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What Is The Plot Summary Of A Crown Of Ivy And Glass?

I've seen this novel get recommended for fantasy romance fans who love fae drama and arranged marriage tropes. Does it have that rivals-to-lovers energy everyone mentions in reviews?
2025-11-14 09:25:41
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Ayush
Ayush
In A Crown of Ivy and Glass, Lady Gemma Ashbourne, a noblewoman with secret magical powers, fights to save her family from a mysterious curse after they’ve been attacked while she navigates the treacherous world of the royal court. Along the way she forms an alliance with a disgraced knight as they uncover hidden political intrigue and ancient magic. It’s a journey of royal politics, personal growth, and discovery of secrets that can’t be kept hidden forever. It’s not as physically action oriented as The Quest Of The Sapphire Crown, in which a scholar must travel the land to find a legendary artifact before it’s too late and her kingdom is destroyed. In this story the main character must use her wits to solve puzzles and negotiate her way through the world rather than battling against it.
2026-07-21
Xavier
Xavier
A Crown of Ivy and Glass is an unusual read – ‘enemies to lovers’ and ‘cursed aristocracy’ could have made for a strange read but this story works. Gemma’s family are in danger of losing everything due to debt and dark magic. To save them all Gemma makes the extraordinary decision to marry a stranger. As she gets to know her husband it becomes clear he may be hiding some secrets about his past but the plot twists and turns like a vine through the story, and there’s plenty of ballroom scenes, lots of blood magic and a very slow-burning but equally tender and foul love affair. I was gripped by this as each chapter revealed more lies and secrets about the key players.
2025-11-16
Xavier
Xavier
This book is kind of like the love child of Bridgerton and A Court of Thorns and Roses. It’s set in a world of balls and dresses and magic spells – but beneath all the pretty surface, there is rot. A generations-old curse upon Gemma’s family means that someone will have to pay for it eventually. And that someone could be Gemma. She encounters a lot of betrayal along the way – from people she loves and trusts most of all. Talan is Gemma’s love interest in the book, and he is one of those “so bad for you” types. Their chemistry is so great though. I was particularly pleased to see that the author portrayed magic in this book as being tied to family and also with a great deal of sacrifice. It makes for a really compelling read, and I stayed up way too late into the night to finish it off. I wanted to savour the prose and the story, but I was also desperate to know how the heck they would get out of the fix that they were in.
2025-11-16
Zane
Zane
This protagonist is deadly – she'll stab you and then cry about it later. The family curse of the protagonist, Gemma Ashbourne, is a real time bomb waiting to go off. Lots of masquerade balls, under the cover of night meetings and huge revelations – all of which completely flip you on your head. The romance between Gemma and her love interest, Talan, is fabulous. He’s her complete opposite and really pushes her to be better than she is currently. Their banter is delicious and you can really sense the deeper hurts that they are hiding from each other. The ending is heartbreaking. (No spoilers though – I won’t tell you how it ends!). It was so bad that I immediately started searching for the sequel to see if it had been released yet.
2025-11-18
Addison
Addison
A Crown of Ivy and Glass' - a lush, gothic fantasy that I'm totally hooked on. The story follows Gemma Ashbourne, a member of a cursed noble family who are bound by a magical contract to make a sacrifice. Gemma is desperate to find a way to break the contract before it's too late, and after forming an uneasy alliance with a mysterious man called Talan who has secrets of his own, she finds herself embroiled in the treacherous world of court politics, ancient magic, and a passionate but doomed love affair.

It’s set in this moonlit, eerie, moonlit garden of twisted trees and thorny rose bushes and every rose has thorns. The magic system is all about blood and emotion, so every spell feels incredibly personal and sort of visceral. And Gemma is just your average, privileged, slightly messy noblewoman who loves her family with all her heart and will do whatever it takes to protect them, even when it’s not the smartest thing to do. The romance is all sizzling and passionate, but also sort of bittersweet and painful and they’re just fighting against the world, you know? So, yeah, if you like dark, twisted fairy tales with sort of mostly moral characters, then you’ll really love this.
2025-11-19

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