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★★★★☆ 3.97 • Goodreads

If Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig left you craving more cursed love and shadowed magic, pick up A Dawn of Onyx by Kate Golden next.

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Why It's Your Next Read

  • Enemies-to-lovers tension w/ morally gray stakes
  • Cursed realms + forbidden magic vibes
  • Fierce heroine navigating identity & power
  • Lyrical prose meets high-stakes betrayals

If you binged Two Twisted Crowns for its gothic-drenched forests and morally compromised love, A Dawn of Onyx delivers that same intoxicating alchemy—shadowed kingdoms, forbidden sorcery that hums beneath every page, and a romance so tension-soaked it practically bleeds. Kate Golden architects a world where power costs, curses linger, and the line between villain and savior blurs into something deliciously uncomfortable.

This is cursed love that refuses to play safe, and you'll devour every shadowed page.

Here's a heroine wrestling identity and magic with the same raw grit Elspeth brought, matched against a love interest whose moral ambiguity will wreck you. The prose moves like folklore—lyrical, propulsive, unapologetically dark.

This is cursed love that refuses to play safe, and you'll devour every shadowed page.

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What Readers Are Saying

"This is it, guys. It’s the book I’ve been needing for like a month. The book to crack my reading slump." Darcey, Goodreads
"I immediately loved it. It's such a comforting feeling when you're in the mood for something and you pick up a book and it delivers in every way that you wanted it to." ♥︎ Heather ⚔ (New House-Hiatus), Goodreads
"This book had me WHEEZING, CRYING, LAUGHING, HEARTTHROBBING! Kane Ravenwood. Kane motherfreaking Ravenwood." Cece ❀Rants, Raves &Reviews❀, Goodreads

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