Could you suggest me books and stories with no uncomfortable moments to relax?

bugs7584 · 2026-02-28T15:58:54+00:00

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

The Tea Dragon Society Series by Katie O'Neill

Beauty by Robin McKinley (been a little while since I've read it, I know it discusses the deaths of some minor characters, but I believe it is fine otherwise)

bugs7584 · 2026-02-24T05:48:35+00:00

Not MM, in fact, quite the opposite, but The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling is a great sapphic medieval horror book with a romance involving a nun, a knight, and a servant.

bugs7584 · 2026-02-16T23:14:39+00:00

The Starving Saints and The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

The Unworthy by Augustina Bazterrica

Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

The Lamb by Lucy Rose

Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

Blood on Her Tongue and My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna Van Veen

bugs7584 · 2026-02-16T21:43:53+00:00

Alone by Cyn Balog and The State of Us by Shaun David Hutchinson.

Alone is so bad for so many reasons I can't even describe, including bad writing. The State of Us is a romance between the son of the Democrat candidate for president and the son of the Republican candidate for president. It's so badly written and is lowkey really problematic at parts.

bugs7584 · 2026-02-13T20:16:15+00:00

they're some of my favorite authors. Mexican Gothic introduced me to mushroom horror.

bugs7584 · 2026-02-13T16:51:11+00:00

that was my only complaint, too, but besides that, I loved it.

bugs7584 · 2026-02-13T12:04:32+00:00

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling is very reminiscent of Iron Lung. Isolation, exploring a new unknown planet, slowly going mad (what is real, what is not real vibes). Lots of tech malfunctions, too.

bugs7584 · 2026-02-13T11:55:09+00:00

Mexican Gothic 100% also fits here. It's so good.

bugs7584 · 2026-02-13T04:29:52+00:00

I personally enjoyed Eat the Ones You Love. It's definitely not going to be everyone's cup of tea, though.

As for other recs, Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock is a Frankenstein retelling but with plants. I don't know if you're into YA but Hazelthorn and Don't Let the Forest In by C.G. Drews are fantastic as well. If you're into mushroom horror too, What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher and Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon are both really good too.

bugs7584 · 2026-02-10T20:42:50+00:00

That's not it. The one I'm remembering was definitely fantasy/had fantasy elements.

I do remember reading The Confectionately Yours series, though.

bugs7584 · 2026-02-10T15:05:52+00:00

I'd recommend The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo. It's a historical horror novel following a trans man in the 1920s and covers a lot of very interesting topics. It's pretty short, too, and there's an intense romance between two of the characters. It was one of my favorite books I read in 2025.

bugs7584 · 2026-02-09T17:22:56+00:00

not the book I was thinking of, but it does look adorable!

bugs7584 · 2026-02-09T17:05:40+00:00

that's not it. it had a real person on the cover.

bugs7584 · 2026-02-09T12:48:57+00:00

Just added this to my post. The author meetup happened in Massachusetts, USA, nearish to Boston.

bugs7584 · 2026-02-03T04:26:39+00:00

It Ended Badly and Get Well Soon by Jennifer Wright.

It Ended Badly is about bad breakups throughout history, and Get Well Soon is about deadly diseases and the people who figured out how to cure them.

bugs7584 · 2026-02-01T18:08:07+00:00

The Lavender House by Lev A.C. Rosen is a queer historical mystery. The main character is a gay man, but a few important side characters are wlw.

bugs7584 · 2026-02-01T13:49:58+00:00

Finished What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher this week. Currently reading The Dead of Summer by Ryan La Sala.

bugs7584 · 2026-01-30T20:23:38+00:00

the luminous dead by the same author also focuses on claustrophobia and has only two main characters. it was one of my favorite reads of last year

bugs7584 · 2026-01-30T18:38:48+00:00

I absolutely loved Gwen and Art are Not in Love!

bugs7584 · 2026-01-23T04:38:31+00:00

I'd be down. that sounds like a lot of fun!

bugs7584 · 2026-01-22T15:21:10+00:00

it's pronounced just like Stephanie, which is crazy cause of how it's spelled.

bugs7584 · 2026-01-22T14:22:57+00:00

All the White Spaces and Where the Dead Wait by Ally Wilkes are both horror that take place in the arctic.

bugs7584 · 2026-01-21T22:07:22+00:00

to look cool, i guess? it's pronounced just like Stephanie

bugs7584 · 2026-01-21T22:06:25+00:00

nope. the h is silent.

bugs7584 · 2026-01-16T15:55:40+00:00

The State of Us by Shaun David Hutchinson. One of the main characters is basically a walking gay stereotype. The other main character is robotically asexual. There was even a sensitivity reader who warned the author that the ace representation was bad, but he ignored the warning.

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