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Midnight_Ruffles

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Fantasy and Sci-Fi with a Side of Romance
Romance Starter Pack Vol I
Love in the Big City
Feminine Rage
Every Villain is a Hero
My Taste
Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
The Everlasting
Red City (The New Alchemists #1)
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
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    You know, we have a similar thing to Food Fest here in my hometown, it’s a wine fest 🫢 for a small fee you can drink all the wine you want! They also sell stuff, like charcuterie and salsas, and food! 😹

    That’s it, that’s my update, I felt the need to let y’all know I’ve been to something like that (although I don’t drink). 😹

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    LMAOOOO Truck-kun is ELITE ball knowledge, I knew my girl Maggie was a nerd!!

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    Jun 10, 2026
    3.0
    Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 3.0
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    Listen Linda……

    Was it somewhat entertaining? Yes. Was I also looking forward to it being over? Also yes. Would I recommend this book? Not really.. but also who am I to yuk someone’s yum? So, YOLO, go for it to experience it!

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  • Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
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    Jun 11, 2026
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    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0
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  • Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
    Magp13
    Jun 11, 2026
    4.5
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0
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    I can definitely see why it’s got all the hype and am already bracing for a thousand and one similar attempts in the upcoming years. It’s an easy entry into video game-based stories and LitRPG as a genre, with a humorous system and explanations placed where needed for both the characters and the readers. There’s snappy quotable sound bites and the combination of Carl and Donut is a fantastic one.

    The humour will be what loses some people, it’s childish in places and punching down in others, but despite that, I enjoyed reading it and I will continue with the series. The world of the dungeon is a fascinating one and with it originally and currently being guided in some places by audience vote, I’m curious to see where it will end up.

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  • Love Song
    ehawley
    Jun 06, 2026
    1.0
    Enjoyment: 0.5Quality: 1.0Characters: 1.0Plot: 0.5
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    This is a really long review to essentially say I hated this book. Not only are the plot and characters awful, but the writing and craft are also terrible. The single star is given to credit that I was compelled to finish the book (not only to get that sparkly flamingo badge but also) to see the end of this train wreck. It was so bad I couldn't look away.

    I hate the MMC. I am not moved by how hard it is for him to be a trust fund nepo baby and I don't think not having sex in the past 6 months is an excuse to be an asshole. The author clearly never would give a FMC license to be an asshole because she hadn't recently had sex; it's clearly a heavy burden for a male character to bear to exist without women tending to their sexual needs. The MMC was not "sweet" for apologizing for being mean. He actually knew her sore spots and took advantage of them. The FMC was reeling from infidelity of a previous relationship and the MMC blithely taunts her with other woman drama. The MMC is attracted to her "walls" (i.e. emotional boundaries) and, to my interpretation, was enticed by the idea of crossing her boundaries. Nothing redeeming to me about this man. Also, his songwriting and lyrics were genuinely terrible and I had to look away from the book from my secondhand embarrassment.

    The FMC was so naive and so infantalized by everyone around her. I didn't really like her but she was too wronged by everyone for me to deserve hate (no matter how tempting it is to just despise her). Dealing with the MMC in any way demonstrates a serious lack of critical thinking, but she was 20 and recently wronged by another merit-less man. The MMC shows her his lack of care for her feelings and wellbeing, and everyone around her tells her actually he's just so into you, he's horrible to you! This is classic "boys are mean to girls they like" but published in 2026. Enemies to lovers is so off the rails in the whole industry, and Kennedy isn't the only one doing this, but the lengths the author goes to explain it away is infuriating.

    The age gap situation. The FMC confesses a crush on him when she was 16 and he was 20. He kind of made fun of her to let her down. Then, we skip to dry humping when she was 18 and he was 22, and him lying to her about remembering this episode (alcohol is the excuse for everything in this book). In the present day, she is 20 and he is 25. This age difference is concerning but not essentially problematic if not for the prologue scenes and the way the MMC treats the FMC. The MMC is constantly talking about babysitting and "watching" out for the FMC, including as a favor for her dad and she is sarcastically calling him Daddy. He calls her "kid" multiple times, but is masturbating to instagram pictures of her in a "slutty" bikini. She's in college and trying to prove to this 25- year-old man she's an adult and can handle his drama and moodiness and lust. She's a tease to him just by existing. The dynamic makes the age gap honestly disgusting and predatory to me.

    The writing was just pitiful. The author prioritized churning out lust and sexual details rather than any semblance of plot continuity or depth. This story realistically needed 250 to 300 pages, and it's a travesty in editing that it exceeded 500 pages. The scenes were tired and the language repetitive. I also have not read the previous related series so I wasn't interested in the dad group chat. I hated the third act breakup premise and execution. The ending just depressed me.

    If you like Republican propaganda books of college-aged kids hooking up, you're going to love this book. Heavy warnings for copious sexism and misogyny, paternalism, cheating, other woman drama, normalization of cheating, questionable consent and stereotypical college rape culture, and miscarriage, and it's all awful. I will never be reading an Elle Kennedy book again.

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  • Harvest Season (The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy, #2)
    Midnight_Ruffles
    Jun 11, 2026
    2.5
    Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 2.5Characters: 2.5Plot: 2.0

    Although there were parts I enjoyed with this story (the sex scenes were alright and the town was cute), I was left disappointed. It was all repetitive, long-winded thoughts that that did absolutely nothing. It felt like it gave me recycled plot points that I already knew from the first book but just added some I love you’s and a villain. šŸ™„ It was all fluff and filler! Normally that would have totally been fine if it ended properly. It really does feel like this book was written just to fulfill a trilogy contract when the story could have been done in 2. In all honesty, if all three books were out, this book could be skipped and you’d still be okay. Just skim the ending so you know where the third book starts. Stay for Cape Carnage if you love the small towns, but not for the characters. Except Arthur, he has my heart. šŸ˜”

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  • Harvest Season (The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy, #2)
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    It’s so fun when authors drop Easter eggs of their stuff and I catch them. Or at least I hope that’s what Weaver is doing.

    She mentions a Ruinous Love playlist and now casually dropping the word Marrow. šŸ˜‚ It makes me think all her characters will meet soon. If the characters from the Ruinous Love trilogy meet up with Roth and Jack (Marrow) and then with Harper and Nolan that would be so awesome!

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    It’s so fun when authors drop Easter eggs of their stuff and I catch them. Or at least I hope that’s what Weaver is doing.

    She mentions a Ruinous Love playlist and now casually dropping the word Marrow. šŸ˜‚ It makes me think all her characters will meet soon. If the characters from the Ruinous Love trilogy meet up with Roth and Jack (Marrow) and then with Harper and Nolan that would be so awesome!

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