that nearly hurt because they are so slow 📚🐌 give me some recs that are super slow. books that celebrate every touch, ever hug. possibly closed-door (Not a requirement tho).

please help me 🥹🫶

that nearly hurt because they are so slow 📚🐌 give me some recs that are super slow. books that celebrate every touch, ever hug. possibly closed-door (Not a requirement tho).

please help me 🥹🫶

For my romance readers -- do you have a fav book or author who has mastered the art of the 3rd act breakup without it all relying on a miscommunication trope?

That is to say, the breakup was either: a) based on real circumstances or choices that made the characters believe they couldn't or shouldn't be together b) skipped entirely, but it worked because the story itself had other stakes that made the relationship still interesting c) something else entirely, please share below

I'll note, as I typed out my examples below I realized neither are Romance genre. They're other genres with romance sub-plots. So I wonder if capital R romance genre can do this well, when the plot typically is the relationship?

My example: A Long Time Dead and Atmosphere ❗️SPOILERS BELOW❗️ 🙈 🙈 🙈 🙈 A Long Time Dead didn't have one single breakup beat in the 3rd act, but an extensive separation based largely on one characters belief that they would harm the other if they remained in proximity. Think Edward in 2nd Twilight book kind of scenario. I bought this and thought it worked with the story.

Atmosphere had other external pressures, largely from their workplace and society at large in the 1980s, where breaking up made sense and was a huge risk for them for many reasons. They tried to initiate breakup, but end up not. And again, this was still satisfying to me because the story itself had other factors that made me feel hooked.

Recently, I started to get back on booktok/booktube and get tons of interesting recommendations.

However, I’ve had really disappointing experiences in the past with books that were hyped as ‘life-changing’ online and didn’t meet my expectations at all in the end. Anyway, to avoid that I thought I would turn to PB reviews to see what people rated books I see online…

Only to realize that I have no idea how other people use the star ratings! So, I wanna know how you guys approach rating out of five stars ⭐️ and would a low rating deter you from reading a book or do you prefer finding out yourself?

I have to say that a guilty pleasure of mine is reading books with bad reviews just to see how bad it gets 🫢