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- Content warnings: Violence, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Abandonment, Captivity, Imprisonment
A Dark Forgetting
by Kristen Ciccarelli
A haunting standalone where a singer-songwriter trades her voice for her grandfather in a fae-like court. The slow burn between Emeline and Hawthorne aches with longing, and the forest setting drips with eerie atmosphere.
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storykind_community 5/5 1 rating
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A decision-first view of the reading experience.
Length432 pages
Story statusStandalone
Spice1/5 · Tension / anticipation focus
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Mutual pining
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Slow burn
- Low
- Tension / anticipation focus
- The angst delivered
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- Dark/tortured soul
- Forbidden love
- Slow burn with late spice
- Cathartic release
- Morally gray
- Reluctant allies to lovers
- Fade to black
- Romantic fulfillment
- Cursed
- Tension
- Earned hope
- Grumpy protector
- He falls first
- Anticipation
- Longing glances
- Touch starvation
Fantasy promise
- Romantasy
- Small town / village
- Low fantasy / secret magic
- Fae
- Cursed love interest
- Forest / wilderness
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- Fae realm / faerie courts
- Dragons
- Forced proximity
- Royal court / palace
- Shifters
- Fae romance
- Shadow beings / shadow fae
- Sacrifice/martyrdom
- Beauty and the beast
Reading experience
- First person
- Medium
- Dark
- Lyrical
- Heavy
- Reluctant chosen one
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- Mysterious
- Atmospheric
- Artist/creative
- Immersive
- Survivor
- Eerie
- Dreamy
- Romantic
- Emotional
- Melancholic
- Magical
- Fae courts and politics
- Forbidden desire
- Haunted forest
- Music and memory
- Fairy tale retelling
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Book details
- Length
- 432 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book