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- Content warnings: Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Violence, Blood, Captivity, Bullying, Trauma
House of Blight
by Maxym M. Martineau
Book 1 in The Threadmender Chronicles
A haunting gothic romantasy where a threadmender with healing magic that costs her own life is trapped in a crumbling manor with immortal Evers, unraveling dark secrets while falling for the brooding heir who might be her salvation or destruction.
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Length384 pages
Series statusCompleted series · 2 books
Spice3/5 · Slow burn with late spice
PacingMedium
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)
- Slow burn
- Medium
- Slow burn with late spice
- The angst delivered
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- Morally gray
- Forbidden love
- Emotional / loving
- Addictive read
- Brooding prince
- Tender / sweet explicit
- Book hangover
- Cursed
- Hurt/comfort
- Tension
- Tension finally satisfied
- Secretly soft
- Power imbalance
- Anticipation
- Immortal/ancient
- Mutual pining
- Longing glances
- Only one who understands them
- Touch starvation
- Possessive/protective
Fantasy promise
- Romantasy
- Forced proximity
- Manor house / estate
- Gothic
- Fae
- Small town / village
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- Fae realm / faerie courts
- Rescue romance
- Hidden identity
- Cursed love interest
- Secret power
- Contract/transactional romance
Reading experience
- First person
- Eerie
- Atmospheric
- Heavy
- Healer
- Dark
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- Reluctant chosen one
- Lyrical
- Survivor
- Mysterious
- Immersive
- Protector
- Romantic
- Tense
- Haunted manor
- Forbidden desire
- Creeping dread
- Gothic atmosphere
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Book details
- Length
- 384 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book