If I hear one more heroine described as feisty in a book synopsis I will scream (quietly, into a pillow). It is so incredibly over-used that it is essentially meaningless as a descriptor. Also it just puts a bad taste in my mouth as it is such a gendered term, no one calls a man ‘feisty’ for standing up to bullies or being a trained assassin or being a magical fae warrior, yet somehow all these things are ‘feisty’ qualities in female characters. This seems to be a relatively recent phenomena, no one ever called Katniss Everdeen feisty when the Hunger Games was the hot new book. It’s also frustrating because if I find a book that looks promising this description turns me off altogether, because it I feel like the writing will be childish with a very bland ‘badass’ main character, and I know it’s often for algorithmic purposes and trope marketing or whatever, but it makes the book sound cheap.

Hi guys! This might be very specific but does anyone have any book recommendations that have the MMC’s personal assistant/secretary trying to cause issues between the MMC and FMC? I’d love a book where the FMC voices her concerns about the PA trying to sabotage their relationship but the MMC doesn’t see or realize it and dismisses her until a lot later… maybe causing the FMC to leave him and him having to get her back. Would love a book where there’s some angst, grovel and a good amount of spice 🌶️! I’m also ok with a pregnancy trope if she ends up leaving him while she’s pregnant. Thanks y’all! :)

okay so i know this has been asked before but hear me out. i’ve chewed through a LOT of angsty recs already and i think i might be desensitized at this point, which is probably why some of the “most gut wrenching” books i see recced here don’t hit me the way they hit others. so i’m begging for fresh pain.

what i want: betrayal, heartbreak, emotional gut punches that make me pace the room whispering “no no no.” not mild miscommunication. i’m talking about trust being shattered so bad i feel it in my stomach. i want the kind of angst that leaves me staring at the wall at 2am wondering what just happened.

my no-go’s: extreme age gaps, daddy kink/ddlg, not my thing, doesn’t match my vibe

what i’m open to: literally everything else. CR, mafia, reverse harem, any pairings (FF, MM, MFM, MMMF, MMFM), paranormal, fantasy, omegaverse, whatever. i barely read historical but i’ll give it a shot. i usually prefer first person but if it’s that good i’ll try third. also i’m fine with tastefully done accidental pregnancy. like i said literally (almost) anything is fine, i go by vibes lol.

examples of books gutted me over the years (not a full list, just what i remember right now, ngl i might not remember the plot but i remember the gut punch feeling all too well):

• {forever right now by emma scott} (hello the twist??)
• {the law of moses by amy harmon}
• {new camelot trilogy by sierra simone} (oh my days so BUZZZZYYY. i need a book like this again)
• {hello stranger by jade west} (i’m sensing a theme here)
• {the light we lost by jill santopolo}
• {love letter to whiskey by kandi steiner}
• almost all mia sheridan tbh
• {denied by evelyn flood} (angst was good but i didn’t like the fmc like that)
• {pack darling by lola rock} (the angst was so good omdsss, i look for this book in other omegaverse tagged as angsty)
• (manwhore by katy evans} (saw it coming but still hurt)
• {kingdom fall by a. zavarelli}
• {it ends with us by colleen hoover} (read it before it got super popular and before all the controversy, still counts as a gut punch book tho)
• {full tilt by emma scott}
• {the golden dynasty by kristen ashley}
• {the tyrant’s alpha rejected mate by cate c. wells}
• {the darkest temptation by danielle lori}
• {her ruthless warrior by r.g. angel} (omg THAT scene)
• {possess me by michelle heard} (recently read and wow the first half was so ?!!!?! and the second half was so sweet and smooth sailing that i took a star off, i was waiting for the other shoe to drop and it never did) 
• {the boy and his ribbon by pepper winters} read this years ago idek how i remembered but something about this book hurt teenage me 

a few other ones i’ve read but didn’t quite vibe with me the way I hoped (maybe bc I’m just numb at this point lol):

