The Secret History

I love The Secret History.

In terms of the character dynamics, it really does feel like The Secret History, which I'm not the biggest fan of, but I do applaud its character work, having a close-knit group of horrible people.

I did enjoy overall The Secret History by the same author, but this one just really wasn't working for me.

My main criticisms of The Secret History was just that a whole lot of nothing happened in between the stuff that did happen, which obviously sounds like so like obviously, but The Secret History was overly long.

this is what I was expecting when I was reading the secret history but I didn't get what I wanted from that book

I agree it's a great book it's a lot of fun I visited a lot of the places that this book took place in and I am fully obsessed every time I read it I've reread it twice now and you know what I'll probably reread it again

my beloved love you so much baby boy miss you wish I could go back to the time before I read you so that I could experience you all over again

I read the secret history back in 2020 and I didn't really like it like it wasn't my favorite

And I think this is something that comes up a lot in dark academia, obviously, and it's happened in like The Atlas Six, The Secret History. It happens in If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio. And I think it's such a fun trope because you're seeing characters who really care for each other and whatever else it is, but there's this like mounting obsession and frustration with the fact that this one person is going to ruin everything, and they become like this antagonist in the group, and everyone else has to like sort of band together.

don't get me wrong I enjoyed the book I gave it five stars but everyone is a villain they're all villains

I ended up giving this book three stars it wasn't completely worth the hype for me but it's a book that I still liked I think that thematically in concept it's absolutely brilliant but in execution I found the book to be frequently pedantic and annoying

i didn't love the secret history

the secret history the secret history shhh it's a secret