I've been reading my first pirate romantasy book and it's called Of the Stars and Sea by Brianna Remus. I am loving it and thought I'd share it with y'all. I'm gonna leave the blurb below if anyone's interested. If you're into Pirates of the Carribean, The Mummy, or Netlfix's Black Sails show then you might like it. A traitorous pirate lord. A bounty hunter with a score to settle. And an epic treasure that will grant them both the freedom they desire…unless they destroy each other first. Rowenya Stone is captain of the once fearsome pirate ship, the Trinity. Bound to her father’s old debts, Rowenya has been forced to break the Pirates’ Code by capturing her own kind in exchange for money. Tired of being shackled to her father’s past, Rowenya hatches a plan to steal an ancient artifact, said to unveil a map to the greatest treasure ever known to man. But the plan goes awry when Grayson Tyde, the most ruthless and feared pirate lord in the Southern Realm, intercepts them. When Grayson discovers Rowenya has one thing he does not—knowledge of the old gods’ language inscribed upon the artifact—he forces her onto his ship. However, they are not the only ones in search of the artifact, and as the threat of their enemies looms, Rowenya must trust the one person she’s always feared. But what terrifies her more is her perilous attraction to Grayson. In a world where love is a traitorous thing and danger lurks around every corner, Rowenya must decide if finding the treasure is worth losing her heart.

Hi! I'm craving some high school/college maybe? Bully / enemies to lovers romance. Leave some recs that are not : zodiac academy, rina kent books (have read all ) 😈🤭

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i don't know if this is a popular opinion, but one of my little annoyances about book blurbs is specifically in the first and/or last sentences, where the book is described as a chain of descriptive words that are supposed to be evocative. i get that this is a marketing thing but it's so annoying to me how heavy those sentences are (this could be because english is my second language?). and also: it feels like someone is trying to force a review of the book on me. it's someone from the publishing house who wrote it probably, but it reads as like a little review, and i really don't care for reviews from people i don't know and who can't be genuine. a few examples of sentences that annoy me in the blurbs of books that are, in spite of it, in my tbr or finished piles, and why they annoy me 😂: "brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess" too many adjectives! what is jewel-bright supposed to evoke in me? what's so captivating about the duchess? "a chronicle of love and revenge, madness, genius, and the compulsion to create beauty in the face of relentless difficulty and deep grief" so many words. i don't remember a single one of them "a shimmering, joyful new novel" this just made me snort because what makes a novel shimmering?? also the sentence structure is always always the same and i think it's not helping me read it properly. instead my eyes just glaze over it "has charmed readers around the world with simple yet descriptive prose" i feel like the prose comment reminds me of a review. and the readers around the world are always mentioned 😪 i always read a blurb because i need to know what a book is about before i pick it up, but i just feel like those little additional prompts are getting too repetitive and descriptive. let me have only the plot description! does anyone have an opinion on them or am i going insane alone in my little corner? 🫣