In the Roses of Pieria (The Blood Files, 1)
Award-winning author Anna Burke delivers the shivers in this daring queer dark fantasy romance teeming with sensuous vampires, dark academia, plant horrors, and terrifying fungal fae.
When Clara Eden is offered a job as an archivist working for eccentric estate owner Agatha Montague, she thinks her prayers have been answered. Soon, she finds herself sucked into her research world, captivated by a romantic correspondence thousands of years old. But as her feelings for her employer's assistant, Fiadh, deepen, so does her suspicion that something about Agatha Montague isn't right. Unfortunately for Clara, it is far too late to run by the time her suspicions are confirmed.
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Thank you NetGalley for the ARC. This was really a treat. I have loved gothic novels since a college capstone class and this checked all my boxes and more. The dark sapphic fantasy was really well written and honestly kept me reading the entire way through in one sitting. The pacing of the novel changes and it was unexpected but really refreshing. I think that is sometimes overlooked when authors constructive a narrative. I loved the incorporation of letters - it only added to the gothic theme and motive. Clara and Fiadh are great characters who are fleshed our so well. Overall I really enjoyed this and I know it will be on my reread list
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