eBook, 447 pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 2026 da Harper Voyager.
Briar always dreamed of attending the Temple School of Thaumaturgy, the elite boarding school that’s produced the most CEOs and Prime Ministers in history, long rumoured to be magical. Briar’s best friend, Sebastian, just wanted them to stay together forever.
When Sebastian gets an acceptance letter and Briar doesn’t, their relationship is shattered – until, at eighteen, Briar secures a temp job sorting through the magical junk in Temple’s attic, and discovers that quiet, sensitive Sebastian, the boy they once loved more than anything else in the world, has become the villain.
Dark academia meets contemporary fantasy in this timely page-turner about a student who fails to gain admission to the UK’s only school of magic but then finds their way there years later and unearths the ugly secrets simmering behind its ancient walls – unmissable for fans of Babel by R.F. Kuang and Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo.
Lex Croucher's cozy narrative style complements the darkness of the novel. Since I loved going into this one blind, I won't spoil anything here.
This is for anyone who's ever wondered what it'd be like to be rejected from Hogwarts, or how they'd take losing their childhood best friend to a world they aren't allowed to enter.
