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I’m not calling this a reading slump because I am VERY MUCH READING. I am inhaling 100k+ fanfics like it’s my full-time job. But actual books? Suddenly my brain is like absolutely not.
My TBR looks like a sad pile of obligations. Nothing on it excites me. Nothing is whispering, “you’ll love me, drop everything and read me right now.”
I want a book (or preferably a series) that CONSUMES me. Long-form. Multiple books. Characters I can bond with, obsess over, argue about, miss when I’m not reading. I want to live with them for 5–10 business books. I want found family, slow burn attachment, emotional damage. I want to CARE.
Instead, every time I start something new, I’m bored by page 30 and running straight back to fanfic because at least there I already love the characters and get instant emotional payoff. It’s humiliating.
This is not a slump. This is me being too picky and too self-aware and too desperate for ✨connection✨ apparently.
Has anyone else been here?? Did a series or book yank you out of this fanfic vortex? Or am I doomed to binge fanfic forever? Drop your recs for anything (fantasy, sci-fi, contemporary, mystery) long series or just characters I can connect with. I am suffering and I need help.
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