A little reminder that the readalong starts today!! 💖

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Season of the Witch is coming!

Next in line is the series Season of the Witch by Emberly Wyndham✨

"A cozy witch romance series for readers who want all the cottagecore witchy vibes with low stakes and low stress. Each book guarantees a short, spicy romance with an HEA and a new love interest added with every novella."

(I think the first two books are around 150 pages and the last two are a bit over 300)

If anyone is interested in reading it together, we start on July 20th 💖 (and the buddy read will last until the end of August)

Edit: Here’s my post where I came up with the idea for this list💖

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Hey guys!! I’m really happy you wanted to join!! 💖 In the end I decided it would be cool to create a list (I hope that you agree 👉🏼👈🏼)

I was hoping to add a recommendation from each one of you! I added @TheNotoriousHBG rec - Season of the Witch quartet by Emberly Wyndham @antari.reads recommended author K.A. Knight so I chose The Lost Coven (is that ok? I saw a lot of longer series so I wanted to choose something shorter for now 😆)

As for the order in which we’ll be reading - I hope you don’t mind starting with The Deadwood Series, then I was thinking about reading something @sarawithbooks will recommend? (since you were the first one to respond to my post 🫶🏼) After that we could go with the Season of the Witch and The Lost Coven?

If you have something to add or a better idea for the list name let me know! 🤗

Babygotbooks

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Sounds good! I’m ok to read whatever and it looks like Traitor Witch is already on my TBR. I made a list of some poly/why choose reads that were on my radar already with no forum posts. Please feel free to add whatever you want. I haven’t read these but vetted them enough to be interested in them.

Velvet Cruelty by Eve Dangerfield

Three Ring Heat by RK Pierce

Red is for Roxy by Meg Stratton-post apocalyptic

Broken Princess by Laura Bennett-mafia duet

Catch me by Reese Rivers-time travel

Beneath Dark skies by SA Ashburne-zombies

The Omega Merger by Roxy Collins-omegaverse switch

Flawed Creatures by Beatrix Hollow

Secrets on the Sea by Shona Knight

Drown the Sea by Elisha Kemp-time travel

To Run with the Wild Hunt by Mallory Dunlin-fae

Voices in the Dark by Ariel Dawn

See no Evil by Jewel Killian

Dangers Unclaimed by Amber Bayley

Cute but Psycho by Beatrix Hollow -monster asylum

Whisper Waves by Blake Black-ghosts

Into the Darkness by Nora Ash

Maynificient

Ooo this is a good list! 🍑

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I vote for Velvet Cruelty, Three Ring Heat and Beneath Dark Skies but I don’t want to decide on my own 😆 Something like Voices in the Dark could be great too as a shorter read 😊

I’ve read The Omega Merger already and gave it 4⭐️ so I can recommend 🤭

Babygotbooks

Those sound very interesting I agree. Omega Merger keeps coming up for me and I definitely need to read it soon

The “switch” concept is fun and fresh 😁 I’ve read one other book in this series (book 4) and I remember liking it too but unfortunately got bored around 75% and dnf’ed it 🙈

I knew you wouldn't disappoint!!🤩 I'll check them all thank you🧡

This is great, thank you! I have no suitable recs at the moment so I'll probably steal something from @Babygotbooks list🤭

Sure! 😊

Hey! Did you choose something? 😏🤭 I was thinking about making a post what we’re going to read next some time soon to let people know in advance 😁💖

Ooooh yes! Sorry, these days are flying by too fast. I'll look up something, give me a couple hours😉

Sure, no worries! 😌 I totally understand, I feel like the beginning of April was just few days ago 😭😭🤣

Right?!? I always feel like january and february are endless and then march/april come by and everything becomes an unstoppable whirlwind of things and then it's suddenly July and I'm left wondering wtf happened???

bella

Sooo maybe we can go with Beneath Dark Skies? I've never read books with zombies in it so it might be interesting!!

Same here! I’m already exited for something new and different! 🤭 it’s gonna be interesting

Can’t wait to start reading Traitor Witch! 🤭

exited

Are you ready too? 😁

Babygotbooks

Here we go!

Yessss!💃💃

Immediately saving. I just bought The Fifth Nicnevin series, but I’ve been meaning to try Marie Mistry so maybe I’ll swap to the Deadwood series!

Marie Mistry is easily becoming one of my favorite authors and that’s why I recommend we read the Deadwood series first! I’m rereading Liminal right now and I’m as obsessed as I was reading it for the first time (can’t wait to get to the second book 🤭) I was reading The Fifth Nicnevin series last year and I feel in love with it too! 😆💖 Unfortunately life happened and I didn’t finish it yet (got to 70% of the 4th book) but I hope I’ll be able to reread and finish it soon 🤗

I’m so excited. I’m in. I’m going to see where I can checkout/buy the Deadwood series so I can read along. I missed your original post but I’m an RH lover so I’ll follow along!

yay

This has been so much fun! I get kind of nervous to post in the forums normally but feeling like we’re starting the convo feels good! I’m almost done with Pirate Witch and I’m getting kind of sad, lol! I’ve read faster than normal though since my kid has been home sick this week so there’s been lots of couch time. It will normally take me a little longer to read a trilogy 😄.

