The Foxglove King
A woman who can raise the dead is blackmailed into spying on a decadent court by the Sainted King, handled by a prince who despises her. Court intrigue with necromancy, and considerably more interested in religion than most of the genre. On the House's scale it rates 3 for spice (hot), 4 for how much of the book is the romance, and 4 for craft. Readers who want court intrigue and necromancy with a slow, hostile romance.
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How it rates
- Author
- Hannah Whitten
- Series
- The Nightshade Crown, book 1 of 3 · series complete
- Spice
- Spice 3 out of 5, Hot3/5 · Hot
- Romance
- 4/5
- Plot
- 4/5
- Worldbuilding
- 4/5
- Darkness
- 4/5
- Writing craft
- 4/5
- Burn
- Slow burn
- Point of view
- third person
- Ending
- Happy ever after · cliffhanger
- Setting
- Auverraine, a court built over a buried god
- Audience
- Adult
- Pages
- 432
On the spice rating A few explicit scenes, unhurried, arriving after a long stretch of hostility. How the scale works.
Content warnings death, drug use, gore, religious control.
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