Epic fantasy · Romance
Kushiel's Dart
In an alternate Renaissance Europe, a girl sold into service is trained as a courtesan-spy, marked from birth with a mark that ties her to a painful kind of pleasure. She uncovers a plot that threatens her country and has to travel far to stop it.
- First published
- 2001
- Pace
- slow
- Length
- long
- Format
- Standalone
Read this if you want a very long, lush, political fantasy with sensual detail and a narrator with a distinctive voice.
Skip this if you are uncomfortable with explicit sexual content, including BDSM, or with sexual coercion and torture on the page.
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