What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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SOLVED. YA Dark Academia, Paranormal Romance with a big focus on Latin and zombies. Spoilers ahead. [s]
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https://books.google.com/books?id=fof... There are different cover images.
Quote from the book:
- His Latin was perfect, but he told me he hadn't studied it before coming here. I thought about what Professor Lumbar had written on the board of the first day in class. Latin: The Language of the Dead. ... By that logic, the rest of the Latin Club ... must have all been Undead too.
Thank you, that was the book I was thinking of.
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"Dead Beautiful" series by Yvonne Woon - https://www.goodreads.com/series/5736... - Becca's find.
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I read it around 2015, but it was a few years old by then, I belief it was made around 2009-2013, I am sure it had at least one sequel, probably two.
It was about some elite boarding school, I remembered that it was one of the first "Dark Academia" books I read, before I knew what Dark Academia even was, there was a romance between the main girl and a bad boy type of character that was a zombie.
I do not think the zombies ever called themselves zombies, the reveal happened halfway through the book.
The thing I remembered the most was the big focus on Latin, the love interest was in a Latin group with a bunch of other zombie kids, apparently if you turned into a zombie you could read and speak Latin perfectly.
I remember that one of the plot twists was that Romulus and Remo were zombies, and that the reason why Rome spoke Latin was because of that, and only zombies could truly speak Latin correctly.
Almost nobody knew zombies existed because they can only be born if you do not do a proper burials.
There was a nerdy best friend character who also spoke Latin, but since he was not a zombie he was implied to be butchering it, there was also a mystery of a girl who died, and nobody quite knew why.
Honestly besides that it was somewhat generic, it used a lot of cliches, but the whole zombie Latin thing was unique enough to engrave itself into my mind.