Adalyn Grace

Adalyn Grace is an American fantasy author best known for the Belladonna series, a Gothic romantasy blending poison, death magic, and slow-burn romance set in a lush Victorian-inspired world.

Adalyn Grace
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Adalyn Grace is an American fantasy author whose work sits at the intersection of Gothic atmosphere, dark romance, and richly imagined historical settings. Best known for her bestselling Belladonna series, Grace has established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in the romantasy genre, crafting stories that blend poison lore, death magic, and emotionally charged romance into immersive, page-turning fiction.

Grace began her writing life with the All the Stars and Teeth duology, a sweeping YA fantasy series set in a world of blood magic, political power, and forbidden seas. The duology showcased her instinct for high-stakes adventure and her skill at building layered, morally complex protagonists - qualities that would define everything she went on to write. Readers drawn to her through All the Stars and Teeth quickly discovered an author capable of sustaining both grand world-building and intimate emotional storytelling across an entire series arc.

It was the Belladonna series, however, that elevated Adalyn Grace to a new level of readership. The first book - Belladonna - arrived to enormous enthusiasm from fantasy readers and rapidly became a BookTok Sensation, accumulating hundreds of thousands of reader ratings and cementing Grace's place at the heart of the romantasy boom. The series follows Signa Farrow, an orphan who has spent her entire life brushing against death - quite literally - and the gothic, slow-burning story that unfolds between her and Death himself has captivated readers seeking dark, atmospheric fantasy with real emotional heat. The series is set across a Victorian-inspired estate world, and Grace's prose carries the Gothic weight of that setting throughout, leaning into shadow, poison, dark secrets, and decadent detail.

What distinguishes Grace's writing is her willingness to inhabit the darker textures of romance and fantasy without sacrificing emotional sincerity. Her protagonists are not passive figures; they are young women navigating extraordinary circumstances - death, forbidden romance, political machination, and the often-crushing weight of fate vs free will - and they do so with sharpness, wit, and hard-won resilience. The slow-burn romance at the heart of the Belladonna series is constructed with care, the tension between Signa and Death building across instalments in a way that rewards patient readers without withholding the emotional payoff they are waiting for.

Grace also demonstrates a clear affection for Gothic literary tradition. Her settings - crumbling estates, poison gardens, drawing rooms with something wrong beneath the surface - carry the unmistakeable atmosphere of classic Gothic fiction, filtered through the lens of modern romantasy. She understands how to use setting as character, making the world of Belladonna feel like a living, breathing thing that conspires along with her protagonists. This gift for atmosphere is one of the most consistent pleasures of her work across both series.

Thematically, Adalyn Grace returns again and again to questions of identity, power, and the cost of survival. Her characters are frequently defined by what they have endured before the story begins - emotional trauma that has shaped them in ways both visible and hidden - and the journey of each series is as much about who her protagonists are becoming as it is about the plot events propelling them forward. This dual focus on internal and external conflict gives her books a satisfying emotional architecture that elevates them well beyond pure escapism.

For readers who have come to Grace through the Belladonna series, the All the Stars and Teeth duology offers a natural next step - different in tone but equally ambitious in its world-building and equally committed to its central relationships. And for those discovering Adalyn Grace for the first time, either series serves as an excellent entry point into the work of one of contemporary fantasy's most compulsively readable authors.

Book Series by Adalyn Grace

Belladonna books - browse Belladonna series on Trope Trove

Belladonna

By Adalyn Grace

Belladonna by Adalyn Grace is a Victorian-inspired Gothic romantasy series following an orphan with a death-touched life and a slow-burning, forbidden romance with Death himself. Poison, mystery, and dark magic.

All the Stars and Teeth books - browse All the Stars and Teeth series on Trope Trove

All the Stars and Teeth

By Adalyn Grace

All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace is a YA fantasy duology set in a world of blood magic, political power, and treacherous seas. A fierce princess, a crew of unlikely allies, and a kingdom on the brink.

Books by Adalyn Grace

All the Stars and Teeth

All the Stars and Teeth

All the Stars and Teeth (Book 1)

4.0 / 5

Written by Adalyn Grace

All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace is a YA fantasy following a princess whose magic goes catastrophically wrong, forcing her onto the open sea with a roguish pirate and a kingdom's fate in her hands.

All the Tides of Fate

All the Tides of Fate

All the Stars and Teeth (Book 2)

3.9 / 5

Written by Adalyn Grace

All the Tides of Fate by Adalyn Grace is the concluding book in the All the Stars and Teeth duology, as Amora faces the consequences of her choices and fights to secure a kingdom worth ruling.

Belladonna

Belladonna

Belladonna (Book 1)

4.0 / 5

Written by Adalyn Grace

Belladonna by Adalyn Grace is a Gothic romantasy following an orphan whose lifelong brush with death leads her to a poisoned mystery, a crumbling estate, and a forbidden romance with Death himself.

Foxglove

Foxglove

Belladonna (Book 2)

4.1 / 5

Written by Adalyn Grace

Foxglove by Adalyn Grace is the second book in the Belladonna series, expanding Signa's world beyond Thorn Grove into high society, new dangers, and a deepening forbidden romance with Death himself.

Wisteria

Wisteria

Belladonna (Book 3)

4.2 / 5

Written by Adalyn Grace

Wisteria by Adalyn Grace is the third and final book in the Belladonna series, bringing Signa's extraordinary journey to its conclusion with the highest stakes yet and a romance that must finally face its reckoning.