A book I read recently featured a illegitimate son who was keeping his father captive in a basement, and I went "Man, I really do love stories where people hold others captive."

Gilded cages, treated like a pet, desperate to not be alone, dark romance, friendship gone wrong, enemies from opposite sides of a war, whatever. It is all good.

Can you recommend some books with that premise in part or in whole?

They can be freed in the end or have a dark ending. Either is fine. :D

So I got the arc for Victorious and when I say I was so excited I mean I was whacking my partner in excitement because I couldn't form a cohesive sentence. I was deadset it was going to be my next read right after I reread Vengeful but then I sat down and was like OH NO THIS IS IT. I know it is going to be a five star read I ain't worried about that, I've loved everything V.E Schwab has written, I even have two tattoos based on her books. But this is it. After this I won't read about these characters and I am actually devastated. I am so grateful to be back in this world especially because it was originally suppose to be a standalone and I know it has to end but I just ain't ready. But also I wanna read it so badly. I keep looking over at my kindle longingly (even though I really should be writing my research report for university, I shouldn't even be on Pagebound whoops) but so far I have read two other books instead because I am too much of a chicken to finish the series 😭

Any one else have this dilemma? 🥹

So I got the arc for Victorious and when I say I was so excited I mean I was whacking my partner in excitement because I couldn't form a cohesive sentence. I was deadset it was going to be my next read right after I reread Vengeful but then I sat down and was like OH NO THIS IS IT. I know it is going to be a five star read I ain't worried about that, I've loved everything V.E Schwab has written, I even have two tattoos based on her books. But this is it. After this I won't read about these characters and I am actually devastated. I am so grateful to be back in this world especially because it was originally suppose to be a standalone and I know it has to end but I just ain't ready. But also I wanna read it so badly. I keep looking over at my kindle longingly (even though I really should be writing my research report for university, I shouldn't even be on Pagebound whoops) but so far I have read two other books instead because I am too much of a chicken to finish the series 😭

Any one else have this dilemma? 🥹

What are your thoughts on chapter titles? Personally, I love them, especially when they're clever and hint at what may happen in the chapter. But I feel like so many books don't have them! Perhaps they're just more common/popular with YA and middle grade books, so publishers don't want to include them in adult books.

Hey y'all!

I know there's an option to import your Goodreads/Storygraph library/info, and that you get an extra 50 points for it. Pagebound says 80% of users import their reading history.

However, I've decided that I'm going to manually input my reading log going all the way back to 2016. The reasons for this are threefold: Goodreads maintenance has always been terrible, with multiple editions of the same book on various shelves (read, want to read, etc); I don't want to have to then work to cull books on my TBR once they are with me on Pagebound, but rather start fresh; and there is a quiet sort of joy in looking through my reading history through the years, and in remembering where I was in my life.

If you input manually or auto-imported previous reading history, tell me more. Why? How has the process felt?