Reading DARK ACADEMIA BOOKS 🕯️ | spooky & scholarly

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Video Checkpoints:
○ Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson Review: 4:31
○ Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo Review: 9:39
○ Bunny by Mona Awad Review: 21:01
○ If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio Review: 26:52
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🕯️ H E Y E V E R Y O N E,
I've always admired the academia aesthetic from afar and I've long wondered if that appreciation would translate into storytelling as well. In today's video, I taste test four popular books that famously channel the dark academia aesthetic. We have murder mysteries, ghosts and grad student cults. Should be a scholarly, spooky good time.
Let me know if you have any dark academia recs in the comments below!
See ya next time ♡
-Delancey
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Hi there! My name is Delancey. I study nutrition science all day & read books all night. I read fantasy, contemporary, historical fiction & the occasional nonfiction, medical book (but my classes usually have me covered on that one)!
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[@cloewilson12]

I loved this!!! Please make more of these!!

[@delanceydays]

Ah thank you so much for the feedback! Will do!

[@jessicapratt1400]

Hi I’m late to this video and your channel but I just finished reading bunny and was searching KZbin for discussions about it to try and figure out what the heck I just read😂 I love that you compared Ava to Janice from mean girls because that was my exact thought from the beginning. Also I’m sooooo happy about finally finding someone who feels the same way about ninth house as I do 💗💗💗 I’m learning about myself that I really enjoy dark books and it’s nice to find someone who shares the same opinions as I do

[@jessicapratt1400]

Also I would like to add that if you enjoy dark fantasy you should read the book of life by John Connolly. It’s one of my all time favorite books

[@delanceydays]

Hi Jessica! Sorry for the late reply - I’m on a hiatus till early January. Thank you so much for watching! I’m so happy we share the same reading interests! I agree, you need someone to talk to after reading Bunny 😂 it’s hard to sit alone with your thoughts after something like that! Dark academia is great. Especially paired with the fall season. And thank you for the book rec! I can definitely appreciate a dark fantasy from time to time.

[@jessicapratt1400]

@@delanceydays just realized that I typed the wrong title for the book rec! It’s actually The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

[@robertsmith9553]

I loved Bunny

[@Aylee4n]

I got REALLY interested in dark academia like 2 days ago was searching dark academia books. You literally read my mind lol

[@delanceydays]

hahaha I got you! This is definitely the year for dark academia!

[@alpaca4027]

Loved the vlog! Just added Ninth House and Truly Devious to my reading list :) Can´t recomment Six of Crows and Secret History enough!

[@delanceydays]

Ah thank you for the rec's! Happy to have exchanged some books on our tbr's!

[@GracewithBooks]

wow I now want to read all of these... This was such a fun vlog I loved hearing your thoughts on all of these!! I really want to get into dark academia now

[@delanceydays]

I think you'll really enjoy it, Shelby!! It's perfect this time of year - especially if you want to mix up the types of books you read in October. It's halloween vibes without too much of the Halloween.

[@lambbees104]

This video is awesome.. thank you! I now have 4 new books on my TBR 😊

[@delanceydays]

And thank YOU for watching! Happy you enjoyed it! I hope you have fun reading! :)

[@Zeldabruhh]

Ohhh I read the Truly Devious series earlier this year and I loved it so much! I binge read it so quickly lmao I'm glad you enjoyed it hihi

[@delanceydays]

It's definitely written for binging! The cliffhangers! It was great. Thanks for watching! :)

[@delanceydays]

also your username is amazing - iconic, really

[@MissBOverseas]

omgggggg there’s so many things I wanted to say throughout watching this😂 ok first: I had a lot of similar thoughts to you when reading Truly Devious. Loved the atmosphere, thought the anxiety rep was fantastic, wasn’t mad at the relationship but I also...didn’t see the need for it? second: you absolutely need to pick up Six of Crows. That was my first Leigh Bardugo and I read it earlier this year and think it absolutely lives up to its hype! third: hearing you describe If We Were Villains makes me want to read it SO BAD. I’ve definitely heard it talked about before but I didn’t know how much of it involved theater kids or Shakespeare! (I was also a theater kid lol) I loved watching this vlog!!!!💞 You can definitely tell how much work went into it!!

[@delanceydays]

Fellow theatre kid!!! Thank you so much for watching! Yeah... in regards to Truly Devious, I know the second book definitely expands on the relationship sooo perhaps it'll all make sense it due time! I trust Maureen Johnson 100%! And ah, I even have the collector's edition of Six of Crows! So it's a crime at this point if I don't get to it!

[@brockprince5379]

ninth house sounds sooooooo cool. Also, have never seen you rate a book this high!

[@delanceydays]

it's pretty cooooooo - you know me and my zak bagans obsession

[@NarrativeNexus-12_storyindia]

Love ❤️ from india