Morally Gray Men and the Women Who Stab Them | Phantom by Beth Ball

Welcome, brave readers, to the literary equivalent of yelling into the void while clutching a paperback (an eBook in this case 😅) and crying over fictional trauma! 

Phantom; Heir of Lilith

Imagine a sexy, brooding assassin with enough emotional repression to qualify as a Victorian ghost, and a courtesan who's like, “What if trauma but also knives?” And then throw them into a court full of shadowy politics, blood oaths, ancestral drama, and one very sparkly emerald choker that could probably pay off my student loans 😋.

Silas Graveston is the kind of morally gray man who broods in candlelight while sharpening blades and whispering sad poetry to his dead relatives (probably). Meanwhile, Natalya Slipshayde— a walking red flag in a corset. She will stab you, seduce you, and betray you in the same breath, and you will say “thank you.”

Genre & Tropes

Dark Fantasy Romance

‎Rating

5/5

Things That Made My Brain Go “WHEEEEE!”

 This book is gothic, moody, and dripping in velvet and secrets. Like if Crimson Peak and Assassin’s Creed had a spicy little baby and raised it on morally dubious choices and star-crossed tension. Every corner of Draykemire feels like it’s hiding a curse or a hot villain. Sometimes both.

😵‍💫 THINGS THIS BOOK DID TO ME:

Peak “I hate you” to “I’d burn down a kingdom for you” energy. It’s got forced proximity, courtly drama, casual m-u-r-d-e-r, and that one bed trope that makes you shriek like a feral raccoon. I swear this book had me clapping like an Elizabethan widow at a scandalous duel.

What my Braincell Has Spoken!

Phantom is the book equivalent of getting seduced in a castle during a thunderstorm while assassins fight on the rooftop. Read it. Obsess over it. Then scream into the void waiting for book two. This book is a chaotic, slow-burn, morally gray fever dream

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ + a bonus star for the dagger flirting.

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