emsie

✨️🎀 I'm from Italy and i love all type of books but romance, thriller and fantasy are my favorites! 🎀✨️ | 29 | INTJ | virgo, gemini rising

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My Taste

The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)

Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)

Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

Reading...

Januaries: Stories of Love, Magic & Betrayal

Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan

emsie finished reading and wrote a review...

emsie

Jan 09, 2026

0.5

Enjoyment: 0.5Quality: 0.5Characters: 0.5Plot: 0.5

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If I could I would have given a zero 🫠 no plot, just very bad written spicy, you can change the second mmc with a lamp and nothing would change since he has no personality AND THE WORST THING is that the two protagonists started having sex believing to be blood related brothers. I was like... is a Targaryen thing moment? From the blurb i though that maybe they would have talked about him being an imposter and from there having the thing a secret to catch the assassin. But no 🤷🏻‍♀️ this series is going worse book after book I don't know why I'm continuing it. The first one was cute... I'm sad.

Ps. Yes i don't like it but I'm not skittish or have a tw with incest, just it was a bad and weird book that should have been labeled properly.

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Illicit (The Wrong Alpha, #3)

Alessandra Hazard

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emsie

Jan 08, 2026

2.5

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 2.5Characters: 3.0Plot: 2.0

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It was really funny and easy but the solution of the mistery was too rushed and the romance was meh unfortunately. But i really laughed a lot! So it wasn't bad-bad but it wasn't good either 🤷🏻‍♀️✨️ I think the author rushed things too much and should have written more, giving the times to the things to grow, develop and settle. But if you need to laugh for a day and would like to read about an adorable opossum shifter fmc who loves baking... well that story is for you! Bonus: she has a pet opossum and he is hilarious 💓 The wolf shifter mmc is a green flag btw 👏🏻✨️

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Fake It 'Til You Mate It

Sarah Spade

100%

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emsie

Thoughts from 78%

The book is funny and cute but the romance is meh 😶‍🌫️

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emsie

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Mother is trying to feed a wolf. I don’t approve, but she is kind. She is my Mother. — gus

This book is making me laugh sooo much. The fmc is an opossum shifter and it's adorable! Gus, her opossum pet, is even cuter 💞 that book is funny, easy and lovely ✨️

emsie started reading...

Fake It 'Til You Mate It

Sarah Spade

When I wake up in the morgue, I know it’s time to move on…When people think of shifters, they always bring up the wolves, bears, big cats. But prey shifters exist, too; the bunnies, the hedgehogs, and my old childhood nemesis, Roxy, who was an adorable raccoon and a huge headache. Then there’s me. Honey Morgan, one in a long line of Virginia opossums—and who has a tendency to ‘play dead’ at the worst possible moments. For nearly my whole life, I’ve managed to live among humans who have no clue that I’m a supe. But when I get startled and drop only to wake up in the morgue, I have to admit my mother was us opossums need to be around other shifters, even if the local predators have me hissing. Or maybe that’s just one. Max Lobo. To the outsiders who pass through Moonburrow, he is the scowly sheriff. To the supe residents, he is the all-powerful Alpha of the Moonshadow Pack. To me? He’s my mate. He doesn’t seem to recognize me as his, though, and I’m okay with that. After all, I’m too busy taking over my witchy grandmother’s old bakery. With her recipes, my sense of humor and work ethic, and my mother’s support from across the world, I focus on making Dough You Believe In Magic a success. Which probably would’ve been a lot easier if I didn’t stumble upon a dead predator outside my back door—or if it didn’t bring the Alpha to my front one. Thrown together with Max, I have to figure out who targeted my bakery, why it seems like I might’ve been the one they were after, and how to survive being around the Alpha as he begins to realize that I’m not just some newcomer prey bumbling around on his territory that he needs to protect… but the other half of his wolf’s soul he has to claim. Hey. Fake it ’til you mate it, right?

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emsie

Jan 08, 2026

2.5

Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 2.5Characters: 3.0Plot: 2.0

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It started unexpectedly as a monster romance and then it became a omegaverse Bridgerton (second season‐ish) thing. 🤷🏻‍♀️ The first book was better btw 🤙🏻 this was a little meh. Easy and sometimes funny but still "meh".

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Feral (The Wrong Alpha, #2)

Alessandra Hazard

100%

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Feral (The Wrong Alpha, #2)

Alessandra Hazard

Sometimes kissing the Beast doesn't turn it into a Prince Charming—instead, he's a charming prince you want to punch... Jules is an ordinary nineteen-year-old omega from a perfectly respectable family. He’s not the most beautiful, or the smartest, or the strongest of the four Blake siblings. And he’s fine with it, really. He isn’t ugly or anything, but by omega standards, he’s nothing special. “Nothing special” describes Jules’s whole life. It’s utterly boring. So when strange things start happening in their house, it piques Jules’s curiosity. There’s a beast in the Blake family mansion; Jules is sure of it. He sometimes hears growls and screams coming from the basement, and the men guarding the door look positively terrified. What could terrify grown alphas? Jules will have to investigate! But his investigation comes with surprises...like the Beast's overwhelming effect on Jules's omega nature. It doesn't mean anything. Of course it doesn't. Jules is just curious; that's all. Curiosity can change a life, but when you're attracted to a feral alpha whose real face you haven’t even seen...will it change for the better? What if the Beast is no Prince Charming but a cold-hearted, cynical bastard? A bastard Jules shouldn't want—but does. A bastard Jules should stay away from—but can't. This novel is a steamy alpha/omega enemies-to-lovers MM romance with a happily ever after. While mpreg exists in this world, it is only mentioned and does not appear on-page. This book can be read on its own or as part of the series The Wrong Alpha.

