Fairydale: A Dark Gothic Fantasy Romance
4.2 | 14,377 ratings
Price: 26.24
Last update: 02-02-2026
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- Chloe harpertantalizing, flirtatious, Encourageable, horrifyingOpinion: I loved this book. It has such a gothic horror fantasy romance vibe with historic elements.
Darcy.
I loved the character development of Darcy . Once we find out about her traumatic background and the pain she has endured as Sela, and her other variations of herself. It’s like you want her to finally be happy in this life.
Amon,
The man that you are , yes he is deliciously morally gray , he will literally burn the world over the death of his wife, and honestly I love to see it. This man was the biggest “it’s on site” “keep my wife’s name out yo mouth” type of man.
I read some comments where people were like saying rape is romanized in this book. But where was that even at ?? Did you even read the book all the way through ?
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Themes: reincarnation, historic plots with a twist, religion, finding humility, second chances, healing from trauma, invisible loyalties, self sacrifice, enemies to lovers, fated mates
Triggers:
Blood play, suggested and described grape (pp. 316), child abuse, torture
Plot:
Darcy is an orphaned English teacher who was left by her mother to be raised by nuns. One day she received a letter addressed from a place called Fairydale, to attend her father’s reading of the will whom she never knew existed.
When she arrived she quickly learns that nothing is as it seems there. But despite her growing concerns over strange phenomena that keeps happening, everyone acts as if it is a normal everyday thing. Until, Darcy is faced with multiple mind altering events that shape her perception of her current reality and leave her questioning if she is in fact going mad.
She continues to stay in town for the money that is promised To her in her father’s will. While also dealing with strange dreams that started ever since she stepped foot in town. Dreams places and people she has never been, but they feel so familiar.
As Darcy begins to try to attempt to put prices together she meets a man that feels frighteningly familiar she can’t help but feel pulled to him. And she soon finds out how all of these coincidences play a part in her place in Fairydale. - Justinavery interestingWell that was a very long and interesting story. It has so many elements to it that the length makes sense. The multiple timelines also contribute a huge part to the length and it feels like several stories in one. I listened to this and it took me a few days.
I really liked the mystery of it all. We kind of got things in pieces and trying to put them together while they’re all overlapping was the challenge. I had a couple assumptions/theories some were pretty close and some things were far off lol some of the twists were so out of left field that I had to rewind to make sure I heard it right lol
If you like long stories that are not split into multiple books, you may like how this is set up. If you can endure 31 hrs of audio or around 700 pages, definitely give it a chance. But also consider the trigger warnings! It’s dark and has some not so palatable parts that could be disturbing. - Jessica SensibaughAmazing storyI love this book and the writing style. I couldn't put it down. The characters are phenomenal and I love the setting. Please tell me there will be a book 2.
- KTtoo many tropesNot what I expected at all from the blurb but I stuck with it. This book is long and could have been multiple books but it did keep my interest, I liked how the multiple storylines overlapped and the twist towards the end was good. But it would have been better if it had kept the gothic, romance trope. Towards the end I didn’t know if I was reading gothic, fantasy, spooky, vampire, witches, romance or monsters. It ended up feeling like too much once the MMC also shifted into something else along with Magic, needing blood ect all rolled into one. Would have been better to stick with just one or two. I also felt that the romance was good but there were a couple graphic scenes that left me cringing, SPOILER didn’t like his face covered in blood while on her time of the month, it was cringe and the last scene once he shifted was also kind of cringe. Also impossible to do what he was doing with apparently how large he was down there. It just didn’t match the rest of the book at all. I Would have liked it a lot more if he just stayed as a magical Human, not also shifting to a monster. Also after sticking with it for 700 pages the ending and prologue were so rushed and anti climatic, which didn’t relate to the descriptive rest of the book at all. I liked elements of this book and it had lots of potential but random thing were thrown into it that made it seem a little messy