A review by maddiereadswords
An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson

5.0

If I'm being completely honest, this book should probably have been in the 4ish star range for me thinking about the pacing and all of that, but something about it has bewitched me, body and soul, and giving it anything less than a 5 feels sacrilege. I don't even normally consider myself a dark academia girly, but sapphic vampires at a creepy old women's college in rural New England?? Say less.

I loved quite literally everything about this book. The writing is poetic and beautiful, I enjoyed both Laura and Carmilla as characters, and frankly I too would risk it all for a hot older vampire with too much of her own shit going on. The atmosphere was simply incredible, and even though it took me longer to read than I expected, I found myself savoring every second of the experience. There were some minor details that I could nit pick, and I do wish that this book was like a hundred pages longer so that the actual plot portion of the third act could have been a little more fleshed out, but my enjoyment and love for it as a whole won out. I'm literally never going to stop thinking about this book, and I know I'll be revisiting it time and again in the future.
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