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- Content warnings: Violence, Graphic violence, Animal death, Death, Trauma, Abandonment
Riftborne
by Bree Grenwich & Parker Lennox
Book 1 in Esprithean Trilogy
Slow-burn fae enemies-to-lovers with a stoic general, a hidden-power outcast heroine, and the kind of training-arc tension romantasy readers came for.
goodreads 3.8/5 31,595 ratings
storykind_community 4.14/5 7 ratings
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Length426 pages
Series statusOngoing series
Spice3/5 · Slow seduction
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 seduction
- Tension finally satisfied
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- War general / commander
- Tension / anticipation
- Book hangover incoming
- Morally gray
- Grumpy sunshine
- Passionate / intense
- The swoon
- Protective love interest
- Power imbalance
- Emotional / vulnerable intimacy
- Found family feels
- Brooding prince
- Morally gray love interest (LI)
- Possessive / claiming
- Tension
- Anticipation
- Longing glances
- Wall pinning
- Eye contact intensity
Fantasy promise
- Fantasy romance
- Fae romance
- Academy / campus
- High fantasy
- Fae
- Royal court / palace
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- Fae realm / faerie courts
- War front / rebellion
- Forced proximity
- Found family
- Forbidden love
- Training partners to lovers
Reading experience
- First person
- Atmospheric
- Moderate
- Outcast/loner
- MC 20-30
- Intense
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- Character-driven
- Reluctant hero
- Yearning
- Immersive
- Damaged survivor
- Adventurous
- Emotional
- Witch/mage
- Magical
- Dark
- Hopeful
- Enemies forced to ally
- Fae courts and politics
- Chosen one burden
- War-torn kingdom
- Protect at all costs
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Book details
- Length
- 426 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book