I love southern gothic aesthetic and was wondering if there are any books, preferably romance, with this vibe. Maybe even vampires in the south. Kind of like the movie Beautiful Creatures. The only book ive found like this is The Endless Fall by Emmerson Hoyt. Pls send recs!

I'm obsessed with MM but get super into subgenres. Here follows a list of books that have these characteristics in common: - urban fantasy (magic or supernatural creature) - very lighthearted/cozy (no angst, very little sense of urgency) - funny (clearly intended as a comedy by the author) The Incubus's Assistant by Amy Padilla Dating a Demon by Amy Padilla Shroom for Improvement by Jemma Croft The ABSs of Spellcraft by JC Price (peed myself laughing to the audiobooks) The Undead Detective Agency by Shelby Rhodes Quest Investigations by EJ Russel Goliaths of Wrestling by Lily Mayne Villainy by AJ Sherwood Murder Sprees and Mute Decrees by Jennifer Cody Demonic Disasters and Afterlife Adventures by Shannon Mae To me these are different than say The Unwilling Adventures of Harlow & Foxx by Shelby Rhodes or Vampire Related Crimes by Alice Winters, because in these books, there is a sense of urgency and like if the MCs make the wrong choices, there will be serious consequences. So the difference between a mystery and a cozy mystery, without it being straight fluff and without it being a mystery. I've been thinking of it as "cozy urban/fantasy romcom." Thoughts?

Was never fully sold on Rin’s character the entire time I was reading the book. It felt like there was something missing. Definitely a motivator to continue the trilogy.

For my work I have to understand alternative forms of reading, and that kind of made me spiral back in the world of fanfic. I'm basically curious, do you read fanfictions? Is it something you can talk about IRL (I def feel like it used to be more taboo)? What are your go-to tags ? What are your biggest icks? What do you think about fanfiction oozing it's way in mainstream publishing? Basically let's chat about fanfics :)

i just joined pagebound and i decided to manually add my books rather than import my goodreads data lol i joined goodreads in 2009 when i was 12 and i'm now 28 so there were sixteen years worth of reading that i didn't necessarily want to import. granted, i was in a reading slump for a while and i only got back into reading this year so i didn't have a crazy amount of books to go through but as i scrolled through my read shelf deciding on what to add, it definitely made me think about how i would rate certain books now. i feel like i would be a little more critical of some series that my younger self enjoyed haha anyway, i'm really looking forward to using pagebound and to engaging with the community here ☺️