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geooo's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
1000 ships - 2.75/5
Phytia - 2/5
Sabbatical - 1/5
The Hare and the Hound - 2.5/5
X House - 1/5
The Ravages - 2.5/5
Four Funerals - 1.5/5
The Unknowable Pleasures - 2/5
Weekend at Bertie's - dnf
The Professor of Ontography - 2/5
Phobos - 3/5
Playing - 1.75/5
Phytia - 2/5
Sabbatical - 1/5
The Hare and the Hound - 2.5/5
X House - 1/5
The Ravages - 2.5/5
Four Funerals - 1.5/5
The Unknowable Pleasures - 2/5
Weekend at Bertie's - dnf
The Professor of Ontography - 2/5
Phobos - 3/5
Playing - 1.75/5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Mass/school shootings and Blood
Minor: Sexism and Sexual content
tominzay's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
3.0
dorian_gray02's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
maeverose's review against another edition
3.0
I wanted to read this to try out dark academia as a genre. I love gothic books and academic settings, but a lot of the common tropes within dark academia don’t strongly appeal to me (murder mystery, cults, obsession, unlikable characters, etc). After reading these stories, I at least enjoyed some of them enough to be interested in trying out more of the genre.
My Ratings and content warnings for each story in order of favorite to least favorite:
• Weekend at Bertie’s by M.L. Rio - 5⭐️
I loved the writing style of this story so much. I absolutely need to read something else by M.L. Rio.
My Ratings and content warnings for each story in order of favorite to least favorite:
• Weekend at Bertie’s by M.L. Rio - 5⭐️
I loved the writing style of this story so much. I absolutely need to read something else by M.L. Rio.
Content warnings: moderate: vomit, death, alcohol
• The Ravages by Layne Fargo - 4⭐️
Love me a sapphic gothic story
Content warnings: graphic: infidelity, moderate: self harm mention, sexual content, stalking
• The Professor of Ontography by Helen Grant - 4⭐️
Definitely more fucked up than I was expecting. This one is more of a horror story than the other ones.
Love me a sapphic gothic story
Content warnings: graphic: infidelity, moderate: self harm mention, sexual content, stalking
• The Professor of Ontography by Helen Grant - 4⭐️
Definitely more fucked up than I was expecting. This one is more of a horror story than the other ones.
Content warnings: graphic: missing person, body horror, moderate: sexual content, alcohol, gore
• Playing by Phoebe Wynne - 4⭐️
I liked how the writing style incorporated the music and how music was described in general.
I liked how the writing style incorporated the music and how music was described in general.
Content warnings: moderate: death, murder, religious bigotry, descriptions of food and eating habits that could be triggering.
• 1000 Ships by Kate Weinberg - 3⭐️
The writing style wasn’t my favorite, but I liked the overall story and the way it ended.
• 1000 Ships by Kate Weinberg - 3⭐️
The writing style wasn’t my favorite, but I liked the overall story and the way it ended.
Content warnings: moderate: sexual content, student/teacher relationship, romani slur, self harm, minor: infidelity, suicide, physical abuse
• X House by J.T. Ellison - 3⭐️
Loved the setting at the setup of the story, didn’t love how everything played out. I think it could’ve worked better if it were a novel or novella and had better written characters.
• X House by J.T. Ellison - 3⭐️
Loved the setting at the setup of the story, didn’t love how everything played out. I think it could’ve worked better if it were a novel or novella and had better written characters.
Content warnings: graphic: violence, murder, death, moderate: hazing, anxiety attack, gun violence, minor: gore
• Pythia by Olivie Blake - 3⭐️
Sci-fi dark academia. Took a while for me to care about it bc it was about a cult, but once I realized it had a certain sci-fi trope, I liked it a bit more.
Content warnings: mild: suicide, death, misogyny, end-of-world anxiety
• The Unknowable Pleasures by Susie Yang - 3⭐️
This was just alright for me.
Content warnings: moderate: sexual content, a straight female character fetishizes an imagined relationship between two men
• The Hare and the Hound by Kelly Andrew - 2⭐️
Unsure how I feel about this. It was a bit triggering for me. Parts didn’t make sense. It was predictable.
Content warnings: graphic: car accident, death, animal death, moderate: forced institutionalization
• Four Funerals by David Bell - 2⭐️
I don’t really understand the point of the story, if there was one.
Content warnings: moderate: school shooting, gun violence, death, vomit, anxiety, excrement, suicide
• Phobos by Tori Bovalino - 2⭐️
I don’t care about cults or murder so I was bored
Content warnings: graphic: murder, blood, moderate: sexual content
• Sabbatical by James Tate Hill - 2⭐️
I did not like the writing style and the story was very underwhelming. Certain parts didn’t make sense.
Content warnings: moderate: gun violence, mental illness, cheating, murder, minor: sexual content, abelism
Just going off of these stories, I think I can safely say I’m very bored by stories to do with cults. Obsession doesn’t bother me but I don’t particularly care for it either. The only thing I really discovered from this is I don’t necessarily mind unlikable characters as much as I thought I did. Curious to see how I feel about a full dark academia novel.
Just going off of these stories, I think I can safely say I’m very bored by stories to do with cults. Obsession doesn’t bother me but I don’t particularly care for it either. The only thing I really discovered from this is I don’t necessarily mind unlikable characters as much as I thought I did. Curious to see how I feel about a full dark academia novel.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Sexual content, Car accident, Death, Infidelity, Murder, and Violence
Moderate: Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Excrement, Gore, Mental illness, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Alcoholism, Bullying, Self harm, Vomit, Racial slurs, and Religious bigotry
Minor: Eating disorder, Body shaming, Misogyny, Ableism, and Stalking
Student/teacher relationship, missing personcourtneymminor's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
3.0
Story quality is a bit mixed, which is a common issue with anthologies—and of course some authors and styles just don’t click with me. Reading a bunch of dark academia stories in a row also really highlights the limited number of tropes within the genre, and makes them feel a tiny bit repetitive. (So many DA books just feel like a tweaked version of something that already exists, and that feeling continues here at times.)
