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Aoxora

I'm a big fan of fantasy and romance but try to read from other genres as well if I see something interesting. You can pry my ereader from my cold dead hands.

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Fantasy and Sci-Fi with a Side of Romance
Cozy Fantasy
My Taste
Love, Theoretically
Uprooted
An Enchantment of Ravens
The Sword of Kaigen
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
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A Forgery of Fate
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Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
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Saving Verakko (Clecanian, #3)
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Kiss of a Demon King (Immortals After Dark, #6)
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  • His Forsaken Bride (Vawdrey Brothers, #2)
    Aoxora
    Feb 18, 2026
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    Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 2.5
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    This one, I’m afraid, is not as good as the previous Alice Coldbreath works I’ve read. I believe it is partly due to the court intrigues which were quite boring to me. Also, the romance didn’t work as well either, likely owing to the pacing of how the couple became closer. It sort of felt disjointed to me.

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  • Funding?

    Not sure this is the right place to post this, but I was wondering if there is a place where I can read more about how Pagebound is funded? How do they make money/how do the owners make a salary/what is their long term investment plan? Is this public information? If someone could direct me to anywhere where the owners have discussed this, I’ll high five you 🙏 Thanks!

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  • 🗡️ Is He Morally Gray, or Just Hot?

    Let’s talk about the epidemic.

    At what point did "morally gray" become: A. War crimes, but make it romantic B. Emotional unavailability with good cheekbones C. “I’d burn the world for you” (sir, why is your world so flammable?) We eat it up every time.

    Discussion fuel: If your fave morally gray man were described as “medium height accountant with a receding hairline,” would he still be complex?

    Do we forgive violence faster when it’s aesthetic?

    Are fantasy readers more comfortable with authoritarian love interests because the world-building distances the harm?

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    A Forgery of Fate

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  • Lord of Scoundrels (Scoundrels, #3)
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  • 🏡 Drafty Castle? Haunted Manor? Tiny Bookshop Loft? Pick Your Fictional Home.

    If you could pack one suitcase and move into any fictional home immediately - where are you going?

    Drafty castles absolutely count. So do crooked cottages, dramatic cliffside mansions, hobbit holes, chaotic city apartments, enchanted libraries, and suspiciously affordable small-town farmhouses.

    Are you:

    🌧️ Living your best moody life in a crumbling estate?

    🌿 Baking bread in a cozy woodland cottage?

    📚 Secretly hoping your house comes with hidden passageways and a mildly concerning attic?

    🕯️ Choosing vibes over structural integrity?

    Drop the book + the home + one reason you’d survive (or absolutely wouldn’t).

    Bonus: what’s the first thing you’re decorating or rearranging when you move in?

    Let’s see where PageBound is relocating.

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    Alice Coldbreath

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  • Help me with my thirst for arranged marriage please 🙏🏼

    I’m looking for arranged marriage romances where they truly meet (or properly meet) right when they’re about to get married. I want the awkwardness. The tension. The “oh no, this is my spouse now???” energy.

    Some scenarios that I would love:

    • They don’t like each other at first
    • It’s one-sided pining
    • They’re BOTH secretly pining but convinced the other one is indifferent

    Give me emotional intimacy. Give me walls slowly coming down. Give me “we are strangers but now we share a bed” tension, please I beg you 🥲

    I’m deep in my historical romance era right now (please feed it 🥀📜), but I’ll happily accept contemporary recs too!

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  • Choosing Theo (Clecanian, #1)
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  • His Forsaken Bride (Vawdrey Brothers, #2)
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  • Give me your greatest, safest SFW books!

    Lunar New Year is here! Prosperity and great health to all!

    But I need your help PB! I’m going to be inundated with visits and my weird family culture (I’m sure I’m not the only one with these) is that I’m not allowed to read books or use an “iPad” size device which means my ereader is out. I can only use my phone to read whilst visiting, and unfortunately my current library is very NSFW indeed.

    Please introduce me your greatest SFW reads! Some preference:

    • any genre
    • non-fiction would be great too
    • I’m not super keen on teenage/YA type books but if you think it’s amazing I’m gonna take a look!
    • no school setting

    SFW in this instance here would be if a kid peeks at my screen no one is gonna string me up by my toes.

    Thank you in advance!

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  • Give me your greatest, safest SFW books!

    Lunar New Year is here! Prosperity and great health to all!

    But I need your help PB! I’m going to be inundated with visits and my weird family culture (I’m sure I’m not the only one with these) is that I’m not allowed to read books or use an “iPad” size device which means my ereader is out. I can only use my phone to read whilst visiting, and unfortunately my current library is very NSFW indeed.

    Please introduce me your greatest SFW reads! Some preference:

    • any genre
    • non-fiction would be great too
    • I’m not super keen on teenage/YA type books but if you think it’s amazing I’m gonna take a look!
    • no school setting

    SFW in this instance here would be if a kid peeks at my screen no one is gonna string me up by my toes.

    Thank you in advance!

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    His Forsaken Bride (Vawdrey Brothers, #2)

    His Forsaken Bride (Vawdrey Brothers, #2)

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  • Help me with my thirst for arranged marriage please 🙏🏼

    I’m looking for arranged marriage romances where they truly meet (or properly meet) right when they’re about to get married. I want the awkwardness. The tension. The “oh no, this is my spouse now???” energy.

    Some scenarios that I would love:

    • They don’t like each other at first
    • It’s one-sided pining
    • They’re BOTH secretly pining but convinced the other one is indifferent

    Give me emotional intimacy. Give me walls slowly coming down. Give me “we are strangers but now we share a bed” tension, please I beg you 🥲

    I’m deep in my historical romance era right now (please feed it 🥀📜), but I’ll happily accept contemporary recs too!

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