Every story that’s found a home on my shelves.
Every book I finish eventually finds its place here.
This isn’t a ranking or a “best books” list. It’s simply my personal reading archive, organised alphabetically so it’s easy to browse, revisit favourites and see how my reading tastes have changed over time.
Whether I listened on audiobook, curled up with a paperback or flew through it on my Kindle, every title here has been part of my reading journey.
Some books have full reviews already, while others are still waiting patiently for theirs.
Grab a cosy drink, choose a letter and have a browse. 🤎
🧭 How This Page Works
A quick guide before you start browsing.
📚 Organised A–Z
Books are listed alphabetically by title.
⭐ Personal Ratings
Every rating reflects my own reading experience.
🌶️ Spice Included
Spice ratings appear where they’re relevant.
🔗 Reviews Linked
Full reviews are linked whenever one is available.
My shelves are always growing, so you’ll often find new books quietly appearing here as I finish them.
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📖 The Shelves
All He’ll Ever Be
W. Winters | Merciless World
⭐ 3/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Dark Romance • Romantic Suspense
Tropes: Mafia • Captor/Captive • Enemies to Lovers • Beauty & the Beast Retelling
Vibes: 🔥 Dark & Intense • 🩸 Mafia Underworld • ⚔️ Battle of Wills • 🖤 Obsession & Power
Characters: Carter Cross • Aria Talvery
🔫💋🖤📖
Binding 13
Chloe Walsh | Boys of Tommen #1
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 0/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • New Adult • Sports Romance
Tropes: Rugby Romance • High School Romance • Friends to Lovers • Protective Hero • Found Family • Slow Burn • Trauma & Healing
Vibes: 🏉 Emotional • ❤️ Heartwarming • 🫂 Healing • 🥹 Tender • 🌧️ Angsty
Characters: Johnny Kavanagh • Shannon Lynch
🏉🩵🩹📖
Birthday Girl
Penelope Douglas | Standalone
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • Age Gap Romance
Tropes: Age Gap • Forbidden Romance • Slow Burn • Forced Proximity • Single Dad • Emotional Angst
Vibes: ☀️ Slow & Tender • 🏡 Found Family • ❤️ Emotional Connection • 🔥 Unbearable Chemistry
Characters: Pike Lawson • Jordan Hadley
🛠️🏡❤️🔥
Bride
Ali Hazelwood | Bride #1
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Paranormal Romance • Fantasy Romance
Tropes: Arranged Marriage • Marriage of Convenience • Vampires • Werewolves • Fated Mates • Enemies to Lovers • Forced Proximity
Vibes: 🩸 Paranormal Politics • 🌙 Slow-Burn Romance • 😂 Witty Banter • 🖤 Protective Hero • 🐺 Found Family
Characters: Misery Lark • Lowe Moreland
🧛🏻♀️🐺💍🖤
Brutal Prince
Sophie Lark | Brutal Birthright #1
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Dark Romance • Mafia Romance • Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Arranged Marriage • Enemies to Lovers • Rival Mafia Families • Forced Proximity • Hate-to-Love • Marriage of Convenience
Vibes: 💍 Forced Marriage • 🔥 Fiery Banter • 🩸 Mafia Politics • ⚔️ Family Feud • ❤️ Unexpected Chemistry
Characters: Aida Gallo • Callum Griffin
🔫💍❤️🔥
Butcher & Blackbird
Brynne Weaver | Ruinous Love #1
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 5/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Dark Romantic Comedy • Contemporary Romance • Romantic Suspense
Tropes: Serial Killers • Friends to Lovers • Slow Burn • Rivals to Lovers • Dark Humour • Annual Competition
Vibes: 🔪 Morbidly Funny • 🖤 Twisted Romance • 😂 Laugh-Out-Loud Banter • 🩸 Bloody & Chaotic
Characters: Rowan Kane • Sloane Sutherland
🔪🩸🖤😂
(The) C*ck Down the Block
Amy Award | The Cocky Kingmans #1
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 3/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Sports Romance • Contemporary Romance • Romantic Comedy
Tropes: Friends to Lovers • Fake Dating • He Falls First • Curvy Heroine • Quarterback × Bookworm • Neighbours • Found Family
Vibes: 🏈 Laugh-Out-Loud • 💛 Wholesome & Sweet • 📚 Bookish Heroine • 🐓 Chaotic Animal Antics
