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This corner of Cece Rants talks about explicit romance, erotica, kink and dark themes in fiction. It’s written for adults.
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Academy Romance: Magic Schools and Ruthless Boys
“Class is in session. Nobody is behaving.”
Magic schools, assassin academies and the fae who walk the halls like they own them. All the training, rivalries and power struggles of an academy book, with the door left wide open.
Every spicy review tagged magic school
Every 18+ review tagged magic school. I love a training scene: you watch how a character handles learning, how they take failing at it, and you pick up the bigger world on the way. These are the ones where the extracurriculars earn the rating.
Spice: open door and up. Darkness: bullies and red flags, sometimes worse.
Highest rating first
Each title links to the one real review on the site. Within a rating tier, the newest review comes first.
Recently added, across every shelf
Exquisite Ruin
Compulsion
Baby & the Late Night Howlers
Kaelen
Shadows So Cruel
Queen of Myth and MonstersMy newest 18+ reviews, whichever shelf they landed on. Want more? Back to the hub.
The shelf next door
Latest rant / rave on this shelfBewitchedBewitched #1 · May 2024unratedRead the review →Not sure how dark you want it?
Read the two-minute guide on spice vs. darkness on the hub, then come back and pick with confidence.
Spice vs. darkness