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- Content warnings: Ableism, Racism/bigotry, Blood, Gore, Body horror, Decapitation, Cannibalism, Death, Parental death, Murder, Attempted murder, Violence, Graphic violence, Drowning, Bullying, Animal death, Grief
The Keeper of Night
by Kylie Lee Baker
Book 1 in The Keeper of Night
The hook is a grim, folklore-heavy quest with a heroine who keeps choosing ambition over softness. Sharp, bloody, and much more interested in belonging than behaving.
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Length400 pages
Series statusCompleted series · 2 books
Spice1/5 · Closed door / fade to black
PacingFast
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Reluctant allies to lovers
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Delayed romance
- Low
- Closed door / fade to black
- Book hangover incoming
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- Mysterious stranger
- Found family
- Thought-provoking
- Morally gray
- Adrenaline rush
Fantasy promise
- Ya fantasy
- Forced alliance
- Big city / metropolis
- Historical
- Reapers
- Adventure romance
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- Underground / underworld
- Mythological
- Yokai
- Road trip
- Underworld / death realm
- Gods/deities
- Grimdark / dark fantasy
Reading experience
- Third person
- Fast
- Dark
- Heavy
- High
- Necromancer / death magic user
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- Asian MC
- Haunting
- Atmospheric
- East Asian MC
- Eerie
- Lush
- Outcast/loner
- BIPOC MC
- Melancholic
- Immersive
- Villain protagonist
- Intense
- Character-driven
- Morally complex
- Slow descent into darkness
- Cliffhanger warning
- Page turner
- Survival against impossible odds
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Different because
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Book details
- Length
- 400 pages
- Publisher
- Inkyard Press
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book