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Title   -  The Starburst Effect Author   - Kelly Oram Genre(s)   -  Romance Publishing Date  - June 20th  Trope(s)    Disability Rep (Aphasia or Language Disorder / Brain Damage) Slow-burn Enemies to Lovers  Kind of Forced Proximity Overall Ratings  -   ☆☆☆☆ ☆ ✦ﾟ━━━━━━━・❦・━━━━━━━ﾟ✦ SYNOPSIS Lily Rosemont lives next door to the biggest jerk in high school. Noah Trask has bullied Lily for years, and now he’s ruined her senior year by making her a target and turning the whole school against her. On top of that, her parents are getting divorced, and her world is falling apart around her. After an accident on the football field leaves Noah with a traumatic brain injury, shattering his life as he knew it and leaving him with a whole heap of new disabilities, he’s no longer at the top of the high school food chain. In fact, he’s right down at the bottom with Lily. In a cruel twist of fate, if Noah wants to graduate high school on time, he needs Lily’s help to complete a project—a book he want

Title   - The Book of Azrael Author  - Amber Nicole Genre(s)    - Fantasy, Romance Trope(s)     Villain FMC One Bed trope Enemies to Lovers  Slow-burn  Forced Proximity  Overall Ratings  -  ☆☆☆☆ ✦ﾟ━━━━━━━・❦・━━━━━━━ﾟ✦ SYNOPSIS World Ender meets Ender of Worlds... A thousand years ago, Dianna gave up her life in the deserts of Erioa to save her dying sister. She called upon anyone who would listen, not expecting a monster far worse than any nightmare to answer. Now she does what Kaden asks, even if that means securing an ancient relic from the very creatures that hunt her.  A King thought long dead and long forgotten. In the old world his name was Samkiel. In the new world it is Liam, but one title remains true throughout time. He is the World Ender, a myth to his enemies, a savior and King to those loyal to him. After the Gods War, he locked himself away, hiding from the world. He denied his crown and responsibilities, leaving the very ones who needed him most to deal with the fallout o

Title  - My Mechanical Romance  Author  - Alexene Farol Follmuth Genre(s)   - Romance Trope(s)   - Academic Rivals to friends to lovers, Diversity, Women in STEM, POC  Release Date   - 31st May 2022 Overall Ratings  - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐  ✦ﾟ━━━━━━━・❦・━━━━━━━ﾟ✦ SYNOPSIS Nerds are so hot. Especially battle robot building nerds. Bel would rather die than think about the future. College apps? You’re funny. Extracurriculars? Not a chance. But when she accidentally reveals a talent for engineering at school, she’s basically forced into joining the robotics club. Even worse? All the boys ignore Bel—and Neelam, the only other girl on the team, doesn't seem to like her either. Enter Mateo Luna, captain of the club, who recognizes Bel as a potential asset—until they start butting heads. Bel doesn’t care about Nationals, while Teo cares too much. But as the nights of after-school work grow longer and longer, Bel and Teo realize they've built more than just a combat-ready robot for the championship: the

Title  - Twisted Hate Series   - Twisted  series Author  - Ana Huang Genre(s)   - Romance Trope(s)   - Enemies to Lovers, One Bed Trope, Enemies with Benefits, Forced Proximity, Best Friend's Brother, Interracial couple Trigger Warnings  - Abusive Parents, Death of Parent, Death of a minor (small scene), sexual harassment, stalking Release Date   - 27th January 2022 Overall Ratings  - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐  ✦ﾟ━━━━━━━・❦・━━━━━━━ﾟ✦ SYNOPSIS He hates her...almost as much as he wants her. Gorgeous, cocky, and fast on his way to becoming a hotshot doctor, Josh Chen has never met a woman he couldn't charm—except for Jules f**king Ambrose. The beautiful redhead has been a thorn in his side since they met, but she also consumes his thoughts in a way no woman ever has. When their animosity explodes into one unforgettable night, he proposes a solution that'll get her out of his system once and for all: an enemies with benefits arrangement with simple rules. No jealousy. No strings attached. And absol

Publishing Date  - 7th June 2022 Author  - Lindsay MacMillan Genre  -  Romance Trigger Warning  -  Depression, Toxic Relationship  Ratings  -  ⭐️⭐️ | Goodreads | Barnes and Nobles |  ✦ﾟ━━━━━━━・❦・━━━━━━━ﾟ✦    SYNOPSIS The young investment banker is tired of being single in New York City. Deep into a quarter-life crisis, she's overwhelmed by all the external pressure to rise the corporate and romantic ladders at the same time. Feeling the biological clock ticking, she vows to close the deal on locking in a husband before her 30th birthday. The Manhattan dating scene has as many ups and downs as the stock market and leaves Rae exhausted from late nights formatting spreadsheets at the office, followed by even later nights reciting her resume to strangers at over-crowded bars. She considers throwing in the towel, but her friends come to the rescue, continually boosting her up with ice cream and cheap wine that they share in their sixth-floor walk-up. Rae soldiers on until she meets Dust

  Publishing Date - 1 November 2021  Author - M.L Blackbird  Genres - Urban Fantasy   Potential Trigger Warnings - Violence, Death.

SYNOPSIS:  A year ago, tragedy shattered Mazey’s life into pieces. Since then, she’s been scrambling to try to fit those pieces back together but keeps feeling like she’s missing something... until she moves back home and sees Phoenix again for the first time in a long time. With him, she feels like everything is okay, like she might be able to start healing. But how can she start healing when the past won’t stop haunting her? RELEASE DATE: 9th February 2021 ( Pre-ordering starts from 9th Jan. 2021) GENRE:   Contemporary Romance, New Adult Ciara Fineman’s debut novel “Life 2.0”, releasing February 9th, 2021, was an exciting and extremely informative journey, one that will pave the path for years to come! Hopefully, you’ll love all the parts and pieces of Ciara that she put into this book. Fortunately, I got to talk to Ciara and learn more about her and unique details about her writing process and behind-the-scenes of Life 2.0. Q. How did you get into writing? I originally got into writ