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- Content warnings: Graphic violence, Violence, Torture, Captivity, Death, Sexual assault (referenced), Blood, Gore, Dubious consent, Sexual content
A Throne of Ruin
by K.F. Breene
Book 2 in Deliciously Dark Fairytales
Beauty and the Beast, but make the castle cursed, the dragon prince filthy, and the banter somehow still alive under all the doom.
goodreads 4.17/5 40,414 ratings
storykind_community 4/5 3 ratings
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Length516 pages
Series statusCompleted series · 6 books
Spice5/5 · Intense / passionate
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Enemies to lovers
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Slow burn
- High
- Intense / passionate
- Feral brain activated
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- Dark/tortured soul
- Fated mates
- Rough / aggressive style
- Tension finally satisfied
- Possessive alpha
- Possessive love interest
- Possessive / claiming style
- The angst delivered
- Secretly soft
- Protective love interest
- Dominant / submissive
- Adrenaline rush
- Cursed
- Hurt/comfort
- Primal / feral style
- Dragon shifter
- Only soft for them
- Kink-heavy / BDSM focus
- Beast / monster
- Feral devotion
- Possessive/protective
- He falls first
- Rough but consensual
- Growling / possessive sounds
- Mine declarations
- Touch starvation
- Marking hickeys
- Size difference focus
- Bonding/claiming/marking
- Possessive
- Dominance
- Primal play (hunting/chasing)
- Rough/aggressive intimacy
- Anal elements
Fantasy promise
- Romantasy
- Beauty and the beast
- Royal court / palace
- High fantasy
- Dragons
- Forest / wilderness
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- Demons
- Forced proximity
- Touch her and die
- Dark romance
- Captive romance
- Fairytale retelling
- Forbidden love
- Sacrifice/martyrdom
- Dragon romance
Reading experience
- First person
- Medium
- Intense
- Humorous
- Heavy
- General badass
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- Dark
- Sarcastic
- Healer
- Adventurous
- Banter-heavy
- Snarky/sarcastic
- Romantic
- Protector
- Steamy
- Engaging
- Survivor
- Dangerous
- Forbidden desire
- Morally complex
- Beauty and the Beast retelling
- Bargain with consequences
- Cliffhanger warning
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Book details
- Length
- 516 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book