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- Content warnings: Violence, Death, Manipulation, War, Kidnapping, Blood, Gore, Body horror, Captivity, Imprisonment, Drugging
Girl, Serpent, Thorn
by Melissa Bashardoust
A poisonous princess who can't touch anyone discovers that the real curse was never her venom - it was believing she didn't deserve to be loved. Persian mythology meets sapphic yearning in a story that will rewire how you think about monstrousness.
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Story statusStandalone
Spice1/5 · Tension
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Forbidden love
- F/F
- Slow burn
- Low
- Tension
- Cathartic release
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- Mysterious stranger
- Touch starvation
- Growth-focused
- Morally gray
- She falls first
- Longing glances
- Expanded empathy
- Only one who understands them
Fantasy promise
- Young adult
- Royal court / palace
- Mythological
- Demons
- Hidden identity
- Djinn
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- Cursed love interest
Reading experience
- Third person
- Medium
- Dark
- Lyrical
- Heavy
- Reluctant chosen one
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- Sapphic
- Mysterious
- Atmospheric
- Outcast/loner
- Bisexual MC
- Magical
- Lush
- BIPOC MC
- Bittersweet
- Introspective
- BIPOC love interest (LI)
- Mythic
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Different because
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Book details
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book