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- Content warnings: Captivity, Imprisonment, Violence, Blood, Trauma, Toxic relationships, Sexual content
Wicked Abyss
by Kresley Cole
Book 17 in Immortals After Dark
One of the cleaner entry points into later Immortals After Dark if you want enemies-to-lovers heat, Beauty and the Beast bones, and Robert Petkoff audio energy.
goodreads 4.35/5 14,692 ratings
storykind_community 2.5/5 2 ratings
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A decision-first view of the reading experience.
Length401 pages
Series statusOngoing series
Spice4/5 · Passionate / intense
PacingFast
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)
- Medium burn
- High
- Passionate / intense
- Romantic fulfillment
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- Demon lord
- Captor/captive
- Rough / primal
- The angst delivered
- Monster
- Fated mates
- Fantasy / supernatural intimacy
- Book hangover incoming
- Dark/tortured soul
- Push and pull
- Possessive / claiming
- Possessive alpha
- Only soft for them
- Desperate / urgent
- Immortal/ancient
- Marking hickeys
- Rough but consensual
- Possessive/protective
- Tension
- Possessive
- Claiming
- Rough/aggressive intimacy
Fantasy promise
- Paranormal romance
- Demon romance
- Castle / fortress
- Paranormal
- Demons
- Fae romance
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- Underground / underworld
- Underworld / death realm
- Fae
- Beauty and the beast
- Fae realm / faerie courts
- Monsters
- Captive romance
- Shifters
- Forced proximity
Reading experience
- Third person
- Fast
- Dark
- Seductive
- Heavy
- Medium
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- Royalty
- Steamy
- Fast-paced
- Deceptively deadly
- Intense
- Survivor
- Dangerous
- Dramatic
- Vengeful / revenge-driven
- Beauty and the Beast retelling
- Revenge arc
- Forbidden desire
- Bargain with consequences
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Book details
- Length
- 401 pages
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book