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- Content warnings: Violence, Graphic violence, Kidnapping, Captivity, Torture, Trauma, Murder, Manipulation, Mind control, Sexual content
Vale of Dreams
by C.N. Crawford & Alex Rivers
Book 2 in Fey Spy Academy
goodreads 4.31/5 24,401 ratings
storykind_community 3.67/5 3 ratings
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A decision-first view of the reading experience.
Length400 pages
Series statusOngoing series
Spice4/5 · Tension / anticipation focus
PacingFast
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
- High
- Tension / anticipation focus
- Tension finally satisfied
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- Fae prince
- Love/hate tension
- Possessive / claiming
- Book hangover incoming
- Villain
- Morally gray love interest (LI)
- Passionate / intense
- The angst delivered
- Morally gray
- Possessive love interest
- Emotional / vulnerable intimacy
- Adrenaline rush
- Dark/tortured soul
- Power imbalance
- Dominant vibes
- Addictive read
- Possessive alpha
- Push and pull
- Slow burn with late spice
- Captor/captive
- Longing glances
- Forbidden love
- Wall pinning
- Tension
- Jealous/possessive during intimacy
- Possessive/protective
- Mine declarations
- Power exchange
- Dominance
- Possessive
- Marking
Fantasy promise
- Romantasy
- Fake dating
- Royal court / palace
- High fantasy
- Fae
- Academy / campus
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- Fae realm / faerie courts
- Forced proximity
- Villain gets the girl
- Undercover/spy romance
- Captive romance
- Secret power
Reading experience
- First person
- Fast
- Dark
- Fast-paced
- Moderate
- Medium
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- Spy/thief
- MC 20-30
- Mysterious
- Atmospheric
- Snarky/sarcastic
- Seductive
- Dreamwalker / mind-walker
- Intense
- Cinematic
- General badass
- Thrilling
- Deceptively deadly
- Dangerous
- Brooding
- Fae courts and politics
- Forbidden desire
- Court of shadows
- Cliffhanger warning
- The long game
- Enemies forced to ally
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Book details
- Length
- 400 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book