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Honeysuckle

Bar Fridman-Tell · Fantasy

33 Pulse Score

Based on recommendations from independent creators

gothic atmospheremagical realismcoming of agefound familyforbidden romance
magical realismgothic
🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit

#534 All Time

About this book

In a lush, quiet field, a girl made of flowers opens her eyes and meets Rory, a boy who is desperate to have a friend. Magic and horror collide in this stunning debut that explores power, consent, loneliness, and what makes a person. She was made for him. Daye was woven together from flowers and magic to be the perfect playmate for Rory, a young boy left isolated in a remote country estate. In the early years, their friendship, almost eerily in sync, is everything the two lonely children could dream of. But the threat of Daye literally—and gruesomely—falling apart whenever the seasons change drives Rory to learn ever deeper and stranger magic, until the line between what he can do and what he should do begins to blur. And the further Rory experiments, the higher the stakes climb—until the cost of a mistake might be either Daye’s freedom or her life. Daye can’t help but love Rory, even as he keeps disappearing: into his studies, into the city—a place she, a girl whose heart is built of

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