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He/Him 🏳️‍🌈 - Fantasy, horror, romance, thriller… if it keeps me turning the pages past midnight, I’m in.

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The Raven Scholar (The Eternal Path, #1)

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For the Fans

Nyla K.

Kyran Harbor is everything I’m not. Rich. Popular. A superstar football player who’s awfully broody for someone who has it all. Basically, he’s a preppy jock who hates me. Oh, and he’s also my stepbrother. That’s right. We’re stuck together, sharing a school, a house… A bathroom. Honestly, I wouldn’t care… If he wasn’t such an uptight control-freak who messes with me just because we’re different. I had every intention of avoiding him when we got to college… Until abrupt misfortune forces us both into a compromising position. Now the grouchy jerk I was hoping to evade might be the only person who can help me out of it. Avi Vega is everything I despise. A dreamer. A flake. An artist who smokes too much weed and thinks aliens exist. And by some sick cosmic joke, he’s now my stepbrother, following me on what should’ve been my escape plan. It was already a disaster. Add a sudden financial disruption to the mix, and let’s just say my options are heavily limited. If I want to stay an all-star quarterback on the way to the NFL, I’ll need to do something drastic. Unfortunately for me, and my desperate desire for control, the perpetually smiling stoner has a plan. Maybe we can stop hating each other just enough to pull this off. As long as we remember we’re only doing it… for the fans. ** For The Fans is a full-length standalone MM forbidden romance with an HEA. This book contains sensitive subject matter that could make some readers uncomfortable. Please heed foreword warnings and proceed with caution.

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Book titles that are an automatic add to the TBR pile?

So besides judging a book by it's cover, let's judge them by their titles too. So which book titles that caught your attention and immediately added them to your TBR without reading its synopsis? Mine are:

Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die by Greer Stothers

I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200 by Robert Brockway

I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com by Kimberly Lemming

That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf, also by Kimberly Lemming (hell, basically anything by Kimberly Lemming because she know how to write a title)

Edit: I also forgot to include this banger and very poetic title: I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Towards Darkness by Irene Sola. It sounds like someone's villain era is about to begin 😳

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The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1

James Tynion IV

With Something Is Killing the Children and The Department of Truth, James Tynion IV has changed the face of horror in modern comics—now get ready for his most ambitious story yet, alongside his Detective Comics partner Álvaro Martínez Bueno! Everyone who was invited to the house knows Walter—well, they know him a little, anyway. Some met him in childhood; some met him months ago. And Walter’s always been a little…off. But after the hardest year of their lives, nobody was going to turn down Walter’s invitation to an astonishingly beautiful house in the woods, overlooking an enormous sylvan lake. It’s beautiful, it’s opulent, it’s private—so a week of putting up with Walter’s weird little schemes and nicknames in exchange for the vacation of a lifetime? Why not? All of them were at that moment in their lives when they could feel themselves pulling away from their other friends; wouldn’t a chance to reconnect be…nice? In The Nice House on the Lake, the overriding anxieties of the 21st century get a terrifying new face—and it might just be the face of the person you once trusted most. Collects The Nice House on the Lake #1-6.

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Dec 13, 2025

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Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 3.5

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“But now most of the treasures are consolidated and hoarded by a small enclave of individuals. We must turn our gaze outward before we cannibalize ourselves.” - so glad to be back in this world after taking a nine month hiatus. the vibes were very different and i was a little bored at times but i just needed to warm up to the new style of storytelling. i appreciated the new and old cast of characters but boy oh boy do i feel lots of hatred towards certain people. obviously not darrow though cause hail the mother fucking reaper. excited to continue on but i hear it gets devastating so that’s a little scary.

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Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)

Pierce Brown

They call him father, liberator, warlord, Reaper. But he feels a boy as he falls toward the pale blue planet, his armor red, his army vast, his heart heavy. It is the tenth year of war and the thirty-second of his life. A decade ago, Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed would break the chains of the Society. But the Rising has shattered everything: Instead of peace and freedom, it has brought endless war. Now he must risk everything he has fought for on one last desperate mission. Darrow still believes he can save everyone, but can he save himself? And throughout the worlds, other destinies entwine with Darrow’s to change his fate forever: A young Red girl flees tragedy in her refugee camp and achieves for herself a new life she could never have imagined. An ex-soldier broken by grief is forced to steal the most valuable thing in the galaxy—or pay with his life. And Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile to the sovereign, wanders the stars with his mentor, Cassius, haunted by the loss of the world that Darrow transformed, and dreaming of what will rise from its ashes. Red Rising was the story of the end of one universe, and Iron Gold is the story of the creation of a new one. Witness the beginning of a stunning new saga of tragedy and triumph from masterly New York Times bestselling author Pierce Brown.

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joshyo44 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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Edited

Book titles that are an automatic add to the TBR pile?

Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die by Greer Stothers

I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200 by Robert Brockway

I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com by Kimberly Lemming

That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf, also by Kimberly Lemming (hell, basically anything by Kimberly Lemming because she know how to write a title)

Edit: I also forgot to include this banger and very poetic title: I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Towards Darkness by Irene Sola. It sounds like someone's villain era is about to begin 😳

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Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)

Pierce Brown

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joshyo44 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

WeebBooks

Edited

Book titles that are an automatic add to the TBR pile?

Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die by Greer Stothers

I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200 by Robert Brockway

I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com by Kimberly Lemming

That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf, also by Kimberly Lemming (hell, basically anything by Kimberly Lemming because she know how to write a title)

Edit: I also forgot to include this banger and very poetic title: I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Towards Darkness by Irene Sola. It sounds like someone's villain era is about to begin 😳

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