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- Content warnings: Violence, Graphic violence, Death, Murder, Trauma, Physical abuse, Childhood trauma, Blood, Manipulation
Wings So Wicked
by Emily Blackwood
Book 1 in Golden City
Fourth Wing meets Serpent and the Wings of Night isn't just marketing - it's an assassin heroine, a fallen-angel love interest who sees right through her, and a magical academy with body-count-level trials. Goes down fast, ends mean.
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A decision-first view of the reading experience.
Length434 pages
Series statusCompleted series · 4 books
Spice3/5 · Tension / anticipation
PacingFast
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Rivals to lovers
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Slow burn
- Medium
- Tension / anticipation
- Addictive read
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- Dark/tortured soul
- Academic rivals
- Slow burn with late spice
- Tension finally satisfied
- Morally gray
- Enemies to lovers
- Passionate / intense
- The swoon
- Possessive alpha
- Possessive / claiming
- Book hangover incoming
- Rival / competitor
- Morally gray love interest (LI)
- Wall pinning
- Competitors to lovers
- Tension
- Anticipation
- Jealous/possessive during intimacy
- Eye contact intensity
- Possessive
- Claiming
- Dominance
Fantasy promise
- Romantasy
- Academy / campus
- High fantasy
- Fae
- Forced proximity
- Competition / games
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- Academy / school
- Angels
- Grimdark / dark fantasy
- Vampires
- Fae romance
Reading experience
- Dual POV
- Fast
- Dark
- Fast-paced
- Moderate
- Assassin
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- MC 20-30
- Intense
- Damaged survivor
- Swoony
- Atmospheric
- Punchy
- Angsty
- Deadly trials
- Tournament arc
- Court of shadows
- Page turner
- Cliffhanger warning
- Addictive pacing
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Different because
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Rivals to lovers · Punchy · Fae romance
Different because
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Book details
- Length
- 434 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book