Whoever designed this badge has my praise because it looks so cute!!! And it is stunning against all the existing level colors🎉💞

If you’re in the mood for a particular type of forbidden romance (or trying to avoid a trope you know isn’t for you), here are a few recommendations to get you started! I’ve grouped together some of the most common tropes you’ll find in this quest, plus a section for books with more unique premises.

Student/teacher

Dark Notes by Pam Godwin Loving Mr. Daniels by Brittainy C. Cherry Waking Olivia by Elizabeth O’Roark The Hookup Equation by Roxie Noir 4th Degree by Nikki Castle Lessons in Sin by Pam Goodwin

Step-siblings & adopted siblings

For The Fans by Nyla K Eyes On Me by Sara Cate June First by Jennifer Hartmann Double Play by C.L. Rose Head Above Water by C.E. Ricci Shattered Innocence by Sara Cate

Ex-partner’s parent

Wild Card by Elsie Silver Praise by Sara Cate Chasing The Wild by Elliot Rose The Doctor by Nikki Sloane The Tryst by Lauren Blakely Birthday Girl by Penelope Douglas

Best friend’s parent

Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner Older by Jennifer Hartmann Taylor’s Father by Penelope Ward The Quarterback by Tal Bauer Mrs Middleton by Melissa Tereze

Dad’s best friend

A Major Puck Up by Brittanee Nicole Torn by Carian Cole If You Want Me by Helena Hunting My Dirty Duke by Joanna Shupe

Unique forbidden premises

Still Beating by Jennifer Hartmann (please check cw!) If We Could Go Back by Cara Dee A Family Affair by Harper Bliss Sinner by Sierra Simone Sunday Morning by Jewel E. Ann

Just a quick note: these aren’t all the tropes featured in this quest, just the most popular ones. If people find this helpful, I’m happy to edit this post and add the rest of the books & tropes!

Happy reading!

do you take notes? do you read slower? do you bust out highlighters and tabs?

when i was young and we’d get pulled out of class to assess our reading, i was well aware of the timer in my teacher’s hand. i could read quickly and fluently, but when it came to the post-reading quiz, i realized i didn’t retain much of anything.

fast forward to current day me, predisposed to the quick dopamine-laden yet numbing nature of social media—i’ve read 30+ books this year, and i doubt my abilities to describe to you what each was about. i can’t really do it with my most recent reads either. (i have suffered from great memory loss, undiagnosed, but i suspect from depression, but i still think i can afford to slow down and soak in the words on a page).

i also think i’m too hard on myself with reading (and anything i do lol) so i involuntarily add pressure to the hobby, and then i get frustrated with myself.

please help 🥲

“Sprite pie,” he hissed after them. “I’ll try it, don’t think I won’t.”

Noo why is sooo rude to the tiny sprites 🥺😠