Characters: Chris Kingman • Beatrix “Trixie” Moore
🏈📚🐓💛😂
Caught Up
Navessa Allen | Into Darkness #2
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Dark Romance • Contemporary Romance • Romantic Suspense
Tropes: Stalker Romance • Morally Grey Hero • Forced Proximity • Protective Hero • Obsession • Trauma & Healing
Vibes: 🖤 Twisted Attraction • 🔥 Unhinged Chemistry • 🩸 Dark & Dangerous • 🛡️ Protective Obsession
Characters: Nico “Junior” Trocci • Lauren Marchetti
🩸📱🖤🥀
(The) Cloisters
Katy Hays | Standalone
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 0/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Mystery • Gothic Fiction • Dark Academia • Literary Thriller
Tropes: Secret Society • Hidden Manuscripts • Academic Rivalries • Unreliable Narrator • Ancient Tarot • Slow-Burn Mystery
Vibes: 🕯️ Atmospheric • 🏛️ Dark Academia • 🔮 Occult Secrets • 🌿 Gothic Mystery
Characters: Ann Stilwell • Rachel Mondray • Leo • Patrick Roland
🃏📚🏛️🔍
Close Your Eyes
Nicci Cloke | Standalone
⭐ 3/5 🌶️ 0/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Psychological Thriller • Mystery • Crime Fiction
Tropes: Missing Child • Dual Timeline • Multiple POVs • Small Town Secrets • Family Drama • Slow-Burn Mystery
Vibes: 🕵️ Twisty & Suspenseful • 🌫️ Atmospheric • 😨 Unsettling • 🧩 Keeps You Guessing
Characters: Evie Tanner • Isla • Kate • The Tanner Family
👁️🧩🌫️📖
(A) Court of Frost and Starlight
Sarah J. Maas | A Court of Thorns and Roses #3.5
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 2/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Fantasy Romance • New Adult Fantasy • Fantasy
Tropes: Found Family • Healing Journey • Holiday Setting • Slice of Life • Fae • Post-War Recovery
Vibes: ❄️ Winter Magic • 🏡 Cosy & Heartwarming • ✨ Hope & Healing • 💙 Found Family
Characters: Feyre Archeron • Rhysand • Cassian • Nesta Archeron • Azriel • Elain Archeron • Mor • Amren
❄️🦇🎁🏔️
(A) Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J. Maas | A Court of Thorns and Roses #2
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 3/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Fantasy Romance • New Adult Fantasy • High Fantasy
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers • Found Family • Fated Mates • Slow Burn • Healing Journey • Magical Trials
Vibes: 🦇 Night Court Magic • 🌌 Epic Worldbuilding • 🖤 Emotional Healing • ✨ Powerful Romance
Characters: Feyre Archeron • Rhysand • Cassian • Azriel • Mor • Amren
🏹🦇🌙✨❤️
(A) Court of Silver Flames
Sarah J. Maas | A Court of Thorns and Roses #4
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Fantasy Romance • High Fantasy
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers • Forced Proximity • Found Family • Training Together • He Falls First • Slow Burn
Vibes: ⚔️ Warrior Training • 🔥 Fiery & Emotional • 🖤 Healing & Growth • 🦇 Illyrian Energy
Characters: Nesta Archeron • Cassian
⚔️🔥🦇🖤📖
(A) Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas | A Court of Thorns and Roses #1
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 2/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Fantasy Romance • New Adult Fantasy
Tropes: Beauty & the Beast Retelling • Fae • Enemies to Lovers • Forced Proximity • Mortal/Fae Romance
Vibes: 🌹 Enchanted & Dangerous • 🧚 Fae Courts • 🗡️ Trials & Survival • 🖤 Dark Fairytale
Characters: Feyre Archeron • Tamlin • Lucien • Rhysand
🌹🏹🧚🗡️
(A) Court of Wings and Ruin
Sarah J. Maas | A Court of Thorns and Roses #3
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 2/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Fantasy Romance • High Fantasy • New Adult
Tropes: Fae • Found Family • War & Rebellion • Mates • Political Alliances • Enemies to Allies
Vibes: ⚔️ War & Rebellion • 👑 Courts & Politics • 🧚 Fae Magic • ❤️🔥 Love & Loyalty • 🖤 High Stakes
Characters: Feyre Archeron • Rhysand • Nesta Archeron • Cassian • Azriel • Elain Archeron • Lucien Vanserra • Mor
⚔️👑🧚❤️🔥🖤
Crossed
Emily McIntire | Never After #5
