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- Content warnings: Violence, Emotional abuse, Parental abuse, Trauma, Self-harm, Eating disorders, Bullying, Body horror, Grief, Death, Homophobia/transphobia, Gore, Blood, Murder, Panic attacks, Abandonment, Child abuse (referenced)
Don't Let the Forest In
by C.G. Drews
Drews writes longing like it has a pulse. Andrew's asexuality is handled with care instead of explanation, and the forest horror gets under your skin in a way that lingers for days.
goodreads 4.06/5 48,183 ratings
storykind_community 5/5 2 ratings
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A decision-first view of the reading experience.
Length336 pages
Story statusStandalone
Spice1/5 · Emotional / loving
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Friends to lovers
- M/M
- Slow burn
- Low
- Emotional / loving
- Cathartic release
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- Dark/tortured soul
- Mutual pining
- Tension / anticipation focus
- Growth-focused
- Reluctant hero
- Obsessive love interest
- Longing glances
- Book hangover
- Artist/musician
- One-sided pining
- Eye contact intensity
- The angst delivered
- Only one who understands them
- Touch starvation
- Thought-provoking
Fantasy promise
- Ya fantasy
- Academy / campus
- Gothic
- Monsters
- Forbidden love
- Forest / wilderness
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- Academy / school
- Dark academia romance
- High school romance
Reading experience
- Third person
- Medium
- Dark
- Lyrical
- Heavy
- Bookworm/scholar
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- Gay
- Mysterious
- Atmospheric
- Outcast/loner
- Asexual / ace spectrum
- Eerie
- Neurodivergent MC
- Melancholic
- Emotional
- Lush
- Haunting
- Introspective
- Forbidden desire
- Page turner
- Slow descent into darkness
- Enchanted forest
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Book details
- Length
- 336 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book