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A review by ekfmef
The World Cannot Give by Tara Isabella Burton
dark
reflective
5.0
Oh my. What a book. You're dragged into the story as you read about a girl who was exactly like you were at that age, devouring philosophy books that your brains could barely handle, obsessed with being Good as you were convinced that your actions matter on a celestial scale.
This really is dark academia as it should be. It skips the tropes and plunges into the heart of the matter.
The person who recommended this to me, sold it to me by saying that this story is a lot like The Empusion by Olga Tokarczuk and it's true. There are so many parallels that it's kinda uncanny.
This really is dark academia as it should be. It skips the tropes and plunges into the heart of the matter.
The person who recommended this to me, sold it to me by saying that this story is a lot like The Empusion by Olga Tokarczuk and it's true. There are so many parallels that it's kinda uncanny.