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On Sundays She Picked Flowers

by Yah-Yah Scholfield

The house is alive and the monster romance has teeth, but Jude's fight to build a life after abuse stays at the center. Brutal and impossible to shake.

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goodreads 3.87/5 3,603 ratings

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  • Content warnings: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Parental abuse, Murder, Death of a parent, Grief, Gore, Graphic violence, Blood, Body horror, Self-harm, Animal death, Vomiting / emesis, Incest, Cannibalism, Racism/bigotry, Slavery, Sexual content, Sexual assault (referenced), Miscarriage, Child death, Lesbiphobia, Toxic relationships
Length240 pages
Story statusStandalone
Spice3/5 · Dark / taboo style
PacingMedium

Story profile

What the story promises

The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.

Romance promise

  • Power imbalance
  • F/F
  • Medium burn
  • Medium
  • Dark / taboo style
  • Cathartic release
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  • Beast / monster
  • Morally gray love interest (LI)
  • Fantasy / supernatural intimacy
  • Earned hope
  • Mysterious stranger
  • Predator x prey
  • Emotional / vulnerable intimacy
  • Perspective shift
  • Morally gray
  • Push and pull
  • Tension
  • Thought-provoking
  • Feral/unhinged
  • Anticipation
  • Closure
  • Monster romance elements

Fantasy promise

  • Horror
  • Monster romance
  • Forest / wilderness
  • Historical
  • Ghosts
  • Haunted house romance
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  • Cottage / cabin / homestead
  • Gothic
  • Monsters
  • Interspecies romance
  • Paranormal
  • Dark romance
  • Healing romance
  • Later in life romance

Reading experience

  • Multi-POV
  • Lush
  • Devastating
  • High
  • Survivor
  • Sapphic
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  • Haunting
  • Atmospheric
  • Healer
  • Black MC
  • Literary
  • Runaway / on the run
  • Black love interest (LI)
  • Dark
  • Outcast/loner
  • Older MC (40+)
  • Intense
  • Poetic
  • Cathartic
  • Page turner
  • Character-driven

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Book details
Length
240 pages
Publisher
S&S/Saga Press
Language
English
Format
Book