• {the unwanted wife by natasha}
• {hoarded by the dragon by lilian lark}
• { a deal with the bossy devil by kyra parsi} i felt like we all read different things with this book and the comments i see on here. though i did read two other books of hers and liked them better: {failure to match} & {fool them once}
• {does it hurt by h.d. carlton} the infamous scene did shock me, i won’t lie, but i didn’t like the book. i risk sounding hypocritical, but dang, idk how you can come back from doing such a thing
• {daydreamer by susie tate} i love me a good rich MMC and poor FMC, but this didn’t hit the mark
• {love and other words by christina lauren} i think i just don’t like any of their books, which is sad bc i tried a few and just didn’t like them

all in all, there are other popular recs i haven’t read bc i can tell they don’t fit with what i’m craving. when i was younger i was in a debate club and my most used copyrighted phrase was “i hope i was able to convince and not confuse you that …” so here i am again i hope i was able to convince you and not confuse you on the type of recs i want. okay thanks ive written a short story atp

disclaimer: check triggers before diving into any of the books above.

so yeah… what else is out there that’ll break me in half? because clearly my angst tolerance is too high and i need something new to ruin me. thanks, my tent is set :)

edit: formatting issues, apparently i can’t work technology

edit 2: i always love this sub, im well fed and occupied for the next couple months. i’ll go read all these amazing recs and keep lurking for more so dont stop them. thank you all my internet friends. and omdss shoutout to the magnesium recommendations, appreciate you all and i’ll try the spray/powder alternatives!!! okay i’m going to go get busy reading (why does this feel like im a recipient at an award show?) i tried to respond to everyone so pretty pls don’t take it to heart if i missed anyone ok bye 🫶🏾

I'm interested in reading books where one of the MCs is affected by someone else's relationship trope. For example, in {Waste of Handsome by Tina Gallagher} the reader eventually learns that the FMC has a difficult relationship with her father because her father had a relationship with her best friend that ends in marriage, so now her BF is her step-mother and she feels like she lost her BF and her dad at the same time. Thanks in advance!

I have called this press conference to address critiques made against Derek Hardiman from {Return All by Eve Dangerfield}. I am not here to defend Derek without reserve. Derek, like all people, has his faults. He makes his fair share of mistakes and misjudgments, some more ugly than others. While I do not want to excuse his bad actions, it is my hope to explain some of them and to show that Derek deserved his HEA. And that HEA could have only been with Mara.

I will open the floor to questions.

(Yes, there will be spoilers.)

Q: Isn't it true that Derek betrayed young Mara by leaving her behind and not showing up?

Was it shitty that Derek left Mara to fend for herself? Yes. Was it shitty that she had to deal with her grandma's death alone? Definitely. Was it shitty that Derek responded to Mara photo text in a way that was dismissive? Sure.

But let me ask you this—how was Derek supposed to know from one picture text with no other information what exactly she needed and wanted? How was he supposed to know how bad things got with Mara when she didn’t tell him anything? Despite the bond they shared, he wasn't a fucking mind reader.

And even then, he somehow figured it out and showed up. But by then, she was already gone. She never even gave him a chance to make up for his mistake. She left him too. Only she did so for 10 years without any way of him finding or contacting her.

Do you remember when you were 18 or 19? Did you always think clearly then? Imagine having your world thrown upside down and suddenly going from having nothing to having everything? Do you think your 19-year-old self would've made the wisest decisions?

They both needed to experience the world outside of their bubble. They both needed to figure themselves out. They both fell victim to the shininess of having too many opportunities at once. And yes, they both made mistakes. That doesn’t make them bad people. It makes them human.

Q: But Derek, as a 28-year-old man, got so upset about Mara losing her virginity with someone other than him. Isn't it kind of shitty that he made such a big deal about it?

Listen, there's no reason any man should make such a big deal about someone's virginity. Virginity is a social construct and all that. There's no excuse for him shaming Mara for it, but is that really what's going on here?

Mara also dated that Italian model. Derek was upset, but he wasn't that upset, right? He stayed mad about the virginity thing because of who Mara chose to have PIV sex with for the first time.

Mara admits herself that she hooked up with Troy to spite Derek. Troy, who was always jealous of Derek because of his football skills. Troy, who was always flirting with Mara in HS to try and steal her away from Derek. Troy, who Derek warned her to stay away from because he didn’t trust him. Troy, who is a complete dickhead and says shit like:

"Yeah, but I broke in your girlfriend."

