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- Content warnings: Chronic illness, Self-harm, Panic attacks, Suicidal ideation, Blood, Violence, Death, Death of loved one, Parental abandonment, Abandonment, Abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief
A Crown of Ivy and Glass
by Claire Legrand
Book 1 in The Middlemist Trilogy
regency-coded romantasy with explicit spice, demonic blood feuds, and a chronic-illness FMC who finally gets her power
goodreads 3.17/5 8,246 ratings
storykind_community 4/5 2 ratings
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A decision-first view of the reading experience.
Length554 pages
Series statusOngoing series
Spice3/5 · Passionate / intense
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Slow burn
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Medium burn
- Medium
- Passionate / intense
- Tension finally satisfied
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- Dark/tortured soul
- Morally gray love interest (LI)
- Intense / passionate
- Earned hope
- Morally gray
- Love/hate tension
- Emotional / vulnerable intimacy
- The swoon
- Mysterious stranger
- Forbidden love
- Tension / anticipation
- Feral brain activated
- Cursed
- Hurt/comfort
- Longing glances
- Expanded empathy
- Intellectual connection
- Dirty talk heavy
- Tension
- Anticipation
- Wall pinning
- Touch starvation
- Neck kisses / neck touching
- Possessive
- Magic-infused intimacy
Fantasy promise
- Romantasy
- Royal court / palace
- High fantasy
- Demons
- Bet/wager romance
- Manor house / estate
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- Regency/victorian
- Fae
- Contract/transactional romance
- Big city / metropolis
- Alternate history
- Gods/deities
- Enemies to lovers
- Witches/wizards/warlocks
- Magic bond
- Dark romance
Reading experience
- Third person
- Dark
- Lush
- Heavy
- High
- Royalty
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- Chronic illness
- Sensual
- Atmospheric
- Fallen noble / disgraced heir
- Disabled MC
- Lyrical
- Soft/gentle
- Mental health rep
- Intense
- Dramatic
- Innocent / sheltered
- Anxiety rep
- Seductive
- Damaged survivor
- Gothic
- Immersive
- Yearning
- Angsty
- Forbidden desire
- Cursed bloodline
- Bargain with consequences
- Slow descent into darkness
- Betrayal and forgiveness
- Forbidden knowledge
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Book details
- Length
- 554 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
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