A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid

It's the rivals to lovers and the spooky house by the sea.
"You don't have to pick up a sword. Survival is bravery too."
There's fae and a fairy king
It's not sorcery of thorns, but like... they share some flavors.
I just love the character chemistry and the concept and the magic.
When a specific scene reminds me of The Rescuers.
Pretty sure this is going on my 2023 Favorites
*When a character is called pedantic and you realize that's what you are.
376 Pages

Juniper and Thorn by Ava Reid

When a story is dark and it's pretty, but because it's dark you're afraid the ending is going to be dark.
Must protect my boy. And my girl, the youngest child.
Sevas is cool. I love him. Like... He's a dancer and he is adorbs.
lol I should have guessed the monster, but I didn't.
The entire like....last few chapters and Sevas and Marlinchen and fjkldsjklsfdfsdsjkl:

320 Pages

Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa

It's the "don't touch her" and the protector vibes for me....
I have a type...it's Des...
Also there's like....the same feel as Hades and Persephone, but not....
400 Pages

Royal Blood by Aimee Carter

All of the "What A Girl Wants" vibes
....I'm not crying.
And there's some Princess Diaries vibes and the Prince and I vibes....
content warning: sexual assault, date rape drugs
368 Pages

Where Darkness Blooms by Andrea Hannah

The switching narrators.
I liked how the magic of the sunflowers was brought in.
lol, we're not in Kansas anymore.
So it was dark, but I was expecting it to be more descriptive in that since, but I'm glad I was wrong, because it didn't take me out of the story.
320 Pages

Deadly Dreams by K.J. Sutton

sfjkdja;klsfdajklsfd
Kitty cat
ok ok ok.
ummmmm.....
526 Pages

Soul of Cinder by Bree Barton

I has a very bad feeling about my child.. I just wanna protect him.
okokokok 
Ok so I'm glad that my prediction for Quin was wrong. 
hey look at all these different methods of healing from trauma. lezgo.
496 Pages

Tears of Frost by Bree Barton

plz no love triangle plz no love triangle
I knew it i knew it i knew it.... I knew what Kristoffen (spelling) was talking about. I'm a genius.
also if they ruin my ship I'm throwing hands. 
hold my earrings
this is why we don't mess with free will, y'all. 
Can we just let the kids be alright for like...two minutes..
496 Pages

Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye

"I will find you and I will kill you"
I have so many theories...like...I'm getting some divergent vibes for a specific thing.... I KNEW IT....JK....I missed something...ugh.


432 Pages

TS Song: Epiphany (but like....romantacize it less), Eyes Open, 

....when there's a song, but it's literally a spoiler

Into the Bloodred Woods by Martha Brockenbrough

I feel like there was too many different fairy-tales trying to fit into one story...Like....I see how it should only be one book....but also like... I've read so many books (cough Lunar Chronicles, Ravenspire) where they have multiple fairy-tales in the same world, and it's just more cohesive and clear... It felt kind of rushed, even from the beginning. 
377 Pages

TS Song: ...The Man...there's too many characters....

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

*looks at characters: Y'all gon need so much therapy.

My Catholic butt is just....I'm fine... There's an abbey and there's Benedictines and Franciscans... thinks about how I've slept through my perpetual adoration shifts before.....

Claire worrying about surviving the Jacobite revolt, and I'm just thinking about the awfulness that is all the second-half of the 1700s for literally any country in Europe.

Do I want to go into the culpability and morality of time travel and trying to change events, with the fear that it may actually make things worse....it's fine...this was written in the 90s...there wasn't a giant Reddit time-travel thread. 
672 Pages

TS Song: Evermore (like...it's got some of that energy) and because Claire compared it to Alice...yes I will also say Wonderland. 

Darling Girl by Liz Michalski

WHAT.
WHAT
I'm getting so many Nemo and Marlin vibes
I have so many feelings. Also we love Jack.
352 Pages

TS Song: my tears ricochet, (and a bit of All Too Well (10 minute version) (Taylor's Version))
could we also make jokes about Never Grow Up

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

So it's like...a retelling of the origins of the Tang dynasty, but it's in the future, and not everything is accurate, and there's fighting robots (did my brain think of Voltron--yes)
Me appreciating the content notice at the beginning of the book. chef's kiss. 

If by Christmas, you mean "life."

....My brain also thought of The Cutting Edge. 
Hey look. An actual triangle. 
....Ok so the epilogue...that... umm...huh.
400 Pages