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Dark Romance • Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Forbidden Love • Morally Grey MMC • Obsession • Bully Romance • Fractured Fairy Tale
Vibes: ⛪ Forbidden & Sinful • 🔥 Dark & Intense • 🖤 Obsession & Temptation • 🥀 Twisted Fairy-Tale Energy
Characters: Cade • Amaya
⛪🔥🖤🥀
Den of Vipers
K.A. Knight | Standalone
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 5/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Dark Romance • Reverse Harem / Why Choose
Tropes: Why Choose • Mafia/Organised Crime • Captive Romance • Enemies to Lovers • Forced Proximity • Morally Grey Men
Vibes: 🐍 Dangerous & Unhinged • 🔪 Violence & Chaos • 🖤 Dark Obsession • 🔥 Filthy & Intense
Characters: Roxy • Ryder • Kenzo • Diesel • Garrett
🐍🔪🖤🔥👑
Dirty Daddies
Jade West | Standalone
⭐ 3/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Dark Romance • Contemporary Romance • Erotic Romance
Tropes: MFM • Age Gap • Daddy Kink • BDSM • Forbidden Romance • Friends to Lovers
Vibes: 🔥 Filthy & Intense • 🖤 Dark & Kinky • ⛓️ Dominance & Submission • 👀 Taboo Temptation
Characters: Carrie Wells • Michael Pearson • Jack Stanley
👨👨👧🔥⛓️🖤
Eyes on Me
Sara Cate | Salacious Players Club #2
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • Erotic Romance • Dark Romance
Tropes: Forbidden Romance • Step-Siblings • Age Gap • Enemies to Lovers • Voyeurism/Exhibitionism
Vibes: 👀 Voyeuristic & Steamy • 🔥 Taboo & Forbidden • 🎥 Secret Online Identity • 🖤 Emotional & Vulnerable
Characters: Garrett Porter • Mia Harris
👀🎥🔥🖤
Faking with Benefits
Lily Gold | Standalone
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • Reverse Harem / Why Choose
Tropes: Fake Dating • Friends to Lovers • Why Choose • Multiple MMCs • Dating Lessons • Forced Proximity
Vibes: 💕 Sweet & Steamy • 🔥 Seriously Spicy • 😂 Fun & Flirty • 🫶 Found Family Energy
Characters: Layla Thompson • Zack • Luke • Josh
💋🔥💕👨👩👧👦
Fallen Court
Geneva Lee | Filthy Rich Fae #2
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Fantasy Romance • Paranormal Romance • Dark Romance
Tropes: Fae Prince • Mortal/Fae Romance • Forbidden Love • Deadly Bargain • Court Politics • Protective/Possessive MMC
Vibes: 🧚 Dangerous Fae Realm • 👑 Warring Courts • 🖤 Dark & Obsessive • ⚔️ Wild Hunt & Power Struggles
Characters: Cate Holloway • Lachlan Gage
🧚👑🖤⚔️
Filthy Rich Fae
Geneva Lee | Filthy Rich Fae #1
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Romantasy • Urban Fantasy • Paranormal Romance
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers • Slow Burn • Forced Proximity • Forbidden Romance • Fae Bargain
Vibes: 🧚 Fae & Magic • 🍎 Dangerous Bargains • 🖤 Dark & Seductive • 👑 Fae Royalty • 🌙 New Orleans Underworld
Characters: Cate Holloway • Lachlan Gage
🧚🍎🖤👑
Flawless
Elsie Silver | Chestnut Springs #1
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 3/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • Western Romance
Tropes: Bull Rider • Forced Proximity • Forbidden Romance • Grumpy/Sunshine • Opposites Attract
Vibes: 🤠 Small-Town Charm • 🐂 Rodeo Life • 🔥 Fiery Chemistry • 💕 Sweet & Spicy
Characters: Rhett Eaton • Summer Hamilton
🤠🐂🔥💕
Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros | The Empyrean #1
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 3/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Fantasy Romance • New Adult Fantasy
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers • Forced Proximity • War College • Dragons • Forbidden Romance • Deadly Trials
Vibes: 🐉 Dragons & Riders • ⚔️ Deadly Competition • 🔥 Danger & Desire • 🖤 Secrets & Betrayal
Characters: Violet Sorrengail • Xaden Riorson
🐉⚔️🔥🖤
Give Me More
Sara Cate | Salacious Players Club #3
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 5/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • Erotic Romance
Tropes: MMF • Friends to Lovers • Bisexual Awakening • Married Couple + Best Friend • Forced Proximity • Polyamory
Vibes: 🔥 Seriously Spicy • 💕 Friendship to More • 🏳️🌈 Sexual Awakening • 🖤 Possessive & Emotional • 🥵 Why Choose When You Can Have Both?
