mikaelabooks
Hi, I'm new here! Jun 2025 📚 • Proud romance reader 🌈💖 • Audiobook addict 🎧✨ • Lifelong fantasy fanatic 🐲☠️ • Chat with me on IG @mikaelabooks_
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Okay, I get the hype now. I was already impressed by Just for the Summer and forever changed by Say You’ll Remember Me... but after finishing the audiobook of Part of Your World, I finally understand why Abby Jimenez fans are so loyal (and maybe a little demanding). This book felt like discovering the golden goose of romance—perfectly balanced, flawlessly paced, with gut-punch emotion, soaring highs, and devastating lows. If I’d read this one first, every other romance might have felt lacking in comparison. AND YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE AUDIO! I was laying in bed with tears streaming down my face during their phone call (iykyk).
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My answer: Yes! But definitely come back to Book 1. I started with Just for the Summer and was totally impressed. Then I read Say You'll Remember Me because it was released the following month. But I was unsure if I wanted to work through her backlog because I tend to like any author's more recent work. BUT this was phenomenal and felt like the golden goose of romance books. Totally worth it. Immediately reading Book 2.
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I know he’s made of limestone but hear me out when I say in my mind he was a perfect blend of Bartok from Anastasia and Batty Koda from Fern Gully 😭
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A Match Made in Hell
Charlotte Ingham
0mikaelabooks commented on kassidyreads's review of Rose in Chains
I wasn't sure about this book at first, but it grew on me the further I got into it. I thought the world-building and magic system were well-developed, and the conflict between mind and heart magic was interesting. Honestly, this was a bit darker than I thought it would be. There were a lot of scenes that were hard for me to read. It was giving major Handmaid's Tale vibes. Though I appreciate that Toven was never cruel to Briony, and that their romance wasn't rushed. On the downside, it was fairly predictable; I saw the twist at the end coming from a mile away. I'm hoping we'll get to see more of the dragon in the sequel!
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She's 21, he's immortal and the spice is open-door but not graphic.
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"Before I died, I was... not in the best place. I kept finding myself in crowded rooms feeling totally alone, trying to keep all the broken parts together while everyone around me was solid and whole. There was a moment last night that felt exactly like that and I... I don't want to feel like that anymore. That kind of isolation is more like hell than this place could ever hope to be."
0mikaelabooks commented on littylydi's review of By the Horns (Royal Artifactual Guild, #2)
Bull Moon Rising was one of my top reads of 2025 so obviously I was stoked for this sequel!! When it was first announced that it was about Gwenna and Raptor, I was honestly indifferent... AND THEN I GOT BOTH A REVEAL THAT RAPTOR HAS A PERMANENT KNOT AND KNOT BITING IN CHAPTER TWO AND I WAS SAT— NEVER DOUBTED RUBY FOR A SECOND
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I'm already at the 60% point of my audiobook and only stopped because I promised my sisters we would watch TSITP together. Both Gwena and Raptor have such wildly different personalities than the main characters in Book 1 and it's making a vibrant, fresh story in our familiar, wacky world of the Artificer's Guild. Spice within first three chapters (25 mins), another clumsy meet-cute and a new conspiracy to unfold!
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The publisher just posted the first 5 hours of the audiobook for anyone to listen to. That's 18 chapters and I looooove the narrator Hannah van der Westhuysen 😍
0mikaelabooks commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Rebecca Ross' new book comes out next month BUT if you're on netgalley, you can listen to the first 5 hours of the audiobook right now! That's list 20% of the book and it's available for everyone. I just started it and flipped out cos it's narrated by Hannah van der Westhuysen from "Fear the Flames" and she has the ✨prettiest✨ voice 😍
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Rebecca Ross' new book comes out next month BUT if you're on netgalley, you can listen to the first 5 hours of the audiobook right now! That's list 20% of the book and it's available for everyone. I just started it and flipped out cos it's narrated by Hannah van der Westhuysen from "Fear the Flames" and she has the ✨prettiest✨ voice 😍
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The editing and writing style was more polished IMO. Irresistible is a good pick if you prefer romcoms over romance. Rose is a good pick if you prefer single POV dark fantasies.
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Loving the fast pace and short chapters! It's definitely helped me tuck into this story quickly. It's starts with her waking up in hell and immediately scheming how to "go back". You've got all these questions about how the afterlife works, how she died and what her life was really like. It's not overtly romantic, more like a snarky anti-hero trying to fix her life, but there's obvious tension between her and the hot Demon in charge.
1mikaelabooks commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Alright friends, it's 100℉ in Texas today, you know what that means??? Nothing. BUT I'm trying to be smart and plan/purchase bookish-themed xmas gifts early and support small businesses/not AI. Does anyone have any special book-ish brands or creators they buy from? I'll also be buying books from local bookstores, but I would like to plan as best I can 😅 I also understand it's only August and that means it's Halloween Szn (girls, gays, and theys please be nice to me, i'm just tryna save money, 🫶🏼)
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The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy (The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy, #1)
Megan Bannen
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By the Horns (Royal Artifactual Guild, #2)
Ruby Dixon
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It's a Silly Goofy Afterlife 🔪
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