A review by courtneymminor
In These Hallowed Halls by Marie O'Regan, Paul Kane

dark mysterious

3.0

Story quality is a bit mixed, which is a common issue with anthologies—and of course some authors and styles just don’t click with me. Reading a bunch of dark academia stories in a row also really highlights the limited number of tropes within the genre, and makes them feel a tiny bit repetitive. (So many DA books just feel like a tweaked version of something that already exists, and that feeling continues here at times.)

That being said, I only skipped (“DNFed”) 1 or 2 stories, and really liked quite a few of them. If you do like DA, it’s a pretty fun collection for just some quick entertainment.

My favorites stories:

The Professor of Ontography by Helen Grant

The Unknowable Pleasures by Susie Yang

Phobos by Tori Bovalino

Weekend at Bertie’s by M.L. Rio