Crave

Crave is the book that ate BookTok alive and honestly? The pacing earns it. Tracy Wolff drops you into this atmospheric Gothic academy in the Alaskan wilderness and just lets the tension build until you're feral. The world-building is genuinely inventive - vampires, witches, wolves, dragons, and gargoyles all coexisting under one very dramatic roof. Fair warning: this ends on a cliffhanger that will make you immediately grab book two, so have Crush ready. It's addictive YA paranormal with real emotional stakes.