A perfect start to dark academia season! This book is a perfect middle ground of the dislikable elite of the secret history and the drama and ya dynamics of if we were villains! The audiobook for this was so wacky which fed the obsession massively. This follows Clare a history of art student in edinburgh (YES I KNOW SCOTLAND) as her past and present mistakes are revealed, immersing the reader in scottish landscape/culture, teenage girlhood, violence, revenge and betrayal! My main complaint is the lack of any academia structuring- the university serves as the setting but not much more, there aren’t the clever references of TSH and IWWV hence the lower rating