elenahect 's review for:

Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko

5.0

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

---

As someone who slips very far into a main character's headspace and thought processes when engrossed in a book - Vita Nostra was a strange and unique read. I'd praise it as a cognitohazard if at least half the work wasn't from the combination of its surrealist horror and the new meds I was taking' side effects combining - but I can safely say, that of many books I've read where a 'supernatural school setting' is a main stage, this is the only book that deserves the tag of 'dark academia'.