That being said, I only skipped (“DNFed”) 1 or 2 stories, and really liked quite a few of them. If you do like DA, it’s a pretty fun collection for just some quick entertainment.
My favorites stories:
The Professor of Ontography by Helen Grant
The Unknowable Pleasures by Susie Yang
Phobos by Tori Bovalino
Weekend at Bertie’s by M.L. Rio
whoislina's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
4.25
baileylizhi's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
whatyoutolkienabout's review against another edition
5.0
Introduction
I was given an e-ARC to review by Netgalley and Titan Books. Reviews are always honest and all opinions are my own. I will always try to avoid spoilers in all reviews as well. #InTheseHallowedHalls #DarkAcademia #Anthology #ShortStories #TitanBooks #Netgalley #ARCReview
Review
As someone who spent four years at university and enjoyed learning but often wondered if anything else went on in the hallways it is odd that I’ve taken so long to branch out into modern Dark Academia. I’ve read some of the classics that have been assigned the genre but it’s only recently I’ve gone into the modern ones. So when the chance to read an anthology arose I was excited to give it a try and I have to say I feel like I have been missing out!
In These Hallowed Halls continued 12 dark academia short stories and I have to say I adored each one in their own way but a couple really stood out to me. We have numerous goings on in this collection, retribution visiting a lothario lecture, the sinister truth being reveled about a missing professor, a forsaken lover uses a séance for revenge (possibly my favourite), an obsession blooms about a possible illicit affair, two graduates exhume the secrets of a reclusive scholar, the horrors are uncovered in an obscure academic department (definitely a favourite), five hopeful initiates must completed a murderous task and much much more to keep you guessing and up at night.
Of course with Anthologies you may sometimes find a few misses in there but I am pleased to say, for me, that is not the case in this collection. Each story explores an aspect or part of the genre of dark academia and executes it perfectly. The other thing I enjoyed is the differing writing styles, which of course you would expect with 12 different authors, it kept the genre engaging and refreshing. Each new story brought something new to the table and the genre. For someone like myself who is starting out in the modern aspects of the genre I found it helpful to steer me in the direction of the authors I want to try first and so on. Of course I plan to read more works by all of them anyway but it was interesting to see different takes and aspects of the genre come to life. My three top ones from this collection where The Ravages by Layne Fargo, The Professor of Ontography by Helen Grant and Phobos by Tori Bovalino but the other 9 stories also captivated me and I thoroughly enjoyed each one.
I think this collection is brilliant for both fans of the genre and those stepping into the world of dark academia. It gives you a taste of not only the genre but the style and skills of some of the best and brightest names in the genre.
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I was given an e-ARC to review by Netgalley and Titan Books. Reviews are always honest and all opinions are my own. I will always try to avoid spoilers in all reviews as well. #InTheseHallowedHalls #DarkAcademia #Anthology #ShortStories #TitanBooks #Netgalley #ARCReview
Review
As someone who spent four years at university and enjoyed learning but often wondered if anything else went on in the hallways it is odd that I’ve taken so long to branch out into modern Dark Academia. I’ve read some of the classics that have been assigned the genre but it’s only recently I’ve gone into the modern ones. So when the chance to read an anthology arose I was excited to give it a try and I have to say I feel like I have been missing out!
In These Hallowed Halls continued 12 dark academia short stories and I have to say I adored each one in their own way but a couple really stood out to me. We have numerous goings on in this collection, retribution visiting a lothario lecture, the sinister truth being reveled about a missing professor, a forsaken lover uses a séance for revenge (possibly my favourite), an obsession blooms about a possible illicit affair, two graduates exhume the secrets of a reclusive scholar, the horrors are uncovered in an obscure academic department (definitely a favourite), five hopeful initiates must completed a murderous task and much much more to keep you guessing and up at night.
Of course with Anthologies you may sometimes find a few misses in there but I am pleased to say, for me, that is not the case in this collection. Each story explores an aspect or part of the genre of dark academia and executes it perfectly. The other thing I enjoyed is the differing writing styles, which of course you would expect with 12 different authors, it kept the genre engaging and refreshing. Each new story brought something new to the table and the genre. For someone like myself who is starting out in the modern aspects of the genre I found it helpful to steer me in the direction of the authors I want to try first and so on. Of course I plan to read more works by all of them anyway but it was interesting to see different takes and aspects of the genre come to life. My three top ones from this collection where The Ravages by Layne Fargo, The Professor of Ontography by Helen Grant and Phobos by Tori Bovalino but the other 9 stories also captivated me and I thoroughly enjoyed each one.
I think this collection is brilliant for both fans of the genre and those stepping into the world of dark academia. It gives you a taste of not only the genre but the style and skills of some of the best and brightest names in the genre.
Hashtags
#InTheseHallowedHalls #DarkAcademia #Anthology #ShortStories #TitanBooks #Netgalley #ARCReview #BookReviewer #BookBlogger #BookHoader #FantasticRead #BookDragon #BookShark #BookReader #Bookstagram #BookNerd #BookReader #BookLover #BooksBooksBooks #BookAddict #Book
felowpeoples's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.75
Some of the stories were fun, but overall they just weren't good. They were either too short or too weird, and some just made no sense at all. Maybe I just don't like dark academia, but this book wasn't worth any of my time.