Think twice if…
- Content warnings: Child abuse (referenced), Medical experimentation, Captivity, Murder, Attempted murder, Blood, Gore, Body horror, Mental illness, Trauma
Hazelthorn
by C.G. Drews
Gothic body horror meets obsessive slow-burn M/M romance in a sentient estate that demands to be fed.
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Length358 pages
Story statusCompleted
Spice1/5 · Closed door / fade to black
PacingSlow
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Love/hate tension
- M/M
- Slow burn
- Low
- Closed door / fade to black
- Cathartic release
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- Dark/tortured soul
- Childhood friends
- Tension / anticipation
- Book hangover
- Morally gray
- Push and pull
- Soft dom energy
- Beautiful grief
- Obsessive love interest
- Teasing control
- Praise kink
- Power exchange soft
Fantasy promise
- Ya fantasy
- Hidden past revealed
- Manor house / estate
- Gothic
- Witches/wizards/warlocks
- Dark academia romance
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- Elementals
- Hurt/comfort
Reading experience
- First person
- Slow
- Haunting
- Lyrical
- Heavy
- High
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- Outcast/loner
- Gay
- Atmospheric
- Reluctant hero
- Queer
- Eerie
- Dark
- Lush
- Intense
- Page turner
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Book details
- Length
- 358 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book