Characters: Hunter • Isabel • Drake
🔥💋🖤👩❤️💋👨
Haunting Adeline
H.D. Carlton | Cat and Mouse #1
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 5/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Dark Romance • Romantic Suspense • Thriller
Tropes: Stalker Romance • Cat & Mouse • Obsessive/Possessive MMC • Morally Grey Romance • Dubious Consent
Vibes: 🖤 Dark & Twisted • 👀 Watching From the Shadows • 🥀 Gothic & Haunting • 🔥 Dangerous Obsession
Characters: Zade Meadows • Adeline Reilly
👀🥀🔫🖤
Heartless
Elsie Silver | Chestnut Springs #2
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • Cowboy Romance
Tropes: Single Dad • Nanny Romance • Age Gap • Grumpy/Sunshine • Forced Proximity • Small Town Romance
Vibes: 🤠 Ranch Life • ☀️ Sunshine Meets Grump • 🏡 Small-Town Cosy • 🫶 Found Family • 🔥 Slow-Burn Tension
Characters: Cade Eaton • Willa Grant
🤠☀️🧸🔥❤️
Her Elemental Dragons
Elizabeth Briggs | Her Elemental Dragons
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 5/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Paranormal Romance • Fantasy Romance • Reverse Harem
Tropes: Fated Mates • Why Choose • Dragon Shifters • Elemental Magic • Hidden Identity • Found Family
Vibes: 🐉 Dragon Magic • 🔥 Elemental Powers • 💕 Fated Bonds • ⚔️ Danger & Adventure • ❤️🔥 Steamy Romance
Characters: Kira • Auric • Jasin • Slade • Reven
🐉🔥💨🌊🌍❤️🔥
Hexed
Emily McIntire | Never After #6
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Dark Romance • Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Forbidden Romance • Mafia • Enemies to Lovers • Revenge • Morally Grey MMC
Vibes: 🖤 Dark & Dangerous • 🔥 Forbidden Attraction • 🔪 Revenge & Violence • 💋 Obsession & Temptation
Characters: Venesa Andersen • Enzo Marino
🐍💋🔪🖤
Highest Bidder
Sara Cate | Salacious Players’ Club #5
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 5/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • Erotic Romance
Tropes: Age Gap • Billionaire Romance • Daddy Kink • Mother’s Ex • Forbidden Romance • BDSM
Vibes: 💰 Filthy Rich • 🎹 Free-Spirited Heroine • 🥵 Kinky & Steamy • 🗼 Paris Romance • 🖤 Possessive & Protective
Characters: Ronan Kade • Daisy Bennett
💰🌶️🖤🎹
Highest Bidder
Willow Winters & Lauren Landish | Highest Bidder #1–4
⭐ Not Rated 🌶️ Not Rated Status: ❌ DNF
Genre: Dark Romance • Contemporary Romance • BDSM Romance
Tropes: BDSM Club • Auctions • Dominant MMCs • Submissive FMCs • Billionaire Romance
Vibes: 🔥 Steamy • 🖤 Dark Desire • ⛓️ Power & Submission • 💰 Wealth & Control
Characters: Multiple Couples — Bought • Sold • Owned • Given
💰⛓️🔥🚫
Hooked
Emily McIntire | Never After #1
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Dark Romance • Contemporary Romance • Romantic Suspense
Tropes: Villain Gets the Girl • Revenge • Enemies to Lovers • Captor/Captive • Age Gap
Vibes: 🪝 Dark & Dangerous • 🖤 Morally Grey Obsession • 🐊 Peter Pan-Inspired • 🔪 Revenge & Violence
Characters: James Barrie • Wendy Michaels
🪝🖤🐊💋
Hopeless
Elsie Silver | Chestnut Springs #5
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 3/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • Small-Town Romance
Tropes: Age Gap • Marriage of Convenience • Forced Proximity • Grumpy/Sunshine • Military Hero • Small Town
Vibes: 🤠 Small-Town Charm • 💍 Marriage of Convenience • 🖤 Protective Hero • 🔥 Slow-Burn Tension • 🏡 Found Family
Characters: Beau Eaton • Bailey Jansen
💍🤠🖤🔥
How My Neighbour Stole Christmas
Meghan Quinn | Kringletown Christmas #1
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Christmas Romance • Romantic Comedy
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers • Fake Dating • Forced Proximity • Small Town • Childhood Crush
Vibes: 🎄 Festive & Cosy • 😈 Naughty Christmas • 😂 Banter & Chaos • ❄️ Snowy Small-Town Romance
Characters: Cole Black • Storee Taylor
🎄💚🍬🔥❤️
Hunting Adeline
H.D. Carlton | Cat & Mouse #2
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 5/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Dark Romance • Romantic Suspense • Thriller
Tropes: Stalker Romance • Morally Grey MMC • Captive/Captivity • Revenge • Touch Her and Die
Vibes: 🖤 Dark & Disturbing • 🔪 Revenge & Retribution • 🩸 Danger & Violence • 🥀 Trauma & Survival • 🔥 Obsession
Characters: Adeline Reilly • Zade Meadows
🥀🔪🖤🔥🩸
Icebreaker
Hannah Grace | Maple Hills #1
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 3/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • Sports Romance • New Adult
