than *gore*, because of course there is gore, but gore is not intrinsically nauseating or even disturbing (in fiction!) unless you're very sensitive to it. Ick is the stuff that makes you nauseated, that makes your skin crawl, that has you whispering 'no no no NO' to yourself as you brace yourself to turn the page. AND THERE IS SO MUCH OF IT HERE.) There's so much - in the backstories, the emotion, the situation - that claws at your heart. This is the kind of horror that makes you hide under a pillow and yell 'I REFUSE THE REALITY WHERE THIS EXISTS.' Because it's not just terrifying, it *hurts*. It's the tragedy and the broken hopefulness, the desperation to be loved, the desperation to LIVE when you're pretty certain no one is getting out alive.
I would love to know what happens, how this ends. But I think I would need a whole new level of therapy if I continued reading. (This is a compliment.)
KUDOS, KHAW. I wish I was badass enough to read your stuff! I shall simply have to adore your writing from afar.
March 2, 2025
"Because dear god, I can hold a grudge."
I had to finish this twice, it was that delicious! This novel accomplished two very specific things on my criteria to define a book as A Favorite of Mine: it had me picking up my dictionary and it encouraged me to cross reference witchy/mythological things on the internet. (For those of you keeping score at home, Gene Wolfe and Steven Brust, sometimes Mieville, are among the few modern science fantasy authors that manage this, and they are god tier writers in the catechism of Frank.)
The Library at Hellebore is what it warns you it is: an unconventional narrative structure detailing a hellish all-hell-breaks-loose doomsday scenario at a mysterious dark academy for dark magic persons. Alessa Li is an abnormal witch in that she is capable of a malevolent altruism in the form of deadly telekinetic potential cultured with an understandable lack of tolerance for authority and the male gaze. In fact, when she arrives at a reformatory for black magic users and demonic entities in supposedly-human form, it's through a kidnapping and that's got Alessa just dying to commit murder if it'll get her out. Because something is very predictably wrong with Hellebore and it's unsubtle and bloody bludgeonings with metaphor and kill-happy use of psychic and physical manipulation. Can Alessa find companionship and allies in hell-spawn that need Hellebore more than she needs it? Or will she have to unravel an international conspiracy before it consumes her and everyone she could never love? If you think you've wanted more of Grant Morrison's New X-Men within the confines of a booklover's most sacred of spaces, or if you now know you do, this novel is your best bet! It is violent and it is visceral and it is certainly not for the squeamish, but it is gorgeous and seemingly easily transcends genre constraints.
While reading this book, I was spinning happily in turns of malevolent grinning glee, knowingly and in despair. Cassandra Khaw can describe the hell out of a hell out of a hell out of a thing, make no mistake! I would find myself laughing, lusting, and chilled to the bone all within one scene and having to admit to myself those things churned in cauldron of toil and trouble of fire burning. Did I miss mythological allusions and hideous tells of my own depraved sensibilities amidst a strong non-male narrative? Only in the sense that this narrative taught me there are things I have yet to experience and contextualize, but am grateful to have been taken through by throat (and, often, by my hair, kicking and screaming through stacks of books in darkness and soaked in blood and the detritus of meat remains.) The Library at Hellebore is a darkly beautiful book, and one I will be revisiting many times in the years ahead.
For those of you keeping score at home, this is an incredibly quotable book.
I received an ARC of this book in exchange for nothing, so I freely offer here an honest, and, yes, gushing but no less honest!, review. I would never have done so simply in exchange for an ARC, and, so, for that, I am grateful to the author for the opportunity.
I had to finish this twice, it was that delicious! This novel accomplished two very specific things on my criteria to define a book as A Favorite of Mine: it had me picking up my dictionary and it encouraged me to cross reference witchy/mythological things on the internet. (For those of you keeping score at home, Gene Wolfe and Steven Brust, sometimes Mieville, are among the few modern science fantasy authors that manage this, and they are god tier writers in the catechism of Frank.)
