Exactly as the title says. I'd LOVE a more adult {Howl's Moving Castle} with a similar MMC especially. Anything open-door and above is fine. I just like my romance to have a smidge of smut.
No shadow daddies, please. I want book recs where the MMC isn't afraid to queen out. The “I can't do that, I might break a nail.” type of man.
This doesn't mean he should be a coward, though. He should just be a brat. Think Astarion Ancunin.
Please don't rec {The Cruel Prince by Holly Black} or {Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries} I didn't personally enjoy them.
My agent has tied me to the chair in front of my laptop by my own request. I didn't want the humiliation of them changing me like an adult baby, so I got a shit bucket instead of diapers.
The one I have is a little small and the odour is pretty bad. I put scented kitty litter in it but now my room just smells like lavender shit.
I've been putting out 20k words per day since implementing this method so I'm not going to stop. I will not listen to anyone who tells me otherwise.
Bonus points if it was hyped up. I wanna hate read something
I've already read acotar, so none of that.
This is Chella, and she constantly has her bottom lip and little bottom teeth peeking out. She has a mild underbite and a crossbite.
Our spayed 3 year old lady (second picture is from puppyhood) has a tendency to growl and sometimes snap when she's sleeping in bed with us and we have to move her. She likes cuddling and being spooned, but sometimes she takes up so much space that we have to pick her up and move her.
This is where the problem is. She's fine with being nudged and touched overall, but you often can't move her without her growling. She's usually fine if you manage to move her before she fully settles.
I tried asking for advice on a different, more popular sub and was harpooned for owning a pitbull with some literally telling me to euthanize her. Is this common? Is it very serious?
She's a rescue we got for free from a nasty situation where they were trying to kill her and I have no idea what her life was like there before us. All I know is she's extremely anxious, skittish and occasionally has random triggers (she was afraid of large sticks and chains, for example).
A lot of books I've read that are explicit smut are typically horribly written, which is understandable because nobody is reading porn to sit there and think deeply about the beauty of the prose afterwards.
Buuut I wanna know if there's anything like porn with a plot++ or what I'd call high-class smut. Well-written, beautiful, emotional, sweet with characters who aren't just blank marionettes that the author is making bang. I've read {morning glory milking farm} and it was alright, but still not as well-written as I'd like it to be.
I need 5 chillies, but with yearning and plot. Pretty please
Writing style is very important to me and some authors just don't seem to have that spark. Some have absolutely brilliant, creative ideas that are just overshadowed by bad prose. A non-romantasy example for me is a lot of Lovecraft's work.
I've had some people tell me they don't care or really even notice writing styles (incredibly jealous btw), so I'm curious about how common this is.
I've been exhausting myself with 600-1000 page monstrosities lately and I'm tired of dedicating so much time to books I end up disliking (I'm looking at you, {Priestess})
I want something that's not TOO short, but a good middle ground. 250-300 pages, something I can read in one day. I like some spice, but I don't enjoy pure smut at all. I'm also not a fan of YA or any teen MCs overall. Please only new adult or adult recs!
Those are my only requirements :) I'll give anything a shot.
I really love books where you can't really pinpoint the horror. There's something I really enjoy about an impending sense of doom and a "something is off but I can't tell what it is" vibe
It should be something small, like someone looking perfectly normal one moment, you blink and suddenly they're all fucked up and distorted, just to immediately become normal again after the second blink. Maybe a character is behaving strangely but in a way that's so subtle that other characters feel like they might be imagining it, but it still makes everyone uncomfortable.
Do any books give that sort of feel?
I have an absolutely ancient iMac that I've been trying to boot up to transfer old videos and photos from my childhood to another device, but whenever I try to boot it up, the screen immediately goes black.
I can hear it responding to the mouse and keyboard, but there's nothing on the display. Is there anything I can do to fix this? These videos and photos are irreplaceable and I'd love to have them back.
Exactly what the title says. I'm a very picky reader, so despite often looking for recs my TBR is tiny.