Tropes: Hockey Romance • Enemies to Lovers • Forced Proximity • College Romance • Figure Skater x Hockey Player
Vibes: 🏒 Hockey Boys • ⛸️ Ice-Skating Dreams • ❄️ Rink-Side Romance • 💕 Sweet & Spicy • 🫶 Found Family
Characters: Anastasia “Stassie” Allen • Nathan “Nate” Hawkins
🏒⛸️❄️❤️🔥📚
If Love Had a Price
Ana Huang | If Love #3
⭐ Not Rated 🌶️ Not Rated Status: ❌ DNF
Genre: Contemporary Romance • New Adult Romance
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers • Fake Dating • Opposites Attract • Rich Boy/Poor Girl • Forced Proximity
Vibes: 💰 Money & Power • 🔥 Fiery Banter • 💋 Sexual Tension • 🎭 Secrets & Schemes
Characters: Kris Carrera • Nate Reynolds
💰💋🔥🎭
If The Sun Never Sets
Ana Huang | If Love #2
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 3/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • New Adult Romance
Tropes: Second Chance • First Love • Forced Proximity • Client/Designer • Grovelling
Vibes: ❤️🩹 Heartbreak & Healing • 🥺 Angst & Regret • 🔥 Rekindled Chemistry • 💕 Fighting for a Second Chance
Characters: Farrah Lin • Blake Ryan
☀️❤️🩹🥺🔥
If The Sun Never Sets
Ana Huang | If Love #1
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 2/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • New Adult Romance
Tropes: Study Abroad • Friends to Lovers • Opposites Attract • Slow Burn • Found Family
Vibes: ✈️ Wanderlust • 🏙️ Shanghai Adventures • 💕 Friendship to Romance • 🌏 Finding Yourself
Characters: Blake Ryan • Farrah Lin
✈️🌏💕📖
Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros | The Empyrean #2
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 3/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Fantasy Romance • Romantasy
Tropes: Dragons • Dragon Riders • War College • Forbidden Romance • Secrets & Betrayal • Found Family
Vibes: 🐉 Dragons & Danger • ⚔️ War & Rebellion • 🔥 High Stakes • 🖤 Secrets & Trust • ❤️🔥 Fierce Romance
Characters: Violet Sorrengail • Xaden Riorson
🐉⚡⚔️❤️🔥📖
Keeping 13
Chloe Walsh | Boys of Tommen #2
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 1/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • Sports Romance • New Adult
Tropes: Friends to Lovers • Rugby Romance • Found Family • Trauma & Healing • Protective Hero • High School Romance
Vibes: 🏉 Rugby & Romance • 💔 Emotional & Heart-Wrenching • 🫶 Healing & Found Family • 🥹 Angst with Tender Moments
Characters: Johnny Kavanagh • Shannon Lynch
🏉💔🫶📖
Leather & Lark
Brynne Weaver | Ruinous Love #2
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Dark Romance • Romantic Comedy • Romantic Suspense
Tropes: Hate to Love • Marriage of Convenience • Grumpy/Sunshine • He Falls First • Touch Her & Die
Vibes: 🔪 Murder & Mayhem • 🎶 Sunshine Meets Assassin • 💍 Fake Marriage • 🖤 Dark Humour & Chaos
Characters: Lachlan Kane • Lark Montague
🔪🎶💍🖤
Lights Out
Navessa Allen | Into Darkness #1
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 5/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Dark Romance • Romantic Suspense • Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Stalker Romance • Masked MMC • Morally Grey MMC • Primal/Chase Play • Obsessive/Protective MMC
Vibes: 🎭 Masked Obsession • 🖤 Dark but Funny • 🔪 Danger & Desire • 💻 Hacker Energy • 🔥 Kinky Chaos
Characters: Josh Hammond • Aly Cappellucci
🎭🔪💻🖤🔥
(The) Love Hypothesis
Ali Hazelwood | Standalone
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 2/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • STEM Romance
Tropes: Fake Dating • Academia • Grumpy/Sunshine • Workplace Romance • He Falls First
Vibes: 🧪 Women in STEM • 💕 Adorably Awkward • ☕ Academic Chaos • 🥰 Slow-Burn Feelings
Characters: Olive Smith • Adam Carlsen
🧪☕💋🧬
Madame
Sara Cate | Salacious Players Club #6
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • Erotic Romance
Tropes: MFF • Polyamory • BDSM • Femdom • Second Chance • Age Gap
Vibes: 👠 Female Dominance • 🔥 Kinky & Steamy • 🖤 Vulnerability & Trust • 💕 Found Love
Characters: Eden St. Claire • Clay Bradley • Jade Penner
👠⛓️🔥🖤
Mercy
Sara Cate | Salacious Players Club #4
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 5/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • Erotic Romance • BDSM Romance
Tropes: Age Gap • Older Woman/Younger Man • Best Friend’s Son • Dominant Woman/Submissive Man • Forbidden Romance
Vibes: ⛓️ Kinky & Exploratory • 🔥 Seriously Spicy • 🖤 Emotional Vulnerability • 😈 Power Exchange
Characters: Maggie Anderson • Beau Grant
⛓️🔥🖤😈
Morning Glory Milking Farm
C.M. Nascosta | Cambric Creek #1
