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- Content warnings: Violence, Graphic violence, Murder, Blood, Kidnapping, Death
Darkbirch Academy: Ash & Wings
by Krista Graves
Book 1 in Darkbirch Academy
Classic dark academy bait done well - Fourth Wing meets Hogwarts is the obvious comp, but the assassin angle gives it teeth. If you wanted A Court of Thorns and Roses to commit harder to the academy thing, here you go.
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A decision-first view of the reading experience.
Length368 pages
Series statusOngoing series
Spice1/5 · Tension / anticipation
PacingFast
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Enemies to lovers
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Slow burn
- Low
- Tension / anticipation
- Addictive read
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- Professor/mentor
- Predator x prey
- Slow seduction
- Book hangover incoming
- Morally gray
- Morally gray love interest (LI)
- Longing glances
- Tension finally satisfied
- Dark/tortured soul
- Morally gray x morally gray
- Eye contact intensity
- Dragon shifter
- Tension
- Anticipation
Fantasy promise
- Romantasy
- Dark academia romance
- Academy / campus
- High fantasy
- Dragons
- Academy / school
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- Vampires
- Professor x student
- Fae
- Forbidden love
- Werewolves
- Incubus / succubus
- Rivals to lovers
- Witches/wizards/warlocks
Reading experience
- First person
- Fast
- Dark
- Moderate
- Medium
- Assassin
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- Intense
- Atmospheric
- Mysterious
- Fast-paced
- Spy/thief
- Brooding
- Deceptively deadly
- Edgy
- Dangerous
- Enemies forced to ally
- Page turner
- Addictive pacing
- Cliffhanger warning
- Court of shadows
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Different because
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Book details
- Length
- 368 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book