🍓2026 Valentine Treasure Hunt - hints for Strawberry 3

🍓Strawberry 3

This novel about a burned man,
With tales of many a doomed lover,
A woman who carves grotesques,
Will help when his life seems over. (Lucy)

41 Maddz
>40 aethersoup: I had to Google that one...

42 Yuki-Onna
>40 aethersoup: Yes, just google the key words from the hint. :)

55 Charon07
>54 perennialreader: For #3, I confess I have this novel in my TBR, so I recognized it right away. But you can use Talpa Search with the search terms “burned man” “lovers” “grotesques.”

56 amanda4242
>54 perennialreader: I got #3 by doing a tag mash of burn victim, romance.

125 calm
These hints also helped two words for #2; the tag mash for #3; the hyphen in #4; the plural for #7 and the portmanteau for #9