⭐ 3/5 🌶️ 5/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Monster Romance • Contemporary Romance • Fantasy Romance
Tropes: Workplace Romance • Monster/Human Romance • Client/Employee • Slow Burn • Unconventional Romance
Vibes: 🐮 Surprisingly Sweet • 💗 Cosy & Tender • 🥛 Very Unconventional • 🌶️ Spicy & Steamy
Characters: Violet • Rourke
🐮🥛💗🌶️
My Dark Romeo
Parker S. Huntington & L.J. Shen | Dark Prince Road #1
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Dark Romance • Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers • Arranged Marriage • Marriage of Convenience • Forced Proximity • Billionaire Romance
Vibes: 🖤 Dark & Decadent • ♟️ Revenge & Power Games • 💍 Reluctant Marriage • 🔥 Fiery Banter
Characters: Romeo Costa • Dallas Townsend
💍♟️🥀🔥
Nanny for the Neighbors
Lily Gold | Standalone
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • Reverse Harem / Why Choose
Tropes: Nanny • Single Dads • Why Choose • Forced Proximity • Found Family • Neighbours to Lovers
Vibes: 🍼 Nanny Life • 🏠 Close Quarters • 💕 Found Family • 🔥 Multiple Love Interests
Characters: Beth • Jack • Cyrus • Sebastian
🍼🏠🔥💗
New Beginnings at Wildflower Lock
Hannah Lynn | Wildflower Lock #1
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 0/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • Women’s Fiction
Tropes: Grumpy/Sunshine • Slow Burn • New Beginnings • Forced Proximity
Vibes: 🌸 Fresh Starts • 🚤 Cosy Canal Life • 🎨 Self-Discovery • 💕 Gentle Romance
Characters: Daisy May • Theo
🌸🚤🎨💕
(The) Night Prince
Lauren Palphreyman | The Wolf King #2
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 2/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Fantasy Romance • Dark Fantasy • Paranormal Romance
Tropes: Fated Mates • Forbidden Romance • Enemies to Lovers • Shifters • Royalty
Vibes: 🐺 Dark & Dangerous • 👑 Royal Intrigue • 🌙 Supernatural Magic • ❤️🔥 Forbidden Desire
Characters: Aurora • Callum • Blake
🐺👑🌙❤️🔥
Obsessed
Ivy Smoak | Professor Hunter #1
⭐ 3/5 🌶️ 3/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • Forbidden Romance
Tropes: Professor/Student • Forbidden Romance • Age Gap • Secret Relationship • Possessive Hero
Vibes: 🎓 Forbidden Attraction • 🔥 Steamy & Addictive • 🤫 Secrets & Sneaking Around • ❤️🔥 Obsession & Desire
Characters: Penny Taylor • James Hunter
🎓🔥🤫❤️🔥
(The) One That Got Away
Charlotte Rixon | Standalone
⭐ 2/5 🌶️ 0/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • Women’s Fiction
Tropes: Second Chance Romance • First Love • Right Person, Wrong Time • Dual Timeline • Dual POV
Vibes: 💔 Love & Loss • ⏳ Twenty Years Apart • 🥀 Regret & What-Ifs • ❤️🩹 Emotional & Bittersweet
Characters: Clara • Benjamin
💔⏳🥀❤️🩹
Onyx Storm
Rebecca Yarros | The Empyrean #3
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Romantasy • Fantasy Romance
Tropes: Forbidden Love • Dragons & Riders • Found Family • Fated Bonds • War & Rebellion
Vibes: 🐉 Dragons & Danger • ⚡ Power & Magic • ⚔️ War & Rebellion • 🖤 Love Against the Odds
Characters: Violet Sorrengail • Xaden Riorson
🐉⚡🖤⚔️
Phantom
Greer Rivers | Tattered Curtain #1
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Dark Romance • Romantic Suspense
Tropes: Mafia Romance • Stalker Romance • Beauty & the Beast Retelling • Phantom of the Opera Retelling • Scarred Hero • Obsessive/Possessive Hero
Vibes: 🎭 Dark & Gothic • 🖤 Obsessive Love • 🎶 Music & Mystery • ⚜️ New Orleans • 🔥 Dangerous & Intense
Characters: Sol Bordeaux • Scarlett Day
🎭🎶🖤🌹
Powerless
Elsie Silver | Chestnut Springs #3
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • Western Romance
Tropes: Friends to Lovers • Childhood Friends • Professional Hockey Player • Forced Proximity • He Falls First • Small Town Romance
Vibes: 🏒 Hockey Hero • 🤠 Chestnut Springs • 💕 Years of Pining • 🫶 Emotional & Heartfelt
Characters: Jasper Gervais • Sloane Winthrop
🏒🤠💕🫶
Praise
Sara Cate | Salacious Players’ Club #1
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • Erotic Romance
Tropes: Age Gap • Ex-Boyfriend’s Dad • Boss/Employee • BDSM • Forbidden Romance
Vibes: 🔥 Filthy & Steamy • 🖤 Dominant & Possessive • 🎀 Praise Kink • 🤫 Forbidden Attraction
Characters: Emerson Grant • Charlotte “Charlie” Underwood
🧎♀️🎀🔥🖤
Reckless
Elsie Silver | Chestnut Springs #4
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • Western Romance
Tropes: Cowboy Romance • Surprise Pregnancy • One Night Stand • Forced Proximity • He Falls First • Single Mum
