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This Vicious Hunger
A Fantasy Novel by Francesca May
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Gothic Fantasy,
- Dark Academia,
- Queer Romance
This book is for you if you're into...
- Gothic academia with poisonous plants and secret midnight gardens
- Queer romance tangled with obsession and supernatural mystery
- Heroines risking everything for forbidden knowledge
From Little Stack
This Summer 2025 release is a classic gothic fantasy with a queer romantic twist. Thora Grieve is cast out of society and called a black widow after her husband dies mere weeks into their marriage. She finds solace at university studying botany, and through the glances of a mysterious young woman, Olea, who emerges each night to tend to the plants. Their connection is instant, but Olea is not all that she seems. Is Thora truly in love or is she enraptured by an otherworldly force?
This Vicious Hunger is a dark, gothic fantasy of intoxication, obsession, and two women's desperate hunger for knowledge, whatever the cost.
Thora Grieve finds herself destitute and an outcast after the sudden death of her husband, but a glimmer of hope arrives when a family friend offers her the chance to study botany under the tutelage of a famed professor. Once at the university, Thora becomes entranced by a mysterious young woman, Olea, who emerges each night to tend to the plants in the private garden below Thora's window.
Hungry for connection, Thora befriends Olea through the garden gate and their relationship quickly and intensely blossoms. Thora throws herself into finding a cure for the ailment confining Olea to the garden and sinks deeper into a world of beauty, poison, and obsession. Thora has finally found the freedom to pursue her darkest desires, but will it be worth the price?
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