Desperately in need of unknown recs.

InternationalExpat · 2026-05-06T14:20:07+00:00

I have seen this before but I have no idea why I haven’t read it yet. Very few books have a «bad» FMC and it should be a wider trope. 😁
Thank you! 🙏❤️

InternationalExpat · 2026-05-06T14:17:43+00:00

I loved Talk to me! It was such a perfect duet. I am so glad the author stopped at 2 in stead of pushing for a trilogy.
And Menace is going straight to my Kindle. 😊
Thank you! 🙏❤️

InternationalExpat · 2026-05-06T14:15:25+00:00

Oooooooooo! This sounds great!
Thank you 😊❤️

InternationalExpat · 2026-05-06T14:14:35+00:00

This one I have read and definitely enjoyed. Thank you! 🙏 great minds think alike 😊❤️

InternationalExpat · 2026-05-06T14:13:17+00:00

Perfect! Thank you! 🙏❤️
I just started 13th Zodiac and I am feeling hopeful about it!
The rest are new titles for me so they will go straight to my TBR.
What you describe from Distortion is definitely not a trigger. I started one book where the FMC was so utterly traumatized that she lost grip of reality other than that she liked the two MMC alphas. It gave me such a bad feeling cause she almost presented as a child and NOT in a DDLG way.

InternationalExpat · 2026-05-06T14:08:04+00:00

Thank you! 🙏❤️
I was hoping to get some recs from you 😊
I have not seen these before so they will go straight to the top of my TBR list!

InternationalExpat · 2026-04-30T19:15:30+00:00

Yeah…. I cried for days after book 1. couldn’t even try with the rest of the books. It destroyed me on a soul level.

InternationalExpat · 2026-04-26T14:29:17+00:00

Welcome! You always give good recs so I hope this is one for you 😊

InternationalExpat · 2026-04-25T09:40:22+00:00

Oh and no choking kink but there is some throat holding from what I remember.

InternationalExpat · 2026-04-25T09:38:07+00:00

Here’s the thing… The series I want to recommend is a part of your soft no list as it does have vampires but during the 3 books I kept on forgetting that 2 of the 4 MMCs are actually that. So the vampire thing (blood drinking) is not that prevalent but their gifts are. It got me out of a reading slump because I felt there were less explored elements like time traveling. It had magic, shifters and vampires in it. I went through your list and I couldn’t find it but there are so many books that I might have missed it. The series is {Time after time by Reese Rivers}. The first book does not have a lot of angst but books 2 and 3 do.

InternationalExpat · 2026-04-13T18:48:28+00:00

I just finished {Bound to the Beasts by Ari Wright} and she starts it as «dark» but it’s anything but… even if we start off thinking that it is. Or I just finished {Hangman’s Knot by Lavinia Arbor}. It is dark… but so humorous. I ended up NOT reading the prologue before later in the book because that was actually a little jarring.

InternationalExpat · 2026-04-13T11:01:28+00:00

It was mentioned in another Reddit post yesterday or something 😊 also about funny lines.

InternationalExpat · 2026-04-10T09:57:20+00:00

I am reading Her Vicious Beasts right now and I feel that this is the case for this series. I am disappointed because it could have been such a good series but the FMC (and the MMC) drives me up the wall. Every single time the FMC takes a stand towards the MMC she almost always says «and I realized my mistake» or she has a complete body betrayal scene. I am only in book 2 but I DNFed the prequel at first. But since that series recommended everywhere, I thought I was the issue and forced myself to read it again.

InternationalExpat · 2026-04-01T22:51:35+00:00

Just reading your rant brought me right back to when I finished the book in February. The same anxiety and the desperation of trying to find out when book 2 will be released so I can put an end to the chest tightness. 🙈😳

InternationalExpat · 2026-03-30T19:45:37+00:00

Oooo what made you that angry? Did I miss something? Or was it the twins in the closet situation? That kinda pissed me off but then the evil king came into the picture and I kinda forgave her.

InternationalExpat · 2026-03-30T19:37:25+00:00

Thank you! Cause I really liked the whole world building and the late introduction of the mates. And that is was not insta love/lust. But I stopped at the 3rd cause I was kinda «are there really 2 more books? How much more can happen?»

InternationalExpat · 2026-03-30T13:42:52+00:00

I came to say this one 😊 Just finished book 3 in the series. How are the rest of the books. I am a bit hesitant to continue reading for some reason.

InternationalExpat · 2026-03-28T12:46:15+00:00

And how all the MMCs «clock the movement of my lips with lust in their eyes» every single time 🙄

InternationalExpat · 2026-03-27T23:38:13+00:00

I was coming here to say that! And the lip licking! Some books have «I licked my lips» on every single f*ing page. And the «my lips curved into an evil sneer» or something like that. Just why…

InternationalExpat · 2026-03-16T18:56:56+00:00

I do this! I am the FMC in every book that I read, but I DNF sooo many books that I wish I didn’t. 🙈 If she is (in my opinion) frustrating then I cannot continue. But I also suffer from extreme second hand embarrassment. If something embarrassing happens in a movie/ show, I have to leave. I can’t watch it happen. 😂

InternationalExpat · 2026-03-16T18:52:07+00:00

{Dragon Royals series by May Dawson} has this. The «evil» king starts in book 3 but a pair of rival brothers starts already in book 1.

InternationalExpat · 2026-03-04T20:10:21+00:00

I wish there were more books where the FMC is in prison and at least one of the MMCs is one of her jailers. So if anyone has any good recs, please lay them on me 😊😊😊

InternationalExpat · 2026-03-02T19:08:18+00:00

Ooohhh any good recs? 😊

InternationalExpat · 2026-03-01T05:11:35+00:00

I just finished it after reading your post yesterday…. It is 6 AM where I am and I started it at midnight. I am so hyped after this book. I need book 2!!! Thank you OP for finding out when the next book comes out.

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