The Ravens
A group of witches faces campus life, sorority politics, and dark academia in this contemporary paranormal thriller. Their friendship is tested when real magic and real danger emerge, forcing them to choose between safety and power. Witches, secrets, and a dark atmosphere make this impossible to put down.
Everything You Need to Know About The Ravens
Kappa Rho Nu, the Ravens, is the most exclusive sorority at Westerly College in Savannah, and every sister in it is a witch. Scarlett Winter has known she was a witch her whole life and has organized her entire existence around becoming chapter president, the way her mother and her sister were before her. Vivi Devereaux has never belonged anywhere, gets a bid she did not expect, and has no idea magic is real until she is standing in the middle of it. The alternating chapters carry the book: Scarlett's is about legacy and the terror of not being good enough, Vivi's is about wanting a family badly enough to ignore the warning signs. Then Scarlett's magic starts failing, sisters start getting hurt, and the polished surface stops holding. A dark academia witch story about Greek life, written by two authors trading points of view.
Scarlett is the more interesting of the two leads, a girl who is competent and mean and scared, and the book lets her be all three at once. The sorority politics are played straight instead of winked at. It also moves fast, which counts for something in a subgenre that often does not.
Hazing, bullying, magical assault and injury, blood magic, alcohol use, toxic family pressure, manipulation between friends.
If you want Ninth House at half the darkness and a fraction of the page count, or you have ever wanted a witchy Pretty Little Liars, this is your book. It is YA, the romance is a subplot, and the prose is functional rather than beautiful. Skip it if you want a rigorous magic system or a college campus that feels like a real campus.
Book one of a duology, followed by The Monarchs. This one ends on a reveal that sets up the sequel rather than closing things out, so plan on reading both.
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