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A Vow Made Twice
- atmosphereAtmospheric
This is a historical romance built on a marriage of convenience between an earl who needs a wife and an unconventional archer-widow. It has LGBTQIA and poly elements. It suits readers who like queer-inclusive historical romance. It follows two earlier Emma Denny novels, so it may work best for readers who know that series. This is inferred from the catalogue description.
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A Vow Made Twice
Emma Denny
The Green Room
Backstage of A Vow Made Twice.
Walk in mid-chapter. The people of the book are there, as themselves, knowing what they know so far — and nothing else. Ask them anything. They have read exactly as far as you have.
A moment in the Green Room
A Vow Made Twice · Emma Denny
The narrator
Of A Vow Made Twice, as they are at your reading place
You
What happens next?
The narrator
“I can only tell you what you have read. Past your page there is nothing yet — not for you, and not for me. Turn it, and come back.”
Their knowledge stops where your reading does.
Who is in the room
Anyone who has walked on by your page.
The cast
Any character who has appeared so far. Someone who hasn’t walked on yet isn’t in the room. That’s not a limitation; that’s the point.
The narrator
The voice telling you the story, as far as it has told it.
The author
As the book presents them — the mind behind the pages you have read, not a biography.
The book itself
Ask what it is doing to you so far. It answers from its own pages, up to yours.
Before you go in
What critics and prize juries said.
Editorial synthesis
A NetGalley reviewer describes the book as atmospheric and beautifully queer, highlighting its treatment of love, grief, and identity and its emotionally developing romance. This is one reviewer’s response, not a broad critical consensus.
Drawn from www.netgalley.com.
Recognition
How it stays unspoiled
Nothing past your page exists.
The companion is assembled from the passages you have read and only those. A character who knows the ending is no one worth talking to, so there is no override — not behind a setting, not behind a confirmation. Your position is the wall.
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