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Iron Flame (Parts 1 & 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] by Rebecca Yarros

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adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

5.0

Vintage by Isis Melantha

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slow-paced

3.0

You will like this one if you love the tropes

🕯️Second Chance Romance

💜Small Town

🕯️Married lovers

💜Supernatural cursed folklore

🕯️Black cat/golden retriever

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My Review

I went into this really excited that it had some decent tropes and a beautiful cover. It seemed like Amery and Amir had such a strong love conquers all bond and I stayed for that. However I was so confused because so much was happening in this short novella that I had to go back and reread to try and understand what exactly was happening. I did feel like the author had a great concept though.

Thank you for the opportunity to read this arc @torchlitink

The Sinner by Shantel Tessier

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

𝕀 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕥𝕠𝕩𝕚𝕔. 𝕀 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕞𝕒𝕕𝕟𝕖𝕤𝕤. 𝕀 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕞𝕒𝕜𝕖𝕤 𝕞𝕖 𝕢𝕦𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕞𝕪 𝕤𝕒𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕪

Genre-Dark Romance

Series- The L.O.R.D.S. Series Book 2

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You will like this one if you love the tropes

🖤Anti hero male lead

🖤Enemies to lovers

🖤Mafia/organized crime

🖤Secrets and betrayals

🖤Forbidden romance

🖤Dark/gritty atmosphere

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My Review

This book was so dark. If you made it through the first book you know how dark they are but I felt this one was darker. I couldn’t help but love Sin even though he did some crazy stuff and I shouldn’t lol This series reminds me a lot of the movie The Skulls. They’re in college and a secret society that they’re initiated into gets away with crimes including murder. The only difference is the amount of smut. This is along the same darkness as haunting Adeline so if you couldn’t read that duet I don’t recommend this one. However the twists were pretty good. I wasn’t expecting the betrayals when they happened at all so my jaw dropped. Shantel definitely kept me on my toes with this one.

Content Warnings

Lotus by Jennifer Hartmann

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Omg what a tragic yet beautifully told story. 🥺 Jennifer did an amazing job with this. I love that it kinda revisited a character from Still beating and their healing, but it didn’t take over the story. It was just enough. It came together in the end so well. I cried and smiled throughout.

Behind A Closed Door by J.D. Barker

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3.0

Hopeless by Elsie Silver

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Reckless by Elsie Silver

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adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Powerless by Elsie Silver