My requirements are:
-open-door spice (🌶️🌶️🌶️/5 is my favourite)
-no YA
-no pure smut
-nothing "a _ of _ & _"
-slow-burn
-yearning
He just has to be pathetic. Down bad, on his knees, willing to bark for it. I've read 99% of T. Kingfisher's books, so please don't rec her.
My family doesn't celebrate birthdays and never has due to religious reasons, but I have a partner who always tries to make my birthdays feel special despite being the only one who gets me anything.
We're long distance (he lives in another country) and I live in a rural area, so gifts are complicated. He usually gets me my favourite snacks and a cake and has them delivered to me.
Today was my birthday and he did was he usually does. I got my little gift basket full of my favourite snacks. I usually share them because I feel bad, but some of them aren't big enough to share between multiple people so I keep them to myself. They guilt me due to this and call me selfish (they say they ALWAYS share everything with me, which is mostly true).
It makes me feel horrible whenever he buys me something nice because I feel obligated to share these things, even though I feel like I should be able to enjoy my boyfriends presents alone. He's said before that it upsets him when they take some of my gifts, but there's nothing I can do about it without upsetting everyone.
My family is poor and often can't buy the nice pricier things he buys for me, so I do share what I can. But some of the items are meant for one serving only and I can't share them without basically having crumbs left for myself.
AITAH for wanting to enjoy some of my birthday presents from my boyfriend on my own?
I swear this is real and it's in a serious romantasy book. I believe there are bird shifters in it. The MMC basically does a nude somersault and his dick flops around.
This is the most memorable thing I could think of from the book because I can't for the life of me remember anything else. It was so strange that I literally can't stop thinking about it and I need to find out if I hallucinated this novel.
I have no idea how to tastefully describe this.
I NEED a book where the MMC can't contain himself and gets a little busy on his own. I've only seen this in {Swordheart} by T. Kingfisher so far where he's absolutely feral for her but neither have admitted it, so he just... sneaks off and gets himself off to the thought of her alone.
I'm not into pure smut. Preferably slow-burn with an actual, well-written plot. I just love it when men are unfathomably down bad for their lady but still trying to be respectful about it.
{a court of blood and bindings by Lisette Marshall}
I'm roughly 200 pages in. No, this is not all of them. No, I am not having a good time.
I'm fighting to get through this. If anyone enjoyed this book, please tell me why
I feel like this is something I barely see. The MMC is always implied to be tall if it isn't explicitly stated. I just want ONE normal-sized MMC. Normal proportions. 5'6 or 5'11. No scary monster dicks either. I know that shit hurts and I'm tired of wincing at sex scenes.
I like books that aren't pure smut, either. I like a 3-4 on the spice scale the most with the lower and higher ends being my least favourite. No YA either, please.
The main requirement is just a short or normal guy with normal guy proportions. Every MMC being 6'8 Magnus Battlecock the Penetrator is unappealing.
Your fantasy series is based in bronze age Mesopotamia. Why does your FMC have lip filler and lash extensions
“I bet I can make you read my book just by showing you the character art” I've literally never wanted to read your book less. It's the 1400's and your characters all have Instagram face.
I'm not anti-attractive people. So many just have the copy-paste small nose, big eyes, full lips, weirdly childlike facial proportions and it's off-putting. The men are so hyper-masculine that it loops back around to being hideous.
Who is this for? Does anyone actually like this??
The character I had in mind would be a deuteragonist or someone very important to the story and I envisioned them to be a product of alpha-omega mpreg.
This is supposed to be a breaking point for the character who thought they were pure and great and all that fuzzy stuff to realize they're a product of a heinous and illegal union.
That reveal will start somewhat early on and is the catalyst that shatters their sense of self-worth and rebuild.
At the same time I don't want to put in mpreg "because lol why not", it needs to add substance to the greater narrative.
Do you have any advice on how I can handle such a topic without accidentally fetishizing or overplaying it ?