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Magic, Mayhem, & Mildly Inappropriate Books
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items You can always find me curled up with a cozy blanket and a book. I love any chance to escape into a new realm with magic, dragons, faeries and more, and if there's a love story, EVEN BETTER! These are some of my all time favs that I recommend to any ...
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Throne of Glass (TOG) 🌶️🌶️
The Empyrean Series 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
The Shepherd King Duology🌶️
The Kindred's Curse Saga 🌶️🌶️
A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Crowns of Nyaxia 🌶️🌶️
Throne of Glass (TOG) 🌶️🌶️
This series is my Roman Empire. I cannot get the plot, the characters, their journeys, out of my head. The characters in these books are complex with deep backgrounds and Sarah J. Maas takes you though it all. By book eight, you love them all for suc...
Celaena, an infamous assassin enslaved in the salt-mines, is plucked out to compete in a deadly contest in exchange for her freedom — but the contest conceals darker forces at work.
Book One: Throne of Glass
Having won the contest, Celaena becomes the King’s Champion — but she’s harboring secret motives, trying to dismantle the tyranny she now serves while wrestling with loyalty, identity, and love.
Book Two: Crown of Midnight
The series takes a darker turn: Celaena (now leaning into a new identity) travels to a foreign land to master her powers, confront her past, and determine her future in a world of fae, magic, and legacy.
Book Three: Heir of Fire
The rebellion ramps up in full: our heroine returns home, confronts enemies old and new, rallies allies, and stakes everything to reclaim her truth and fight for freedom.
Book Four: Queen of Shadows
Kingdoms collide and the scope grows: alliances break and form, magic surges, war looms, and the characters brace for everything they’ve built toward.
Book Five: Empire of Storms
A parallel narrative focusing on key supporting characters while the war rages elsewhere. It offers depth, healing, and more worldbuilding — expanding the series’ emotional and geographical map.
Book Six: Tower of Dawn
The finale: the ultimate confrontation, the culmination of characters’ arcs, sacrifices, redemption, and the fate of the world. It delivers the emotional payoff and epic resolution the series has been building toward.
Book Seven: Kingdom of Ash
This book was so good! You can read it either first or after Crown of Midnight, depending on whether you prefer a chronological or publication order. This book reveals the back-story of Celaena Sardothien before the events of the first novel: her tra...
The Assassin's Blade: The Throne of Glass Prequel Novellas
Amazon has a very cost efficient box set for all eight books of the Throne of Glass series!
Throne Of Glass Series Collection (8-Book Set)
The Empyrean Series 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
A fierce, high-stakes romantasy set at Basgiath War College, where dragon riders are forged through danger, betrayal, and passion. Expect a mix of brutal trials, sizzling chemistry, and emotional gut punches—all wrapped in a vividly built world of dr...
A scholar forced into the Rider’s Quadrant must survive brutal training and bond with a dragon while navigating lethal rivalries—and a magnetic, off-limits commander. Fast, fierce, and addictively romantic.
Fourth Wing 🌶️🌶️🌶️
It just gets better!
The battlefield widens as conspiracies surface, trust fractures, and power costs more than anyone planned; the romance deepens under pressure and higher stakes. It’s darker, more emotional, and even steamier than the first.
The battlefield widens as conspiracies surface, trust fractures, and power costs more than anyone planned; the romance deepens under pressure and higher stakes. It’s darker, more emotional, and even steamier than the first.
Iron Flame (Standard Edition) 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
War and political fallout crash into personal reckoning, forcing Violet and Xaden to confront consequences, shifting alliances, and what it really takes to win. Big reveals, bigger battles, and a relationship tested by duty and desire.
Onyx Storm (Standard Edition) 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
If you’re ready to dive into Basgiath War College, you can get all three books in a set off Amazon!
Fourth Wing Series 3 Book Set
The Shepherd King Duology🌶️
A hauntingly atmospheric gothic fantasy that blends dark magic, moral tension, and slow-burn romance. This duology immerses readers in a world where magic comes at a steep cost, and every choice blurs the line between monstrous and human. The romance...
An eerie and captivating tale set in a mist-shrouded kingdom cursed by its own magic. When Elspeth shares her mind with a mysterious entity known as the Nightmare, she’s drawn into a web of secrets, dark bargains, and forbidden alliances. The story b...
Book One: One Dark Window
A sweeping, emotional conclusion that raises the stakes and deepens the moral complexity of the world. With multiple perspectives and a focus on redemption, sacrifice, and power, it delivers a satisfying, shadowy finale. The romance continues to burn...
Book Two: Two Twisted Crowns
This duology is worth the commitment of a box set. It's so fast paced, that you'll with you had the second book at the ready!
The Shepherd King Duology Paperback Boxed Set
The Kindred's Curse Saga 🌶️🌶️
An epic romantasy set in a world where mortals are ruled by the divine “Descended” and one healer must risk everything to save her family—and all of mortalkind. Expect intense world-building, slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance, political intrigue, a...
Diem Bellator, a healer in a poor village, uncovers a dangerous secret about her past and is thrust into the ruthless world of Descended royalty and rebellion. She must navigate love, power, and politics while watching every move of the handsome heir...
Spark of the Everflame: Book 1 🌶️
The stakes rise as Diem receives a deadly gift that could change the world—but keeping it might cost her life. War looms, alliances shift, and the lines between enemies and love blur.
Glow of the Everflame: Book 2🌶️🌶️
With war now underway, Diem must pick a side—or risk being destroyed. As new threats emerge in the north and betrayals multiply, everything she’s built is on the line.
Heat of the Everflame: Book 3 🌶️🌶️
A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) 🌶️🌶️🌶️
This series reignited my love for reading and it will always live in my heart for sparking that passion again - each book got better and better.
