Belladonna
An orphan who cannot die investigates a series of murders alongside Death himself, who has been watching her since she was a child. Gothic, mannered, and unashamedly indebted to every haunted-house novel of the last two centuries. On the House's scale it rates 1 for spice (a door, closed), 4 for how much of the book is the romance, and 4 for craft. Readers who want gothic romance with Death as the love interest and no spice.
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How it rates
- Author
- Adalyn Grace
- Series
- Belladonna, book 1 of 3 · series complete
- Spice
- Spice 1 out of 5, A door, closed1/5 · A door, closed
- Romance
- 4/5
- Plot
- 4/5
- Worldbuilding
- 3/5
- Darkness
- 3/5
- Writing craft
- 4/5
- Burn
- Slow burn
- Point of view
- third person
- Ending
- Happy ever after
- Setting
- A Victorian-inflected estate called Thorn Grove
- Audience
- Young adult
- Pages
- 400
On the spice rating Kissing and atmosphere. Nothing explicit. How the scale works.
Content warnings murder, poisoning, grief, death of a parent.
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