Book guide
A Dark and Wild Wood
Her sister vanished. Death offered an apprenticeship.
Genre and trope pairingsFantasyFound powerFantasyRetellingDark FantasyDark magicGothic FantasyRetellingGothic FantasyDark magicHistoricalRetelling
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About A Dark and Wild Wood
Haunted by visions and uncontrolled magic, Salomé searches for her missing sister after a brutal childhood in a convent. Her trail leads into the Black Forest and to Lord Death, whose offer to teach her magic comes at a perilous price.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Medium
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Slow
Content warnings
- sexual assault
- sexual violence
- sexual harassment
- toxic relationship
- coercive control
- emotional abuse
- physical abuse
- gaslighting
- gore
- body horror
- blood
- violence
- murder
- death
- witch burning
- misogyny
- sexism
- religious bigotry
- grief
