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- Content warnings: Grief, Death, Death of loved one, Depression, Manipulation, Injury detail, Trauma, Hospitalization
Of Earthly Delights
by Goldy Moldavsky
Goldy Moldavsky writing a gothic YA where the magical wish-granting garden costs something every time. Atmospheric and aching, with a twist that recontextualizes everything.
goodreads 3.75/5 530 ratings
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Length336 pages
Story statusStandalone
Spice1/5 · Closed door / fade to black
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Mutual pining
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Slow burn
- Low
- Closed door / fade to black
- Perspective shift
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- Mysterious stranger
- Obsessive love interest
- Tension / anticipation
- Cathartic release
- Dark/tortured soul
- Love/hate tension
- Longing glances
- Book hangover
- Cursed
- Intellectual connection
- Tension
- Beautiful grief
- Anticipation
- First time/virgin romance
Fantasy promise
- Young adult
- Forbidden love
- Manor house / estate
- Contemporary
- Humans only
- First love
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- Small town / village
- Low fantasy / secret magic
- Summer fling
- Magical realism
- Cursed love interest
- Gothic
- Dark academia romance
- Hidden past revealed
- High school romance
Reading experience
- Dual POV
- Medium
- Lush
- Moderate
- Artist/creative
- Atmospheric
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- Outcast/loner
- Haunting
- Lyrical
- Dreamy
- Mysterious
- Literary
- Melancholic
- Dark
- Romantic
- Eerie
- Forbidden desire
- Cursed bloodline
- Bargain with consequences
- Haunted castle
- Slow descent into darkness
- Morally complex
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Book details
- Length
- 336 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book