sapphicbookworm 's review for:

The World Cannot Give by Tara Isabella Burton

2.5

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I love this cover and I desperately want more lesbian dark academia, so I'm really disappointed by the fact that I did not love this - maybe even more so because I think it had the potential to be amazing. However, (to me) it fumbled from the start (too little build-up or development for Virginia and the choir to warrant even half of the devotion Laura shows them). There's also no academia at all, other than being set a school lmao it's all choir and god here, baby...until like an offhanded mention of doing the SATs or homework (for classes we never attend or hear anything about). And the lesbianism is in the last 5%, so that couldn't save it from its flaws either.