Think twice if…
- Content warnings: Death, Violence, Attempted murder, Kidnapping, Stalking, Blood, Trauma, Dubious consent
Death's Daughter
by S.A. Barnes
Book 1 in Children of the Old Ones
Dark academia with a girl who feeds on rejection and a boy descended from Lust. Sign me up.
goodreads 3.82/5 38 ratings
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Length400 pages
Series statusOngoing series
Spice3/5 · Passionate / intense
PacingFast
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Enemies to lovers
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Medium burn
- Medium
- Passionate / intense
- Addictive read
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- Mysterious stranger
- Love/hate tension
- Tension / anticipation
- Tension finally satisfied
- Morally gray
- Morally gray love interest (LI)
- Taboo / forbidden
- The angst delivered
- Anti-hero
- Banter
- Longing glances
- Book hangover incoming
- Tension
- Anticipation
- Wall pinning
- Eye contact intensity
- Power exchange
- Marking
- Possessive
Fantasy promise
- Romantasy
- Forbidden love
- Academy / campus
- Contemporary
- Gods/deities
- Fated mates
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- Low fantasy / secret magic
- Humans only
- Hidden identity
- Mythological
- Dark academia romance
- Secret power
Reading experience
- First person
- Fast
- Dark
- Edgy
- Moderate
- Reluctant chosen one
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- MC 20-30
- Atmospheric
- Witty
- Mysterious
- Snarky/sarcastic
- Intense
- Deceptively deadly
- Brooding
- Punchy
- Yearning
- Secretive
- Forbidden desire
- Morally complex
- Cursed bloodline
- Chosen one burden
- Page turner
- Cliffhanger warning
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Book details
- Length
- 400 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book