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- Content warnings: Violence, Blood, Gore, Addiction, War
The House of Shattered Wings
by Aliette de Bodard
Book 1 in Dominion of the Fallen
Fallen angels cannibalizing each other for power in a Paris that never recovered from a magical Great War. Cold, dense, and genuinely interested in what divinity costs when you strip the glory away. Aliette de Bodard builds faction politics and survival without manufacturing a love story out of it.
goodreads 3.39/5 4,622 ratings
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Length402 pages
Series statusCompleted series · 5 books
Spice1/5
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Low
- Thought-provoking
- Intellectual satisfaction
- Book hangover incoming
Fantasy promise
- Dark fantasy
- Big city / metropolis
- Grimdark / dark fantasy
- Angels
- Manor house / estate
- Gothic
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- Shadow beings / shadow fae
- War front / rebellion
- Alternate history
Reading experience
- Multi-POV
- Medium
- Dark
- Lush
- Heavy
- High
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- Asian MC
- Atmospheric
- BIPOC MC
- Melancholic
- Literary
- Crumbling empire
- Political intrigue
- Morally complex
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Book details
- Length
- 402 pages
- Publisher
- Roc
- Language
- English
- Format
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