It’s not my girlfriend, and I still want to punch Troy in the face.

Young Derek and Mara did basically every other sexual act under the sun, including *fun with cucumbers*, but for whatever reason (Mara said fear of pregnancy), Mara wasn't ready to have PIV sex during the time they were together.

Derek didn't mind. Derek didn't pressure her. (He gets no points for that. That should be a given.) But it's a betrayal that she choses to trust the one person he hated most with the one act intimacy they never broached.

Do I think that Mara should've gone all the way to Melbourne to beg him to take her virginity? No, not really. Mara didn’t owe Derek anything at that point. It would be completely unfair to put the burden of their relationship on her.

But she chose her hookup partner with the intention of hurting Derek. And it did. It just hit the target 10 years late.

Q: Fine, setting aside the virginity thing. What about the fact that Derek was mad that Mara changed, period? Didn't he resent Mara's wealth and success? We even got this quote from Derek's friend Beth:

“[Y]ou got to be the star and she was your little supporting actress! And you left and you thought she’d hold down the fort. You were counting on it. But the opposite happened. […] Not only did Mara not stay small—she got so big it blew your mind. And you have no idea how to handle it, so you went all apeshit about this one guy she had sex with.”

With all due respect to Beth, there's a lot of truth to this, but I don’t think it’s the entire truth.

Yes, Derek is mad that Mara isn't the person he left behind. Yes, it was selfish of him to think she'd remain frozen in time, staying unchanged and waiting patiently for him to come back to her. The letter that Derek writes Mara shows that he, now, understands that and how it was unfair to Mara.

Now, as to the being upset that Mara is the "star"... I'm not so sure.

Derek adores Mara. He thinks Mara is wonderful and magical. He’s happy to celebrate her and put her needs first. But Derek is also deeply insecure.

He already lost her once. He’s desperately trying to win her back. He thinks he can secure her with who he's become. The money and success he's amassed.

When Derek learns that Mara doesn't need those things from him, he feels insecure about his ability to keep her. His ability to provide and take care of her. To be her “daddy.”

Derek and Mara's young relationship was based on, in a lot of ways, her needing him and him taking care of her as her “daddy.” In his mind, he can't fill that role if he can't also financially provide for her. It requires a redefining of what being "daddy" means. He was able to do relatively quickly and recognize that being Mara's unwavering emotional support was more than enough.

And, honestly, he's not that upset about it. If he was, he'd have made a bigger deal when he saw things like her Porsche that gave a little glimpse into how deep her wealth ran. In that moment, he was surprised, but he was more overwhelmed by the joy of Mara finding comfort in him. Later, he gloats to his finance guy about how he’s now a kept man. He wouldn’t brag about it if he was so concerned about not having the financial upper hand.

Q: But isn't Mara better without him? Derek doesn't even grovel.

You're right. Derek doesn't grovel. To be honest, after spending time on this sub, I'm not sure I understand what the term "grovel" means.

What I do know is that Derek apologizes, owns up to his mistakes, and shows an understanding of why his actions were hurtful. You see it in how he shows up for her. In how he promises to wait. In his letter showing that he understands how she felt and the depths of what he did to her.

He had not asked the wolf girl if she had a body made for caves. He had seen her power, but not that it would grow. And for a hill of gold, he had thrown aside the chance to rule beside his beloved in infinite darkness and delight. So, he waited at the edge of her walls. He waited as he once bid the wolf girl to wait, and he prayed that in a thousand years she might remember the children they had been and that she, of all beings in the universe, had once loved him.

I mean, come on. Come on!!

As for the "big fight," you have to remember that he was bombarded with 10-years worth of information in one night.

Mara left him in the dark for 10 years. She was able to check on him in the news (which was painful in other ways), but he was devastated by her loss. By having no means to contact her, check on her, and make sure she was okay. And yeah, he continued living the big life of a footballer, but with an absence and uncertainty in his heart. She had the upper hand there, not him.

And Mara does need him. Part of the reason that Mara shuts Derek out is not just because he left her. She does it because she wants to shut out her entire past. Her entire childhood and the ugliness it contained. She finds her opportunity to leave it all behind and lead her own glamorous life, and she, understandably, takes it.

