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- Content warnings: Rape, Sexual assault, Abuse, Captivity, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, Violence, Trauma, Slavery, Genocide, Animal death, Parental death, Sexism
Girls of Paper and Fire
by Natasha Ngan
Book 1 in Girls of Paper and Fire
A devastating and beautiful story of survival, resistance, and forbidden sapphic love in a world inspired by South and Southeast Asian mythology. The romance between Lei and Wren is tender and defiant - love as an act of rebellion.
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Length385 pages
Series statusCompleted series · 3 books
Spice1/5 · Closed door / fade to black
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Forbidden love
- F/F
- Slow burn
- Low
- Closed door / fade to black
- Cathartic release
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- Emotional / loving
- Expanded empathy
- Mutual pining
- Tender / sweet explicit
- Earned hope
- The angst delivered
Fantasy promise
- Young adult
- Royal court / palace
- High fantasy
- Demons
- Captive romance
- Mythological
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- Gods/deities
- Secret relationship
- Elementals
- Survival romance
- Hidden identity
Reading experience
- First person
- Medium
- Emotional
- Lyrical
- Heavy
- High
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- Reluctant chosen one
- Asian MC
- Intense
- Atmospheric
- Survivor
- BIPOC MC
- Hopeful
- Rebel leader / revolutionary
- Sapphic
- Dark
- Immersive
- Queer
- Lush
- Mental health rep
- Bittersweet
- Gothic
- Dangerous
- Survival against impossible odds
- Underground rebellion
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Book details
- Length
- 385 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
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