Recs if you like The Songbird & the Heart of Stone...

Nominees and winners of every category of the Good Reads Choice Awards for the year of 2025. Some books overlap so they were only entered once.

Books where the story is brought to another level by the character development, be it in the complex character building or the multi layered character arc. The writer made the characters like facets, every angle and every relation gives them yet another aspect to further deepen the dynamic between characters. Every little bit of past revealed shows us the way they became who they are now. Leaving us with characters arcs that feel like an entire story on their own that impacts the greater plot.

Books where the main character is going through it, (or has gone through it), and dammit they’re dealing with it as best they can. Romantasy, SFR mainly! But a few memoirs and litfic too. ❤️‍🩹 Always open to more suggestions ❤️‍🩹

*Check the TW/CW as some of these books are dark romances. If I’ve left a review, I will usually leave a comment w the info

for those who like their vampire romance with plenty of bite. varying amounts of plot, but always great smut!

Monthly Book Club reads: Romances, Fantasies

Books featuring necromancy aka any kind of death magic.

This is a suggested reading order of the Crowns of Nyaxia series by Carissa Broadbent!

Books where gods/goddesses are characters in the story/world

Demons as characters or in the world

Books with Vampires (or a version of vampires) in the World

Serrano pepper spicy