Vibes: 🤠 Small-Town Romance • 💕 Sweet & Steamy • 👶 Unexpected Family • 🫶 Protective Hero
Characters: Winter Hamilton • Theo Silva
🤠👶💕🔥
(The) Ritual
Shantel Tessier | L.O.R.D.S. #1
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 5/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Dark Romance • Romantic Suspense
Tropes: Secret Society • College Romance • Chosen One • Possessive/Jealous MMC • Morally Grey MMC
Vibes: 🖤 Dark & Twisted • 🕯️ Secret Society • 🩸 Power & Violence • 🔥 Obsession & Possession
Characters: Ryat Archer • Blakely Anderson
🕯️🖤🔐🔥
Rough
Renee Rose & Vanessa Vale | Wolf Ranch #1
⭐ 3/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Paranormal Romance • Shifter Romance • Western Romance
Tropes: Fated Mates • Wolf Shifter • Cowboy/Rodeo • Human x Shifter • Possessive Hero • Forced Proximity
Vibes: 🐺 Wolf Pack • 🤠 Rodeo Cowboy • 🔥 Hot & Possessive • 🏔️ Small-Town Montana
Characters: Boyd Wolf • Audrey
🐺🤠🩺🔥
Satan’s Affair
H.D. Carlton | Cat and Mouse #0.5
⭐ 3/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Dark Romance • Horror • Erotic Horror
Tropes: Reverse Harem • Morally Grey FMC • Vigilante Killer • Found Family
Vibes: 🎪 Twisted Carnival • 🩸 Bloody & Brutal • 🔪 Murder & Mayhem • 🖤 Dark & Disturbing
Characters: Sibby • Mortis • Cronus • Jackal • Bael • Timothy
🎪🔪🩸😈
Saving 6
Chloe Walsh | Boys of Tommen #3
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 3/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • New Adult
Tropes: Friends to Lovers • Childhood Friends • Slow Burn • He Falls First • Hurt/Comfort
Vibes: 💔 Emotional & Heavy • 🏡 Troubled Home Life • 🫶 Friendship & Loyalty • ❤️🩹 Healing & Hope
Characters: Joey Lynch • Aoife Molloy
💔🫶❤️🩹🏉
Scarred
Emily McIntire | Never After #2
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Dark Romance • Royal Romance
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers • Forbidden Love • Royal Romance • Love Triangle • Villain Gets the Girl
Vibes: 👑 Royal Intrigue • 🖤 Dark & Dangerous • ⚔️ Rebellion & Revenge • 🔥 Forbidden Desire
Characters: Tristan Faasa • Sara Beatreaux
👑🦁⚔️🖤
Scythe & Sparrow
Brynne Weaver | Ruinous Love #3
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Dark Romance • Romantic Comedy • Romantic Suspense
Tropes: Friends to Lovers • Forced Proximity • Friends with Benefits • Caretaking • Small Town
Vibes: 🔪 Murder & Mayhem • 🎪 Circus Life • 🩺 Sweet Small-Town Doctor • 🖤 Dark Humour
Characters: Rose Evans • Fionn Kane
🔪🎪🩺🖤
Seraphim Academy
Elizabeth Briggs | Seraphim Academy
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 5/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Paranormal Romance • Fantasy Romance
Tropes: Why Choose • Academy • Enemies to Lovers • Forbidden Romance • Professor/Student • Found Family
Vibes: 😈 Angels & Demons • 🪽 Celestial Academy • 🔥 Sinful & Spicy • 👑 Angel Royalty • 🗝️ Secrets & Mystery
Characters: Olivia • Callan • Marcus • Bastien • Cassiel
😈🪽🔥👑📚
Stolen Heir
Sophie Lark | Brutal Birthright #2
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 3/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Dark Romance • Mafia Romance
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers • Captor/Captive • Forced Proximity • Revenge • Beauty & the Beast Retelling
Vibes: 🩰 Ballerina & Mafia Boss • 🖤 Dark & Gothic • 🔥 Dangerous Attraction • 🥀 Beauty Meets the Beast
Characters: Nessa Griffin • Mikolaj Wilk
🩰🔪🥀🖤
Sugar Daddies
Jade West | Standalone
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 5/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • Erotic Romance
Tropes: MMF • Ménage • Age Gap • Sugar Daddies • Friends to Lovers • Forced Proximity
Vibes: 🌶️ Seriously Spicy • 💰 Sugar Baby Arrangement • 🖤 Unconventional Romance • 🔥 Lots of Chemistry
Characters: Katie • Carl • Rick
💰👩❤️💋👨🌶️🖤
Tempting Little Thief
Meagan Brandy | Girls of Greyson #1
⭐ Not Rated 🌶️ Not Rated Status: ❌ DNF
Genre: Dark Romance • New Adult Romance
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers • Bully Romance • Forced Proximity • Secrets & Lies
Vibes: 🖤 Dark & Messy • 💥 Tension & Drama • 🔥 Dangerous Attraction • 🎭 Secrets & Betrayal
Characters: Bastian Bishop • Rocklin Revenaw
🖤💥🎭📖
Tempting Little Thief
Kayvion Lewis | Thieves’ Gambit #1
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 0/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: YA • Thriller • Mystery • Adventure
Tropes: Heist Competition • Rivals to Lovers • Forced Proximity • Family Secrets • Who Can You Trust?
