Author: Tigest Girma
Genre: YA Romantasy / Dark Academia Fantasy – Black Vampires, Magic University, Revenge Romance
Book Rating: ⭐7/10
Spicy Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️4/5
Marketed as “violently romantic,” “deeply seductive,” and reviews describe an intense, explicit enemies-to-lovers dynamic (on-page sex + blood, quite dark for YA), so high heat but not full erotica.
Description:
Nineteen-year-old orphan Kidan Adane is heiress to a fallen human House bound to powerful Black vampires called draniacs. When her sister June disappears, Kidan is convinced their family’s vampire—cruel, captivating Susenyos Sagad—took her. To get June back, Kidan infiltrates Uxlay University, a secretive magic school where elite human heirs study a philosophy that governs vampire–human power, and she’s forced to live in House Adane alongside the monster she plans to kill. As murders rock the campus and a centuries-old threat surfaces, Kidan must decide whether to destroy Uxlay and Susenyos…or embrace the darkness, bloody magic, and violently romantic bond growing between them.
Trope/Mood:
Black vampires; dark academia; magic university; enemies to lovers (very extreme); forced proximity / housemates; morally gray, vicious heroine + equally vicious love interest; missing sister / revenge mystery; heavy violence, blood, and obsession; dark, sinister, slow burn and high-angst romantasy.