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La Conjuration primitive (Section de Recherche de Paris, #1)

emsie

Jan 07, 2026

0.5

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If I could I would have given it a zero. Never let a MAN write a thriller. EVER. Especially a french one. EVER AGAIN. (I'm joking but yes it was that bad, please save your time, read other things). This book was so stupid 🫠✨️

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La Conjuration primitive (Section de Recherche de Paris, #1)

Maxime Chattam

100%

emsie finished reading and wrote a review...

emsie

Jan 07, 2026

3.0

Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 3.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 3.0

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An easy, funny and heartwarming reading. 💞 It's omegaverse (alphaxalpha-ish), loved the main characters and their sweet relationship. I will probably read the other books in the saga, i need something like that in this period. BUT the ending was a little abrupt (?) i was expecting more but I'm sure the next book will give us answers. 🤷🏻‍♀️✨️

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Unnatural (The Wrong Alpha, #1)

Alessandra Hazard

100%

emsie TBR'd a book

The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)

S.A. Chakraborty

The final chapter in the Daevabad Trilogy, in which a con-woman and an idealistic djinn prince join forces to save a magical kingdom from a devastating civil war. Daevabad has fallen. After a brutal conquest stripped the city of its magic, Nahid leader Banu Manizheh and her resurrected commander, Dara, must try to repair their fraying alliance and stabilize a fractious, warring people. But the bloodletting and loss of his beloved Nahri have unleashed the worst demons of Dara’s dark past. To vanquish them, he must face some ugly truths about his history and put himself at the mercy of those he once considered enemies. Having narrowly escaped their murderous families and Daevabad’s deadly politics, Nahri and Ali, now safe in Cairo, face difficult choices of their own. While Nahri finds peace in the old rhythms and familiar comforts of her human home, she is haunted by the knowledge that the loved ones she left behind and the people who considered her a savior are at the mercy of a new tyrant. Ali, too, cannot help but look back, and is determined to return to rescue his city and the family that remains. Seeking support in his mother’s homeland, he discovers that his connection to the marid goes far deeper than expected and threatens not only his relationship with Nahri, but his very faith. As peace grows more elusive and old players return, Nahri, Ali, and Dara come to understand that in order to remake the world, they may need to fight those they once loved . . . and take a stand for those they once hurt.

emsie is interested in reading...

Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)

Jim Butcher

HARRY DRESDEN — WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment. Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically, he's the only at what he does. So when the Chicago P.D. has a case that transcends mortal creativity or capability, they come to him for answers. For the "everyday" world is actually full of strange and magical things—and most don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in. Takes a wizard to catch a—well, whatever. There's just one problem. Business, to put it mildly, stinks. So when the police bring him in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with black magic, Harry's seeing dollar signs. But where there's black magic, there's a black mage behind it. And now that mage knows Harry's name. And that's when things start to get interesting. Magic - it can get a guy killed.

emsie is interested in reading...

Boy Parts

Eliza Clark

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina’s relationship with her obsessive best friend, and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention… Boy Parts is the incendiary debut novel from Eliza Clark, a pitch-black comedy both shocking and hilarious, fearlessly exploring the taboo regions of sexuality and gender roles in the twenty-first century.

emsie is interested in reading...

Ten Thousand Stitches (Regency Faerie Tales, #2)

Olivia Atwater

Regency housemaid Euphemia Reeves has acquired a faerie godfather. Unfortunately, he has no idea what he's doing. Effie has most inconveniently fallen in love with the dashing Mr Benedict Ashbrooke. There's only one problem; Effie is a housemaid, and a housemaid cannot marry a gentleman. It seems that Effie is out of luck until she stumbles into the faerie realm of Lord Blackthorn, who is only too eager to help Effie win Mr Ashbrooke's heart. All he asks in return is that Effie sew ten thousand stitches onto his favourite jacket. Effie has heard rumours about what happens to those who accept help from faeries, but life as a maid at Hartfield is so awful that she is willing to risk even her immortal soul for a chance at something better. Now, she has one hundred days - and ten thousand stitches - to make Mr Ashbrooke fall in love and propose. . . if Lord Blackthorn doesn't wreck things by accident, that is. For Effie's greatest obstacle might well prove to be Lord Blackthorn's overwhelmingly good intentions. From the author of HALF A SOUL comes a whimsical fantasy romance with a Cinderella twist. Pick up TEN THOUSAND STITCHES, and dive into another enchanting faerie tale set in Olivia Atwater's charming, magical version of Regency England!

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The Knight and the Moth (The Stonewater Kingdom, #1)

Marith

Thoughts from 40%

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A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1)

RiverRose

Thoughts from 64% (page 268)

I know there are people who really dislike Nesta. Which, yeah the sisters are written as if they hate Feyre with all of their beings. And it is written from Feyre's perspective, of course.

But Nesta is a strong-willed, no bullsh*t eldest daughter, who hates her dad, so you can't make me hate her lmao.

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