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Kiss an Angel

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

4.25

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Titan

Jillian Graves

4.0

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

Muscles & Monsters

Ashley Bennett

3.5

funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

A Lady's Lesson in Scandal

Meredith Duran

4.75

challenging emotional hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

The Pursuit Of...

Courtney Milan

5.0

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

The Last Crimes of Peregrine Hind

Sierra Simone

4.5

dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

The Rat-Catcher's Daughter

KJ Charles

4.5

adventurous funny mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Fast paced and so exciting! The two MCs (Christiana and Stan) are so adorable, and they are mixed up in some rough things so mind the CW. The dialog and action in this baby novella were so well done - I felt like I was watching a movie! Also, I would like to read the entire Lilywhite Boys series now?

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That Could Be Enough

Alyssa Cole

4.75

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

Wild Rain

Beverly Jenkins

4.25

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

Berries and Greed

Lily Mayne

5.0

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Um gang? Lily Mayne can write a soft, sweet, HAPPY SUNSHINE, contemporary spice fest!? What good works did I do in a past life to deserve this?!? This story was absolutely adorable and so low-angst. Which, if you have read any of Lily’s other books, is a SURPRISE.

Beryl, the FMC, was raised in a cult that worships the “monsters” in this world, the demiurgus. Greid, is a male demiurgus who just wants to eat snacks, watch TV and get high when he’s not designing jewelry. The demiurgus, despite what the cult thinks, are just regular folks who like mostly the same things as humans except sometimes they get the zoomies and their anatomy is a lil different.

Greid is dealing with some anxiety and loneliness after his ex shamed him and shared details about his seggsual preferences with their friends after they broke up. So Greid goes to the demiurgus-worshipping cult hoping for… something (?) he’s not really a super planned out kinda guy. But there, he meets Beryl, who is looking for a way out of the cult’s compound and her comfort zone. So they become roommates, and then friends and then more. They are both vulnerable in different ways and the way they figured each other out was simply perfection. They support each other so beautifully and the communication in this book is EVERYTHING. 🥹

Thanks to the author for the ARC in exchange for a review. This book comes out June 30!

👍🏻RECOMMENDED. If you enjoy CM Nascosta, you will love this. It is soft, sweet and so spicy. It also reminded me a little of Rosie Danan’s The Roommate and Olivia Dade’s All the Feels because Greid is a freaking sunshine disaster boi and I just couldn’t help but love him for it.

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