Hii 💕, I have been trying for some time to find a book for my boyfriend in the sci-fi/epic fantasy genre. I am really big on showing affection through gifts and while it comes very easy to me to combine my two loves shopping and books for the people I love I have been struggling to find the correct one for him because I usually tend to lean towards other genres, dark academia, horror, romance, light fantasy...

I have searched every list and quest on the app and taken countless notes on books that get mentioned more often such as Robin Hobbs works, the grace of kings, the blade itself, the fifth season or city of stairs 👑⚔️🧝‍♂️ But as I said I am afraid to trust my judgment because we have very different tastes

He has an fixation on the LOTR books and in all the years I have known him he has refused to touch anything else since because he has "met perfection" Mostly he reads non fiction, mainly books about his studies, chemistry major (but I can't work with that sorry)

So to if any you who are more experienced with the genre and the books that aren't so well known, I would love to know what you would recommend!

(Thank you so much in advance 🩷🩷)

Hey all! So I’ve been wondering this for a while: are Sarah J. Maas books worth the read? I’ve seen a lot of people on here and on Booktube rave about her stuff, but with the controversy surrounding her and my pickiness with the fantasy genre, I’m not sure if I’ll actually like her books. Maybe I just have book FOMO idk 😭😭 What are yalls thoughts?

Heeello everyone,

What's one book for you that was an unbelievable letdown? I'm talking soul-crushing, frustrating, want-to-throw-the-book-across-the-room vibe.

Also, absolutely no judgement here!

Also also, spoilers (just in case)

I'll go first ~ The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

I love mystery and I love maps (I even make maps for fun) and this book combined the two, with magic, and it had such a promising start as well. Until....for 80% of it, there was nothing but all exposition and treating the main character as if she were ten years old. And the 'love interest' was a d*** 😒. And there was no plot to speak of. I've never felt so drained after reading a book and so so so very disappointed.

Are there any books published in the 21st century that are already considered classics?

Coming out and saying it... Kiela is definitely autistic. She is looking MIGHTY familiar.

And why won't you read said books 🤔

I Love this quote from Caz “there’s no such thing as a weed, that’s a cruel term made up by people who laves som plants as unwanted and some as valuable, as if the worth of a living thing is measured by by how useful it is to another living thing. as if a plant can’t have its own intrinsic worth”

I just finished Hot for slayer by Ali Hazelwood and LOVED it. I've already read My Roommate Is a Vampire and My Vampire Plus-One, both books by Jenna Levine. I really want more recs like these!! Full of funny banter and comedy. Please please please help a girl out 🥲💖

I’m curious, I always try to have at least 5 books to choose from for my next read but sometimes I don’t know which one to pick, how do you usually pick?

need some happy LGBTQ+ book recommendations plssss no tragedy or sadness!! i just want to read about queer and trans people being happy lol

I've been wanting to make an Unreliable Narrator list for a while but I'm hesitant. Unreliable Narrator is a buzz-word to me, and I'll be immediately interested in a book if I'm told it's present in it, but people might also consider it's a spoiler, and lists have the first few books in it shown. What do you guys think ? It's fine, or better not?

I already have SO MANY THOUGHTS

1. I without a doubt believe this is exactly what would happen if we somehow could no longer eat animals. People are so anti vegan/vegetarian they aren’t even willing to try foods with those labels. It’s actually so easy (and many times cheaper) to eat a meatless diet in the US nowadays but we’re so meat focused here, people would absolutely turn to eating humans before just eliminating meat from their diet. (Not judging anyone I literally could not care less what people eat lol; also I know this is not a US based book)

2. The talk about sanitized language is so relevant, especially on social media. Sanitized language does nothing but benefit the people in power. Can’t talk about murder, assassinations, rape, etc online? Great! Now it’s 10x easier to do those things because no one can talk about it without being banned 🫠 You (as in the social media company) can’t claim to be protecting people online when your actions are directly leading to the erasure of major atrocities around the world.

I think that’s all for now, I’m glad I picked this book up

I am looking for new book recs! I’m stuck in a place where I’m reading booktok heavily influenced books & it’s getting really boring/repetitive. I want to find new authors & diversify my reading. I had not noticed just how lacking it was until recently. I am in the mood for witchy/ romance fall books (:

What’s your favorite kind of solo book date? I have some time on Sunday and was thinking 1. Coffee shop 2. Park picnic 3. Just stay home and make it cozy 4. ___________. Anything fun people have done recently? I def wanna get out of the house for a few hours. TYIA!

i watched a video recently of someone who was talking about the tropification of the suffering of marginalized communities by authors who do not identify with those marginalized groups (ex: straight authors writing about queer suffering, white authors writing about slavery, etc.) because they cannot fully do it justice, instead end up contributing to the romanticization or tropification of these topics. how often have you come across books where you've seen this happen (feel free to shout it out, esp if it's a well known title)?

i am reminded of the reason why i dnf'd the women by kristin hannah - the book was about the vietnam war and the experience of a nurse among the american soldiers. i felt that not only did this book not bring attention the atrocities that were committed by the american soldiers, it failed to acknowledge the reason for which this war was started (quite frankly, barely a reason beyond entitlement and wanting power). (to me) it felt like the war was being used as a background to allow the main character to uphold her family's military legacy.