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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Feels weird to already be on my second grim reaper romance of the year. BUT I’m really enjoying it, so whatever. CR: Love Your to Death by Jenna Levine 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There’s nothing I want more today than to not go to work and just keep sitting here reading. CR: Entities to Lovers by Mallory Marlowe 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Finally got to Threshing Day… It was nice, but is this really what everybody was all excited for? 💙📚🌶️

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In the end, a really sweet novel. Not as much magical realism as I expected, but it felt just right for the story. I always enjoy Kate Robb’s writing and her unique take on the romance genre.

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Starting my Sunday well with a mug of pumpkin espresso and Solar Eclipse of the Heart by Kate Robb 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just finished: Free Falling by Lyla Sage Some refreshing moments that made it not-your-regular fake dating. Plus really sweet and non-spooky for a ghost story. My brain did too much the last few days (traveling for work) and this was a fantastic escape. 💙📚🌶️

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For October, I’m trying to hold off and not start holiday books. Thus, my most anticipated list for the new month: • Entities to Lovers by Mallory Marlowe • Once, Again, Always by Amanda Gayle • A Court of Splintered Harmony by Sarah J Maas 💙📚🌶️

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

September had a couple of absolute bangers. I love that point of fall thats just full of new releases. My faves from Sept: • Love Felt Like This by Julie Olivia • Grim Tidings by BK Borison • Doomsdate by Laura Piper Lee • The Dark Lord’s Guide to Honeymooning by Tiffany Hunt 💙📚🌶️

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Now reading A Study in Sparkling 🍷 and I’ve just gotta say… this book is *so* horny. Not super smutty, just, good heavens. I think part of it is the stream-of-consciousness writing style. It makes you feel like you’re in their brain. 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m not big on historical romance, but when you add some fantasy/magic, I’m all in. Happy pub date to Spellstruck! This cute, fun roaring 20s romance set in an England full of magic totally broke me out of a reading slump earlier this month. 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I absolutely ripped through this audiobook. A similar writing style to her book Yes, Chef, and really just a fun, cute story. No complications, a nice easy listen. Shout out to it to Hoopla for getting the books Libby doesn’t (I don’t get the rules 🤷‍♀️). 💙📚🌶️📚🎧

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It was perfection. I laughed, I swooned, I cried (literally). It’s nice to find those books that just suck you in and make you feel. Now, I’ve stayed up way too late needing to know the ending. Off to bed! 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sitting here reading, and I just can help it. I just keep smiling. 35% into Love Felt Like This 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ahhh that would make sense. It’s definitely a fun surprise!

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Now there’s a spicy meatball… I just got a #NetGalley widget for a book that previously rejected me. What? But thanks! But what?? 💙📚

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I know it’s only September, but it’s time to start asking the important question: How early is too early for holiday books? 🎅 Start too soon, and I’ll run out before December. Too late, and I’ll still be reading them in Jan. 💙📚🌶️

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In the end, not my favorite Sarah Adler. I was more invested in the B plot (early 20th century ornithologist finds bird and love) than the A plot (main characters now). But it really started with a bang.

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A Map to Murder comes out this week! I’m not a huge mystery reader, but this was a fun little jaunt to ‘60s San Francisco that made for a quick read. 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wild Goose Chase was one of the books I was most excited about for July, but I just didn’t get to it (I’ve been behind on all my reading). Now (in Sept 🤦‍♀️) I cracked the cover. I’m 10% in and all I can think is “fuck yeah” and “whyyyyyyy did I wait so long.” 💙📚🌶️

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I firmly believe there’s a place for Hallmark-y romance books. Curled up with this little (metaphorical) cup of hot apple cider … ideal for a lazy evening. Just finished: Fall into Place by Kristyn J Miller 💙📚🌶️

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Finished it. What an absolute delight. It was weird as hell, funny as all get out. I was so absolutely charmed by this bizarre doomsday prepper-meets-film professor romance. Took me out of a tired slump.

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Exhausted from a conference all week but this book got me through the flight home. A zombiepocalypse romance? Why the hell not. 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Fallow: • Am I glad I read it? Yes. • Can I shut up about it? No. • Did I like it? Really not sure. 💙📚 #netgalley

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Spent the weekend with Grim Tidings 💜 Heartbreakingly beautiful. I’m hoping for more from this world of spirits and ghosts. 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Stayed up too late to finish this book last night, but it was worth it. This felt like the *longest* week at work, and coming back to this villain-y whimsical romp made it better. 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Currently reading: A Dark Lord’s Guide to Honeymooning (And Other Acts of Tyranny) Oh boy did I forget how much I enjoyed the first book in this series. Cheers to villainous nonsense 🥂 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Okay, it’s official, I’m going full autumn. And I’ve spent Labor Day weekend really ringing in the new season. This was a sweet witchy read and way more emotional than I expected. (With All My Haunted heart releases tomorrow 🙌) 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Not a DnD girl, but this was a tremendously enjoyable rom com. Another in my series of “requested it for the cover, read it for the story” books. 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Starting witchy season early….. Cute, easy, feels like fall. 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

