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- Content warnings: Violence, Death, Murder, Grief, Trauma, Classism, Racism/bigotry, Kidnapping
Tales of a Monstrous Heart
by Jennifer Delaney
Book 1 in The Tales Trilogy
A slow-burn gothic romantasy dripping with atmosphere where a sentient, shifting manor and forbidden human-fey love story deliver yearning that demands you keep turning pages into the night.
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Length468 pages
Series statusOngoing series
Spice3/5 · Emotional / loving
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Slow burn
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Medium
- Emotional / loving
- The angst delivered
- Dark/tortured soul
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- Mutual pining
- Slow seduction
- Addictive read
- Morally gray
- Forbidden love
- Passionate / intense
- Book hangover
- Cursed
- Hurt/comfort
- Emotional / vulnerable intimacy
- Obsessed
- Secretly soft
- Only soft for them
- Tension
- Anticipation
- Longing glances
- Touch starvation
- Neck kisses / neck touching
Fantasy promise
- Romantasy
- Manor house / estate
- Gothic
- Fae
- Forced proximity
- Forest / wilderness
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- High fantasy
- Shadow beings / shadow fae
- Dark romance
- Beauty and the beast
- Hidden identity
- Secret relationship
- Healing romance
Reading experience
- First person
- Dark
- Lush
- Heavy
- Bookworm/scholar
- Atmospheric
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- Outcast/loner
- Mysterious
- Brooding
- Survivor
- Romantic
- Lyrical
- Angsty
- Eerie
- Sentient haunted manor
- Forbidden fey love
- Gothic Jane Eyre retelling
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Book details
- Length
- 468 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book