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- Content warnings: Violence, Blood, War, Death, Betrayal, Manipulation, Sexual content
Crown of Flames and Ash
by G.K. DeRosa
Book 2 in Courts of Aetheria
It doubles down on the exact Courts of Aetheria promise: fae politics, forbidden mentor tension, dragon-adjacent danger, and a romance that keeps choosing the worst possible timing.
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Length466 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)
- Slow burn
- High
- Passionate / intense
- The angst delivered
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- Warrior/fighter
- Forbidden love
- Slow burn with late spice
- Book hangover incoming
- Morally gray
- Power imbalance
- Possessive / claiming
- Adrenaline rush
- Protective love interest
- Touch her and die
- Touch starvation
- Dark/tortured soul
- Push and pull
- Longing glances
- Possessive/protective
- Mine declarations
- Possessive
- Marking
- Dominance
Fantasy promise
- Romantasy
- Academy / campus
- High fantasy
- Fae
- Royal court / palace
- Fae realm / faerie courts
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- Dragons
- Mentor/student dynamics
- Academy / school
- Fae romance
- Love triangle
Reading experience
- First person
- Fast
- Intense
- Fast-paced
- Heavy
- Medium
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- Outcast/loner
- Angsty
- Survivor
- Dangerous
- Dramatic
- Witch/mage
- Seductive
- Deceptively deadly
- Fae courts and politics
- Forbidden desire
- Protect at all costs
- Cliffhanger warning
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Book details
- Length
- 466 pages
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book