With all of Laurie Gilmore’s past Hallmark-style rom coms, I really didn’t know what to expect from this one. Turns out, she can write a fun little paranormal romance, too. (And dark? But not THAT dark.) 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Happy pub day to this weird, funny read, I Hope This Email Finds You In Hell by Mackenzie Reed. I’m not sure what I expected from this book, but I had such a good time reading it. I could not be less surprised that the HQ of Hell is beneath Silicon Valley. 💙📚🌶️

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This month is going to be utter insanity, but I am SO ready for the books coming out in Sept. Most anticipated books: • Love Felt Like This by Julie Olivia • A Dark Lord’s Guide to Honeymooning by Tiffany Hunt • If Not You by Ellen O’Clover • Grim Tidings by B.K. Borison 💙📚🌶️

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This month I read way fewer books but much longer books (thanks, Dungeon Crawler Carl series). Still, my favorite reads in August: • Lost and Found by Tarah DeWitt • You’ll be the Death of Me by Holly Michelle • Foxx by Paisley Hope 💙📚🌶️

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I was really craving a read that was sweet and uncomplicated, and The Pumpkin Bride hit the spot. Is it Shrek fan fiction? Maybe. But was it a balm for the soul? Yes. Comes out this week! #netgalley 💙📚🌶️📚🎧

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Currently reading a romcom and the FMC literally just said, word for word, “I’m not like other women.” Can the book come back from this? IDK. Might be a DNF. 💙📚🌶️

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Starting DCC #8, A Parade of Horribles. I can’t remember the last series that absolutely consumed me like this. It’s such a warm and fuzzy feeling. 💙📚🪐

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Ever have those books where you finish and you’re like “damn, should I be in therapy because I liked that??” Exactly how I felt finishing Foxx by Paisley Hope. A total auto-read author but still, that was messed up. 💙📚🌶️

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

T-1 workday until a long weekend camping! What book(s) to bring? I’ll either pretend I’m finally going to tackle my library backlog (👋 to the 4 overdue books forcing my kindle to stay in airplane mode) or just accept the fact that it’s going to be Dungeon Crawler Carl 6. 💙📚

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Is time travel/parallel universe travel sci-fi or magical realism? Idk what genre to call this, but I had such a fun time reading. This was my first Bridget Morrissey, but it won’t be my last. Happy release week to In What World! 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I’m such a Holly Michelle/Holly James fan and this was a perfect summer read. There’s something about magical realism that hits the spot for me. Happy release week to You’ll Be The Death of Me 💕 (Also look at this freaking *gorgeous* cover) 💙📚🌶️

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I feel like Meg Cabot deserves an award for being the (only?) currently writing author I loved as a pre-teen and still really like as an adult. The new Witches of West Harbor installment comes out this week and it’s absolutely charming 🧡 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My overdue library books (thank you, airplane mode) are forcing Shelf Control to make some wildly unrealistic demands 🙈 Could anyone, ever? 💙📚

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Not the best book in the Spunes series, but a damn good book. This one really ripped my heart out and stomped on it (in a good way). Happy publishing day to Lost and Found! 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Updates: 1) 8 weeks turned out to be far less than 8 weeks (Libby… what?? Are you OK? Do you know how numbers work?) 2) Book 3 was a bit much on the trains but it felt like a much more cohesive plot than #2 3) Now a few chapters deep in #4. No restraint! I’m obsessed! 💙📚🪐

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Hello, August 👋 I’m not ready for summer to end but I’m very ready for all of the fall books. My most anticipated book list for the month: • Lost and Found by Tarah DeWitt • Let’s Kiss and Tell by Joss Richard • Love Me Like a Rock Song by Shelly Jay Shore 💙📚🌶️

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I had more 5-star reads this month than any other month yet this year. My faves from July: • Just a Highland Fling by Naina Kumar • Married with Benefits by Ellie Palmer • Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman 💙📚

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Just got my first NetGalley ARC for 2027 😳 How time flies. 💙📚

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The Spellshop series is one of my favorites. It is so profoundly, deeply, utterly charming. Happy release day to its newest installment, Sea of Charms. This book warmed my soul. 💙📚🪐📚🌶️ #netgalley

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C Reads @c-reads.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Seriously, this month simply has too many good books coming out. It’s hard to keep up. Loved this one from Maggie North that’s coming out this week, Fossil Feud. Who knew a dig site could be so hot? 💙📚🌶️ #netgalley

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