Father taught Gauthier that everyone should know their place in this world.Purebloods rule. Half-breeds work. Inferior destroy.Jerome has learned only one truth since childhood.Purebloods are celebrating. Half-breeds serve. The lesser suffer.Their worlds might never have collided if not for Scariel.The first book in the Young Adult dark academy series.The novel takes place in an alternative world very similar to ours, a society in which is divided into three classes: purebreds, half-breeds, lower.Problems of fathers and children, class inequality, friendship and love, reasoning about Sergei Diaghilev and Alexander the Great, the search for oneself and truth, imperial intrigues and the spirit of the revolution - this is the Song of the Shrike.The narration in the novel is from two characters of different classes, which makes it possible to more clearly reveal the world, helps to empathize with the heroes, keeps in suspense. “Before you is the quintessence of love for art, served under the sauce of a dark academy and seasoned with delicious language. Character chemistry, atmosphere, intrigue and manipulation - all intertwined in the story of the forbidden friendship of Scariel and Gauthier.This book will catch and devour you like a real shrike, leaving no chance to remain indifferent. It was worth learning to read in order to one day find this pearl. – Vlada @vlad.lena.dan“Get ready to plunge into the alternative of our world, where purity of blood plays the most important role and where an atmosphere of enlightenment, revolution and ideas reigns. And everything together creates and weaves not the plot itself, which will guide the characters, but, on the contrary, the characters who create the canvas of an incredible plot. – Vit @ost_vitbooks