Derek crashing back into her life forces her to face her past and reconcile her past with who she's become. Her insecurities lurk just below the surface. It didn't go away because she had more money. Because she changed her appearance. Because she had more friends. It and the ugliness of her past are a part of her, despite how much she tries to lock it away in the Dark House.

Derek accepts all of her. He thought she was gorgeous before her nose job and her boob job and her ears that stuck out. He doesn't care how she grew up or who her parents were.

Yes, it's an issue that part of him wanted her preserved in the past, but I think she needs that too, you know? She needed that acceptance of everything that she is. Both the shiny parts she shows the world and the ugly parts she tried to keep locked away. It helps her to realize that no part of her is unworthy or shameful. That she gets to choose what she does and who she is moving forward. Derek’s complete acceptance of Mara empowers her.

And when Derek becomes ambassador for her non-profit, it shows the lengths in which he'll go to protect her and care for her. This man who hates being in the public eye. Who has his own ugly past that he's been trying to leave behind. Who has had a lifetime struggle with public speaking. He's willing to deal with all of that, to act as her shield against the world. It's him being her "daddy."

Q: What about Mara? Didn't Mara compromise her values with her "gift" to Derek in the epilogue?

Did you not notice the millions of designer clothing references that was made throughout the book? Or the extremely expensive car she drives? Or all the very expensive plastic surgery she had done?

Yes, her life's mission is to ensure that low-income housing is available to people in need. To be an advocate for the poor. And yes, she feels guilty for her years of living as a socialite. She tries to assuage her guilt of having money through the work she does in her organization and spending money on others as much as she can. But she doesn't give up money completely.

Mara likes nice things. Likes going to expensive restaurants. Likes hosting elaborate parties. All that shit costs money. Maybe she never spent it in one place like that, but she wasn’t exactly being frugal before either.

It's a nice full-circle moment. And the fact that Derek isn't an insecure prick about it, and happily accepts the gift, proves that he really doesn't have an issue with the fact that Mara has more money than him.

They both grew up with nothing. They both had shitty childhoods. Let them enjoy the goddamn house.

In summary, Derek is human. Humans make mistakes. Both he and Mara lost each other while exploring life and who they thought they wanted to be. They both learned hard lessons, but also gained things too. For Mara, independence and confidence. For Derek, perspective and understanding. And in coming back together after those years apart, they're able to accept each other completely, both in their roles as “daddy” and “little miss” and as independent people.

Thank you everyone for coming. That's all I have for today. If you have any further questions or comments, please leave them below.

In the meantime, I will be taking a brief Dangerfield break to give my battered heart time to recuperate, before I rewind and address Dangerfield's Begin Again Again. (No, I'm not sock-puppet for Eve Dangerfield. I just got a little to sucked into her literary world this week.)

Just finished it. Read two thirds last night and the last third after sitting down for a couple hours after weekend house cleaning.

TLDR no spoiler : It is a solid romance novel with a cute couple and surprisingly nuanced characters.

SPOILER warning from here!

Actual review: I really liked it. I was hoping for a cute couple romance and i got it, but what i really got from this book was two things.

1.THE ADVENTURE. This is a romance novel first and an adventure novel second but because I was invested in the characters, I got scared for them during the surprisingly intense action scenes and horror scene. The book starts with a fairly 'slice of life' tone but shifts into a more dark/intense one.

Right until the very end I was worried it might be a tragic romance with one of them dying. Which is quite rare for one of these books to have maintained stakes. Normally when a dangerous monster or villain is introduced in a rfm book I roll my eyes at the idea the op wish fulfilment pro-tag is gonna die, but not here and that was refreshing and cool.

1. THE CHARACTERS. While conceptually simple Ara and Nox were refreshingly nuanced and self aware.

Nox first, he is on the surface a standard introvert coming out of his shell. But i liked how we saw a flash of his inner resentment at the start. But he saw it too! And I also liked that near the start of the romance he stopped himself and took stock of it, asking himself "do i love her?" "what would our relationship look like if we did have one?" "is infatuation enough?" "would her anger issues and stubbornness be a problem?" This sort of taking stock/ruminating is very realistic and refreshing in this genre.

