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- Content warnings: Graphic violence, Violence, Captivity, Betrayal, Death, Blood, Sexual content
Court of Vice and Death
by Alexis Calder
Book 2 in Blood and Salt
Ara's second Blood and Salt book drops her inside a fae court where every alliance feels temporary.
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Length366 pages
Series statusCompleted series · 4 books
Spice4/5 · Passionate / intense
PacingFast
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)
- Medium burn
- High
- Passionate / intense
- Adrenaline rush
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- Morally gray
- Push and pull
- Dark / taboo style
- Book hangover incoming
- Possessive alpha
- Possessive love interest
- Possessive / claiming
- The angst delivered
- Grumpy protector
- Betrayal to trust
- Fantasy / supernatural intimacy
- Possessive/protective
- Tension
- Longing glances
Fantasy promise
- Romantasy
- Fae romance
- Royal court / palace
- High fantasy
- Fae
- Prison / captivity
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- Fae realm / faerie courts
- Vampires
- Forced proximity
- Competition / games
- Grimdark / dark fantasy
- Shifters
- Dark romance
- Dragons
- Forced alliance
Reading experience
- First person
- Fast
- Dark
- Heavy
- Survivor
- Dangerous
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- Edgy
- General badass
- Intense
- Fast-paced
- Reluctant hero
- Suspenseful
- Spicy
- Seductive
- Court of shadows
- Survival against impossible odds
- Enemies forced to ally
- Cliffhanger warning
- Page turner
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Book details
- Length
- 366 pages
- Publisher
- Illaria Publishing
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book