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Initiation

by Alethea Faust

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️explicit·spoiler·Sex Wizards #1

Why Read This?

A fantasy novel where the plot genuinely has no business being this good. The kink-based magic system is wildly creative and the consent-forward worldbuilding makes even the most intense scenes feel thoughtful. Dominai is hilarious and the mystery keeps you guessing.

Synopsis

Magic is a rare gift that only exists in the bloodlines of the rich, the royal, and the reputable. Dominai of Airedale, a poor hunter and forest guide, is barely one of those things. But after a moonlit encounter with the wizard Allisande, Dominai's life is changed forever. She reveals that Dominai has magic in his lineage and provides him with a letter of introduction to the Crux, the center of magical study in the Kingdom of Straetham. Magical study is a far cry from the dusty tomes and rituals Dom was expecting. Instead, it is sex and desire, submission and surrender, loyalty and love, and, above all, trust. But when the trust of the Crux is betrayed, Dom must face his own insecurities and the unknown to protect his new home and his fellow wizards. Alethea Faust’s debut novel delivers risk-aware consensual kink, hard BDSM, budding relationships between kind, emotionally mature adults, and a lot of butt stuff. Initiation is a full-length fantasy, the first in the epic Sex Wizards series set in a sex-positive, magical world. This novel has a kink-based magic system which crosses a wide range of play with varying degrees of intensity. The wizards of the Crux include pansexual, polyamorous, fantasy race, nonbinary, gender non-conforming and intersex characters. Please see book preview for full CW.

At a Glance

4.26 ★ Goodreads
Spice Level🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️explicit
Endingspoiler
PairingMIXED
Romance Pacingslow burn

Top Tropes

slow burnfound familymentor and student

Mood

adventuroussex-positiveintense

Book Details

Goodreads Rating

4.26 ★

Page Count

288 pages

Published

2021

Primary Genre

Dark Romance

Pairing

MIXED

POV

Third Person

Romance Pacing

Slow Burn

Cliffhanger

spoiler

Audiobook

Available

Yes

Format

Unabridged

Narrator

Blake Lockheart

Tropes

RomanceMagicActionAngstWorld
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Mood & Vibe

Mood

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Characters

FMC: N/A sign in to unlock

Spice Details 🌶️

kink-based magic system sign in to unlock

rape and sexual assault (pastkidnappingnonconsensual fondlingphysical violenceexplicit BDSM contentreferenced)druggingsexual threatsblood

World & Setting

secondary world fantasy sign in to unlock

Reading Context

earned trust and belonging in a sex-positive found family sign in to unlock

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