Ara, on the surface is a stubborn/angry character who needs to address those issues. But I love how self aware she is. Her getting caught up on a minor issue and letting drag her down only to realise how minor it all is, (her worries over how their relationship will be perceived by others) was very relatable to me. And from a writing perspective it's great to see flawed characters in a genre that often smooth overs its characters.

The two together, I loved that they were willing to criticise one another, Ara pointing out that Nox contributed to his isolation with his standoffishness was great, one of the things about relationships is trying to better yourself and helping them better themselves or avoid developing bad habits.

Any downsides with this book? One! The supporting cast was very weak, either underdeveloped or out of focus(Ara's dad) they were pretty much npc's.

To summarise: I greatly enjoyed this book. Having dabbled in Misty's works (the first goblin book was ok but not my thing) (the amazonian book was good but the age gap a bit much 14 years. 10 is my limit)

I will look into her cosy writer / roommate romance books people recommend. And I will look forward to her future works.

Hi! I’m looking for novellas that are short, well written and spicy. I’m not looking for plot or drama. My preferences are contemporary romances that are MMF (i could be open to mfm, mf or rh)

I don’t want anything crazy when it comes to kinks but it has to be very steamy and not cheesy/cringey, if it has praise and dirty talk the better.

One I enjoyed was: Gifting me to his best friend by Kate Robert.

P.S: all I seem to find are Christmas novellas so if you now anything that isn’t Christmas please recommend

I am desperately trying to remember the name of this book 😭 please help me find it

I remember a lot of details of this book so hopefully, someone can point me to the right direction. TIA!

• Small Town Romance, none of the MCs are originally from the town

• FMC is a resident doctor who was a child genius with both parents being academically accomplished also. FMC is the gentle/shy heroine. Plays the piano and has a small dog (a shitzu or something). Looks good in a red dress according to MMC. Not a virgin, but isn't experienced.

• MMC is in the police force in a big city. He is family money rich. MMC has tortured hero vibes due to his job, but very forward with his romantic advances for the FMC. He changed his primary physician from FMC to another local doctor to pursue FMC. Possessive and Protective.

• Plot: FMC was close to a patient (male kid), and the patient's father blamed her for his death. Parent corners her on the hospital staircase(?) and stabs FMC multiple times. Killer Parent got away and FMC was traumatized. She went into hiding in the small town. Some time later, MMC and his patrol(?) partner were involved in a shootout. His partner was killed and MMC got shot. He went to the town to rehabilitate from his injury and trauma. FMC becomes MMC's doctor and pays a house visit. Then, MMC becomes protective over FMC after Killer Parent finds her and trashes her house.

Ending: Killer Parent is killed(?), MMC got shot again, and both MCs decide on staying in the quiet town. MMC is offered to become the sheriff or like the head police.

This book is part of a series where all MMCs are brothers that find love in the small town.

Please please please help me find this book 🥺

FB keeps throwing these old AITAH stories into my algorithm and this just screamed for a book. I NEED that lady to dump his ass by coming over to kiss the friend, who is now the MMC.

His friend was telling my bf that he’s lucky to have me and that I’m a real catch. He even said that I have many admirable qualities and jokingly asked my bf how he managed to bag me.

My bf in a very serious tone said that he’s the catch in the relationship and that I’m always trying to please him. He said “with pretty girls you have to make sure she’s insecure. When they’re confident it’s not gonna work”. Then he explained that I don’t realise how “objectively attractive” I am due to my “raging insecurities about every little detail”.

I was left speechless and deeply shocked. His friend was quiet and then said “that’s fucked up”. My bf laughed and kept saying they both know it’s true and to quit virtue signalling.

Any subgenre: CR, HR, FR, SFR, PNR

I know, I know, super common trope! I'm over the wattpad thing and I've read many of the recs from previous threads on here. Anything more recent/less well known? I want the new mate to treat the FMC super well, adore her, protect her, be supportive and possessive and ideally more powerful than the og mate who rejected her.

Any paranormal species is cool with me!

Please and thank you!

