This series follows Layla, a workaholic lingerie designer who is bad at dating and lives across the hall from 3 hot dudes who she is friends with who also have a podcast about dating and advice. After Layla has a particularly bad first date she goes over to their apartment, gets drunk, and they all decide to date her to teach her how to date better by dating her and using it as a segment on their podcast. Antics ensue. This was a really fun read, all of the characters are well developed and the dynamics between them interesting. The sex was also very good and well incorporated into the book. I didn’t love the eventual conflict but ultimately it plays out well and the end is very satisfying, not exciting but definitely fun.

I wanted to enjoy this book a lot more than I did just based on troupes, including but not limited to; abusive ex, reverse harem, hidden powers, hot sex. This was the first book in a trilogy and I didn’t bother reading the second 2 books, which feels more damning than it should but meh. Basically Nova escapes as her boyfriend is about to kill her by burning down the building even though she is supposedly a normal human. Her boyfriend is part of an anti-magic hate group so she skips town to try and escape their anger. She stumbles into a small town and meets 4 hot magical dudes. While I really enjoy polyamorous pairings it can be hard to develop 2 characters well much less more than that and this book really suffers from that issue. Some of the characters are more flushed out than others and I am sure that the next few books will probably expand them further but sloppy character development really bugs me. Honestly, there wasn’t anything wrong per-say with this book it just wasn’t really worth much attention and unfortunately was the first in a string of kind of meh books I read.

These were another booktok favorite and it does have all the trademarks of that app – anatomy engineered for her pleasure, questionable circumstances, absurd circumstances, actually enthusiastic consent, etc. The basic premise of the series is that the demon king makes deals with various women – whatever it is they desire in exchange for a set period of service. The service is that the women spend time in the kingdoms of the other rulers of the groups in the realm they are brought to. The first book follows the dragon king the second the Kraken king. Eventually it comes out that the demon king is kind of a softy and attempting to negotiate better peace between all the kingdoms. All in all these were fun kind of silly, kind of sweet books. Each woman so far has their own hang ups which cause them to be willing to make a deal with a demon but different enough that it is interesting. 

Honestly I was kind of bored, it popped up, and I was like, lets try an ABO (also known as omegaverse) just to see what it is like. I had read other books that took similar tropes but I don’t think I had previously just read ABO on its own. This story follows Tryst, an omega in a world where the ability to mate with an omega is allocated by lottery amongst US citizens. Once an omega turns 21 this lottery happens until she has a couple of mates and then they go off and live together. Tryst is understandably frustrated by her lack of ability to choose a mate for herself. Honestly most of this series is just her being frustrated, having hot sex, being frustrated again, having more hot sex with another person rinse and repeat. Which honestly is kind of what I was looking for so like I wasn’t mad about it. There is some political intrigue that happens and enough plot that it didn’t become boring. 

This was recommended to me by the kindle app as like other books I had read. The book starts out following Amira a servant girl at a traveling menagerie run by a sociopathic woman who tours animals from foreign worlds. She has been raised in the menagerie and generally abused and beaten down by the madame who runs it. One day when cleaning she finds that one of the crates with an ‘animal’ in it actually contains a sentient being. Against her better judgement she starts talking to Kyllen, who it turns out is a Gorgon or something like that. Eventually she decides to free him and they escape back to his world which is where the second book picks up. The book was fine, this unfortunately fell into a stretch of kind of meh books. Overall I found Amira to be kind of winy and I kept waiting for her to get caught doing stupid shit. She gets a little bit more personality in the second book but still constantly being stepped on by everyone around her. The sex was sentimental and minimal which didn’t help with the personality issues. I did read both books but I didn’t seek out any other books from the interconnected universe.