#society for soulless girls

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Queer Dark Academia

For even more recs for dark academia fans, check out this post of Queer YA for Dark Academia Lovers. (Shopping links are affiliate; using them earns a small percentage of income for the site.) Society for Soulless Girls by Laura Steven (Bks) All That Consumes Us by Erica Waters (Bks) Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo (Bks) The World Cannot Give by Tara Isabella Burton (Bks) These Violent Delights by…

[axinite25]

I'm reading the Society for Soulless Girls for the first time and if Lottie doesn't hit Harris with a hockey stick for Alice I'm gonna loose it

[chaoticmiserablelover]

While I can't blame people for trying to market new releases, I would very much like to see them stop the comparison of every book with an academic setting to TSH. They truly are doing themselves a disservice since a lot of people will find the author making the comparison pretentious, or they will be overly critical because of that. And most importantly, people just get disappointed in the end when the tone of the book is completely different or it doesn't follow a similar storyline. 

Books about academia can exist without being compared to The Secret History and be just as good as TSH. 

This has been bothering me since I started to read more "dark academia" books. It just saddens me since, in the end, the most talked-about part is that the book is like TSH, which mostly ends up not being true, while the people who would like the premise probably miss it. 

I understand that comparisons are helpful, but at this point, I believe they're overdone.

[bones-clouds]

books i read in 2024:

"the society for soulless girls"

laura steven

rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

genre: dark academia, horror, mystery, wlw, ya

synopsis:

A dark and funny YA thriller with a supernatural twist. From the winner of the Comedy Women in Print Prize

Ten years ago, four students lost their lives in the infamous North Tower murders at the elite Carvell College of Arts, forcing Carvell to close its doors.

Now Carvell is reopening, and fearless student Lottie is determined to find out what really happened. But when her roommate, Alice, stumbles upon a sinister soul-splitting ritual hidden in Carvell’s haunted library, the North Tower claims another victim.

Can Lottie uncover the truth before the North Tower strikes again? Can Alice reverse the ritual before her monstrous alter ego consumes her? And can they stop flirting for literally fifteen seconds in order to do this?

Exploring possession and ambition, lust and bloodlust, femininity and violence, The Society of Soulless Girls is perfect for fans of Ace of Spaces, The Secret History and The Inheritance Games.

[bookshelvesandtealeaves]

✨ BOOK REVIEW ✨

The Society for Soulless Girls by Laura Steven

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[instagram]

Oooh this was a great combination of dark academia, crime thriller and horror. It had so many good elements all working together to create a story that had me absolutely hooked.

The concept was so fascinating. Rituals to split anger from the soul that obviously inevitably go wrong and the hunt for the cure, a strong of mysterious on-campus deaths, midnight hauntings, religious and philosophical motif’s woven throughout. It was all just so interesting.

I really loved the relationship between Alice and Lottie. They were the beating heart of this story and their slow-burn romance honestly had me in a chokehold.

If you’re looking for something dark and twisted but also a little bit sweet, I definitely recommend giving this a go.

[musician-not-magician]

🌈June Books🌈

I used 🌈 before the title to indicate LGBTQ+ featured characters within the book. I rated each book from ⭐️ - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. The books are listed in the order that I completed them.

🌈 “Breasts and Eggs” by Mieko Kawakami ⭐️⭐️⭐️

🌈 “The Society for Soulless Girls” by Laura Steven ⭐️

🌈 “Sunbringer” by Hannah Kaner ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“The Princess Bride” by William Goldman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

🌈 “The Invocations” by Krystal Sutherland ⭐️⭐️⭐️

“The Dragon Republic” by R.F. Kuang ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

🌈 “The Song of Achilles” by Madeline Miller ⭐️⭐���⭐️⭐️

“The Iliad” by Homer; translation by Emily Wilson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

🌈 “This is How You Lose the Time War” by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone ⭐️⭐️⭐️

🌈 “Siren Queen” by Nghi Vo ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

🌈 “Jade City” by Fonda Lee ⭐️⭐️⭐️

[cottonthebutcher]

books I’ve read in 2024

The Society for Soulless Girls by Laura Steven

"Anger left to run free is like wildfire, indiscriminate in its destruction. But if you learn to tame it, to position it, to take aim with it? Then it becomes a candle. And what is the candle but one of man’s greatest assets? It warms. It nourishes. It shines a light in the darkest of places, and it illuminates the path forward."

[chudenko-art]

My headcanons (?) about Alice appearance from "The Society For Soulless Girls" by Laura Steven

The only details I remember from book descriptions that she had red hair, ice-blue eyes and scar on her lips that crooked when she smiled? Sorry, I have such a bad memory 😭

[anobliviousnerd]

"I believe that the Gothic has an almost supernatural power to corrupt. To unravel, to violate, to deprave."

[shxpeshifterr]

[haveyoureadthispoll]

Ten years ago, four students lost their lives in the infamous North Tower murders at the elite Carvell College of Arts, forcing Carvell to close its doors. Now Carvell is reopening, and fearless student Lottie is determined to find out what really happened. But when her roommate, Alice, stumbles upon a sinister soul-splitting ritual hidden in Carvell’s haunted library, the North Tower claims another victim.

[writingblot]

The society for souless girls is so good it made me log on to Tumblr for the first time in 4 years

B

[aspeccharactersoftheday]

Lottie from The Society For Soulless Girls is asexual!

[unsuspicious-nobody]

Something different about finishing books. Like my life has been changed and maybe it's not dramatic but I'm no longer the same person I was before I started this book and there's no one out their who understands what you've just been through. There's no big fandom to go join and rave about it there's just you, alone in the middle of the night feeling like you understand everything a little bit clearer

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads // twitter thread

The Society For Soulless Girls

YA sapphic retelling of Jekyll & Hyde set in 90s Northumberland

set in a haunted old convent-turned-university with a history of deaths tied to the north tower

mystery, dark magic, female rage, an immortal cat

[valentineslvr]

— laura steven, the society for soulless girls