I’m somewhere at the beginning of book three but I still need to take some time to organize my thoughts and notes from book two 😆 It’s much more fun when you know someone for sure will see your thoughts and there’s a high chance they’ll reply 😁 You can let me know when you’ll want to start The Fifth Nicnevin series and maybe if I’ll be able to at the time I’ll join 😁 (I recommended this series to few people on pb and when they were posting on the forum I was super happy but also frustrated since I wasn’t always able to respond bc I forgot a lot 😭🙈)

P.S. I hope your kid feels better 😊

I didn’t realize you couldn’t post in the forum at percentages after marking the book as finished 😩. I went through Pirate Witch so fast and was taking notes in my notes app. I posted my final note though 😅. Forum newbie I guess!

I’ll definitely do The Fifth Nicnevin. I bought it on audio and that helps slow me down a little!

I was there too!! 😆

Oh, really? I normally tend to get through audiobooks faster bc I listen to them on at least 1.5 speed 😂

It was so fast paced with tons of important scenes to get to. I couldn’t pause.

I listen at 1.5 speed but I can read text super fast 😅. With audio books I find myself reading 200-300 “pages” a day. With ebooks more like 400-500. I’ve been tracking pages on Storygraph to help me figure this out. Some days I go into a reading hole and do like 600-1000 but that’s just disassociation 🙃 and only happens once or twice a month. Or when reading angsty cliffhangery Omegaverse or Cowboy Colony Mail Order Brides 🫣.

Wow! 🤩 I’m a pretty slow reader 😅. It’s probably because of my ADHD (I need to frequently reread sentences for example 😮‍💨). Maybe I would read faster in my native language 🫣😆 I guess I can try tracking on Storygraph too 😁

Ummm excuse me you are a reading superhero in my view! You just read that trilogy so fast and it wasn’t even in your native language???? ☠️. The only other language I can read in is Spanish and I’m way way slower in it!

I do like Storygraph for the info it provides! It was helpful for me to see it that way and give myself some more realistic goals.

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I just downloaded an audio and an ebook in Spanish so I could test myself. I immediately had to turn the audio speed down to 1 😂.

You just need to get used to it 😉💖

Thank you! 🥹🫶🏼

That’s a really good idea, it could help me a lot too with setting my goals 😁. My only issue is that entering data there every time I read something seems like a lot of additional work 😅😂

Maynificient

Everytime i see you, I feel so bad that I wasn't able to participate in the previous readalong after saying that I would and this second readalong is also overlapping with my exams. 🙂

You don’t need to feel bad, I understand! 🥹🫶🏼 Good luck with your exams and I hope next time you’ll be able to join! 💖🤗

Maynificient

Thank you. Hopefully I'll get to join the third readalong. 🙂

TinesBookCorner

Omg that is such a nice concept!

Thank you! 💖

A little reminder that the readalong starts today!! 💖

Hello everyone! It's time to start our readalong of Rolling Hills Ranch duet by S.A. Ashburne 🤗

The first part of this story set in a zombie apocalypse is Beneath Dark Skies 🧟‍♀️

The readalong will last for over a month (May 22 - Jun 30, 2026) There’s no pressure to start right away, you can join whenever best suits you 🫶🏼

let’s read

Oop, it seems i've stumbled upon something interesting hehehe. I have a rec, but there are 15 posts in the forum, but they are from 2 people (me and my buddy reader) would you like it still or does it not fit ?

Thank you so much but the idea was to choose books with empty forum posts and read some of them together so it wouldn’t feel so lonely writing there alone with no one to discuss (since those books aren’t so popular). Just like you and your buddy reader did! 🤭💖

I intend to add to the list only books we decided on reading together 🤗 (at least for now I’m gonna stick to it since this was the original idea)

You are welcome to join us if you’d like to buddy read with more people 😊 Here’s my old post where I first came up with the idea if you’d be interested 💖

Oh okay that makes sense ^^ I would love to join as I love the trope, but I feel I already have too much planned right now 😭 but I'm definitely saving this for the recs, and if I find the time I'll try to hop in on 1 or 2 of the buddy reads !

Yay! 🙌🏼 I was thinking about starting the next buddy read sometime after May 20th 😁 I have a lot of reads planned too but I tend to not stick to my plans 🤣🙈

haha, currently I'm in the midst of moving, so I really don't have time, but around mid june, I'll try to hop on whichever one you have going on ^^

Sure! 💖 Good luck with the move then! 😊

Thanks ! 🫶

Cinnadonut

Hi here are my recs, rated 5⭐️ by me. I think they fit here. Baneful Magick by Suki Rose Curse and Keys by Stella Brie Lightbringer by Evelyn Flood

Omg! They seem to be really interesting, thank you! 😊

The idea for this list was to read those books together as buddy read and I wanted to put on the list only the books that we’ll decide on reading 🙈 If you’d like to join us and would like to read them again together with us then sure, I’ll add it but maybe you’d prefer something different then as your pick? 😁

(I put your recs on my shelf since they seem cool and maybe someone here will also be interested 💖)

Cinnadonut

Oh my bad. I’m happy to buddy read. Always ready for more recs👍 My preference is fantasy RH but willing branch into contemporary. Can’t wait for the list📚