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- Content warnings: Death, Blood, Injury detail, Body horror, Bullying, Death of a parent, Misogyny
The Otherwhere Post
by Emily J. Taylor
Maeve hides her identity to apprentice as a courier of magic letters between worlds, all to clear her dead fathers name. Dark academia, scriptomancy, slow-burn rivals-to-lovers with a mentor who knows exactly who she is.
goodreads 3.97/5 7,594 ratings
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Length416 pages
Story statusStandalone
Spice1/5 · Slow burn with late spice
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Academic rivals
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Slow burn
- Low
- Slow burn with late spice
- Addictive read
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- Scholar/intellectual
- Rivals to lovers
- Tension / anticipation focus
- Tension finally satisfied
- Secretly soft
- Longing glances
- The swoon
- Brooding prince
- Mutual pining
- First time / discovery
- Earned hope
- Professor/mentor
- Intellectual connection
- Tension
- Anticipation
- Neck kisses / neck touching
- Ear whispers / breath on neck
Fantasy promise
- Ya fantasy
- Dark academia romance
- Academy / campus
- Multi-realm / dimension-hopping
- Humans only
- Library
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- Low fantasy / secret magic
- Workplace / office
- Academy / school
- Hidden identity
- Professor x student
- Forbidden love
Reading experience
- Third person
- Medium
- Mysterious
- Atmospheric
- Moderate
- Bookworm/scholar
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- MC 20-30
- Immersive
- Scribe
- Dreamy
- Lush
- Runaway / on the run
- Yearning
- Character-driven
- Fallen noble / disgraced heir
- Magical
- Lyrical
- Secretive
- Forbidden knowledge
- The long game
- Court of shadows
- Page turner
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Book details
- Length
- 416 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book