Belladonna
Adalyn Grace pours Victorian gothic into a paranormal romance and lets it bloom. Nineteen-year-old Signa Farrow has outlived every guardian she has ever had, poisoned and revived so many times that arsenic now tastes like sugar to her. When the Hawthorne family takes her in at the Thorn Grove estate, Signa walks straight into a haunted manor, a dying daughter, and a tall stranger named Death who has been hovering over her since infancy and may be the only person who can help. Grace writes the gothic register with a winking modern voice, the atmosphere thick with rose and rot, the romance slow-burning and dangerous. For readers who liked The Inheritance Games but want their drawing rooms haunted and their heroines a little supernaturally lethal.
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Signa Farrow has been orphaned and inherited many times over because everyone who takes her in dies. When her latest distant cousins fall ill, the figure she has seen since childhood, Death, finally introduces himself.
Adalyn Grace's Belladonna trilogy has three books: Belladonna, Foxglove, and Wisteria. The series follows Signa Farrow and her ability to communicate with Death, and it is complete.
Belladonna is YA-leaning gothic fantasy with romantic tension but no explicit content. Most readers rate the spice 1 to 2 out of 5. The atmosphere and Death-as-love-interest dynamic are the main draws.
Belladonna is YA-leaning gothic fantasy with romantic tension but no explicit content. Most readers rate the spice 1 to 2 out of 5. The atmosphere and Death-as-love-interest dynamic are the main draws.
Belladonna was written by Adalyn Grace, published in 2022 by Hodder & Stoughton.
Belladonna is 400 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Belladonna takes most readers 6 to 9 hours to finish.
Belladonna is a standalone novel by Adalyn Grace, not part of a series.
Belladonna is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.