Book Review: The World Cannot Give by Tara Isabella Burton
The World Cannot Give by Tara Isabella Burton
My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars
I received an advance copy of this novel from the publisher, Simon and Schuster, via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
I have a weakness for dark academia novels, though they only work for me roughly half the time. In recent years I’ve read books in this subgenre that have become lifetime favorites, and those that left me so disappointed it veered into anger. More than one of these disappointments came through books I requested via NetGalley, and yet I keep trying. Books like The World Cannot Give are why. I was almost as enamored by it as I was by Tartt’s The Secret History and Hopen’s The Orchard, both of which I absolutely adore. …