The Library at Hellebore is what it warns you it is: an unconventional narrative structure detailing a hellish all-hell-breaks-loose doomsday scenario at a mysterious dark academy for dark magic persons. Alessa Li is an abnormal witch in that she is capable of a malevolent altruism in the form of deadly telekinetic potential cultured with an understandable lack of tolerance for authority and the male gaze. In fact, when she arrives at a reformatory for black magic users and demonic entities in supposedly-human form, it's through a kidnapping and that's got Alessa just dying to commit murder if it'll get her out. Because something is very predictably wrong with Hellebore and it's unsubtle and bloody bludgeonings with metaphor and kill-happy use of psychic and physical manipulation. Can Alessa find companionship and allies in hell-spawn that need Hellebore more than she needs it? Or will she have to unravel an international conspiracy before it consumes her and everyone she could never love? If you think you've wanted more of Grant Morrison's New X-Men within the confines of a booklover's most sacred of spaces, or if you now know you do, this novel is your best bet! It is violent and it is visceral and it is certainly not for the squeamish, but it is gorgeous and seemingly easily transcends genre constraints.
While reading this book, I was spinning happily in turns of malevolent grinning glee, knowingly and in despair. Cassandra Khaw can describe the hell out of a hell out of a hell out of a thing, make no mistake! I would find myself laughing, lusting, and chilled to the bone all within one scene and having to admit to myself those things churned in cauldron of toil and trouble of fire burning. Did I miss mythological allusions and hideous tells of my own depraved sensibilities amidst a strong non-male narrative? Only in the sense that this narrative taught me there are things I have yet to experience and contextualize, but am grateful to have been taken through by throat (and, often, by my hair, kicking and screaming through stacks of books in darkness and soaked in blood and the detritus of meat remains.) The Library at Hellebore is a darkly beautiful book, and one I will be revisiting many times in the years ahead.
For those of you keeping score at home, this is an incredibly quotable book.
I received an ARC of this book in exchange for nothing, so I freely offer here an honest, and, yes, gushing but no less honest!, review. I would never have done so simply in exchange for an ARC, and, so, for that, I am grateful to the author for the opportunity.
May 4, 2025
This was my second book from Cassandra Khaw and I will say her writing is quickly growing on me! First, no one does fantasy horror quite like Cassandra. The Library at Hellebore is another great example of the two genres and makes me so interested to read more. It’s brutally dark, gruesome, beautifully written, and full of unique plot and characters!
Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted’s student body consists of apocalypse-makers and world eaters, better know as Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks. The story follows Alessa Li as she and many others are abducted and forced to attend the school with the promise of a normal life after graduation. But the odd faculty member’s secret comes to light on graduation day when they begin to feast on and kill all the students. A select few students manage to escape to the school library where they must work together to try and escape. But the horrors have just begun and the safety of the library is very short lived.
All throughout the book I was constantly left guessing what is actually real. Alessa is definitely an unreliable narrator. Her narration goes back and forth in time which allows us to see the build up to graduation. During this we get glimpses of the dark things happening at this school which for me helped build the suspense. Add in the dark academia vibes and the high stakes and I was on the edge of my seat while reading this. The Library at Hellebore’s mix of fantasy, dark academia, and horror led to a fantastic mix of suspense, psychological horror, and gore. This was a powerful story and one that I will be left thinking about!
Thank you Tor Publishing Group, NetGalley, and the author for an eARC!
Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted’s student body consists of apocalypse-makers and world eaters, better know as Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks. The story follows Alessa Li as she and many others are abducted and forced to attend the school with the promise of a normal life after graduation. But the odd faculty member’s secret comes to light on graduation day when they begin to feast on and kill all the students. A select few students manage to escape to the school library where they must work together to try and escape. But the horrors have just begun and the safety of the library is very short lived.
All throughout the book I was constantly left guessing what is actually real. Alessa is definitely an unreliable narrator. Her narration goes back and forth in time which allows us to see the build up to graduation. During this we get glimpses of the dark things happening at this school which for me helped build the suspense. Add in the dark academia vibes and the high stakes and I was on the edge of my seat while reading this. The Library at Hellebore’s mix of fantasy, dark academia, and horror led to a fantastic mix of suspense, psychological horror, and gore. This was a powerful story and one that I will be left thinking about!
