Pretty Girls Make Graves

Dark Academia, Book 1

By: Steffanie Holmes

Narrated by: Bridget Bordeaux

Don’t go outside on Devil’s Night.

I’m always the good girl. I never stand out. I follow the rules.

At Blackfriars University, there’s one whispered rule: Stay inside the night before Halloween. Hide under your blankets and hope the Orpheus Society isn’t the monster outside your window.

If they get you, you won’t just be humiliated. They’ll put you six feet under.

But I’ve screwed up.

I found bones in a shallow grave. Another good girl, just like me.

Now I’ll do whatever it takes to get to the truth.

I’ll catch the eye of the cruel aristocrat with a haunted gaze.

I’ll tempt the dark priest with forbidden tastes.

I’ll be their shameful little secret. Their plaything. Their sacrifice.

Maybe I don’t want to be a good girl anymore.

Maybe it’s time to break all the rules.

Pretty Girls Make Graves is a dark romantic suspense and part one of the Dark Academia duet. If you enjoy tales of clever heroines, ancient rites, secret societies, cruel princes and wicked priests, dusty libraries and decadent parties, twisted relationships and buried secrets, then prepare to enter the halls of Blackfriars University. You may not return.

©2021 Steffanie Holmes (P)2022 Steffanie Holmes

Awe struck!

This whole series is phenomenal! Listening to it is a whole different ball game! The narrator’s are absolute perfection!!!! Fantastic listen!

Student/Teacher romance with lots of bullying

This books is all about the main character getting bullied the entire book. While the title implies a secret society and a murder to solve, it’s so secondary that it’s easily forgotten and does not even get started let alone resolved in this first book. I hated everyone and the student/teacher relationship aspect was a huge turn off. If you dislike gross power dynamics in relationships and reading about being bullied I would skip this one.