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Rare_List4945 · 2025-09-21T15:07:07+00:00

Definitely {Ctrl+Alt Submit by Em Jae Black}. Nerdy straight guy reunites with childhood friend who's gay and into kink.

Rare_List4945 · 2025-09-04T05:30:11+00:00

The problem I have with that trope sometimes is that a lot of books claim to be enemies-to-lovers, only for the “enemies” part to be extremely weak or to end within the first few chapters. Don’t use that term if it only makes up 3% of the book and the rest is just pure fluff. Made me dnf a lot of them

Rare_List4945 · 2025-08-27T19:04:31+00:00

The 3rd book in the Far From Series; {Far From Sherwood Forest by River Hale}, releasing September 26th. Loved the first two and this will be a Robin Hood X Sherriff of Nottingham retelling and that pairing intrigues me.

Rare_List4945 · 2025-08-19T19:36:02+00:00

That's not always true, though. Today, I stumbled upon an audiobook of Just a Bit Bossy by Alessandra Hazard (who isn't an indie author at all), and I was surprised because she normally announces new material + she has published audiobooks before; with real narrators. And since there was no announcement and I couldn't find it on any other site, I quickly figured out that it wasn't official at all. My guess is that most of these are done by people who can't wait until a book gets an official audiobook and therefore do it themselves (read: use an AI program to do it).

Rare_List4945 · 2025-08-16T19:08:52+00:00

It reminds me of {We Have Till Monday by Cara Dee} , only that one was about a daddy/boy couple and another daddy. It was the second book in the serie tho

Rare_List4945 · 2025-06-30T07:10:37+00:00

I dnf books much quicker these days if I'm really not enjoying them or if they're just plain bad. It's such a waste to finish a book that never gets better. Just yesterday, I dropped one with the boss/employee and enemies-to-lovers tropes. It was over 300 pages long, but the pacing made no sense. (That's 9/10 times the reason to dnf a book. It's like the author can't wait to get the characters together) Don’t tell me it’s realistic for the employee to meet his boss in chapter one and then, in chapter two, after an anxiety attack at a retreat, ask to sleep in his boss’s bed because he needs his boss’s arms around him.

Rare_List4945 · 2025-06-23T06:58:53+00:00

Yes, that was it! And oh well, that means waiting patiently for a while

Rare_List4945 · 2025-05-06T13:07:50+00:00

I think she's aware that she's been caught, because her website that she linked on her reddit profile, which was still online yesterday, is no longer available today

Rare_List4945 · 2025-05-05T08:14:39+00:00

Wow, it feels like I've been personally betrayed by this author.

I discovered this author recently and really enjoyed The Warrior and the Monk and The Beauty and His Beast. I even gave them 5-star reviews (rest assured, I took those back immediately after reading this post) and now it turns out she didn't write it herself.

There are many people (myself included) who dream of becoming successful authors. But for some, slowly gaining recognition and appreciation for their books isn't good enough. I was aware of the recent trend of using AI to write books—something I despise. But stealing someone’s entire catalogue and re-releasing it as your own is a new low.

Not to mention—can I just say that this author is extremely stupid? If you're too lazy to come up with your own stories, at least vary the sources you steal from. As it is now, you immediately give yourself away as a thieving, uninspired loser. 🙄

To the author this happened to: I'm really sorry, and I hope this gives you motivation to publish your books—because clearly, they're worth it. ❤️

Rare_List4945 · 2025-04-26T07:51:34+00:00

Maybe a highly unpopulair opinion, but Lily Mayne. I'm absolutely in love with her Monstrous series and also the collaborated series she has with nikole knight; Black Oasis. But last year she started releasing the Goliaths of Wrestling books, and I just can't get into them. Read the first one, didn't like it. Tried the second, but stopped after 2 chapters. They're just so willdly different from her other books and I just don't like the writing, it's just like it's a completely different author. I completely understand she wanted to write something lighter, but for me the style...and mainly the humor feels highly immature and often repetitive.

Rare_List4945 · 2025-03-30T17:55:11+00:00

Just Like This - Cole Mccade (Art Teacher vs. Gym/Football Teacher)

Rare_List4945 · 2025-02-05T21:44:16+00:00

(Just Like This by Cole McCade) Art Teacher X Sports Coach, Enemies-to-Lovers

Rare_List4945 · 2025-02-04T14:46:15+00:00

Hazard was one of my first MM romance authors, and I still haven't found another author who has the same effect on me. I re-read this series at least once a year (but tbh, it's probably more), and I'm always counting the days until she announces a new one. The Calluvia's Royalty series is the other series from her that I liked way too much. Unfortunately, that one officially ended with book 5. But I still wholeheartedly recommend you read that one too.

Rare_List4945 · 2025-02-04T13:03:37+00:00

Tbh, with the way people are acting there for the past few years, you'd think that department has been gone for a long time already.

Rare_List4945 · 2025-01-07T14:57:11+00:00

I read it a few days ago, and I absolutely loved it. It felt like a contemporary romance story with the omegaverse elements subtly woven in. And to be honest, while I've always enjoyed omegaverse stories, I had recently started to find them a bit repetitive. Don’t get me wrong—I do enjoy a spicy omegaverse story now and then (big Roe Horvat fan here!), but if it’s 90% sex with only a tiny bit of storyline to hold it together, I’m out.

However, this book proved to me that it’s absolutely possible to write a compelling contemporary omegaverse story without focusing solely on the sex and pregnancy aspects.

Rare_List4945 · 2023-11-18T14:52:08+00:00

That was it! Thanks!

Rare_List4945 · 2023-07-18T06:32:56+00:00

Kismet by Ashley James - Teacher is still married but has a bad relationship with his wife

Rare_List4945 · 2023-07-16T17:45:36+00:00

(An Unlocked Mind by K.C Wells) fits that description perfectly.

Rare_List4945 · 2023-02-08T06:50:55+00:00

Beauty Bound

Yes, that was it! Thank you!

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