A Fate Inked in Blood
A shield-maiden with a drop of a god's blood is bound by an oath to a jarl who intends to use her to unite Skaland. Norse-inflected, politically sharp, and unusually good on the mechanics of being someone else's prophecy. On the House's scale it rates 4 for spice (explicit), 4 for how much of the book is the romance, and 4 for craft. Fourth Wing readers who want the same intensity in a Norse setting.
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How it rates
- Author
- Danielle L. Jensen
- Series
- Saga of the Unfated, book 1 · series ongoing
- Spice
- Spice 4 out of 5, Explicit4/5 · Explicit
- Romance
- 4/5
- Plot
- 4/5
- Worldbuilding
- 4/5
- Darkness
- 4/5
- Writing craft
- 4/5
- Burn
- Medium
- Point of view
- first person
- Ending
- Happy ever after · cliffhanger
- Setting
- Skaland, a Norse kingdom of feuding jarls
- Audience
- Adult
On the spice rating Explicit and reasonably frequent, with the physical relationship complicating the politics. How the scale works.
Content warnings graphic violence, war, coercion, death.
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