Photo of jizzsaw puzzle of various retro romance comics

I’m backkkk 🙂 alrighty so I’m helping out a friend on her quest for books with a very specifc trope…micro trope, idk. She’s looking for books with a commitment-phobe, manwhore MMC who is adamant that he will never settle down. He meets the FMC and he likes her, everything’s fine and he’s confused as to why he’s so into her but just writes it off as him liking the chase of a reluctant FMC (not in a slimeball way but like the FMC is playing hard to get way). Anyways, the FMC finally gives in and they finally have sex then BOOM suddenly this man is seeing his wholeeeee future: LOVE, wife, white picket fence, kids, family vacation, etc. and he essentially loses his fucking mind, doesn’t know who he is anymore. Anddd the FMC is just like ohhhkayyyyy, relax my guy, it was just sex😬🫠 so there, looking for recommendations with the MMC becoming obsessed AFTER sex with the FMC, it’s important that he actually likes her just beyond the chase but he just thinks he’ll be back to normal afterwards…WRONG 😌

I recommended the ones that I felt fit the mold like:

{Consider Me by Becka Mack} I can’t remember if it was before or after the sex where he basically became obsessed with the FMC

{Fighting for Flight by JB Salsbury} Jonah “The Asssassian” Slade 🥳

{Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire} this MMC was actually nuts BEFORE the sex and just lost the rest of his sanity afterwards

I couldn’t really think of any other instances of the MMC going batshit after they hit the pookie. Your contributions are appreciated 💁🏾‍♀️

No Poly, RH or cheating. HR and CR are her preference but willing to check other genres 🙂

Okay, so i read this short story the other day, and ive tried to let it go, but its got an insane hold on me, so ive come here for refuge.

So basically it takes place in a high school, the Fmc has a little brother that's being bullied and she cant watch him be this sad, so she goes to confront the bully and ask his to stop. When she does, he sends his buddies away, to talk to her privately, where he starts touching her leg and telling her that he'll stop and make sure no one else bothers her brother, but shell need to do something for him in return (sex) she tells him noat first but after a little coercing gives in, to help her brother. But she ends up getting really turned on by it (which are some conflicting feelings for her)

After he tells her to come to his friends house on friday, and she gives him a bj in the bathroom a day later, again with a lil coercion, and she starts getting really turned on by this stuff and him

Anyhow, he obviously realizes, that shes enjoying/ exploring herself with him, and he starts getting kinda smitten, and wants her to hang around with his friends, which are all assholes, but the teasing kind, like its this semi-hostile kinda environment where she is always on edge, but the aren't actually mean, just teasing her and maybe a lil suggestive.

I want something just like this, but preferably not in a high school setting, like 20s and up. And as kinky as can get (just no daddy kink plz)

Im really into the her selfdiscovering through coercion aspect of it and the teasing bully kinda thing. Maybe he even blackmails her, to keep her. I dont love mafia/dark romance, but i realize it might be unavoidable here, i do however love MC romances ♡

Pls help a girl out yall 🙏 kisses

I guess this is maybe a microtrope, but I've read a few books lately with this and I love it. Where another guy –usually a friend of the MMC – acts interested in the FMC or gives the MMC misinformation in order to make the MMC jealous to spurn him into action because they know he's got his head up his butt or hasn't realized he has it bad for the FMC. Especially when he gives a little nod to her like watch this.

I don't know why but this is really doing it for me lately when he about loses his mind to think of her getting away or having someone else touch her and the other guy just wants to put him out of his misery. 😂

I want them both to start from the ground , and and this journey should be the theme of the book. No flash forward , no skipping the line. I want the grit , the journey , the hard days, the support Can't think of any reference book Any setting is ok contemporary, historical, fantasy even Just mf And not sex focused , I don't mind hot chapters but not the entire book around that

I want a book where the FMC’s breasts are kneaded like it’s Paul Hollywood kneading his bread! I’m looking for groping, fondling, kneading, cupping, pinching, kissing, lifting and sucking. Everything is welcomed. I feel like books don’t show the MMC pleasuring or worshipping her breasts like that asides from a throwaway sentence or two.

NO’s - slow burn or RH

I'm in the mood for something cozy and heartwarming desperate to take a break from the super heavy angst I normally read. Just looking for something where the main characters are expecting a kid, trying for one, or already have one. I'm not too picky! I'd prefer an established relationship or if they knew each other for a while beforehand, but that's not a requirement. Omegaverse is a happy bonus if it's included but again not required.

