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I love layered characters and complex relationships, from raw, emotional stories like Boys of Tommen to high-stakes romance in Shatter Me and Zodiac Academy. Slow burns are my favorite.

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Romantasy Starter Pack Vol I
Level 4
Made for the Movies
My Taste
Keeping 13 (Boys of Tommen, #2)
Ignite Me (Shatter Me, #3)
Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)
Better than the Movies (Better than the Movies, #1)
The Reckoning (Zodiac Academy, #3)
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  • ICK'S in ✨ROMANCE BOOKS✨

    WHY do romance books keep giving me the ickiest icks known to mankind 😭 like i’ll be 200 pages in, having the time of my life, and then BAM he calls her “baby girl” out of nowhere and i’m PHYSICALLY ILL🤨. spine folded. soul left my body.

    can we PLEASE retire the trope where the guy acts like he’s NEVER EVER seen a woman before🤧??? like “you’re not like other girls” NO YOU’RE RIGHT I’M CLOSING THE BOOK 😭

    and don’t even get me started on when he’s weirdly possessive for no reason. like sir, she said HI to the waiter, not pledged her eternal love. calm DOWN. 🚩YOU CANT KILL EVERY MAN THAT BREATHES THE SAME AIR AS HER😭😭

    oh oh oh and the “he’s rude because he likes her” nonsense. that’s not cute😔, that’s MIDDLE SCHOOL energy. therapy exists now, go to it.

    also when the girl loses all her personality the second she falls in love🤨🤨?? girl where did your brain go 😭 bring her back, she was interesting before he showed up but now ITS ALL ABOUT HIM🫤 all she thinks about, her problems ALL SHE IS, IS JUST "HIS LOVER"

    and when there’s a “passionate” scene but he’s like... lowkey mean🫥🫥?? and it’s framed as sexy?? BABE IT’S NOT. nothing kills a vibe faster than disrespect in italics.🤧

    i swear half of these books are just red flags with abs. give me softness🤧. give me mutual pining AND basic respect. give me the love interest who’s OBSESSED in a HEALTHY way—like “I made you tea and bookmarked your page” not “I'm mean to you and make you insecure because your mine and I love you.” 😭

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  • need book recs asap

    i’m kinda stuck on what to read next. i want something that’ll actually pull me in and make me forget about everything else for a bit. preferably something that’s not too heavy on plot or worldbuilding — just easy to get into and vibe with. no specific genre, i’m open to anything as long as it’s good. what’s a book you read recently that you couldn’t put down? drop recs 👇

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  • post-book life crisis (™)

    finishing a book is so weird. like one second i’m fully living in a different world, emotionally attached to fictional people, and the next i’m just… staring at a wall in my room. like okay. guess i’ll just sit here. maybe scroll a little. maybe start five other books and commit to none of them. maybe reread the last paragraph like it’ll magically extend the story. honestly, what do non-readers do?? go outside? have hobbies?? be emotionally stable??? couldn’t be me. i just finished a 400-page emotional rollercoaster and now i’m expected to go to skl and go along with life normally?? be serious. anyone else feel the same? cuz i feel like i lwk have 2 lives: me when i’m reading, and me when i’m not reading.

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  • The Female (The Female, #1)
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  • Corrupt (Devil's Night, #1)
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  • Why Are Magical Schools So Unaccredited and Unhinged??

    WARNING: there is some talk about zodiac academy in this but it doesn’t really spoil anything but still…..warning

    ok but seriously… can we talk about how every magical school in books is just ✨UNHINGED, too much trauma, and casual child endangerment✨???

    like… WHO is accrediting these institutions??? where is the board of education??? what is the curriculum, exactly?? how are you gonna tell me your “school” includes death mazes, forbidden forests, live combat, dark magic, inter-species bullying, and then act like it’s normal because they have a dining hall and a headmaster with mysterious trauma. errrmmmm. that's not a school. that's a lawsuit waiting to happen 😭

    📚🪄 and don't even get me STARTED on Zodiac Academy (no backlash on the series cuz it is one of my favourite series—LANCE MOTHERFREAKING ORIAN 🧎‍♀️). that place is not a school, it’s a supernatural version of The Hunger Games run by ✨horny professors✨ and ✨emotionally unstable princes✨ with jawlines sharp enough to slice through the plot holes. like: — the professors? perverts. I’m acc scared 😳 . — the students? literal sociopaths with abs. — the vibe? “welcome to our elite academy! here’s your uniform and a personalized trauma arc 💅” — the twins? got intensely bullied AND mentally tormented in the first week and still showed up to class like “huh that was weird 😃” EXCUSE ME?? GIRL. TRANSFER. GO TO COMMUNITY COLLEGE. IDC THAT U CAN’T GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT AND GIVE UP.

    and like why is the whole school built around who has the biggest magical bloodline + who can throw the best enchanted punch?? not a single career fair in sight. no financial aid office. just ✨ancient prophecies✨, ✨sexy enemies✨, and ✨weird power dynamics with teachers✨ like HELLO?? this is not Hogwarts this is a psychological experiment.

    also. everyone in these schools is either: — emotionally dead inside ☠️ — an alpha male with daddy issues 🐺 — a fairy 🧚‍♀️ — or all of the above and yet somehow there’s still time for romance subplots in between FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES during extracurriculars. like “I was almost murdered during elemental combat class but now I’m kissing my enemy on a rooftop under three moons while an assassin watches us from the shadows 😌✨” girl. what?? GET. A. GUIDANCE. COUNSELOR.

    also why do the libraries always have forbidden sections where if you check the wrong book out you get cursed by the souls of the damned??? I’m just trying to pass Ancient Magic 101, not unlock the seventh seal of hell.

    i’m sorry but if I ever got admitted to a magical academy and on day one someone tried to drown me in a fountain for “character development,” I’m calling my mom, dropping out, and becoming a barista in the human realm. ✌️

    #ExpelMeIDontCare #TheseProfessorsNeedPrisonTime #DropOutAndDoWitchTok

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  • Why Are Magical Schools So Unaccredited and Unhinged??

