31 Days of Dark Academia: Day 4

“The mere existence of Julian‘s vulnerability was an immense and terrible secret, and keeping it was as much a burden as a privilege.”

Obsession is the name of the game in These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever. Julian and Paul meet while attending university in Pittsburgh in the 1970s. Their lives could not appear more different, but the two young men quickly become enmeshed in each other’s lives. Accelerating with startling intensity, this book shines when it comes to the internal narrative of its characters.