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- Content warnings: Violence, Blood, Torture, Captivity, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, Trauma, War, Domestic violence, Attempted sexual assault, Betrayal, Manipulation, Misogyny, Body shaming, Suicide, Sexual content
A Touch of Poison
by Clare Sager
Book 2 in Shadows of the Tenebris Court
goodreads 3.98/5 17,087 ratings
storykind_community 4.2/5 5 ratings
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A decision-first view of the reading experience.
Length716 pages
Series statusCompleted series · 3 books
Spice4/5 · Intense / passionate
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)
- High
- Intense / passionate
- The angst delivered
- Morally gray
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- Mutual pining
- Slow burn with late spice
- Tension finally satisfied
- Possessive alpha
- Forbidden love
- Possessive / claiming
- Book hangover incoming
- Dark/tortured soul
- Morally gray x morally gray
- Tension / anticipation focus
- Feral brain activated
- Fae prince
- Touch her and die
- Emotional / vulnerable intimacy
- Protective love interest
- Push and pull
- Praise kink
- He falls first
- Possessive/protective
- Enemies to lovers
- Jealous/possessive during intimacy
- Body worship
- Marking hickeys
- Size difference focus
- Tension
- Touch starvation
- Bonding/claiming/marking
- Possessive
- Dominance
- Rough/aggressive intimacy
- Knife play
Fantasy promise
- Romantasy
- Forced proximity
- Royal court / palace
- Fae realm / faerie courts
- Fae
- Fae romance
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- Castle / fortress
- High fantasy
- Shadow beings / shadow fae
- Only one bed
Reading experience
- Dual POV
- Medium
- Dark
- Atmospheric
- Heavy
- Intense
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- Immersive
- Survivor
- Romantic
- Sharp
- Spy/thief
- Suspenseful
- Brooding
- Warrior/fighter
- Seductive
- Edgy
- Damaged survivor
- Secretive
- Angsty
- Yearning
- Fae courts and politics
- Forbidden desire
- Bargain with consequences
- Court of shadows
- Battle of wills
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Book details
- Length
- 716 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
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