Title: Nightshade
Series: Sorrowsong University #1
Author: Autumn Woods
Genre: Dark Academia
Year of publication: 2025
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MYSTERY. MURDER. REVENGE. WELCOME TO SORROWSONG UNIVERSITY . . .
He’d burn the world down for her . . . but she plans to burn his to the ground.
Isolated in the Scottish Highlands, Sorrowsong University only welcomes students from the most powerful families. Ophelia Winters doesn’t belong, but a rare scholarship grants her the perfect opportunity to investigate her parents’ ‘accidental’ death near the castle grounds.
Things get off to a rocky start when she runs afoul of the mysterious Alex Corbeau-Green – son of her prime suspect. As far as she’s concerned, he is just a younger version of his billionaire father. A monster hiding beneath a beautiful façade.
When an unknown tormentor begins to stalk Ophelia, she realizes she may not be able to survive Sorrowsong on her own. Alex becomes her unexpected ally – and alibi for murder. And as she begins to fall for the soft heart that hides beneath his hard exterior, her hunger for revenge wavers for the first time.
Can she really bring herself to destroy everything he’s ever known?
I must admit this was a slow starter for me, I wasn’t sure I was going to gel with it and then….BANG….was hooked!
And it was all the doing of that dark, brooding, swoony, Alex Corbeau-Green! The fact that he falls first and so hard was exquisite and the pursuit he gave…..bravo!
Ophelia actually got right on my wick a few times but the fact that she was on a revenge mission did give her more points in my book!
The tension and the chemistry was just soooo good, I ate it all up!
So nothing about the plot here but I will say, I totally get the hype, you must read it and the ending will half destroy you!
This book had the best side characters of Vincenzo and Belladonna so if I don’t hear lots more about them in the next book, I’m going to be very angry! Or ill settle for a whole book for each of them!
⭐ Rating: 4.5 out of 5
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