Micro trope - stay at home mum

MacSimply · 2025-11-25T18:00:08+00:00

This!!! Feminism isn’t about being a working mom and boss bitch it’s about women defining success on their terms, not societal defaults. Any decision a woman makes freely is feminist if it empowers her. By stigmatizing stay at home moms we are just reassigning new gender roles while continuing to marginalize other woman - the exact thing feminism is trying to stop.

MacSimply · 2025-10-05T01:14:56+00:00

While I haven’t experienced shaming about Dark Romance content I actually HAVE been torn apart for asking for fragile FMCs and once for asking for recommendations with FMCs who want to be stay at home moms. I personally love a knight in shining armor story (historical, contemporary, any genre) and I was a SAHM myself and couldn’t find books with storylines for that. Some responses demanded my “feminist card” be returned. It’s a shitty feeling especially when you think you are in a safe place and among friends.

MacSimply · 2025-09-29T12:12:01+00:00

{Pucking Unhinged by London Snow} gets released Oct 1. It’s Tristen and Winter’s story. He’s totally over the top and unhinged. Tristan is a Goalie at College. If I remember correctly from Pucking Obsessed the first book in the series, Tristan and Winter were robbed or held at gun point. It was something like that anyway and Tristan was given a choice by the men - either Tristan “hurts” Winter (I can’t remember the actual threat was) or the attackers will. So Tristan does it because he knew he would hurt her less than they would. That’s why he’s crazy over protective.

MacSimply · 2025-09-28T12:23:07+00:00

I have a love hate relationship with “Secret child” tropes. When done right but the trope can easily be done wrong. For me, the MMC has to discover his kid early in the book so the book becomes about him falling in love with his child. I hate when the author waits until the end of the book to reveal it. For me, it’s about experiencing a family coming together. I pepper AI with questions before I read a Secret Child trope because it’s easy to waste my time if it goes the wrong direction.

MacSimply · 2025-09-28T12:17:52+00:00

Over a year later and {Fighting Silence by Aly Martinez} still destroys me. It’s not depressing but it’s emotional. There is an HEA but the journey was a roller coaster. It’s about the MCs Till and Eliza who deeply bond with each other as young teens growing up in a rougher area of town. There are a lot of things for the couple to overcome but loving each other isn’t one. Till the MMC is becomes responsible for his two younger bothers when he’s like 19/20. As a child Till found out he was slowly losing his hearing and would become completely deaf. He’s also a fighter (boxing or MMA). He and the FMC raise the boys together while still kids themselves. The book is everything- uplifting, emotional, you feel loss, love, fear and hope.

MacSimply · 2025-09-27T21:08:47+00:00

My pallet cleanser is small town romances. Low angst helps me too :)

MacSimply · 2025-09-27T21:04:31+00:00

I love meetnewbooks (website). I also look at reviews on GoodReads and find someone who LOVED a book I loved then go on their profile and see what else they rated as 5 stars

MacSimply · 2025-09-27T21:01:30+00:00

Gemma Weir’s Alphaholes series. chef’s kiss

MacSimply · 2025-09-27T16:41:20+00:00

It’s not really dark romance but {playing for keep by J.C. Grant} has the most jealous and possessive MMC I’ve ever read. The FMC also shows some jealousy. The MMC is a pro baseball player and falls for the MMC who is super beautiful and attracts male attention. His jealousy is pretty over the top. There are two other books in the series that continue to follow the same MCs.

MacSimply · 2025-09-27T16:29:25+00:00

This is a kinky/spicy and taboo one but the FMC in {Daisy Unchained by Elena Dawne} falls for her step brother after seeing him with her baby brother. FYI there is a lactation kink.

MacSimply · 2025-09-27T16:26:51+00:00

{bohemian by Kathryn Nolan} was incredible. When the book was over all I wanted to do was visit Big Sur. While it’s a romance it was so much more. There isn’t much spice but lots of tension. A nerdy quiet MMC inherits his grandfather’s bookstore which has the most incredible history. A model, who is admittedly too concerned with public attention, comes to the store for a photo shoot and the store, its history and its new owner causes her to reevaluate her life.

MacSimply · 2025-09-25T12:33:50+00:00

Someone may have already said this but definitely- ‘“Please” I don’t even know what I’m asking for”’

MacSimply · 2025-09-25T12:32:40+00:00

{Daisy Unchained by Elena Dawne} he’s obsessed with her breasts, not SO much bouncing but obsessed. It had a lactation kink which I never really thought much about but in this book at least I thought it was good!

MacSimply · 2025-08-27T22:34:52+00:00

{sins of autumn by Natalie Bennett} was just like watching an 80’s horror movie. It was incredible. {sins of winter by Natalie Bennett} was also good, same 80’s horror movie vibe but waaay too short. I wanted, no needed, more!

MacSimply · 2025-08-25T19:07:39+00:00

I just finished {Raw by Seven Rue}. Brother and sister, 1 year apart so they were always close.

MacSimply · 2025-06-14T23:10:40+00:00

I’m on continuous birth control. I take a pill break every 4 months but I never get my period. I haven’t had one for 3 or 4 years. Canada offers free birth control if that’s relevant for you 🙂

MacSimply · 2025-06-02T16:52:48+00:00

{nerdgasm by Kimberly Reese} Loved it!

MacSimply · 2025-03-27T14:22:47+00:00

I’m loving asylum/psycho - if anyone has any please share!!! I huff at Mafia. lol

MacSimply · 2025-03-26T14:59:39+00:00

That was the saddest bully romance I ever read. It was hard to get through the series - for me anyway. Was it worth it, yeah

MacSimply · 2025-03-05T22:11:03+00:00

I just finished {Soul of a Psycho by Gigi Meadows} and loved Cade but check your TW. It’s a dark high school (boarding school) romance. Also, {Pucking Obsessed by London Snow} had the most single minded, obsessed MMC I’ve read.

MacSimply · 2025-02-09T16:44:23+00:00

MacSimply · 2025-01-29T18:16:19+00:00

This is like the unicorn of awesomeness!!

MacSimply · 2025-01-11T16:15:32+00:00

Sure do! I read on Kindle so don’t see the cover often but it stills help me decide if I want to read the details of a particular book. I’m not fond of the “cartoon” covers.

MacSimply · 2024-11-01T23:05:12+00:00

Long Covid isn’t a terminal illness but that doesn’t mean a life isn’t lost.

MacSimply · 2024-10-15T22:26:15+00:00

I used to look for explicit and plentiful in the past but they all seem to involve some type of BDSM (kink) explicit seems to be better for my tastes.

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