The Secret History

This was an amazing book that was beautifully written and explored the darker elements of academia and intellectuals as their humanity and morality crumbles.

We see how these pursuit of enlightenment and transcendence becomes deadly and the far reaching consequences that lead to the unraveling of a close knit group of Classics students.

This book also explores how the longing to belong and become members of particular groups or cliques forming unhealthy attachments and how far you'll go to stay apart of such groups. What secrets will you keep, what things will you do? How far is too far concerning things such as morality and ethics?

This was top tier storytelling and masterful writing with gorgeously complex characterization and slow burn suspense. A true modern classic and the originator of the dark academia genre. Superb!