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Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby

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adventurous challenging dark emotional informative tense slow-paced

4.0

"๐ฟ๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘›, ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข'๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘˜ ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘–๐‘› ๐ด๐‘š๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘œ๐‘๐‘™๐‘’'๐‘  ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘˜ ๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ. ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘ข๐‘ โ„Ž ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘› ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘› ๐‘”๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘‘. ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘˜ ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘ก'๐‘  ๐‘Ž ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’. ๐ธ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘ ๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘Ž โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘”๐‘”๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘  ๐‘๐‘’โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข. ๐ถโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘–๐‘๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘”๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘š ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘š ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ . ๐ด๐‘™๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘  ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก '๐‘’๐‘š ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘’. ๐ต๐‘’๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก'๐‘  ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘š ๐‘–๐‘ . ๐ต๐‘’๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”๐‘  ๐‘”๐‘œ. ๐ด๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘š๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘š."

Holy crap this book took me a wild ride for a man who wanted a better life for himself and his family. This book really hit some thought provoking points and brings up real life instances including but not limited to racism, police brutality, profiling, and stereotyping. 

It is a bit slow in my opinion so at times I felt myself getting bored, BUT it would immediately get into some action and had my attention again real quick! 

I definitely recommend this one if youโ€™re looking for a thriller that has some twists in store you and filled with action and grit! 
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert

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emotional funny lighthearted reflective tense slow-paced

4.5

I read this book on Audible and omggggg itโ€™s so stinkin cute!!!! And the cover is honestly what made me interested because itโ€™s so STINKIN CUTE UGH 

Not gonna lie. Celine annoyed me at times but Bradley was absolutely my favorite character!!!! If he ever died it would be the start of my villain arc tbh because I loved him so much (dare I sayโ€ฆโ€ฆmaybe even more than Celine loved him๐Ÿ‘€) 

Honestly I absolutely hated the third act breakup. I hate it in any book tbh. And it seriously pissed me off ๐Ÿคฌ but they got back together ๐Ÿฅฐ 

I loved every second of Bradley and Celineโ€™s banter. It had me cackling like a dang witch ๐Ÿง™๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ hehehe 
Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen

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challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

"๐๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ค ๐ ๐ข๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฌ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ž ๐ž๐ฑ๐ก๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐. ๐’๐จ ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ฒ ๐›๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง, ๐‰๐ข๐ฆ ๐‚๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ, ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐œ๐ก ๐ˆ ๐ฌ๐š๐ฐ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ง๐, ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐‚๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ ๐‘๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ฌ, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐จ๐๐š๐ฒ, ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ง. ๐ˆ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ž๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐š ๐ฅ๐จ๐ญ."

I loved this book and the many messages it told. Our FMC, Tabby, is such a strong character and I loved her relationship with her grandmother and her friends. Their relationships were quite dysfunctional at times, but I loved their conversations and interactions. They were all such strong beautiful women. 

I felt connected to Tabby due to the fact that she was struggling with infertility. Her and her man decided to break things off because he wasnโ€™t ready for marriage and unsure if heโ€™d ever want kids. She never really thought about kids until she was told she couldnโ€™t have them, and had the choice taken from her. With that, Tabby decides to look into freezing her eggs in the off chance she might one day have kids. 

Tabithaโ€™s entire journey with infertility, racial bias, and finding herself was truly moving. I loved Tabbyโ€™s character and loved the journey she was on. She also got her own little HEA at the end ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿป 
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Come Out, Come Out by Alexia Onyx

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dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I stumbled across this book while scrolling through Kindleโ€™s recommendations for me and Iโ€™m so glad I downloaded it!!!! 
This book has a lot of sad boi sad girl vibes and I lived for it because I too am a sad girl ๐Ÿ˜… 

๐–๐ก๐จ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ก ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐œ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐œ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ก๐š๐๐งโ€™๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐œ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ญ. ๐ˆ๐ง ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ, ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐š๐›๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐š๐๐๐ž๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ .

Omg AIDENNNNNN!!!! Ghost baby!!!!! I love him so much!!! The way he cared so much for Skye and looked out for her even in her unawareness of it! I ate that shit UP! 

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ก๐จโ€™๐ฏ๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฐ๐š๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐š๐ซ๐ค ๐š๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐š๐ง ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ. ๐ˆ๐Ÿ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎโ€™๐ซ๐ž ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒโ€™๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐ž ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ก๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎโ€™๐ซ๐ž ๐ง๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฅ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒโ€™๐ฏ๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐จ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ.

So many highlights, so little time. This book was full of beautiful quotes. 

I loved the bisexual rep in here too. From both MCโ€™s. Iโ€™m also so happy my babies got their HEA ๐Ÿ–ค

Also can we all agree that Binx is the best side character kitty cat EVER! Such a sweet little kitty ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿป 
Paint It All Red by S.T. Abby

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5.0

Iโ€™m finally at peace since my loves got a HEA ๐Ÿฅน๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿป and since Jake and Hadley got their HEA tooโ€ฆ. I loved everything about this ending ๐Ÿฅฐ
All the Lies by S.T. Abby

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fast-paced

5.0

Dear lord this series is fcking me upโ€ฆ. Onto book 5 ๐Ÿฅณ
Scarlet Angel by S.T. Abby

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challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Ms. Abby youโ€™re gonna have me up till 6am finishing this series I hope youโ€™re happy with yourself ๐Ÿฅฒ
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Sidetracked by S.T. Abby

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challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

It literally just got better. I have nothing more to say other than leave me alone while I start book 3 
The Risk by S.T. Abby

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challenging dark informative mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Iโ€™m all for vigilante justice ๐Ÿ‘€ I absolutely ATE this book up!!!!! The plot is AMAZING!!!! 5000โญ๏ธ omg

No one disturb me while Iโ€™m finishing this series pls and thx ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿป
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Just Call Me Confidence by Stella Grae

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emotional funny inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

4.5

So this novella was HOT ๐Ÿฅต this was very well written and super fast paced which I loved! Some of the conversations that happened seemed kind of weird, I think it mightโ€™ve been the way things were worded but Travisโ€™s character just seemed very immature. 
I really enjoyed Collin! He seemed like an old soul which I felt was very relatable, it made me connect with him more than the other characters. 
Jenna was able to find her confidence in and out of the bedroom! She was definitely a MILF and I enjoyed this story so much ๐Ÿ–ค 

๐‘ฐโ€™๐’๐’ ๐’๐’†๐’—๐’†๐’“ ๐’”๐’•๐’๐’๐’‘ ๐’•๐’ ๐’„๐’‚๐’๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’‚ ๐’˜๐’‰๐’๐’“๐’† ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’„๐’‚๐’–๐’”๐’† ๐’š๐’๐’–โ€™๐’“๐’† ๐’”๐’Š๐’Ž๐’‘๐’๐’š ๐’‚๐’„๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’๐’Š๐’Œ๐’† ๐’‚ ๐’˜๐’๐’Ž๐’‚๐’ ๐’˜๐’Š๐’•๐’‰ ๐’‚ ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’โ€™๐’” ๐’Ž๐’๐’“๐’‚๐’๐’”.

Tropes:
โ€ขLove Triangle
โ€ขReverse Age Gap 
โ€ขConfident Cougar ๐Ÿ˜‰
โ€ขSurprise Pregnancy ๐Ÿซฃ
โ€ขSingle mom 
โ€ขInsta-love