I mean, part of me was thinking of the movie The Skulls circa 2000. After becoming an unlikely candidate to join one of the University’s secret societies, The Delphic, Spenser and his buddy Dalton, stumble upon a fifty-year-old mystery – the disappearance of another young student in the 1920s who was never heard from again after illegally entering the Delphic’s mansion in search of the answer to the question: Is there really a secret society within the secret society called the Ancient Nine who spend their whole lives guarding an invaluable secret? The heart of the novel is that of Spenser Collins, a young Black man attending Harvard in 1988. This book suffers from that in abundance. Have you ever read a novel and can immediately tell it’s written by a first-time author because they don’t know how to chill the fuck out with descriptive passages and scenes that don’t further a plot? Filed Under: The Skulls but boring and without Joshua Jackson
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