Thank you Tor Publishing Group, NetGalley, and the author for an eARC!
April 28, 2025
My goodness gracious. Lovely, bloody, hellish, heartbreaking, vicious, cruel, gory yet beautiful.
The lyrical beauty of The Salt Grows Heavy but in dark academia. The characters, the gory visuals, the anger, the violence. I am so here for it. Look at this muthafukin sentence:
“So I rent him in half: lengthwise and real fucking slow, suspending him in the air so his guts sheeted down on me like a porridgy red rain.�
My gosh. Every sentence is transportive to a lovely bitter hellish place. The timeline is completely batshit and I was lost amid the glory, but that still is an amazing place to be.
This is why I read horror.
The lyrical beauty of The Salt Grows Heavy but in dark academia. The characters, the gory visuals, the anger, the violence. I am so here for it. Look at this muthafukin sentence:
“So I rent him in half: lengthwise and real fucking slow, suspending him in the air so his guts sheeted down on me like a porridgy red rain.�
My gosh. Every sentence is transportive to a lovely bitter hellish place. The timeline is completely batshit and I was lost amid the glory, but that still is an amazing place to be.
This is why I read horror.
March 23, 2025
This one didn't grab me. All the pieces are there–the scary school where nothing is as it seems, the group of students who don't get along, the outsider protagonist–but it never quite came together. Part of that for me was the non-linear storytelling, but mostly I felt I'd read the book before, and enjoyed the other versions better.
Will be happy to watch when someone picks up the rights, though.
Will be happy to watch when someone picks up the rights, though.
March 31, 2025
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The Library at Hellebore is the new grim and gorey standalone from queer horror icon Cassandra Khaw. Promising to be oozing with dark academia vibes and morbid mystery, this modern-day story of horrific superpowers and human morality is gross, disturbing, and intriguing.
Unfortunately, it didn't quite suit my tastes. I was a huge fan of The Salt Grows Heavy, and this just didn't have the same vibes of that. It was Very modern, with references to dommy mommies, pegging, and Tilda Swinton. Something about reading the words "Vore 101" did not excite me like it should have. There's also an entire thesaurus of hard to pronounce and little-used words in this book, and it got tiring after a while.
I don't really think this had enough substance to be considered a dark academia. The critique it presented was all over the place--- humans have free choice and consistently choose evil, people in power feeding off of the lives of those under them are bad, making mortal figures into gods ends terribly, torture is morally reprehensible, etc, but I don't feel like any of the critiques were properly conducted because all of the follow through felt flat. We *know* that all of those things are bad, so the story doesn't really take any time to deconstruct those issues. It felt more like a "last one left standing lives" situation set in a school than any kind of academia literature.
The horror aspects are gross, as previously stated. It's a lot of gore, body horror, torture, and human filth. The villains, other than Adam, all felt kind of flat and dry. I wanted to punch Adam in the dick so badly, and unfortunately the ending did not satisfy that urge. I don't feel like we bonded with any of the characters enough to really feel for them when they got picked off. Even Rowan, the totally funny, ultra-modern reference dropping fuckboy who came off like a Marvel writer's dream male lead. And our main character was simultaneously unlikeable and wishy-washy, which made for an annoying time being stuck in her head.
Also, the superpower system. It really didn't have any boundaries or limits. We had one flesh weaver type who could just eviscerate people by thinking about it, we had a guy with necrotic touch, a bug god, the antichrist but on fire, a Simon says power, shadow teleporting, spider, future telling, et cetera, and nothing felt fully fleshed out or concrete.
I think this book needed to spend less time at the school and get straight into the library. The flashbacks and flashforwards could have been done away with and all of the characters could have simply been dropped into the library and their relationships and pasts could have been fleshed out more succinctly while they pick each other off. Instead we got a disjointed story about a girl halfheartedly trying to escape a school where we hear almost nothing about classes or teachers, and a disjointed story about people killing each other for their own self preservation.