Please and I appreciate any recs I get!

Edit: Forgot my manners

All warnings necessary with this one. Ladies get ya snorkels out cause it’s about to get wet!! Too much? No, never (Sam Hall don’t read this, you’ll regret it). Fighting Monsters is like The Princess Diaries in that it involves someone getting suddenly rich and somewhat elevated in social standing. The similarities end there. 

When I first jumped into this I was not expecting to be so shocked by the smut. I consider myself a fairly well seasoned reader of all things taboo and smut but there were moments in this where I had to throw my Kindle across the room and hide whilst blushing profusely. Then I of course went straight back to reading because I am just so damn brave. 

Outside of the outrageously fun smutty scenes, Sam Hall has crafted a compelling story about a family curse, witches, monsters and all sorts of secrets which just make you want to keep reading. Her ability to create a detestable mother is unparalleled. She does this with most, if not all of her novels, and it does make me wonder if there is a personal back story there. But we shan’t pry!! 

I implore all who enjoy monster smut to give this a red hot go. Morgan is a character with a lot of pain and trauma, and it is through her connections to her monsters that she is able to breathe and be set free. When Morgan returns to England and follows in her grandmothers footsteps, we get to see her flourish and really own her shit and it is so damn satisfying. Go Morgan!!

Also, don’t be a nufty who stops reading because they think that Morgan is simply boning some monsters that have been boning her family for generations. I am fairlyyyy certain that Morgan is an outlier when it comes to the hanky panky of the monsters. Let me know if I am straight up wrong about that HAHA. 

Love, R&R

• Monster smut
• Reverse harem
• Paranormal romance
• BDSM
• ⚔️
• 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️/5

Hello! So like I read a recent recommendation here about a book that had the mmcs as the actors of the movie/film in which it's an adaptation of the fmcs book like she was the author? i'm not sure if it was mmf or mfm or if she had to choose? but from the synopsis the mmes both wanted her. please help me find thiss huhu thank youu

I've been working through Olivia Dade's bibliography and I absolutely love them (Spoiler Alert and All the Feels are a couple of my favorite adult romances I've read period) and I just finished My Kind of Trouble by L.A. Schwartz, and it felt like it was written for me specifically (it's cheap on kindle, go read it bc I want the author to write more adult romances).

I'd like to find some more books with a similar vibe to these, I usually don't like contemporary romance but these had just the right amount of humor and cringe plus beautifully written characters that I fell in love with them. Any recommendations?

*No cops, preferably no football players or professional athletes (Lucas in 40-Love was on thin ice lol)

Edit: Also! I'd prefer a FMC who is at least in her mid 20s but I'll still take all suggestions.

WWTBC MMC takes FMC shopping and then she's trying on lingerie and then the MMC goes into her dressing room and they fuck. I feel like I remember a sales associate also walking into the fitting room? I can't remember and then MMC says something like “how does she look in these”

This is one of my most favorite microtropes and I’ve been craving it lately! I’m looking for books with a scene where, in the middle of sex or another intimate time, an MC slips and calls the other a term of endearment (baby, love, darling, etc).

Preferably not: historical, paranormal, thriller.

Prefers: major angst

TYIA

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I’m looking for books with breeding kink, repetitive and ongoing. Preferably where the FMC gets pregnant but the sex is still breeding focused even though she’s already bred.

Preferably sweeter MMC or obsessive MMC. He’s got to be good to her for at least 80% of the book, but he can be stalker-y idc. I don’t want him with anyone else, no OWD unless it’s a way past hookup or something he doesn’t care about any longer. He’s all about the FMC and getting her pregnant again and again.

I just started reading {Savage Hearts by J.T. Geissinger} and there was this moment that cracked me up. Riley kept throwing out all these random metaphors and finally Sloane, clearly fed up, asks “Where are you getting these stupid metaphors?”It wasn’t a comedy scene but I actually laughed out loud. I paused my reading to make this post.

It made me wonder, has any book randomly made you laugh even if it wasn’t a funny book overall? Maybe just a single line, a sarcastic comeback, or an unexpectedly silly moment.

What are some of your favorite laugh out loud moments from books?