Dark Academia
Red Thorns
Top 200 · #116 in Gothic Fiction on Amazon
Book 1 in the Thorns Duet series · Reading order →
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Why we recommend it
Kent brings her signature darkness into an elite academic setting where the hero has decided the rules don't apply to him — and he's correct. Obsessive, morally grey, and emotionally brutal in the way Kent does best. For readers who want their dark academia without any softening of the edges.
At a glance
Red Thorns is book 1 in Rina Kent’s Thorns Duet series. With 3/5 for spice and 4/5 for darkness it sits mid-range for dark academia romance (of the 191 dark academia romance books on Readark, 28% rate lower for darkness and 4% lower for spice). Its 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 304 pages. We have not tagged its content warnings yet, so check the author’s notes before you start.
Book details
- Pages
- 304
- Published
- January 2021
Red Thorns spice level
Red 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
Red Thorns content warnings
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