Earl of Darkness (Heirs of Kilronan Trilogy, #1)
by Alix Rickloff
There's a new used book store two blocks from my work!! (I am so doomed.)
Anyway, I bought this for $1, and it's like a cross between [b:Mairelon the Magician|245727|Mairelon the Magician (Mairelon, #1)|Patricia C. Wrede|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1388849827s/245727.jpg|1047576] and the October Daye series ([b:Rosemary and Rue|6294549|Rosemary and Rue (October Daye #1)|Seanan McGuire|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1406866868s/6294549.jpg|6478937]), except much heavier on romance tropes and sentence fragments.
I was just going to skim it for the story/world and try to skip the (gross) romance bits, but I couldn't find much plot, just a lot of stupefyingly hetero mutual lusting. Then I picked up [b:His Majesty's Dragon|28876|His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)|Naomi Novik|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1376392909s/28876.jpg|726205], which I also bought for $1, and I remembered that light fantasy paperbacks can be a delight you don't want to put down instead of a chore. Bye, Earl of Darkness.