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House of Blight
by Maxym M. Martineau
adventurous
emotional
tense
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Diverse cast of characters:
No
this pretends to be a standard romantasy for the full first third of the book but it really starts to pick up at the halfway point and the last third is a WILD ride in a cool af way. wish a developmental editor had been a little stricter on the author and made her cut some of the lust-at-first-sight so that the plot stayed closer at hand. but romantasy just likes to bully me by having good ideas stuck behind dumb MCs too busy making heart eyes, so frankly this is pretty well done
the body horror is constant, and in a GROSS way. very much uhhh like blisters and spores and such? rather than gore. just an fyi
hey Maxym this is a random nitpick but i am begging you to find another way to describe "capping" powers because it was too many times.
FMC's magic reminds me of the Thread magic of the Truthwitch books, but in an interesting compare and contrast way! made me wanna re-read that series lol
looking forward to a sequel!
Thank you to The Nerd Fam and Netgalley for an eARC of this book. All opinions are my own.
the body horror is constant, and in a GROSS way. very much uhhh like blisters and spores and such? rather than gore. just an fyi
hey Maxym this is a random nitpick but i am begging you to find another way to describe "capping" powers because it was too many times.
FMC's magic reminds me of the Thread magic of the Truthwitch books, but in an interesting compare and contrast way! made me wanna re-read that series lol
looking forward to a sequel!
Thank you to The Nerd Fam and Netgalley for an eARC of this book. All opinions are my own.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Child death, Gore, Sexual content, Grief, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Infertility, Infidelity, Vomit, Dementia, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Classism