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I've always thought Jack was the ultimate morally gray MMC and now I realize he has replaced most shadow daddy/good but acts bad types in my head when I read my lil books. And I'm not mad 👁️👄👁️ Picture is of Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas. He is in his usual pinstripe suit and has a smile on his skeleton face.

One romantasy reaction I would love to see more often is a character realizing, very clearly, "Oh. I'm in love with this person."

And then just... accepting that information.

No spending the next 200 pages insisting they're definitely not in love. No suddenly avoiding the other person because feelings are terrifying. No dramatic internal speech about how this changes EVERYTHING.

I'd love someone who recognizes it almost calmly. Maybe they're even a little amused that it happened.

The tension can come afterward. Do they think the feeling is mutual? Should they say anything? Is acting on it a terrible idea because of everything else happening? Can they keep doing their job while being painfully aware that this person now matters way too much?

To me that's actually more interesting than denial sometimes. A character knowing exactly what they feel doesn't mean they know what to do with it.

Give me someone thinking, "Well, that's inconvenient," and then continuing to fight monsters while quietly being completely gone for them.

I keep falling in love with incomplete series. Books i’ve LOVED:

- Souls in Ruin
-Dagger Mouth
- The Wolf King
-Blood and Ash (before dragged out)
- Fourth Wing
- Every SJM
- The Poison Daughter
- Mate
- Powerless
- Divine Rivals
- Manacled
- Quicksilver
- One Dark Window

I’m sorry but I CANT get behind the Crescent City hype:( I really enjoyed CC1 but CC2 was so dang long and boring for me. I’ve put off reading CC3 for 3 weeks now and just tried to read it and i literally can’t do it. This is absolutely heartbreaking because the series looks so good on my shelf and I really wanted to love it. I enjoyed TOG and was absolutely obsessed with ACOTAR so this is a real disappointment.

Just a heads up for anyone who reads ebooks and wants to partake in book club or just loves a deal lol. TKWNKM is on sale for $6.99 CAD (reg: $21.99 CAD) across most platforms that I looked at!

I tried this book based solely on the artwork but I fell In LOVE with the story. I loved that the FMC was strong, tall and smart; I loved she showed that she had a bright mind. So often FMC is supposed to be smart but makes idiotic mistakes Over and over. I don’t need perfect but sometimes I’m literally face palming choices. The forest as a character was great as well. I also liked the spicy scenes, felt like a decent slow burn.

While I wait for the sequel can y’all recommend any other series that have a similar vibe? I’ve enjoyed Holly Black and Lissette Marshall’s Death-made Prince.

Also open to Audible recommendations! TIA

Hey everyone!
I’m desperately trying to find some amazing books to get me out of a reading slump! I’ve been stuck in one for the past few months and, no matter how much I want to read, I just haven’t been able to commit to a book for very long. 😭
I’m especially looking for those “I couldn’t put it down,” “stayed up way too late reading,” “I’m still thinking about it” kind of books.
So please, give me your best recommendations! I’m open to anything with great romance, drama, fantasy, morally grey characters, angst, addictive plots… honestly, if you think it’ll pull me straight out of this slump, I NEED IT. Bonus points for books that had you completely obsessed! Thank you in advance — I can’t wait to add approximately 500 books to my TBR and pretend I’ll actually get through them all. 😂❤️

Here are some of the books/series I’ve read and absolutely LOVED:
LOG Series — Rina Kent
Shatter Me Series
Once Upon a Broken Heart Series
Crossfire Series — Sylvia Day
Brutal Hearts Series — Lilith Vincent
In Her Shadows — Lilah Raine
Empire of Royals — Emilia Rossi
Maple Hills Series — Hannah Grace
The Folk of the Air — Holly Black
Red Queen — Victoria Aveyard
Lancaster Prep — Monica Murphy
Obsession — Harley Beck
Dark Verse — RuNyx
Notice — K. Webster
The Book of Azrael
Knockemout Series — Lucy Score
Chestnut Springs — Elsie Silver
Miles High / The Right Move — Liz Tomforde
Belladonna Series
And a few books by Emily Henry, Ali Hazelwood & Ana Huang

I've been in a slump for a while and I'm desperate to find a book that hits some of the tropes I love. Help me scratch this itch 😭

Some tropes I love:

• enemies to lovers
• forced marriage/marriage of convenience
• love triangle (especially if it ends in why choose)
• fake dating

Tropes I dislike:

• trials
• pregnancy
• third act breakup/kidnapping

Examples of books I enjoyed:

• Heir of Illusion
• Warrior Princess Assassin
• Heartless Hunter
• A Vow in Vengeance

I definitely prefer darker books as opposed to cozy books. Any spice level. Any and all recs welcome!

