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- Content warnings: Violence, Graphic violence, Kidnapping, Captivity, Death, Blood, Manipulation, Betrayal, Imprisonment, Sexual content
House of Pounding Hearts
by Olivia Wildenstein
Book 2 in The Kingdom of Crows
goodreads 4.14/5 31,268 ratings
storykind_community 4.67/5 6 ratings
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Length444 pages
Series statusOngoing series
Spice4/5 · Passionate / intense
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Enemies to lovers
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Slow burn
- High
- Passionate / intense
- The swoon
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- King / ruling monarch
- Fated mates
- Possessive / claiming
- Tension finally satisfied
- Morally gray
- Captor/captive
- First time/virgin romance
- The angst delivered
- Possessive alpha
- Love/hate tension
- Emotional / vulnerable intimacy
- Book hangover
- Shifter alpha
- Obsessive love interest
- Slow burn with late spice
- Feral brain activated
- Cursed
- Possessive love interest
- Tension / anticipation
- Obsessed
- Anti-hero
- Morally gray love interest (LI)
- Possessive/protective
- Touch her and die
- Tension
- Feral devotion
- Anticipation
- Wall pinning
- Mine declarations
- Growling / possessive sounds
- Possessive
- Claiming
- Marking
- Magic-infused intimacy
- Size difference
Fantasy promise
- Romantasy
- Royal court / palace
- High fantasy
- Shifters
- Castle / fortress
- Fae realm / faerie courts
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- Fae
- Shifter romance
- Prison / captivity
- Other
- Fae romance
- Captive romance
- Magic bond
- Forced proximity
- Secret heir/royalty
- Soulmate/destined bond
Reading experience
- First person
- Medium
- Dark
- Lush
- Heavy
- Reluctant chosen one
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- Intense
- Atmospheric
- Fallen noble / disgraced heir
- Yearning
- Dramatic
- Seductive
- Damaged survivor
- Immersive
- Magical
- Feral
- Forbidden desire
- Battle of wills
- Fae courts and politics
- Enemies forced to ally
- Cliffhanger warning
- Emotional devastation
- Morally complex
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Book details
- Length
- 444 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book