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- Content warnings: Blood, Terminal illness, Death, Grief, Violence, Attempted sexual assault, Captivity
Six Scorched Roses
by Carissa Broadbent
Broadbent packs a full novel of yearning and moral compromise into fewer than 200 pages - the blood-and-roses imagery is stunning and the slow burn pays off in a single devastating chapter.
goodreads 4.23/5 170,139 ratings
storykind_community 4.52/5 21 ratings
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Length187 pages
Story statusCompleted
Spice3/5 · Slow seduction
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
- Medium
- Slow seduction
- The angst delivered
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- Dark/tortured soul
- Forbidden love
- Emotional / vulnerable intimacy
- Romantic fulfillment
- Morally gray
- Intense / passionate
- Cathartic release
- Secretly soft
- Reluctant allies to lovers
- Dark / taboo style
- Comfort reread material
- Vampire lord
- Hurt/comfort
- Tension
- Beautiful grief
- Immortal/ancient
- Only soft for them
- Touch starvation
- Grumpy sunshine
- Longing glances
- Anticipation
- Neck kisses / neck touching
- Bonding/claiming/marking
Fantasy promise
- Romantasy
- Forced proximity
- Manor house / estate
- Grimdark / dark fantasy
- Vampires
- Small town / village
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- Gods/deities
- Contract/transactional romance
- Immortal/mortal romance
- Beauty and the beast
- Sacrifice/martyrdom
Reading experience
- First person
- Dark
- Lyrical
- Heavy
- Survivor
- Chronic illness
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- Romantic
- Atmospheric
- Healer
- Intense
- Emotional
- Apothecary
- Melancholic
- Brooding
- Damaged survivor
- Immersive
- Bittersweet
- Gothic
- Forbidden desire
- Blood and roses
- Gothic romance
- Desperate bargain
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Book details
- Length
- 187 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book