Vibes: 💎 High-Stakes Heists • 🕵️ Secrets & Deception • 🌍 Globe-Trotting Adventure • ♟️ Outsmarting the Competition
Characters: Rosalyn “Ross” Quest • Devroe Kenzie
💎🔐🃏✈️
Three Swedish Mountain Men
Lily Gold | Standalone
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • Why Choose Romance
Tropes: Why Choose • Forced Proximity • Snowed In • Close Proximity • Protective Heroes
Vibes: ❄️ Snowy Swedish Escape • 🏔️ Secluded Mountain Cabin • 🔥 Things Getting Very Hot Indoors • 🛡️ Protective Mountain Men
Characters: Daisy • Riven • Eli • Cole
❄️🏔️🔥👩❤️👨👨
Triple-Duty Bodyguards
Lily Gold | Standalone
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • Reverse Harem / Why Choose
Tropes: Bodyguard Romance • Why Choose • Forced Proximity • Celebrity Romance • Stalker/Suspense • Protective Heroes
Vibes: 🛡️ Protective Bodyguards • 🔥 Serious Chemistry • 💕 Found Family • 🎬 Celebrity Life • ⚠️ Danger & Suspense
Characters: Briar • Matt • Kenta • Glen
🎬🛡️🛡️🛡️❤️
Twisted
Emily McIntire | Never After #4
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 4/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Dark Romance • Contemporary Romance • Fairytale Retelling
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers • Arranged/Forced Marriage • Age Gap • Forced Proximity • Love Triangle • Touch Her and Die
Vibes: 💎 Wealth & Power • 🐍 Villain Gets the Girl • 💍 Twisted Marriage • 🔥 Hate-Fuelled Tension
Characters: Yasmin Karam • Julian Faraci
💎🐍💍🖤
Twisted Love
Ana Huang | Twisted #1
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 3/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • New Adult Romance
Tropes: Brother’s Best Friend • Grumpy/Sunshine • Forced Proximity • Possessive Hero • Opposites Attract
Vibes: 🖤 Morally Grey Hero • 🔥 Tension & Spice • 🥀 Secrets & Trauma • 💕 Protective & Possessive
Characters: Alex Volkov • Ava Chen
🖤📸🔥🔐
(The) Wolf King
Lauren Palphreyman | The Wolf King #1
⭐ 5/5 🌶️ 3/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Romantasy • Paranormal Romance
Tropes: Wolf Shifters • Enemies to Lovers • Forbidden Romance • Forced Proximity • Captive Heroine • Princess × Alpha
Vibes: 🐺 Wild & Dangerous • 👑 Royalty & Power • ⚔️ Humans vs Wolves • 🔥 Forbidden Attraction
Characters: Princess Aurora • Callum
🐺👑🔥⚔️
Wreck the Halls
Tessa Bailey | Standalone
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 3/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Contemporary Romance • Holiday Romance • Romantic Comedy
Tropes: Friends to Lovers • Forced Proximity • Celebrity Romance • Instant Connection • Holiday Romance
Vibes: 🎄 Christmas Countdown • 🎸 Rock-Star Legacy • 📺 Reality TV Chaos • 🔥 Steamy Chemistry • 💕 Friends-to-Lovers Energy
Characters: Melody Gallard • Beat Dawkins
🎄🎸📺💕🔥
Wretched
Emily McIntire | Never After #3
⭐ 4/5 🌶️ 3/5 Status: ✅ Read
Genre: Dark Romance • Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Villain Romance • Morally Grey FMC • Enemies to Lovers • Forbidden Romance • Crime Family • Cop × Criminal
Vibes: 🍏 Wickedly Dark • 🖤 Morally Grey • 🔥 Dangerous Attraction • 🌹 Villain Gets the Love Story
Characters: Evelina Westerly • Nicholas Woods
🍏🖤🔫🌹
📊 Shelf Stats
📚 Books Read
72
⭐ Average Rating
4.3
❤️ Most-read Genre
Romance
🌶️ Highest Spice Read
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
🎧 Most-Used Format
Paperback
📏 Longest book read
900 pages
💛 Current Favourite of All Time
The Wolf King Series — Lauren Palphreyman
🎧 Audiobooks & Everyday Life
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They keep me company while I’m cooking, baking, pottering around the house, travelling or getting through everyday jobs that feel much easier with a story playing in the background.
Audiobooks have become a huge part of my reading life, and I always rate the version I actually experienced.
If the narration, pacing or performance significantly changes the experience, I’ll mention that in the full review.
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