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- Content warnings: Death, Grief, Car accident / crash, Body horror, Violence
I, in the Shadows
by Tori Bovalino
Drew and Liam make the strangest bargain: he helps her talk to his former best friend, and she helps him avoid becoming a hollowed-out monster. Tender, eerie, and very aware that being haunted is not always metaphorical.
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Length336 pages
Story statusStandalone
Spice1/5 · Closed door / fade to black
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- One-sided pining
- F/F
- Instant attraction
- Low
- Closed door / fade to black
- Beautiful grief
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- Hurt/comfort
- Sweet / tender
- Earned hope
- Emotional / loving
- Cathartic release
- Teasing control
- Voice kink
- Soft dom energy
Fantasy promise
- Horror
- First love
- Academy / campus
- Paranormal
- Ghosts
- Contemporary
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- Monsters
Reading experience
- Dual POV
- Medium
- Eerie
- Conversational
- Heavy
- Outcast/loner
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- Sapphic
- Melancholic
- Warm
- Queer
- Romantic
- Atmospheric
- Bisexual MC
- Emotional
- Page turner
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Book details
- Length
- 336 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book