There’s a feisty female MC, a brooding male MC (Sort of a new take on the Sunshine/Grumpy trope?), lots of dark, creepy and eerie elements and a mystery that keeps you hooked. This book has a little bit of everything to make it good. Death gods who whisper your name in the darkĪ genre I love that you don’t see a lot of in YA books is Gothic Romance. Monster boys who gift you pretty dresses Now, to save Rowan-and herself-Leta must confront the darkness in her past, including unraveling the mystery of her connection to the Lord Under. There’s a monster in the shadows, and now it knows my name. A creature to whom Leta is inexplicably drawn… But neither the estate nor the monster are what they seem.Īs Leta falls for Rowan, she discovers he is bound to the Lord Under, the sinister death god lurking in the black waters of the lake. She knows the terrifying rumors about Rowan Sylvanan, who drowned his entire family when he was a boy. When Violeta Graceling arrives at haunted Lakesedge estate, she expects to find a monster. All opinions are my own.Ĭontent Warnings: Emotional and physical abuse by a parent, Body horror, Goreand blood (including description of wounds), Emesis, Discussions of death and grief (no on-page deaths), Descriptions of drowning and deep water, Drowning-related imagery Self-injury (in the context of a curse that requires regular physical sacrifices), suicidal ideation Thank you to the author and TBR and Beyond Tours for a copy of this book in exchange for a review. Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | Book Depository | Indigo | IndieBound To save Lakesedge, she must make a bargain of her own with the fiendish being who rules over the world Below.Genre: Fantasy, Gothic, Romance, Paranormal As their friendship blossoms, Violeta learns the tragic truth of Rowan's curse and his fateful bargain with the Lord Under. Yet as Violeta investigates Lakesedge's tragic history, she discovers that its prickly, standoffish lord is far from a monster, but an orphaned boy not much older than she is. The monster who, it is whispered, stalks the halls of his manor and the shores of the blackened, cursed lake. To escape means taking a position at the haunted estate of Rowan Sylvanan-the so-called 'Monster of Lakesedge'-who comes seeking Arien's dark magic.

A cruelty driven by the mysterious shadows that unwillingly spill from Arien's hands, spelling dark magic and an even darker underworld.

Violeta Graceling has spent her life in an isolated cottage, trying to protect herself and her beloved younger brother Arien from their adoptive mother's twisted cruelty. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo There are monsters in the world.

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