mikaelabooks
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Girls Against Big Corps
These small-town romance are getting organized! Itâs not just about falling in love, itâs about taking a stand. Each heroine goes toe-to-toe with the corporate machine, fighting to protect the local businesses and family legacies that make their town home. Who doesnât love a good romance and a little anti-corporate rebellion?
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Maid For Each Other
Lynn Painter
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hahahaha consider me warned đđâ ď¸
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The audiobook is over 1GB in storage haha! I did not read the fanfic, and I've read the other two adapted this year. Two hours in and this is progressing very slowly but I like the spontaneity of Helena's circumstances. She is roughly awoken from a faulty cryo chamber as a prisoner of war and her brain has been altered by science/magic. There doesn't seem to be any amnesia but her captors think this means that she had enemy secrets hidden in her mind. They want to crack her open and figure out how to replicate the magic themselves.
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I'm listening to the audiobook and Saskia Maarleveld's narration is pure magic IMHO, but I can't seem to move past comparing everything to Manacled - even though I read it 3 years ago.
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hahahaha consider me warned đđâ ď¸
2Post from the Alchemised forum
The audiobook is over 1GB in storage haha! I did not read the fanfic, and I've read the other two adapted this year. Two hours in and this is progressing very slowly but I like the spontaneity of Helena's circumstances. She is roughly awoken from a faulty cryo chamber as a prisoner of war and her brain has been altered by science/magic. There doesn't seem to be any amnesia but her captors think this means that she had enemy secrets hidden in her mind. They want to crack her open and figure out how to replicate the magic themselves.
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The author has both of them thinking about all the same things without mentioning it to each other and it's destroying me! It emphasizes how much they notice and care about each other. This is what it's like to be truly seen by your partner.
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Alchemised
SenLinYu SenLinYu
0mikaelabooks commented on a post from the Founder Announcements forum
I am over the moon to share that the app is officially live on both iOS and Android!!
We've quite literally poured our blood, sweat and (lots of) tears into the app development over the past 9 months and we could not be more thrilled for everyone to experience it!
We're still being indexed in app store search so you may have to scroll to find us, or type in Pagebound: Social Book Tracker. Here's links to iOS and Android: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pagebound-social-book-tracker/id6751526412 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.pagebound.app
There are quite a few improvements and new features in the app, including:
- Book Journeys (click the map icon on the book cards in your library and other user's library to see their posts, comments, and updates for a specific book)
- Quick access to "add to plan"
- Filtering your activity on profile
- Save posts
- upgraded Read Dates editing
This is the first release, so there will be many more additions and improvements to come. (PS for Android users: we're aware of two bugs related to library imports from Goodreads/Storygraph, and issues with editing read dates - these have already been resolved and are pending Google approval for release.)
We owe a huge thank you to our beta testers who worked diligently over the last month to report hundreds of bugs and help us get the app prepared for release. A huge round of applause to them.
We hope you love the app as much as we do; it definitely makes engaging on PB so much more convenient and fun. If you have a great experience with the app, we'd love if you'd consider supporting us through Pagebound Royalty; Lucy and I have worked for $0 over the past year to bring the app and website to fruition, and have been covering business costs with our savings accounts. Your contribution means we can continue to work full-time on Pagebound without influence from investors or advertisers, and keep Pagebound 100% for readers by readers. Thank you so much to all the Royalty who have already contributed; it truly means the world to us and keeps Pagebound online!
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Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy
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Literally 40 minutes in and Iâm telling you: you want to hear this man đ Itâs a duet too so he always narrates his lines, and she narrates hers even though the chapter POV switches between the two of them.
13mikaelabooks commented on mikaelabooks's review of Conform
Adult readers will enjoy that the dystopian heroine is older.
I just happened to finish the first season of Fallout before picking this up, so I immediately loved the similar setup: a straight-laced girl approved for a post-apocalyptic procreation program. The sunny, too-perfect tone set off alarm bells in my head, and I enjoyed the eerie sensation as the facade began to crack and the darker side of this new world order revealed itself.
Emeline is part of a subclass of women with minor defects, hoping to someday reach enough âhealthâ to be eligible for a childbearing contract with the upper-class Elite. This society claims to prize genetics over ideology, but as the story unfolds, itâs clear that âgeneticsâ are a convenient excuse for prejudice, corruption, and control. I was fascinated by the rules and perils of these contractsâthree months to conceive, life in the cloud city if successful, but constant risk of being cast down to an even harsher fate if you fail. No matter the class, women remain second to men. Itâs a sharp, unsettling premise that feels eerily relevant.
