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- Content warnings: Violence, Graphic violence, Murder, Death, Blood, Gore, Body horror, Decapitation, Trauma, Manipulation, Sexual content
Hollow
by Karina Halle
Book 1 in A Gothic Shade of Romance
A Sleepy Hollow why-choose where Brom comes back wrong and Ichabod teaches dark magic.
goodreads 3.78/5 7,263 ratings
storykind_community 4.67/5 3 ratings
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Length362 pages
Series statusCompleted series · 2 books
Spice4/5 · Dark / taboo style
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Forbidden love
- Why Choose / Reverse Harem
- Medium burn
- High
- Dark / taboo style
- The swoon
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- Dark/tortured soul
- Love/hate tension
- Passionate / intense
- Addictive read
- Professor/mentor
- Morally gray love interest (LI)
- Possessive / claiming
- Feral brain activated
- Cursed
- Obsessive love interest
- Rough / aggressive style
- Tension finally satisfied
- Morally gray
- Possessive love interest
- Tension
- Mysterious stranger
- Anticipation
- Longing glances
- Possessive/protective
- Eye contact intensity
- BDSM elements
- Power exchange
- Possessive
- Marking
- Monster romance elements
Fantasy promise
- Gothic romance
- Reverse harem / why choose
- Academy / campus
- Paranormal
- Witches/wizards/warlocks
- Dark academia romance
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- Manor house / estate
- Gothic
- Monsters
- Fairytale retelling
- Forest / wilderness
- Academy / school
- Ghosts
- Amnesia
- Low fantasy / secret magic
- Second chance
- Professor x student
- Friends to lovers
- Cursed love interest
Reading experience
- First person
- Medium
- Atmospheric
- Moderate
- Witch/mage
- MC 20-30
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- Dark
- Fallen noble / disgraced heir
- Eerie
- Seductive
- Haunting
- Immersive
- Dramatic
- Intense
- Lush
- Mysterious
- Brooding
- Haunted castle
- Court of shadows
- Morally complex
- Slow descent into darkness
- Cursed bloodline
- Page turner
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Book details
- Length
- 362 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book