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- Content warnings: Death, Murder, Blood, PTSD, Panic attacks, Suicidal ideation, Child abuse (referenced), Child neglect, Grief, Ableism, Alcohol use, Sexual assault (referenced), Trauma
The Alliance's Academy
by Kyra Gregory
Book 1 in The Alliance Academy
Witch, werewolves, and a vampire walk into a peace academy and a body shows up. Slow burn, found family, mystery threaded through magic.
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Length406 pages
Series statusOngoing series
Spice1/5 · Fade to black
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)
- Low
- Fade to black
- Found family feels
- Scholar/intellectual
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- Found family
- Tension / anticipation
- Addictive read
- Secretly soft
- Rivals to lovers
- Longing glances
- Tension finally satisfied
- Cinnamon roll
- Intellectual connection
- Sweet / tender
- Comfort reread material
- Monster
- Protective love interest
- Tension
- Anticipation
- First time/virgin romance
Fantasy promise
- Fantasy romance
- Dark academia romance
- Academy / campus
- Urban fantasy
- Witches/wizards/warlocks
- Paranormal
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- Werewolves
- Academy / school
- Vampires
- Forbidden love
- Low fantasy / secret magic
- Interspecies romance
Reading experience
- Third person
- Medium
- Mysterious
- Atmospheric
- Moderate
- Witch/mage
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- Mental health rep
- Engaging
- Bookworm/scholar
- Anxiety rep
- Magical
- Warm
- Outcast/loner
- Cozy
- Character-driven
- Yearning
- Dramatic
- Forbidden knowledge
- Deadly trials
- Court of shadows
- Morally complex
- Page turner
- Enemies forced to ally
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Book details
- Length
- 406 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book