Completely ridiculous but there were werewolves #romantsy #monsters #scarathlon #teamstoker @TheReadingMermaid

Rich British doctor falls for mousy tea shop owner. Full of Betty Neels hallmarks including horrible relatives, a competing love interest, pets, food and a late dawning realization due to lack of communication. Written in 1994 but feels much earlier. #comfortread #romantsy #Harlequin

Best friends and books. Standing in line #selfie while waiting to meet Tessa Dare.

I totally gushed all over Tessa Dare as I fangirled over meeting her and hearing her read. I love her books especially the road trip in Spinster Cove series & the Castles books. She was lovely & seemed to enjoy my gushing. #romantsy #historicalromance #regency

I had great fun meeting Teri Wilson & listening to her read from The Accidental Beauty Queen. Her #Hallmark movie Northern Lights of Christmas is showing again on Movies & Mysteries this week so I‘m off to DVR in a minute. #romantsy #romcom

not in the database. This was epic rich people family saga drama mixed with daddy kink #romantsy I‘ve always loved soap operas & family epics. This has a side of that while focusing on the romantic pairing. I loved it & anticipate reading her entire backlist. I‘ll have to space it out to enjoy the goodness. I adored precious Quinn & Ellis is much more vulnerable than you usually see in a daddy kink dynamic story ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #kindleunlimited

Book 3. Not in database. Series is starting to gel & plotting is improving. 👻👻👻👻 #romantsy #kindleunlimited #ghosts #teamstoker #scarathlon @TheReadingMermaid

Book 2. Not in database. Big bad still fairly obvious rest of story made up for it. Wrapped the crime storyline but ended with a cliffhanger in the ongoing story. 👻👻👻👻 #romantsy #kindleunlimited #ghosts #teamstoker #scarathlon @TheReadingMermaid

Chocolate candy, vampires, neither but if I must picky scary movie, skeletons, Trick or treat, corn maze, funny costume, pumpkin pie, bottle feed baby zombie, black cats, pumpkin spice, neighborhood @TheReadingMermaid #teamstoker #scarathlon

Book 1 in series. Not in database. Cold case detective and psychic team up to solve missing persons case involving 5yo boy. The big bad was super predictable but I enjoyed the book & liked Ronan & Ten enough to keep reading. 👻👻👻1/2 #ghosts #teamstoker #scarathalon @TheReadingMermaid #kindleunlimited #romantsy

👻👻👻👻 I loved the #Victorian #gothic homage tone of the book but the usage of the 4 #ghost stories written by the great grandmother didn‘t totally work for me. While The Revenant tied into the plot, the other stories made the overall story disjointed. My other quibble is Gerard is in the too stupid to live category of main characters. It‘s an open ending but I assume he died due to STUPIDITY. #scarathlon #teamstoker @TheReadingMermaid

Halloween decor is literary at my house. #raven #chillingphotochallenge #scarathlon #teamstoker @TheReadingMermaid

👻👻👻👻 Lame cover but entertaining read. Medium and skeptic professor meet while filming a #ghost hunting reality show. The #romantsy is more of a side plot to the mystery of what happened to the ghosts. #scarathlon #teamstoker @TheReadingMermaid #kindleunlimited

Loved the books, liked the show until it got too ridiculous during season 5. My favorite #vampire is Eric because blonde Viking...what‘s not to love? #chillingphotochallenge #scarathlon #teamstoker @TheReadingMermaid

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I waited a good 6 months on my library hold so I had to read it nearly immediately. I loved the Cornish setting & folklore. Stoker & Veronica were delightful as always. Side bonus was the #ghost story. #scarathlon #teamstoker @TheReadingMermaid

Where a character dies for scaryscavengerhunt & #halloween for #scarathlon #teamstoker @TheReadingMermaid - I was not quite satisfied with the denouement

I‘m not a big #horror reader but I liked Carrie when I read it several years ago. #chillingphotochallenge #teamstoker #scarathlon @TheReadingMermaid

There were some holes in the world building in this #vampire #romantsy but there was much #blood. #scaryscavengerhunt #scarathlon #teamstoker @TheReadingMermaid #kindleunlimited

Not particularly memorable and sadly there was no #blood when the bully was defeated. But the main turning point of the #romantsy story line takes place at #Halloween party & there are pumpkins on the cover. #scaryscavengerhunt #scarathlon #teamstoker @TheReadingMermaid

Where‘s tornadoes? When I was around 4, I had two recurring nightmares. One was about snakes, the other was about tornadoes. #scarathlon #teamstoker @TheReadingMermaid

All the best Stephanie Plum books have scenes with Grandma Mazur at funerals & trying to look in #coffins if they‘re closed. #chillingphotochallenge #scarathlon #teamstoker @TheReadingMermaid

I remember very little about this other than I liked it when I read it and there was a #spell book involved. Photo cred Home is Where the Boat Is blog #chillingbookchallenge #scarathlon #teamstoker @TheReadingMermaid