Overall, a miss for me, but I won't hold it against Khaw by any means. I'm picky about my horror. 2.5 rounded up.
The Library at Hellebore is the new grim and gorey standalone from queer horror icon Cassandra Khaw. Promising to be oozing with dark academia vibes and morbid mystery, this modern-day story of horrific superpowers and human morality is gross, disturbing, and intriguing.
Unfortunately, it didn't quite suit my tastes. I was a huge fan of The Salt Grows Heavy, and this just didn't have the same vibes of that. It was Very modern, with references to dommy mommies, pegging, and Tilda Swinton. Something about reading the words "Vore 101" did not excite me like it should have. There's also an entire thesaurus of hard to pronounce and little-used words in this book, and it got tiring after a while.
I don't really think this had enough substance to be considered a dark academia. The critique it presented was all over the place--- humans have free choice and consistently choose evil, people in power feeding off of the lives of those under them are bad, making mortal figures into gods ends terribly, torture is morally reprehensible, etc, but I don't feel like any of the critiques were properly conducted because all of the follow through felt flat. We *know* that all of those things are bad, so the story doesn't really take any time to deconstruct those issues. It felt more like a "last one left standing lives" situation set in a school than any kind of academia literature.
The horror aspects are gross, as previously stated. It's a lot of gore, body horror, torture, and human filth. The villains, other than Adam, all felt kind of flat and dry. I wanted to punch Adam in the dick so badly, and unfortunately the ending did not satisfy that urge. I don't feel like we bonded with any of the characters enough to really feel for them when they got picked off. Even Rowan, the totally funny, ultra-modern reference dropping fuckboy who came off like a Marvel writer's dream male lead. And our main character was simultaneously unlikeable and wishy-washy, which made for an annoying time being stuck in her head.
Also, the superpower system. It really didn't have any boundaries or limits. We had one flesh weaver type who could just eviscerate people by thinking about it, we had a guy with necrotic touch, a bug god, the antichrist but on fire, a Simon says power, shadow teleporting, spider, future telling, et cetera, and nothing felt fully fleshed out or concrete.
I think this book needed to spend less time at the school and get straight into the library. The flashbacks and flashforwards could have been done away with and all of the characters could have simply been dropped into the library and their relationships and pasts could have been fleshed out more succinctly while they pick each other off. Instead we got a disjointed story about a girl halfheartedly trying to escape a school where we hear almost nothing about classes or teachers, and a disjointed story about people killing each other for their own self preservation.
Overall, a miss for me, but I won't hold it against Khaw by any means. I'm picky about my horror. 2.5 rounded up.
February 16, 2025
Thank you Netgalley and TOR for the eARC. I was originally drawn to this because of the comparison to The Atlas Six (& I tend to like books TOR publishes), but aside from being in a school there wasn't any dark academia elements.
This left me with mixed feelings. On one hand I was entertained and wanted to know how things panned out. I liked the author's prose, and the characters Rowan and Alessa. On the flip side, the book could have used more world building and character development. At times the narration felt choppy.
I think this also leans more towards body horror rather than a fantasy book? I wanted to love this more than I did, but the execution fell flat.
This left me with mixed feelings. On one hand I was entertained and wanted to know how things panned out. I liked the author's prose, and the characters Rowan and Alessa. On the flip side, the book could have used more world building and character development. At times the narration felt choppy.
I think this also leans more towards body horror rather than a fantasy book? I wanted to love this more than I did, but the execution fell flat.
