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201 reviews

The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Delightfully predictable cafe confection. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death

The Demon's Queen by Katee Robert

5.0

I would let the power trio of Azazel, Eve, & Katee Robert hit me with a school bus. 

Dear Rosie, by S.J. Tilly

5.0

This was, in my humble and scholastic opinion, the best of SJ Tilly’s sports & mafia worlds. I LOVED it. 

Dark Delights by Mila Kane

3.0

We must continue to interrogate whether I should be allowed to both read books & be influenced by TikTok quote excerpts. 

But I really rooted for these freaks! Content warnings like a CVS receipt so do your due diligence. 

A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang

emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

A beautiful, devastating book about empires and the folks living & loving (and ruling) in them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Torture, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: War

Minor: Sexual harassment

Close Quarters by Kandi Steiner

emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Theo could buy me anything he wanted.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, and Alcohol

Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

A fresh, delicious contribution to the paranormal, dark academia genre. The enemies to lovers legitimately loathe each other. The world building is expansive and holds up. The vampiricism is erotic AS GOD INTENDED. The house is sentient (also AS GOD INTENDED). Katee Robert said the MMC is Klaus-coded and I think that’s rly valid. The FMC had behaviors that resonated with me as someone with OCD and also was like very unhinged but baby girl has never erred in her life. I will be injecting the following two books into my veins. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal death and Sexual content

Wickedly Yours by Jennifer Chipman

emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

I liked Spookily Yours a bit more as I felt it was a bit more playful while still retaining the paranormal romance spice. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Pregnancy

Minor: Emotional abuse and Physical abuse

My Vampire Plus-One by Jenna Levine

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

5.0

Jenna Levine is such a snarky, swoony, snappy, steamy delight. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Blood and Abandonment

Minor: Death and Fire/Fire injury

The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava

emotional funny lighthearted tense fast-paced

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

4.0

There were parts of Ember’s story and behavior that made me feel like I did watching “Meet the Parents” which does *not* work for me narratively/connecting with a story. BUT I loved on the page indigenous love and Native Daddy Danuwoa could restart my computer anytime in the most respectful sense of the phrase. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Sexism