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- Content warnings: Violence, Graphic violence, Torture, Trauma, Emotional abuse, Manipulation, Gaslighting, Betrayal, Captivity, Dubious consent, Death, Blood, Gore, Sexual content
Court of Lies and Deceit
by Marion Blackwood
Book 3 in Flame and Thorns
Book three of Flame and Thorns leans hard into the Unseelie - if you're invested in Selena and Orion, this is where the bargains turn brutal and the relationship gets its messiest yet.
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Length398 pages
Series statusCompleted series · 5 books
Spice4/5 · Intense / passionate
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Morally gray love interest (LI)
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Slow burn
- High
- Intense / passionate
- Tension finally satisfied
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- Morally gray
- Possessive love interest
- Tension / anticipation focus
- The angst delivered
- Fae prince
- Love/hate tension
- Possessive / claiming
- Addictive read
- Dark/tortured soul
- Push and pull
- Emotional / vulnerable intimacy
- Book hangover incoming
- Possessive alpha
- Fated mates
- Tension
- Anticipation
- Wall pinning
- Jealous/possessive during intimacy
- Longing glances
- Possessive/protective
- Possessive
- Claiming
- Marking
- Dominance
Fantasy promise
- Romantasy
- Fae romance
- Royal court / palace
- High fantasy
- Fae
- Competition / games
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- Fae realm / faerie courts
- Shifters
- Competition romance
- Grimdark / dark fantasy
- Dragons
- Games/trials romance
- Forbidden love
- Dark romance
- Only one bed
Reading experience
- Dual POV
- Medium
- Dark
- Intense
- Heavy
- General badass
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- MC 20-30
- Atmospheric
- Fast-paced
- Warrior/fighter
- Tense
- Dramatic
- Damaged survivor
- Angsty
- Dangerous
- Immersive
- Yearning
- Brooding
- Fae courts and politics
- Deadly trials
- Bargain with consequences
- Court of shadows
- Tournament arc
- Battle of wills
- No one is safe
- Cliffhanger warning
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Book details
- Length
- 398 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
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