Think twice if…
- Content warnings: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Trauma, Childhood trauma
Within Obsession and Lies
by Stacy Jones & Harper Wylde
Book 1 in A Court of Gilt and Shadow
goodreads 4.11/5 4,448 ratings
storykind_community 4/5 1 rating
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A decision-first view of the reading experience.
Length399 pages
Series statusOngoing series
Spice3/5 · Slow seduction
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Possessive love interest
- Why Choose / Reverse Harem
- Slow burn
- Medium
- Slow seduction
- Obsessed
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- Morally gray
- Obsessive love interest
- Possessive / claiming
- Feral brain activated
- Possessive alpha
- Morally gray love interest (LI)
- Rough / primal
- Book boyfriend/girlfriend acquired
- Anti-hero
- Protective love interest
- Marking / biting
- Adrenaline rush
- Monster
- Fated mates
- Fantasy / supernatural intimacy
- Feral/unhinged
- Tension / anticipation
- Found family
- Tension
- Fae prince
- Reluctant allies to lovers
- Possessive/protective
- Assassin/spy
- Only soft for them
- Growling / possessive sounds
- Thief/criminal
- Touch her and die
- Mine declarations
- Possessive
- Claiming
- Rough/aggressive intimacy
- Knotting
- Monstrous anatomy
- Bonding/claiming/marking
Fantasy promise
- Paranormal romance
- Reverse harem / why choose
- Manor house / estate
- Low fantasy / secret magic
- Fae
- Urban fantasy
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- Monsters
- Monster romance
- Paranormal
- Shifters
- Fae romance
- Dark romance
- Secret power
- Hidden past revealed
- Mafia romance
Reading experience
- Multi-POV
- Dark
- Moderate
- General badass
- MC 20-30
- Mysterious
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- Seductive
- Survivor
- Scarred main character or love interest (MC/LI)
- Suspenseful
- Outcast/loner
- Tense
- Character-driven
- Reluctant chosen one
- Dangerous
- Artist/creative
- Angsty
- Damaged survivor
- Forbidden desire
- Protect at all costs
- Slow descent into darkness
- Cliffhanger warning
- Morally complex
- Series binge material
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Book details
- Length
- 399 pages
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book