Ths is a sweeping fae romantasy that starts as a Beauty and the Beast–inspired tale and evolves into a sprawling saga of love, power, and political intrigue across magical courts. The series grows darker, steamier, and more complex with each book—ble...
Huntress Feyre kills a fae wolf in the woods and is dragged into the Spring Court as punishment, discovering beauty, danger, and secrets that could destroy the world. A romantic fantasy with fairytale roots and a slow-burn love story.
Book One: A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) 🌶️🌶️
Feyre grapples with trauma and newfound power, while a darkly magnetic fae lord offers her freedom—and something far deeper. Emotionally rich, character-driven, and often cited as the best in the series.
Book Two: A Court of Mist and Fury 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
War erupts as Feyre and her allies fight to protect the mortal and fae realms, testing loyalty, love, and fate. Epic and romantic with a balance of heart and high fantasy.
Book Three: A Court of Wings and Ruin 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
A cozy holiday-style novella that bridges arcs and offers quiet moments of healing and found-family warmth. Light on plot, heavier on domestic vibes.
Book Four: A Court of Frost and Starlight 🌶️🌶️🌶️
The spiciest of all the books!
Told from Nesta’s perspective, this entry dives into trauma, redemption, and empowerment, paired with explosive chemistry between Nesta and Cassian. Gritty, emotional, and unapologetically spicy.
Told from Nesta’s perspective, this entry dives into trauma, redemption, and empowerment, paired with explosive chemistry between Nesta and Cassian. Gritty, emotional, and unapologetically spicy.
Book Five: A Court of Silver Flames 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
If you’re looking to read the full series, the Amazon box set is very cost efficient for all five books!
A Court of Thorns and Roses Paperback Box Set
Crowns of Nyaxia 🌶️🌶️
Set in a lush, brutal vampire-ruled world of gods, magic, and shifting power, this series weaves romance, betrayal, and epic stakes across multiple duologies. Each arc focuses on a different protagonist and vampire House (Night, Shadow, Blood) but th...
Human-raised-by-vampires Oraya enters the deadly Kejari tournament for a chance at power and survival, strikes a perilous alliance with rival vampire Raihn, and uncovers truths that turn her whole world upside down.
The Serpent & Wings of Night (Nightborn Duet, Book 1) 🌶️🌶️
Picking up in the aftermath of the tournament, Oraya must reclaim her kingdom while grappling with betrayal, identity, and the cost of power — and her relationship with Raihn is tested like never before.
The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King (Nightborn Duet, Book 2) 🌶️🌶️
A new protagonist, Mische, emerges: vampire-turned, outcast, and sent on a mission into darkness and underworld realms — her path collides with a reluctant prince and forces her to question who she has become.
The Songbird & the Heart of Stone (Shadowborn Duet, Book 1)
The second half of the Shadowborn Duet deepens the stakes: Mische and her allies must grapple with cosmic forces, divine bargains, revenge, and whether love can survive when everything’s complicit in destruction.
The Fallen & Kiss of Dusk (Shadowborn Duet, Book 2) 🌶️🌶️
Ready to go all in? Get the box set for the first three books of the series! So far, I've only seen the three book set and have not seen the fourth book included.
Crowns of Nyaxia Series 3 Books Set
The Legendborn Cycle 🌶️
A modern-fantasy reimagining of Arthurian legend set in the American South, where hidden magical orders, demons, and ancestral power collide with grief, identity, and heritage. The series follows Bree Matthews as she uncovers her legacy, fights secre...
This is a growing series, so there's more books to come from Tracey Deonn!
After her mother’s death, sixteen-year-old Bree infiltrates the secret magical society of the Legendborn at UNC-Chapel Hill, finding that her grief may be tied to forces far darker than she expected. A layered mix of Southern roots, ancestral magic, ...
Legendborn (Book 1 )🌶️
Bree has changed and the hidden war between demons and the Order accelerates. She must learn what her power and heritage truly mean while navigating betrayal, loyalty, and the cost of survival.
Bloodmarked (Book 2) 🌶️
Bree has turned her back on the Order and entered a dangerous pact that could cost everything she holds dear. With the Round Table fractured and new enemies rising, she faces not just external threats but the consequences of her own choices.
Oathbound (Book 3) 🌶️
If you're ready to go all in on Bree's journey you can save and get the box set with all three books!
The Legendborn Cycle Boxed Set: 3 Books
The Eating Woods 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
A dark, gothic romantasy steeped in horror, curses, and forbidden love. The series follows Maevyth, an outcast who ventures into a cursed forest and discovers a realm of monsters, magic, and a dangerously alluring immortal. Beautifully eerie and emot...
Shunned since birth, Maevyth Bronwick finally flees her hostile village into the dreaded forest known as the Eating Woods, only to discover a treacherous world of immortal mages, cursed assassins, and a magic that binds her fate in ways she never ima...
Anathema (Book 1) 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
In the haunting sequel, Maevyth and Zevander are drawn deeper into a world where eldritch magic is awakening, the forest is hungrier than ever, and the boundaries between life and death blur. As Maevyth unravels her past and Zevander battles a creepi...
Eldritch (Book 2) 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Other Fav Book Finds
These are some of my other favs that I love to share with fellow fantasy or romance lovers! Some of these are the first book to a growing series and the author has not yet released other books.
An absolute must read. Don't walk, RUN to get this book!
The Song of Achilles 🌶️🌶️
This is the first book of an actively growing series and it is SO good! The plot, the dragons, the romance - I could not put this down!
When the Moon Hatched (Book 1) 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Thief Saeris Fane survives in a sun-baked desert wasteland where water is life and she steals to survive — until one heist draws her into a world of fae, alchemy, and dangerous power she didn’t know she held. Amid politics, magic and betrayal, she me...
Quicksilver (Book 1) 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️