What Hunts Inside the Shadows by Harper L. Woods
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ | Plot: 📕📕📕📕| Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Length: 🎧 15:27:51 | Genre: Romantasy | POV: Dual
Dates Read: 02.28.24 – 02.29.24



✴✴✴ TW: Religious purity culture; Verbal and physical abuse (NOT the male lead); References to grooming behavior & assault of a minor by an authority figure (NOT the male lead); Ritualistic Sacrifice; Suicidal thoughts & ideation; Graphic violence; Graphic sexual content including kinks ✴✴✴


🕊️ ➞ Tropes:

🧞‍♀️🧚💕Romantasy 💕🧚🧞‍♀️
🧝🏼‍♂️🧝🏻‍♀️Fae 🧝🏻‍♀️🧝🏼‍♂️
⚔️💀 Touch Her, You Die 💀⚔️
☠️ Morally Grey MMC ☠️
❤️🚫 Forbidden Romance 🚫❤️
😍He Falls First 😍
😒👫Forced Proximity👫😒
⚔️❤️‍🔥Enemies to Lovers❤️‍🔥⚔️
📜Prophecy📜
🧿Chosen One 🧿
🗡️💃🏻Deadly FMC💃🏻🗡️
👩🏼‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏻 Mates 👩🏼‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏻
🧙🧝🏼‍♂High Fantasy 🧝🏼‍♂️🧙🏻‍♀️
🛏️Only One Bed 🛏️



🕊️ ➞ Synopsis:

Once, I fell in love with a man who deceived me.

For weeks, he stood by my side, twisting his words into pretty half-truths. He enraptured me with his smooth temptation, leaving no corner of my being untouched. He consumed my mind and my body, then finally claimed my heart for himself. But Caelum’s true identity is terrifying enough to bring me to my knees.

Then, I discovered the truth of who he is.

Caldris is whispered in the Nothrek wind. The legend we only speak of with hushed words, in shuttered rooms, for fear of drawing his wrath once again. His intentions are a mystery, his desires impure, and he seeks to shackle me to his side for all eternity. With the Wild Hunt as our guard, he points us back to where it all began: the village of Mistfell and the boundary where the Veil once shimmered in the wind.

Now, another secret crouches, poised to change everything.

The Mist Guard have been sworn to keep us from crossing into Alfheimr, and from treading Faerie soil, even if innocents must pay with their lives. They have orders to resurrect Mistfell’s shimmering barrier, but, once again, there’s a greater cost than what has been revealed. Once, the people of Northrek blamed me when the Veil fell.

Soon, they’ll want me to pay the price the magic requires.


Author’s Note: This book is intended for readers who are 18 and older. It contains mature language, graphic violence, and explicit content with darker elements. This is book two in a series and ends in a cliffhanger.



🕊️ ➞ My Thoughts:

What Hunts Inside the Shadows was definitely more plot-heavy than its predecessor – which we love. We still got some spice but it focused more on the world’s lore and the origin of everything. The blend of religions and lore was intriguing and enjoyable; my favorite had to be when Lord Byron died but that should be a given. 🤣 What should also be a given is the fact that Caldris is ✨THE✨ newest shadow daddy and I can’t wait for more of his pedigree of yum. 🥵🥵

Want smut? Plot? Lore and action? Well then, welcome to the Of Flesh & Bone series! Read it, love it, then comment your thoughts! Can’t wait to read them!

xo,

L.B.

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