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House of Pain: A Dark Academia Bully Romance (Precious Villains)

Karolina Wilde

Book 1 in the Precious Villains series · Reading order →

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Why we recommend it

A dark academia bully romance where a house of pain hides precious few kindnesses. Explicit content, high heat, and unflinching about power turned obsession.

At a glance

House of Pain is book 1 in Karolina Wilde’s Precious Villains series. It rates 5/5 for spice and 5/5 for darkness, one of the darker reads in bully romance: of the 419 bully romance books we rate, 80% score lower for darkness and 82% lower for spice. Tropes: bully, morally grey MC and possessive-obsessive MC. It is darker than Karolina Wilde’s other books on Readark (average darkness 4.3/5). It runs to 410 pages. 1 content warning is listed below, hidden until you tap.

Book details

Pages
410
Published
December 2022

House of Pain spice level

House of Pain is rated 5/5 for spice on Readark’s scale: very explicit throughout, meaning frequent, graphic and often kink-forward. Its darkness rating is 5/5: extreme, meaning taboo-adjacent themes taken to the edge of the genre. How we rate

House of Pain content warnings

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  • Emotional Abuse / Gaslighting

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