Half City
Harker Academy Book 1: The Instant Number One Bestseller!!
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Half City
Narrated by:
Taylor Harvey, Teddy Hamilton
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Narrated by:
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Taylor Harvey
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Teddy Hamilton
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Written by:
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Kate Golden
Welcome to Harker Academy for Deviant Defense. Keep your daggers sharp, and your wits even sharper.
Viv Abbot is an average twenty-one-year-old girl. She lives in an expensive city where the rent is too high, works long hours at a thankless job, and is dating a guy she doesn't even like in the hopes of winning her prickly mother's approval.
She just also happens to be a demon hunter.
Ever since her father's murder, she's been forced to hunt deviants alone, meaning everyone, including her family, sees her as an outsider . . . Until the day she crosses paths with a dangerously alluring demon, Reid Graveheart. The reformed deviant tells her of a school for people just like her: Harker Academy for Deviant Defense. If she enrolls, she'll learn to hone her craft, work with other hunters, and never be alone again.
But Viv has a deadly secret. One that not even her new friends at Harker can know about. Not when the school might hold the answers to untangling the mystery surrounding Viv's father's death. When strange occurrences begin to plague the students, Viv will have to figure out who she can trust, and fast. All while trying to ace her classes, not fall for a demon, and make it through her first year at Harker in one piece. How hard could that be?©2026 Kate Golden
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Critic Reviews
Kate Golden deftly fuses a lush and bewitching dark academia setting, complex characters, and a sizzling slow burn romance in Half City, the unputdownable first installment of a trilogy that will leave readers breathless
Packed with edge-of-your-seat action, steamy scenes that will set your curtains on fire, and some of the wittiest banter I've ever read, Half City is the urban fantasy / dark academia book this Buffy fangirl has been waiting for all her life. I don't know what sort of magic Kate Golden weaves into her books but I hope she never stops. The Harker Academy series is my newest obsession
Welcome to Half City, in which Kate Golden does nothing by halves: full-throttle action, a twisty mystery, and a deliciously tense romance make this an absolute romp. Our lead, Viv, is equal parts badass and messy, and her love interest may give you a thing for claws. Absolutely fabulous action writing by Golden, beautifully offset by a story about acceptance, belonging, and what it means to be human
Half City is the dark academia demon hunter fantasy novel of my dreams. Kate Golden delivers high stakes and sizzling romance set in an exciting new world. The chemistry between Viv and Reid is electric, and the twists and turns kept me up way past my bedtime. Half City is wickedly sexy and outrageously fun, and I'm obsessed!
Is it too early to say this is the best book of 2026? Yes? No? Because it has been a long time since a story has made me feel this way. Bad ass fmc? Check. Academy vibes? Check. Enemies to lovers romance? Check. Refreshing world building with enough nuance and mystery to leave me desperate for more? CHECK. Kate takes all the beloved genre traditions of urban fantasy and academy books and makes it her own, and the result is something rich and entirely new. It's going to be a long time until I get over this book
I always appreciate a book more if it has some memorable side characters, who I absolutely do not want to be unalived, whatsoever - This had Peter, Elliot, Sophia, Penny, the dog Hound and even the complicated familial relationships. I loved that they all made such an important aspect Viv's personality and life.
Mùrder mystery wasn't too complicated. Once she came across the picture and then, a few more clues lined up, I figured out who did it. Still, I was curious to see how everything played out though. The ending, too I had guessed when I saw the cover of the second book yet that was a clever plotline. Makes things more interesting.
Now, here is the fascinating part - I was all for Reid and Viv until the 75% mark of the story. Then, we meet Deacon 😍🔥 The way I switched ships after that one interaction between them, I couldn't believe it myself 😅 Add to that, was the male narrator (Teddy Hamilton) only voiced for Deacon and not Reid. That gave me a hopeful clue. Nothing is mentioned yet, but Reid's behaviour turned very suspicious after that. So, we have to wait for the next book to find out.
Deacon and Viv had the perfect enemies to lovers tension that I look for. They just wanted to unalived each other right away 🤣 .... Other ships I am hoping for - Baz and Penny, maybe Elliot, Sophia and Peter.
4.5 stars
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