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The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
i can't get a coherent thought together quick enough before i start crying again. it's like there's this heavy snow on it all; a silenced weight. and the story is slowly, heavily creeping along as we shift from the realization that this story isn't really who you thought it was about in the first place. OH THE GIRLHOOD OF IT ALL. easily one of the best books i've read.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Confinement
Minor: Death, Grief, and War
The Blessed Vessel by Venus Cox
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
honestly? fun as hell. if you go into this expecting a royal dignitary navigating a political scape... you picked the wrong book. but if you go into this expecting a girl raised outside of the royal political scape navigating a coterie/harem all with distinct social and sexual needs... frequently? this is a good enough pick.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Outing, and Alcohol
Minor: Confinement, Racial slurs, Slavery, Torture, Trafficking, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury
this is a kink heavy novel with a variety of species related kinks and societal based kinks considering the job of the FMC. they are as follows: consensual non-consent, somnophilia, dormaphilia, sexual voyeurism, nonconsensual sexual voyeurism, aquaphilia, sexual dehumanization, hatefucking, blood play, predator/prey, compulsory heterosexuality, mention of lactation kink.
Grizzly by Jessica Loft
3.0
painfully short but 2 nice spicy scenes. mild heat. not at all comparable to the heinous shit i’ve read in fanfics but still a fun little treat. i liked the random murder plot.
Melting the Ice Between us by J.M. Jackie, J.M. Jackie
3.0
kieran was deeply problematic and wildly unlikable. blake victimized himself after committing the ultimate betrayal to his, granted headstrong and inconsiderate, boyfriend. and then you just wrapped it up in a little bow like it’s fine? kieran really was the bad guy the whole time except you’re just gonna exonerate blake for being homophobic to kieran? letting kieran get bullied incessantly? STALKING kieran???? eeeeugh
Single Malt by Layla Reyne
3.0
80 percent fbi work, 10 percent depression and survivor’s guilt, 10 percent romance. what a shit recipe for a cocktail. also why did everyone have so many names??? “jamie jameson whiskey walker” and ai aiden irish talley” like christ man.
Silver Moon by Amanda Lynn
5.0
fuck yeah that was fun lmfao. NOT A LOVE TRIANGLE like the description sort of suggests it would be but that’s fine by meeeeee