Saara El-ArifiFantasy · Romantasy
Faebound
Synopsis
First in an African-inspired epic fantasy trilogy. Yeeran is a hardened warrior in the elven army; her younger sister Lettle is a diviner chasing unreliable glimpses of the future.
When a catastrophe on patrol gets Yeeran exiled, the sisters are cast out of everything they know—and stumble into the hidden realm of the fae, a people the elves believed extinct for centuries.
Bound to this new world and the powers it wakes in them, Yeeran and Lettle navigate court intrigue, a murder, buried history, and dangerous new loves, their sisterhood tested at every turn.
How it reads
Prose complexity 4/10
- <div>Genre: Romantasy 🧝♀️❤️🔥</div><div>📌 Tropes/Themes: Inspired by African Mythology, Black MCs, Sapphic and Straight Main Pairings, Queer Normative World, Genderfluid Representation, Disability Representation, Prophecy, Sister’s Best Friend/Best Friend’s Sister, Friends to Lovers, Forced Proximity, Enemies to Lovers, Betrayal, Dual 3rd Person POV</div><div>⚠️ CW: animal death, death and grief, non graphic violence, racism, suicide </div><div>🌶️: 🌶️🌶️🌶️</div><div>Medium: audiobook 🎧, narrator Bahni Turpin</div><div>💭Thoughts: </div><div>What a way to flip the script on Fae, Elves, and Humans 😍 this was a wonderful tale of Loyalty and Finding Oneself, with a fascinating and diverse cast and soul crushing prophecies. Saara El-Arifi paints such a vivid and enchanting world - I did not want to leave!!</div>
- Genre: Romantasy 🧝♀️❤️🔥 | 📌 Tropes/Themes: Inspired by African Mythology, Black MCs, Sapphic and Straight Main Pairings, Queer Normative World, Genderfluid Representation, Disability Representation, Prophecy, Sister’s Best Friend/Best Friend’s Sister, Friends to Lovers, Forced Proximity, Enemies to Lovers, Betrayal, Dual 3rd Person POV | ⚠️ CW: animal death, death and grief, non graphic violence, racism, suicide | 🌶️: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ | Medium: audiobook 🎧, narrator Bahni Turpin | 💭Thoughts: | What a way to flip the script on Fae, Elves, and Humans 😍 this was a wonderful tale of Loyalty and Finding Oneself, with a fascinating and diverse cast and soul crushing prophecies. Saara El-Arifi paints such a vivid and enchanting world - I did not want to leave!!


