Dark Academia
Black Thorns
Amazon Bestseller · #47 in Multicultural & Interracial Romance
Book 2 in the Thorns Duet series · Reading order →
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Why we recommend it
Another year at an institution that has never been safe. Kent writes dark academia as genuine psychological territory — obsession masquerading as attention, power asymmetry with nowhere to run, and a heroine navigating both with more complexity than anyone in her position expected. Darkness is the setting and the dynamic both.
At a glance
Black Thorns is book 2 in Rina Kent’s Thorns Duet series; to read in order, start with Red Thorns. Spice 3/5, darkness 4/5 — mid-range for dark academia romance. Among 191 rated dark academia romance books, 28% are less dark and 4% less spicy. Tagged tropes include stalker, morally grey MC and possessive-obsessive MC. It is about as dark as Rina Kent’s other books on Readark (average darkness 4.0/5). It runs to 338 pages. We have not tagged its content warnings yet, so check the author’s notes before you start.
Book details
- Pages
- 338
- Published
- January 2021
Black Thorns spice level
Black Thorns is rated 3/5 for spice on Readark’s scale: open door, meaning explicit scenes written plainly, but not the engine of the book. Its darkness rating is 4/5: heavy, meaning sustained cruelty, trauma or non-consent central to the relationship. How we rate
Black Thorns content warnings
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