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Check out author D. J. Russo and her Femme Fatale Monster Romance books! 📚💚

  • Where are the monster girls in romance?

    I love a supernatural romance, but usually when I see a F/M human x monster/creature/beast/supernatural being pairing, the monster is almost always the MMC!!! I mean no disrespect to all the human girl x 100 y/o fae, 100 y/o vampire, angel, werewolf, demon, fish-man etc etc. I have read and loved many, and I know there are 500 beauty and the beast retellings for a reason.

    But I want to see a man pining over a terrifying woman!!! I want a reversal of the usual situation where the FMC falls for the man because of or in spite of his monstrosity, and the MMC learns to accept/feel deserving of love.

    I don’t mean situations where the FMC is only supernatural in a hot way (i.e. the little mermaid where she’s pretty and non-threatening throughout). I do have a soft spot for when the MMC is supernatural but the human FMC is objectively scarier, but that’s not exactly what I mean either.

    I will also accept queer recs with monster girls or trans/nonbinary folks, though I have a few of those already (Ex. Someone You Can Build a Nest In (sapphic)).

    So please, give me your favorite scary/monstrous girls! I am BEGGING someone to come in here and say, “Oh what a terrible oversight, here are 10 recs that do this exact thing!” If I get enough maybe I’ll make a list. 🙏

    I’ll add the few recs I have so far in the comments.

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    Good Spirits

    Good Spirits

    B.K. Borison

    “Good Spirits is an absolute knockout. A new Borison book feels like coming home in the best way. She's truly in a league of her own.” — Hannah Grace, New York Times bestselling author of Icebreaker The USA Today bestselling author of Business Casual, B.K. Borison is back with a whimsical new holiday romance—this time with a magical twist—that will have everyone falling in love with the Ghost of Christmas Past. He’s the Ghost of Christmas Past. She’s not exactly Scrooge. Ghost of Christmas Past Nolan Callahan intends to spend this holiday haunting like every other—get in, get out, return to his otherwise aimless existence as a ghost awaiting the afterlife. But when he’s faced with Harriet York, the sweetest assignment he’s ever had, he suddenly finds himself wishing for a future. Harriet York has no idea why she’s being haunted. She’s a good person—or, at least, she tries to be. A people pleaser to her core, she always does what’s expected of her. But as she and Nolan begin to examine her past, they discover there are threads that bind them together— and realize there might be more to moving on than expected. With the deadline of Christmas Eve fast approaching, will they find the key to their futures in each other’s pasts? Or will they stay firmly in the present, indulging in their unexpected, spirited connection? Filled with magic, mayhem, and cozy holiday charm, this swoony romance is B.K. Borison’s best yet!

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  • Violent Awakening (Fortuna Sworn, #6)
    Nov 10, 2025
    Violent Awakening (Fortuna Sworn, #6)K.J. Sutton
    5.0
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0

    I can't believe this series is over! I am going to miss the characters in this world, but I'm glad Fortuna finally gets the break that she needs.

    Fortuna's character development, in my opinion, felt realistic. Progress is not always linear and no one is perfect.

    Throughout the series, we see the battle within herself when it came to using her powers as a Nightmare. Wielding her ability to use another's fear to achieve her her motivations--from rescuing her brother, wading through the Unseelie faeries she despised, but was reluctantly committed to as queen, and protecting her loved ones. We see this each time she remembers Collith telling her to choose mercy.

    The tears were flowing towards the the last quarter of Violent Awakening, I had to get up and get tissues! The found family aspect in this series was strongly written and I love how Fortuna was so welcoming with arms wide open with "collecting her strays," as Laurie called it.

    I was so proud of how she handled the last chapters when it came to her romantic relationships (no spoilers).

    The plot twists and reveals even Fortuna didn't see coming were simply excellent, especially the callbacks from the previous books and how they ended up tied to this finale.

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  • Endless Terrors (Fortuna Sworn, #5)
    Nov 10, 2025
    Endless Terrors (Fortuna Sworn, #5)K.J. Sutton
    5.0
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0
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  • Waysider (The Voyants, #1)
    Nov 02, 2025
    Waysider (The Voyants, #1)K.J. Sutton
    5.0
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0
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  • Mate

    Mate (Bride, #2)

    Ali Hazelwood

    Thoughts from 32% (page 168)

    Ok Serena and Koen’s banter is so delicious.

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    The Paradise Problem

    The Paradise Problem

    Christina Lauren

    Christina Lauren, returns with a delicious new romance between the buttoned-up heir of a grocery chain and his free-spirited artist ex as they fake their relationship in order to receive a massive inheritance. Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam “West” Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she’d signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways. Three years later, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford professor. He may be one of four heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate, but he has little interest in working for the heartless corporation his family built from the ground up. He is interested, however, in his one-hundred-million-dollar inheritance. There’s just one catch. Due to an antiquated clause in his grandfather’s will, Liam won’t see a penny until he’s been happily married for five years. Just when Liam thinks he’s in the home stretch, pressure mounts from his family to see this mysterious spouse, and he has no choice but to turn to the one person he’s afraid to introduce to his one-percenter parents—his unpolished, not-so-ex-wife. But in the presence of his family, Liam’s fears quickly shift from whether the feisty, foul-mouthed, paint-splattered Anna can play the part to whether the toxic world of wealth will corrupt someone as pure of heart as his surprisingly grounded and loyal wife. Liam will have to ask himself if the price tag on his flimsy cover story is worth losing true love that sprouted from a lie.

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    Alchemised

    Alchemised

    SenLinYu

    In this riveting dark fantasy debut, a woman with missing memories fights to survive a war-torn world of necromancy and alchemy—and the man tasked with unearthing the deepest secrets of her past. “What is it you think you’re protecting in that brain of yours? The war is over. Holdfast is dead. The Eternal Flame extinguished. There’s no one left for you to save.” Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner—of war and of her own mind. Her Resistance friends and allies have been brutally murdered, her abilities suppressed, and the world she knew destroyed. In the aftermath of a long war, Paladia’s new ruling class of corrupt guild families and depraved necromancers, whose vile undead creatures helped bring about their victory, holds Helena captive. According to Resistance records, she was a healer of little importance within their ranks. But Helena has inexplicable memory loss of the months leading up to her capture, making her enemies wonder: Is she truly as insignificant as she appears, or are her lost memories hiding some vital piece of the Resistance’s final gambit? To uncover the memories buried deep within her mind, Helena is sent to the High Reeve, one of the most powerful and ruthless necromancers in this new world. Trapped on his crumbling estate, Helena’s fight—to protect her lost history and to preserve the last remaining shreds of her former self—is just beginning. For her prison and captor have secrets of their own . . . secrets Helena must unearth, whatever the cost.

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  • Crime and Punishment

    Crime and Punishment

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Thoughts after my third time reading
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  • Crime and Punishment

    Crime and Punishment

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Thoughts from 57% (page 375)

    I like how Luzhin is the classic red-flag guy who wants a "traditional woman" as his wife, yet pursues strong-willed women. He goes after Dunya only because he thinks her destitution will make her a submissive wife to him.

    It’s also interesting how opposite Luzhin and Razumikhin are as Dunya’s love interests. Luzhin seeks Dunya as her benefactor, while Razumikhin embodies the more stereotypical “love-at-first-sight” kind of guy.

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