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Weekly Wrap-Up: 3 Books & 1,177 Pages 📚✨

May 10–16 Reading Wrap-Up 📖✨ This week gave me MM angst, dark romantasy chaos, and sapphic cozy slow-burn — my reading had full range and I have zero regrets. 🤠 🏳️‍🌈 Swan Hearts — Emmy Sanders MM western slow-burn told across dual timelines spanning three decades. Jake and Nash have been be

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I forgot the plot & still gave it 4 stars 🏴‍☠️✨

okay so here’s the thing. I finished Hunt on the Dark Water back in March, put it down, and then immediately could not reconstruct a single scene from memory. Gone. Completely evaporated. And I’m giving it four stars anyway and I will not be taking questions. What I can tell you is that the vibes

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She Beat the World Champ & He Caught Feelings 😤♟️

She said she was DONE with chess. The universe said: not yet, bestie. Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood gave me everything I didn’t know I needed in a YA romance. Mallory Greenleaf walked into one charity tournament, absolutely demolished the reigning world champion — a man the internet calls the

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The Goalie Said “Teach Me To Cook” 👨‍🍳🏒🥅

She’s the team chef. He’s the cocky goalie she cannot stand. And then he almost doesn’t make it — and she’s the one who saves him. Now he shows up asking for private cooking lessons and she cannot say no to the number he’s quoting. The kitchen is already hot but these two are making it absolutely

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He’s the Enemy. So Why Can’t I Stop?

Heated Rivals by Katee Robert gave me whiplash. Carrigan O’Malley knows she’s meant for an arranged marriage built on power — not this whiskey-voiced, infuriating Halloran man who has no business making her feel things. James Halloran knows Carrigan is off-limits. He does not care. The tension betw

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Letters, Grudges & A Doc Who Stole My Heart

Okay so I have a confession — I live in Minnesota and somehow I’ve been sleeping on Abby Jimenez for way too long. Consider this my formal apology tour because Your Truly just completely rearranged my expectations for a slow burn romance. Here’s what had me in a chokehold: this book starts with a

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There is such a thing as too much spice 🌶️🌶️🌶️

I had such high hopes for this one — a basilisk king, a human king, a girl caught between two worlds? Sign me up. But y’all… this book buried its plot under a mountain of repetitive smut to the point where I started losing count. The tension between Tem, Caspen, and Leo is genuinely there — the

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4 Books · 2 Five Stars · My Brain is Gone 📚🖤

may week one wrapped and this week genuinely changed something in me ✨ 4 books · 1,378 pages · 4.5 average rating — we absolutely ate this week 📖 Little Heart of Stone — Cleo Evans ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Game On — Navessa Allen ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Unspeakable — Dani Gallardo ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Serpent and t

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She Owns the Team. He Questions Everything. ⚾️💕

Okay besties, Liz Tomforde has done it again — but this time she absolutely outdid herself. In Her Own League might be my favorite book in this entire series and I say that with my whole chest. Reese Remington is the first female team owner in Major League Baseball. She is sharp, composed, and has

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Gothic Marsh Romance - with Haunches for days

When I picked this up based on the cover alone, I fully expected cozy holiday vibes — and instead got gothic marshes, brooding earls, and a secretive smuggler’s son who had absolutely no business being that compelling. KJ Charles is doing things with Regency language that should be studied in a cla

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Hook up app to hate to love. Oops. 😅

Ali Hazelwood did something different with this one — and I am not okay about it. Rue is a biotech engineer whose whole carefully constructed world is about to be dismantled by a hostile takeover. And the man leading the charge? Offensively attractive. Obviously. What makes this book a STANDOUT

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Two Ruthless Men & One Jazz Singer Walk Into Prohibition 🥃

Okay so I picked up Bootlegger’s Bounty by Adriana Herrera expecting a vibe and walked away absolutely feral. Set in the 1920s, this is a WHY CHOOSE romance with a jazz singer who makes the most deliciously chaotic deal — align herself with a rum runner AND a gangster to escape her controlling fath

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He’s Her Brother’s Best Friend & I’m Not Okay 😭🏒

Okay so I reread Puck Funny through the audiobook this time and somehow it hit even harder the second time around. Kitty and Guy have this slow-building tension that starts with one disastrous high school kiss and absolutely does not let you go from there. Guy Stelle is the cinnamon roll MMC we all

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Let trans & nonbinary athletes play 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

I just finished Let Us Play (Harrison Browne & Rachel Browne) and I need every coach, athletic director, clinician, and “concerned commenter” to read it. This book is equal parts lived experience + investigative reporting, and it does what the loudest debates rarely do: it actually brings re

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Brother’s Best Friend + Secret Pen Pal PAIN 😭🏒

If you like your romance with college hockey swagger and emotional damage, this one understood the assignment. It’s brother’s best friend, but make it years of mutual pining, jealousy, and “I’m not touching you” energy… while also somehow being the guy who shows up when she’s having nightmares a

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Fake dating + frosting + hockey boy chaos 🧁🏒

This one was such a FUN ride. You’ve got a pro hockey player in a PR mess and a baker who knows how to work a camera, a brand, and a piping bag. The “solution” is a collaboration… that immediately turns into oops we’re fake dating for optics and suddenly the whole city is watching. The vibes are

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February Wrap-Up: Yes/No/Maybe Reads ✨

February reading recap, StoryGraph edition: 12 books | 3,696 pages | 4.32 avg and my brain is currently running on audiobooks and vibes. Here’s the Yes / No / Maybe shelf: MAYBE (check TWs first): 🪄 House of Bane & Blood – Alexis L. Menard ☠️ Dark Succession – Katee Robert MAYBE (dom

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Realizing I like my reader cuck chair…

I grabbed Haunting the Hunter because the concept is WILD: the “reader” is actually part of the story. Like… Cade is talking to you. Watching you. Wanting you. The book keeps that fourth-wall vibe going while Callisto is stuck in the middle of a generational curse, a secret Order, and a demon (Alab

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Arranged Marriage, Mafia Chaos, Big Feelings 🖤

I listened to this on audio and I’ve got feelings. The story is addictive, but the audio setup made me work for it. There’s one narrator while we’re bouncing through multiple POVs, including side characters, and it got confusing fast when the scene shifts hit. That said… the vibes are so good if

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Gingerbread + Grudges = Peak Cozy Romance

This one was pure small-town winter comfort. Annie runs the Gingerbread Bakery and wants her love life to be sweet… but instead she’s busy verbally sparring with Mac, the relentlessly upbeat bar owner down the street. The vibes: snowy streets, wedding chaos in the background, and that cozy “ever

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📚75/175 📖: Courageous Hearts 🤠🏳️‍🌈 🎧: Say You’ll Remember Me 💕 38|MN|💍