February 14, 2025
Let me start of by thanking Tor and NetGalley for the e-ARC of this book. Now, for the record, I am not a huge horror and gore person but if anyone tells me that something is a mix of A Deadly Education and The Atlas Six, I am there. That being said I desperately would have loved to love this book, but the execution of it fell far flat for me. The narration is choppy and adolescent without the wit and sharpness needed to make it a cutting and compelling read. I think once the audiobook is released I would listen, as I think a lot could be done with a really great voice actor. In all, I found the characters flat and cartoonish and the language stilted. Even at the climax of the action, I was more just bored waiting to find out who survived than I was hooked on every twist and turn and terrible choice they had to make. Additionally, with the kidnap and forced to attend premise, it lacks the element of choice that makes books like The Atlas Six and A Deadly Education tick. The idea that these children are literally forced to kill each other after being kidnapped and traumatized takes away the moral complexities of picking between difficult choices which are what keep other similar books bringing us back for more.
April 30, 2025
*4.5
Really wanted to get my hands on this since it was described as a mix of two of my favorite series, A Deadly Education and The Atlas Six. Hellebore is BRUTAL in comparison, but it definitely didn't disappoint!
We follow our narrator Alessa, who was kidnapped and enrolled at Hellebore, while she is trapped in the library with some of her classmates after a graduation gone wrong, but we also get to see her and these acquaintances interacting before graduation as well. At first I wasn't enjoying the switch between present and past, but eventually I found myself loving both aspects.
THE CHARACTERS!! I could spend forever with these characters. I want to know anything and everything about them.
If you love some good body horror, dark academia vibes, and being confused (in a good way), definitely check this books out!
Really wanted to get my hands on this since it was described as a mix of two of my favorite series, A Deadly Education and The Atlas Six. Hellebore is BRUTAL in comparison, but it definitely didn't disappoint!
We follow our narrator Alessa, who was kidnapped and enrolled at Hellebore, while she is trapped in the library with some of her classmates after a graduation gone wrong, but we also get to see her and these acquaintances interacting before graduation as well. At first I wasn't enjoying the switch between present and past, but eventually I found myself loving both aspects.
THE CHARACTERS!! I could spend forever with these characters. I want to know anything and everything about them.
If you love some good body horror, dark academia vibes, and being confused (in a good way), definitely check this books out!
March 18, 2025
I was a huge fan of The Salt Grows Heavy so I knew I was going to like The Library at Hellebore. And I'm happy to admit that I was right. This book is just as gross and horrific as I wanted it to be. Cassandra Khaw has this incredible ability of lyrically writing the most disgusting body horror and I think it's honestly beautiful. There's also a good amount of political and social commentary that hits a little too close to home, but I'm glad that Khaw included it.
I admit that I had to look up over 45 words in the dictionary, and I was hoping for more 'dark academia' themes, but this was still a great read and I highly recommend.
Thank you to NetGalley and Tor for this ARC/eARC!
4.2-4,5 stars (I still can't decide)
I admit that I had to look up over 45 words in the dictionary, and I was hoping for more 'dark academia' themes, but this was still a great read and I highly recommend.
Thank you to NetGalley and Tor for this ARC/eARC!
4.2-4,5 stars (I still can't decide)
March 11, 2025
Thanks to NetGalley and Tor for the ARC!
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My Rating: 4.25 stars!
This may have been the strangest thing I’ve ever read but I loved it? The darkness, the gore, the twists� I never knew what was about to happen. I found myself constantly entertained and enjoying the pure chaos that was happening in this demon school for anti-christs with cannibalistic teachers about to eat you. And Alessa was just so done with everything, not seeming to care in even the slightest of ways. It was fantastic.
I have no idea how I’m supposed to describe it to people.
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My Rating: 4.25 stars!
This may have been the strangest thing I’ve ever read but I loved it? The darkness, the gore, the twists� I never knew what was about to happen. I found myself constantly entertained and enjoying the pure chaos that was happening in this demon school for anti-christs with cannibalistic teachers about to eat you. And Alessa was just so done with everything, not seeming to care in even the slightest of ways. It was fantastic.
I have no idea how I’m supposed to describe it to people.
March 12, 2025
I'm not quite sure how to feel about this book. It was interesting and strange and disgusting all in one. I know I never want any to be at hellebore. The characters were interesting and entertaining. I'm still kind of in awe of the book and really not sure what to say. If you like disturbing books this one is definitely for you.
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