Romance. Fantasy. Reader culture. Honest thoughts.
A weekly catch-up from my reading life — what I’m reading, buying, obsessing over, abandoning, annotating, and generally spiralling about. Think of it as part reading journal, part life update, part chaotic book club chat. This Week’s Goal: Finish off all my book reviews! 📖 Current Read: This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune … Continue reading The Reading Diaries: My Latest Reads (#2)
After reading Laura Brown's recent Telegraph article, "Gen Z's taste for fairy porn lays bare the MeToo generation's hypocrisy", I have thoughts. Quite a few, actually. Lets get into it. The Telegraph recently described romantasy as "fairy porn", reducing an entire genre to a lazy stereotype. Here's why that argument misses the point. I've been … Continue reading Romantasy Is More Than “Fairy Porn”: A Response to The Telegraph
Right now it seems like we are in the golden age of book to screen adaptations. The most recent example is Off Campus. A lot of plot changes were made compared to the book. I’m not deep diving everything here but there is one element that I keep seeing online that has got me thinking; … Continue reading What We Lose When Adaptations Remove Difficult Storylines
A weekly catch-up from my reading life — what I’m reading, buying, obsessing over, abandoning, annotating, and generally spiralling about. Think of it as part reading journal, part life update, part chaotic book club chat. This Week’s Goal: Getting back into a reading routine. 📖 Current Read: Our Secret Summer by R.S. Grey 🎧 Currently … Continue reading The Reading Diaries: My Latest Reads (#1)
Initial thoughts and feelings To note, my expectations were already pretty low after seeing the trailer, but I still tried to go in with an open mind. I’d also literally finished rereading The Deal the day before starting the show. The first couple of episodes were ok, but it went downhill fast imo. The last … Continue reading I watched Off Campus and I have thoughts…
He's looking for the perfect wife. She's looking for the perfect one-night stand. Literary agent Zoey Moody doesn't like small town life, but here she is: exiled from Manhattan's publishing scene and trapped in a tiny Pennsylvania town with her BFF and only remaining client, Hazel. The problem? She's totally broke. All she needs is … Continue reading [Book Review] Mistakes Were Made by Lucy Score
He’s a backup goalie with a broken game. The only thing he needs more than a win is the hot, grumpy bartender who pours his weekly beer. Becker James is having a spectacularly bad season. Once a top draft pick, he’s now riding the bench in the minors, one failed save away from being cut. … Continue reading [Book Review] My Kind of Guy Sarina Bowen
Featuring the love story of the next generation of the beloved and iconic Off-Campus couples from The Deal and The Mistake – coming to TV on Amazon Prime in May…New York Times bestselling author Elle Kennedy returns with her signature heat and humor for a Briar universe standalone romance – where one unforgettable summer changes … Continue reading [Book Review] Love Song – Elle Kennedy
When a brooding MMC comes along, we swoon and fall at their feet. We can’t get enough. There’s a reason shadow daddies dominate our shelves. But when a woman in literature is written with rough edges — when she has an attitude, makes selfish choices, or refuses to soften herself — suddenly she’s “unlikeable.” Cold. … Continue reading The Double Standard of Female Main Characters in Fantasy Romance Books
Things I should never, under any circumstances ever do: ask my secret crush, aka. the most notorious (reformed) playboy in pro hockey, to take my virginity. Too bad, I did. After a string of terrible dates, I did the unthinkable. I propositioned Flip Madden.Of course, he said no.It isn’t that he’s almost a decade older … Continue reading [Book Review] If You Keep Me by Helena Hunting
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