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romance reader with a taste for shadows ✦ flowers, heartbreak, and unsolved mysteries

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  • Gild (The Plated Prisoner, #1)
    Luluq
    Mar 17, 2026
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 3.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.5

    3.75 ⭐️ 1 🌶 Audiobook (duet) 5 ⭐️

    This book was a total trip. The world-building is top-tier, the psychological grip was tight, and Sail has officially stolen a piece of my soul. 🥹

    Auren’s loyalty to King Midas is definitely ... a choice. But the cage? Yeah, that's questionable.

    I wouldn't mind being able to turn things into gold - just saying 💅🏼

    Well, I'm in it for the long haul. My need to know, NEEDS to know 🤣👀

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  • Twisted Love (Twisted, #1)
    Thoughts from 43% (page 155)
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  • Wild Love (Rose Hill, #1)
    Thoughts from 53%: Wise words from Mama Gemma

    “Your mom once told me that if I went home with a guy and there weren’t any books at his house, I shouldn’t fuck him.”

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    Grave Matter

    Grave Matter

    Karina Halle

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  • Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato, #1)
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    I’m bored. Badly want to dnf 😓

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    Ward D

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    Freida McFadden

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    Home Before Dark

    Home Before Dark

    Riley Sager

    What was it like? Living in that house. Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity—and skepticism. Today, Maggie is a restorer of old homes and too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her father’s book. But she also doesn’t believe a word of it. Ghosts, after all, don’t exist. When Maggie inherits Baneberry Hall after her father’s death, she returns to renovate the place to prepare it for sale. But her homecoming is anything but warm. People from the past, chronicled in House of Horrors, lurk in the shadows. And locals aren’t thrilled that their small town has been made infamous thanks to Maggie’s father. Even more unnerving is Baneberry Hall itself—a place filled with relics from another era that hint at a history of dark deeds. As Maggie experiences strange occurrences straight out of her father’s book, she starts to believe that what he wrote was more fact than fiction. In the latest thriller from New York Times bestseller Riley Sager, a woman returns to the house made famous by her father’s bestselling horror memoir. Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are there more earthbound—and dangerous—secrets hidden within its walls?

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    The Best Lies

    The Best Lies

    David Ellis

    Bestselling and award-winning author David Ellis delivers a fast-paced, twisty thriller that will surprise readers at every turn. Leo Balanoff is a diagnosed pathological liar with unthinkable skeletons in his family's closet. He's also a crusading attorney who seeks justice at all costs. When a ruthless drug dealer is found dead and Leo’s fingerprints show up on the murder weapon, no one believes a word he says. But he might be the FBI’s only shot at taking down the dealer’s brutal syndicate. Risk his life going undercover for the feds or head straight to prison for murder? Leo accepts the FBI’s offer—but it comes with a price, including a collision course with his ex, Andi Piotrowski, a former cop and “the one who got away.” Forced to walk a tightrope between an ambitious FBI agent and a cruel, calculating crime boss, Leo’s trapped in a corner. But he has more secrets than anyone realizes, and a few more cards left to play …

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  • My Dark Vanessa
    Thoughts from 89% (page 327)

    I’m trying so hard but the disgust won’t leave my face after reading the letter he posted to her. What an icky, icky man

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  • Maceo (The Dillinger Chronicles Book 2)
    arely
    Jan 07, 2026
    5.0
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0
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  • Deuce (Dillinger Chronicles, #1)
    arely
    Jan 07, 2026
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    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0
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    arely's 2026 Reading Challenge

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    Deuce (Dillinger Chronicles, #1)
    Maceo (The Dillinger Chronicles Book 2)
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  • Lost and Lassoed (Rebel Blue Ranch, #3)
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    Just started! Really loving these cowboy romances 🩷 might have to fly to Wyoming…

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  • My Dark Vanessa
    arely
    Dec 12, 2025
    5.0
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0
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  • Daddy Issues
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  • The Women
    Thoughts from 99%

    OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!! My heart!!!!!!!!!

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  • Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
    Nwanda
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    I'm both interested and bored. Maybe it's because I'm reading too slow but i want more things to happen

    I see potential so I don't wanna dnf it Can't wait to love it (please let me love it)

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