House of Earth and Blood
Urban fantasy with a murder investigation at its centre and a half-fae party girl grieving her found family. Eight hundred pages, a genuine mystery, and a slow burn that takes almost all of them. On the House's scale it rates 4 for spice (explicit), 4 for how much of the book is the romance, and 3 for craft. ACOTAR readers who want a real plot to hold the romance up.
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How it rates
- Author
- Sarah J. Maas
- Series
- Crescent City, book 1 · series ongoing
- Spice
- Spice 4 out of 5, Explicit4/5 · Explicit
- Romance
- 4/5
- Plot
- 4/5
- Worldbuilding
- 5/5
- Darkness
- 4/5
- Writing craft
- 3/5
- Burn
- Slow burn
- Point of view
- third person, dual
- Ending
- Happy ever after · cliffhanger
- Setting
- Lunathion, a modern city ruled by angels
- Audience
- Adult
- Pages
- 805
On the spice rating Explicit, but late and infrequent relative to the length. Most of the book is restraint. How the scale works.
Content warnings grief, graphic violence, drug use, torture.
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