That Devil, Ambition

Name: That Devil, Ambition
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Linsey Miller
ISBN: 9780063388659

Author: Linsey Miller

Narrator: Michael Crouch, Angel Pean, Kira Fixx

Unabridged: 14 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Storytide

Published: 06/03/2025

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural, Suspense & Thriller, Supernatural

Synopsis

From Lambda Literary Award finalist Linsey Miller comes this thrilling stand-alone fantasy about the lengths we'll go to get ahead—an incredibly fresh, twisty love letter to dark academia...with a body count. Perfect for fans of A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid, Gallant by V. E. Schwab, and All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody and C. L. Herman. There is only one school worth graduating from, and it creates as many magicians as it does graves…First in his class and last in his noble line, Fabian Galloway’s only hope of a good future is passing his elite school's honors class. It’s only offered to the best thirteen students, and those students have a single assignment: kill their professor.If they succeed, their student debt is forgiven. However, if an assassination attempt fails or the professor is alive at the end of the year, the students’ lives are forfeit.And dealing with the professor, a devil summoned solely to kill or be killed, is no easy task.Fabian isn't worried, though. He trusts his best friends—softhearted math genius Credence and absent-minded but insightful Euphemia—to help. After all, that’s why he befriended them.As the months pass and their professor remains impossibly alive, the trio must use every asset they have to survive. Or else failure will be on their academic records—and their tombstones—forever.

About Linsey Miller

Once upon a time, Linsey Miller studied biology in Arkansas. These days, she holds an MFA in fiction and is the author of the Lambda-nominated What We Devour. Her other works include the Mask of Shadows duology, Belle Révolte, The Game, the first three books in the Disney Princes series, and various short stories. She can be found in Texas writing about science and magic anywhere there is coffee.

Reviews

Goodreads review by A Grimm Review on April 13, 2025

The best way I can describe this book is a mixture of Assassination Classroom and A Deadly Education so if those are your vibe you will enjoy this. The book is broken up into three sections each one from a different students perspective but continuing forward in the story. I was fully invested in Fa......more

Goodreads review by Megan on March 29, 2025

Thank you to NetGalley and HarperCollins for the arc in exchange for an honest review. This book is dark academia done right. So many books out there claim that they are dark academia when really they're just dark academia aesthetics or vibes. This book literally understood the assignment. Dark acade......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea on May 12, 2025

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for an advanced reader copy That Devil, Ambition by Linsey Miller is a third person multi-POV YA dark academia. Fabian, Credence, and Euphemia are honors students at the best school for magicians. But in order to graduate, they need to kill their professor, a......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on November 17, 2024

Thank you to NetGalley and HarperCollins for the arc! Wow. This was both incredibly fucked and incredibly well done. Here are some things that rocked my socks: -The author pulls absolutely no punches here. They really take it there, and it’s gorgeous. There’s so many moments that left me REELING and......more

Goodreads review by bookish.reader.elle on November 26, 2024

I was hooked from the first chapter. The story follows a trio of gifted students. Fabian, Credence and Euphemia. They are part of an elite honors class consisting of 13 students. Their final assignment is to kill their professor. If they succeed, their student debt is forgiven. However, if an assass......more