    WARNING: there is some talk about zodiac academy in this but it doesn’t really spoil anything but still…..warning

    ok but seriously… can we talk about how every magical school in books is just ✨UNHINGED, too much trauma, and casual child endangerment✨???

    like… WHO is accrediting these institutions??? where is the board of education??? what is the curriculum, exactly?? how are you gonna tell me your “school” includes death mazes, forbidden forests, live combat, dark magic, inter-species bullying, and then act like it’s normal because they have a dining hall and a headmaster with mysterious trauma. errrmmmm. that's not a school. that's a lawsuit waiting to happen 😭

    📚🪄 and don't even get me STARTED on Zodiac Academy (no backlash on the series cuz it is one of my favourite series—LANCE MOTHERFREAKING ORIAN 🧎‍♀️). that place is not a school, it’s a supernatural version of The Hunger Games run by ✨horny professors✨ and ✨emotionally unstable princes✨ with jawlines sharp enough to slice through the plot holes. like: — the professors? perverts. I’m acc scared 😳 . — the students? literal sociopaths with abs. — the vibe? “welcome to our elite academy! here’s your uniform and a personalized trauma arc 💅” — the twins? got intensely bullied AND mentally tormented in the first week and still showed up to class like “huh that was weird 😃” EXCUSE ME?? GIRL. TRANSFER. GO TO COMMUNITY COLLEGE. IDC THAT U CAN’T GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT AND GIVE UP.

    and like why is the whole school built around who has the biggest magical bloodline + who can throw the best enchanted punch?? not a single career fair in sight. no financial aid office. just ✨ancient prophecies✨, ✨sexy enemies✨, and ✨weird power dynamics with teachers✨ like HELLO?? this is not Hogwarts this is a psychological experiment.

    also. everyone in these schools is either: — emotionally dead inside ☠️ — an alpha male with daddy issues 🐺 — a fairy 🧚‍♀️ — or all of the above and yet somehow there’s still time for romance subplots in between FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES during extracurriculars. like “I was almost murdered during elemental combat class but now I’m kissing my enemy on a rooftop under three moons while an assassin watches us from the shadows 😌✨” girl. what?? GET. A. GUIDANCE. COUNSELOR.

    also why do the libraries always have forbidden sections where if you check the wrong book out you get cursed by the souls of the damned??? I’m just trying to pass Ancient Magic 101, not unlock the seventh seal of hell.

    i’m sorry but if I ever got admitted to a magical academy and on day one someone tried to drown me in a fountain for “character development,” I’m calling my mom, dropping out, and becoming a barista in the human realm. ✌️

    #ExpelMeIDontCare #TheseProfessorsNeedPrisonTime #DropOutAndDoWitchTok

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  • Wuthering Heights
    Thoughts from 9% (page 29)

    “What vein weather-cocks we are!” 😭

    How do I google search the meaning of that without sus things coming up 😞🥀

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  • Smile (Smile, #1)
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    Sep 12, 2025
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    Oh my GOODNESS — SMILE can seriously just… go. I swear, every time I pick this up I get hit with the same reheated, overdramatic nonsense like someone bottled up middle school chaos and decided to publish it as deep literature. I SWEAR. If I wanted this level of petty, performative freak-out, I’d stroll into a middle school cafeteria at lunchtime and get the exact same energy for free. Lockers, sticky pizza, rumor chains — all the authenticity it’s pretending to have, but way less annoying.

    The characters? Ugh. I want to throw the book across the room. I SWEAR. They act like every small inconvenience is the apocalypse and every awkward conversation is the kind of trauma that deserves a TED TALK. Newsflash: not every sigh needs to be an origin story. Not every misstep needs three chapters of brooding and a montage. It’s like they took a highlight reel of teenage angst and amplified it until it’s unbearable—no nuance, no growth, just endless drama for drama’s sake. I’m exhausted just breathing around their emotional whiplash.

    And the so-called plot twists? Please. It’s the same circle of petty betrayals and exaggerated feelings recycled like it’s clever. I swear, by chapter three I already know the emotional beats: someone WILL miscommunicate, someone WILL overreact, someone WILL misunderstand, and then we’ll have a whole season of everyone being furious for the span of three pages. It’s laziness disguised as “character development,” and I am NOT here for it. Give me growth, give me stakes that feel earned — not this constant cafeteria-level chaos masquerading as important storytelling.

    Honestly, the book wants to be taken seriously but keeps doing the exact thing that refuses to mature. If you’re going to make me relive middle school melodrama, at least give me characters who learn something or situations that feel real. This one? It just spins its wheels and expects applause for being loud. I don’t applaud — I roll my eyes, close the cover, and seriously consider hurling it across the room. I SWEAR.

    So yeah — SMILE, more like SMH-ILE. If you love theatrical, repetitive teen drama, knock yourself out. Me? I’ll pass. I’ll take actual emotional depth, plot that surprises for a reason, and characters who don’t treat every small thing like nuclear fallout. Until then, keep your melodrama. I’m going back to literally anywhere that isn’t this book — even the middle school hallway sounds better right now.

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  • Fearless (The Powerless Trilogy, #3)
    Thoughts from 75% (page 443, chap. 56)
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  • Cursed Fates (Zodiac Academy, #5)
    Thoughts from 17% (page 156)

    i love this series with all my heart

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  • Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
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    So far, I'm hating Warner so much, I just want to punch him. I've read some spoilers online and I really don't get how people could love him? Guys???? Hello?????

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