Where I struggled was with the romance and character development. The love triangle flips expectationsâher rebel love interest feels questionable, while her Elite match shows surprising depthâbut nothing feels resolved. I wanted more insight into her matched partner, just enough to tell whether thereâs real substance there or if Iâm simply projecting. It makes me hesitant to invest too deeply, knowing Iâll have to wait for book two for clarity.
As for Emeline herself, she sometimes reads as too naive, which blurred her motivation. But when her rage burns through, sheâs magnetic. Conformity isnât natural to her, and I hope the next book leans harder into that strength.
The worldbuilding is the strongest part for meârich, layered, and full of potential. While the romance left me unsure, Iâm curious to see how the series develops, especially once the story moves beyond the courting stage into pregnancies, childrearing, and the inevitable cracks in this system. I think this is worth investigating If the worldbuilding sounds like something you'd enjoy.
At the very least, I NEED to know what happens to her brother Gregory! He's in love with a woman that the system refuses to match him with and their romance is incredibly compelling.
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Adult readers will enjoy that the dystopian heroine is older.
I just happened to finish the first season of Fallout before picking this up, so I immediately loved the similar setup: a straight-laced girl approved for a post-apocalyptic procreation program. The sunny, too-perfect tone set off alarm bells in my head, and I enjoyed the eerie sensation as the facade began to crack and the darker side of this new world order revealed itself.
Emeline is part of a subclass of women with minor defects, hoping to someday reach enough âhealthâ to be eligible for a childbearing contract with the upper-class Elite. This society claims to prize genetics over ideology, but as the story unfolds, itâs clear that âgeneticsâ are a convenient excuse for prejudice, corruption, and control. I was fascinated by the rules and perils of these contractsâthree months to conceive, life in the cloud city if successful, but constant risk of being cast down to an even harsher fate if you fail. No matter the class, women remain second to men. Itâs a sharp, unsettling premise that feels eerily relevant.
Where I struggled was with the romance and character development. The love triangle flips expectationsâher rebel love interest feels questionable, while her Elite match shows surprising depthâbut nothing feels resolved. I wanted more insight into her matched partner, just enough to tell whether thereâs real substance there or if Iâm simply projecting. It makes me hesitant to invest too deeply, knowing Iâll have to wait for book two for clarity.
As for Emeline herself, she sometimes reads as too naive, which blurred her motivation. But when her rage burns through, sheâs magnetic. Conformity isnât natural to her, and I hope the next book leans harder into that strength.
The worldbuilding is the strongest part for meârich, layered, and full of potential. While the romance left me unsure, Iâm curious to see how the series develops, especially once the story moves beyond the courting stage into pregnancies, childrearing, and the inevitable cracks in this system. I think this is worth investigating If the worldbuilding sounds like something you'd enjoy.
At the very least, I NEED to know what happens to her brother Gregory! He's in love with a woman that the system refuses to match him with and their romance is incredibly compelling.
1Post from the Holiday Ever After forum
I am obsessed with Clara! From the very start, she radiates this quiet confidenceânever spelled out, but clear in the way she walks, talks, flirts, and (most importantly) works. Sheâs fully in her power, and I pray she keeps that steadiness all the way through. Itâs so refreshing to have an FMC whoâs not the damsel in distress⌠meanwhile Jack is absolutely the one distressed đ
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Holiday Ever After
Hannah Grace
0Post from the Maid For Each Other forum
I really like how this just JUMPS into the story. She wakes up and bam, there are his parents lol. And then some of the background is revealed and the story keep plowing forwards. You learn a lot about these characters! Even by the half way point they're still dropping new lore. It's almost like their personalities are the world-building, which is really interesting to read.
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I usually check in after an hour of reading, but I was so draw in, I just kept reading. I donât think I can put this down. Pausing only to refuel (dinner) đš
I loved Butcher & Blackbird more than the rest of the series. I feel like this is a return to Brynneâs genius because this new story really stands on itâs own. But it has the B&B charm of two 𼣠killers being bewildered by each other.
He has been hunting her and is shocked to discover the unorthodox way she protects her small town.
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Maid For Each Other
Lynn Painter
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I'm buzzing with excitement cos the writing is so blatantly wonderful. The last time I felt this clarity was 9 pages into Fourth Wing.
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