Radiance
Two people from species that find each other physically repellent are married to seal a trade alliance, and decide to make the best of it. A marriage of convenience built on genuine kindness rather than antagonism, which is much rarer than it should be. On the House's scale it rates 3 for spice (hot), 5 for how much of the book is the romance, and 4 for craft. Readers tired of hostility who want a marriage of convenience built on decency.
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How it rates
- Author
- Grace Draven
- Series
- Wraith Kings, book 1 · series ongoing
- Spice
- Spice 3 out of 5, Hot3/5 · Hot
- Romance
- 5/5
- Plot
- 3/5
- Worldbuilding
- 4/5
- Darkness
- 3/5
- Writing craft
- 4/5
- Burn
- Medium
- Point of view
- first person, dual
- Ending
- Happy ever after
- Setting
- The Kai kingdom of Bast-Haradis and the human court beside it
- Audience
- Adult
- Pages
- 296
On the spice rating Several explicit scenes, warm rather than intense, and central to how they grow close. How the scale works.
Content warnings violence, xenophobia, grief.
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