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- Content warnings: Sexual content, Violence, Death, Grief, Trauma, Body horror, Plague
Manor of Decay
by Maxym M. Martineau
Book 2 in The Threadmender Chronicles
This is the payoff book for readers who wanted House of Blight to get messier, hotter, and more emotionally reckless. The duology closes with gothic rot, a sharper Rorik, and enough yearning to make the cure feel like a bad idea.
goodreads 4.25/5 183 ratings
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A decision-first view of the reading experience.
Length352 pages
Series statusCompleted series · 2 books
Spice4/5 · Passionate / intense
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Forbidden love
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Slow burn
- High
- Passionate / intense
- The angst delivered
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- Dark/tortured soul
- Tension / anticipation
- The swoon
- Morally gray
- Hurt/comfort
- Emotional / vulnerable intimacy
- Tension finally satisfied
- Immortal/ancient
- Morally gray love interest (LI)
- Slow burn with late spice
- Beautiful grief
- Protective love interest
- Longing glances
- Earned hope
- Mutual pining
- Tension
- Touch her and die
- Anticipation
- Touch starvation
- Eye contact intensity
- Neck kisses / neck touching
Fantasy promise
- Romantasy
- Fae romance
- Manor house / estate
- Fae realm / faerie courts
- Fae
- Gothic
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- Magic bond
- High fantasy
- Immortal/mortal romance
- Forced proximity
Reading experience
- First person
- Medium
- Dark
- Lush
- Heavy
- Healer
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- MC 20-30
- Atmospheric
- Damaged survivor
- Emotional
- Curse-breaker
- Intense
- Brooding
- Yearning
- Haunting
- Immersive
- Romantic
- Tense
- Hopeful
- Cursed bloodline
- Bargain with consequences
- Fae courts and politics
- Court of shadows
- Slow descent into darkness
- Forbidden knowledge
- Haunted castle
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Book details
- Length
- 352 pages
- Publisher
- Harper Voyager
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book