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- Content warnings: Graphic violence, Violence, Blood, Gore, Death, Death of loved one, Grief, Murder, Trauma
The Gloaming
by Jamie Dalton
Book 1 in Blood of the Revenants
Anne Rice meets Ninth House meets a vampire hunter who is one bad night away from kissing the wrong immortal. Atmospheric, slow-burning, and psychologically mean about desire.
goodreads 3.87/5 134 ratings
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Length558 pages
Series statusOngoing series
Spice2/5 · Passionate / intense
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Enemies to lovers
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Slow burn
- Medium
- Passionate / intense
- Addictive read
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- Immortal/ancient
- Slow burn with late spice
- Tension finally satisfied
- Vampire lord
- Love/hate tension
- Tension / anticipation focus
- The angst delivered
- Morally gray
- Morally gray love interest (LI)
- Emotional / vulnerable intimacy
- Obsessed
- Dark/tortured soul
- Predator x prey
- Possessive / claiming
- Book hangover incoming
- Warrior/fighter
- Push and pull
- Longing glances
- Tension
- Anticipation
- Eye contact intensity
- Neck kisses / neck touching
- Marking hickeys
- Bonding/claiming/marking
- Possessive
- Marking
Fantasy promise
- Paranormal romance
- Vampire romance
- Big city / metropolis
- Urban fantasy
- Vampires
- Workplace / office
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- Gothic
- Forbidden love
- Paranormal
- Low fantasy / secret magic
- Immortal/mortal romance
- Antihero romance
Reading experience
- First person
- Dark
- Lush
- Heavy
- High
- Hunter
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- MC 20-30
- Atmospheric
- General badass
- Damaged survivor
- Brooding
- Seductive
- Literary
- Intense
- Immersive
- Haunting
- Yearning
- Dangerous
- Court of shadows
- Slow descent into darkness
- Morally complex
- Page turner
- Cliffhanger warning
- No one is safe
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Book details
- Length
- 558 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
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