Beasts

I need to think on this one

I definitely think my judgement of this novella was (heavily) influenced by surrounding books of the similar “dark academia” / “college-campus novel” themes. I'm particularly thinking of The Secret History (maybe THE campus novel), My Dark Vanessa, Sweet Days of Discipline, etc. etc. I like how this story was contained/ controlled, yet (upon re-reading the first chapter) there is something lurking deeper than what our unreliable narrator is giving us. I love the whole Dionysus and Maenads dynamic going on here. The writing was also very unusual, in a powerfully hypnotic way.

Okay, that's all