#chillingphotochallenge #scarathlon #teamstoker @TheReadingMermaid

My library has had a few rough months with protestors and city council shutting down things like drag queen story hour, an author visit by a trans YA author, and discontinuing public rentals of the meeting rooms. But the library staff keep trying. Several of the banned books on this display are LGBTQ books. #librarylove #bannedbooksweek

This started as a serial for Neve‘s newsletter subscribers and was later put out as a book on #kindle unlimited. Now there is an audio book too. It‘s about two roommates who hookup & then have an obsessive secret thing that becomes THE thing. #romantsy ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Enemies to lovers is my fave #romantsy trope. This had great premise and good characters. But the relationship development and plot resolution was rushed so the execution didn‘t hold up to the premise. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

There was some good stuff in here but the book droned on forever about the history of Pixar. It was weak on the subtitle topic of overcoming forces that stand in the way of inspiration too. I skimmed the last 40% of the book.

I was expecting a #romcom from the title and cover but it wasn‘t that kind of a story. It was more serious and a look at dating with trust issues and the #metoo movement. Good stuff but I‘m ready for some laughs now. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ #romantsy

Good premise but weak execution. I liked the noir tone of the book but it was stronger in the 1st half of the book. The plot pacing wasn‘t great. I almost bailed at 25% because nothing was happening. All the real action happens in the last 20%. I didn‘t hate it but I probably won‘t read any more DeMille.

I loved Albert‘s Out of Uniform series but this was very “meh” to me. There wasn‘t anything wrong with it but it didn‘t really do anything for me either. #romantsy ✈️✈️✈️

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“I hated him until I didn‘t?” Hilarious #romcom. There were a few too coincidental incidents in the plot set up but mostly this was ridiculously funny. I do so love it when they hate each other. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ #romantsy

Finally got my turn at the Armie Hammer narration from the library. Third time was the charm as far as avoiding the ugly cry but it was close at the end. I‘m a little obsessed with this story ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Cute quick #romcom. Nothing unique or unusual here but it was fun & I enjoyed it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #romantsy

Quick & entertaining. Typical Evanovich fare except her son finally gets writing credit after ghost writing for who knows how long. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Bass Concert Hall, UT Austin. Almost showtime. I‘m so excited!

💙💙💙💙 I really liked this. The characters are multidimensional including the parents. So much of YA has absent/terrible parents & this isn‘t like that. The kids aren‘t perfect & do some stupid stuff. It‘s hard to read about how Sebastian grapples with who he is and how that affects his place in his family and his community. The ending is unrealistic and kind of weak or this would be five ⭐️. #romantsy

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️A solid follow up to the first book. Bianca is #badass & holy cliffhanger. Hopefully my hold for book 3 won‘t really take 6 months.

I loved the beginning & middle of this. The meet cute, the snark & banter. But when they got together it didn‘t live up to the buildup. The 🔥 was missing and the dark moment & his subsequent weird behavior almost made me bail. Meh. #romantsy

❤️💛💚💙💜 I loved this so hard. It‘s all my fave things. Enemies to lovers, snarky banter, ridiculously embarrassing incidents, Texas, politics and royals. Alex & Henry are adorable & surely someone will make a movie. I am so there for that when it happens. #romantsy

Not in database. Cornell is injured in accident that kills his best friend. Unbeknownst to him, the best friend‘s son, Rhys, has had a torch for him for years. Cornell moves in with Rhys temporarily because he needs care & it turns out Rhys is just the Daddy he needs. This could have been an ick factor story but Nora is so good that it‘s not. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ #kindleunlimited #romantsy

I read this series out of order & had put this one off because Dylan was annoying in other books. He‘s much more likable in this. Definitely not my fave of the series but I liked it. #romantsy

It would have been a stronger finish without the last 1.5 chapters but I understand why she didn‘t end it there. I ugly cried through several parts of this one. #romantsy 👑👑👑👑

Book 2 of King Arthur retelling with references to Achilles & Patroclus and The Little Prince. This was set in a mostly accurate world with a fictional enemy. She took liberties with the order of Presidential succession which I didn‘t care for simply because it didn‘t mesh with the rest of the world building and felt lazy. High level of angst and drama. 👑👑👑👑 #romantsy

I put off reading this because I didn‘t think I would like it. I was wrong. But I‘m glad I waited until trilogy was done because the cliffhangers would have ticked me off. This King Arthur retelling starts a little slow but then BAM! This makes me think of soap operas and 80s era bodice rippers and epic sagas. 👑👑👑👑#romantsy

Two boys who grew up in a polygamist cult join the outside world after one is thrown out and the other runs away to join him. Great premise but the execution could have been a lot less fluffy. ❤️❤️❤️#romansty

Not as good as book 1 but still plenty of soap opera angst & #crazysauce ❤️❤️❤️❤️ #romantsy

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ This is just the kind of soap opera drama I love. This would make a great Netflix series. Love the angst, love the #crazysauce #romantsy

This had more emotional depth than I anticipated but was way too coincidental in the plotting. #romantsy

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️. Shades of You‘ve Got Mail. Frat brothers don‘t realize they are messaging each other on hookup app. I really liked this one. It wasn‘t #Wesmie good but it would be hard to match that level of awesomeness. #romantsy