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- Content warnings: Violence, Graphic violence, Torture, Childhood trauma, Child abuse (referenced), Death, Death of loved one, Trauma, PTSD, Murder, Captivity, Scars, Abandonment, Blood
Born of Night
by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Book 1 in The League: Nemesis Rising
Pre-Dark-Hunter Kenyon at her most space-opera, with a tortured assassin hero and the protect-the-princess setup that built half her career. If you came for Acheron's brand of trauma but in space, start here.
goodreads 4.18/5 28,411 ratings
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Length539 pages
Series statusOngoing series
Spice4/5 · Passionate / intense
PacingFast
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Protective love interest
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Slow burn
- High
- Passionate / intense
- The swoon
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- Assassin/spy
- Enemies to lovers
- Emotional / vulnerable intimacy
- Tension finally satisfied
- Anti-hero
- First time / discovery
- Redemption arc
- Dark/tortured soul
- Hurt/comfort
- Tension / anticipation focus
- Earned hope
- Morally gray
- Only one who understands them
- Touch starvation
- Book boyfriend/girlfriend acquired
- Scholar/intellectual
- Who did this to you
- Tension
- Anticipation
- Longing glances
- Possessive/protective
Fantasy promise
- Sci-fi romance
- Bodyguard/protection detail
- Space station / spaceship / colony
- Space/sci-fi
- Humans only
- Aliens
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- Rescue romance
- Forbidden love
- Touch her and die
Reading experience
- Third person
- Fast
- Dark
- Dramatic
- Heavy
- Medium
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- Royalty
- Scarred main character or love interest (MC/LI)
- Intense
- Fast-paced
- Survivor
- Thrilling
- Soft/gentle
- Emotional
- Performer
- Epic
- Cinematic
- Suspenseful
- Angsty
- Protect at all costs
- Bonds forged in war
- Redemption
- Page turner
- Emotional devastation
- Addictive pacing
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Book details
- Length
- 539 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book