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- Content warnings: Murder, Death of a parent, Violence, Blood, Gore, Grief, Stalking
The Fox and the Devil
by Kiersten White
The yearning between Anneke and Diavola is the kind that physically hurts - a mortal woman hunting the immortal vampire who killed her father and haunts her dreams, falling in love with her anyway. Lyrical, devastating, and genuinely gothic.
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A decision-first view of the reading experience.
Length368 pages
Story statusStandalone
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
- Enemies to lovers
- F/F
- Slow burn
- Low
- Closed door / fade to black
- Beautiful grief
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- Vampire lord
- Forbidden love
- Emotional / vulnerable intimacy
- The angst delivered
- Immortal/ancient
- Obsessive love interest
- Longing glances
- Cathartic release
- Villain
- Predator x prey
- Tension / anticipation
- Book hangover
- Morally gray love interest (LI)
- Tension
- Expanded empathy
- Star-crossed
- Anticipation
- Eye contact intensity
- Forehead touching
Fantasy promise
- Gothic romance
- Vampire romance
- Big city / metropolis
- Gothic
- Vampires
- Immortal/mortal romance
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- Manor house / estate
- Historical
- Regency/victorian
- Star-crossed lovers
- Assassin romance
Reading experience
- Mixed POV styles
- Medium
- Lyrical
- Heavy
- Hunter
- Sapphic
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- Atmospheric
- Snarky/sarcastic
- Queer
- Mysterious
- Reluctant hero
- Haunting
- Immersive
- Yearning
- Cinematic
- Bittersweet
- Dark
- Eerie
- Introspective
- Melancholic
- Brooding
- Romantic
- Forbidden desire
- Slow descent into darkness
- Gut punch ending
- Will make you cry
- Morally complex
- Emotional devastation
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Book details
- Length
- 368 pages
- Publisher
- Del Rey
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book