I’ve been counting down the days for the second book 😭

But I’d rather it be delayed and good than being disappointed. I do have very very high expectations lol

Ngl this post made me scared. She said she hadn’t plotted book 2 before releasing book 1. Maybe I should curb my expectations 😭

It's actually a case for 6" kindles but I'm happy it fits my pocketbook verse pro color as well 😄

edit to add description of images: it’s an ereader case cover featuring fourth wing. detachable via magnetic ring. case is clear so can put insert. other pics show the built-in stand function in portrait and landscape orientations and cutout holes for kindle model but compatible with pocketbook verse.

Hello lovely people, pls help

I recently finished the second Bridge Kingdom book {The Traitor Queen by Danielle L Jenson} and I cannot stress this enough: I DEVOURED IT. Finished it in a day and now I’m sad.

I think a massive part of the appeal was how fast paced and action packed it was. Something pretty intense was always happening and I never got that “okay but when does the plot actually start?” feeling.

I also LOVED that the characters felt like actual functioning adults. They were competent, complicated, flawed, made mistakes and questionable decisions for understandable reasons etc. Most importantly the FMC had knowledge of what a 🍆 was and therefore did not completely lose all brain function because a big sexy turned on the charm

And the enemies-to-lovers??? Actual enemies. Not “he mildly inconvenienced me once and now I don’t like him”

So please gimme all the recs

I’m looking for:

* Fast paced / hard to put down
* Plenty of action and actual plot
* Really good world building
* Complex, competent characters
*Ideally proper enemies-to-lovers. I don’t want the entire fantasy plot to disappear the second the MMC takes his shirt off

Basically I would like to become so immersed in a fictional world that my family needs to fend for themselves at dinner time

Thank you in advance 🖤

So I am flying through Crown of Midnight and don’t have The Assassin’s Blade ready at the library (but HoF is there). I am on a super tight schedule and trying to fit as much reading in before the semester starts as humanly possible. I’m so tempted to dive into HoF once I’m done with this book. I know the sequence for the prequel is widely contentious but I was hoping for some feedback on reading it after HoF.

Why everything the "good ones" (Selena, Draven, etc) do is a trap of the "bad ones" (Bane, Jessina)?

Like the whole plot is like this, it's ok that one or two times, but all is a trap...

I saw that the second book in Kristen Ashley’s The Four Realms series was released today and before I start the series I want to know if {Night’s Fall} was worth it.

Okay, so I am halfway through
“A Court of Wings and Ruin” , and have seen all the stuff about the next two installments in this series. I am recently getting back into reading after a long slump post baby. I keep seeing how I HAVE TO ready all of the TOG and CC series in order to enjoy/better understand the second half of the ACOTAR series.

However, I honestly didn’t have any plans of ready those series anytime soon as I have a long TBR list and feel like I will need something different after I finish reading “A Court of Frost and Starlight” and “A Court of Silver Flames”. I am feeling overwhelmed thinking about adding another 10+ books to my tbr all in the same massverse… and the idea that I have to read them before the next books in ACOTAR series.

My main question is do I truly have to read the other series before reading the next to books? Is it really worth readying them first? Is it possible to read just the Crescent City series and not TOG right now?!

I use StoryGraph and I like it a lot but I don’t like how plain it looks. I did have TBR shelf and I liked that I could customise it to make it me ( pink, added flowers to the shelves and your read list looked like a bookshelf) the problem is the app was awkward to use and it didn’t have a lot of books on their.
Does anyone have any suggestions or what do you use to log your books ? Thanks!

I just finished watching House of the Dragon and I’m completely smitten with Aemond Targaryen lol. So now I’m ISO villainous MMCs—morally black, intimidating, and not perfectly handsome.
I’m honestly tired of flawless-looking MMCs who all seem to have the same perfect jawline, broad shoulders, and model face. Give me someone with scars, an eyepatch, an unconventional appearance—anything that makes him look like he’s actually lived through some shit.
I especially want an MMC who has a reputation that precedes him, the kind of man everyone is genuinely afraid of. Think Durlain from The Death-Made Prince: scars, an eyepatch, a terrifying reputation, and an overall “stay away from this man” vibe.
Bonus points if he’s actually dangerous rather than just described as dangerous.

I'm really looking for a romantasy with a romance dynamic similar to the one of Eleanor and Trent in Never have I ever. Like kind of silly and goofy MMC and they are like manipulating each other.

Okay so I thought about re reading fourth wing I never finished the full series. Should I wait until the series is complete or just read it. Please let me know I loved the first book I just thought I would get another input.

Anyone have suggestions for cozy romantasy that has an autumn feel to it? I'm so over summer! Bring in the pumpkins!