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- Content warnings: Violence, War, Blood, Slavery, Human trafficking, Torture, Captivity, Death, Death of loved one, Animal death, Gore, Murder, Child trafficking
Faebound
by Saara El-Arifi
Book 1 in Faebound
El-Arifi builds a queernorm fae world that doesn't borrow from the Maas template - new mythology, sister bond at the center, and a romance that earns every scene.
goodreads 3.53/5 28,631 ratings
storykind_community 3/5 1 rating
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Length386 pages
Series statusOngoing series
Spice3/5 · Passionate / intense
PacingSlow
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Enemies to lovers
- Mixed
- Slow burn
- Medium
- Passionate / intense
- The swoon
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- Fae prince
- Forbidden love
- Emotional / vulnerable intimacy
- Tension finally satisfied
- Morally gray
- Slow seduction
- Expanded empathy
- Mysterious stranger
- Intellectual connection
- Tension / anticipation focus
- Earned hope
- Found family
- Tension
- Anticipation
- Longing glances
- Eye contact intensity
- Touch starvation
Fantasy promise
- Romantasy
- Fae romance
- Forest / wilderness
- High fantasy
- Fae
- Fated mates
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- Royal court / palace
- Fae realm / faerie courts
- Elves
- Forced proximity
- Interspecies romance
- Soulmate/destined bond
Reading experience
- Dual POV
- Slow
- Lush
- Moderate
- Warrior/fighter
- BIPOC MC
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- Atmospheric
- Lyrical
- General badass
- BIPOC love interest (LI)
- Mythic
- Reluctant hero
- Black MC
- Magical
- Immersive
- Outcast/loner
- Black love interest (LI)
- Yearning
- Dreamy
- Queer
- Intense
- Literary
- Sapphic
- Epic
- Disabled MC
- MC 20-30
- Fae courts and politics
- Forbidden desire
- Bonds forged in war
- Court of shadows
- Page turner
- Series binge material
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Book details
- Length
- 386 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book