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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

#Detour - 27% I’m calling it. This whole thing is going to be a simulation before actually going into space. …if I’m right, marketing really needs to work on that front cover summary.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Starting #Detour by Rob Hart. It was a random grab and all about traveling to Titan which I thought would be good with all the Artemis II woohaa. In this, an off duty officer saved the life of an Elon Muskesque figure. In return for his bravery, Muskesque (not his real name) offers the officer his

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I finished #Direbound and have absolutely gotten the sequel in my queue. Mostly because I was right, and you can’t trust anyone who calls you kitten. It’s gross. On to #TheFourthConsort about a man trapped on an alien planet with a centipede who wants to eat, kill, marry, fuck. Not in that order.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

#Direbound 65% It’s getting better but the guy who dicks you down the best will be the biggest traitor. Also he calls her kitten. Could you be more gross.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

#Direbound - 25% She has to stay in this academy for four months. Her sister was kidnapped and she has to “prove herself” to a system she doesn’t care about and didn’t you have a goal to save her..? It’s the weirdest hurry up and wait I’ve seen yet.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

#Direbound - 23% I am going to finish this but what do you mean your little sister was kidnapped and you’re going to join the army so you can travel to find her but instead you get wrapped up in a mountain climbing trial where you bond with a direwolf and now you have to go to school… like bro..

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Read Mccurdy’s #HalfHisAge in two days. Laid in bed explaining the period-on-his-d-***-slapping-her-face-with-it scene to my boyfriend. Made sure to end with “…I don’t wanna do that, but isn’t that wild to read!? There was blood everywhere!”😂

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

32/221 #Frostlines by Neil Shea. Just went over the observations of arctic wolves having no male alpha. Packs tend to follow the stronger, experienced female and upon her death, the core of the pack becomes discombobulated. NO MALE ALPHA. This will ruin the modern smuts, thus we don’t discuss it.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

So I finished #twilight. All I can say is I’m glad I read this in my 20s because it hits so different as a lady in her upper 30s. Not bad but.. I absolutely feel like Charlie. Like, is my daughter insane and why is she so secretive? This is how your kids become vampires.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

After a brief hiatus I have returned! Re-reading #Twilight which I haven’t touched since the late 2000’s. Thought I’d have more feelings than “if the Cullen’s house is over 100 years old.. I bet they never bothered to install modern toilets. Where will Bella put her piss when she’s over!?”

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I’m going to try and be better on here. I started #CoramHouse by Bailey Seybold and went totally off of vibes. A Vermont orphanage run by sadistic nuns waaay back in the day and they were apparently murdering kids. So a ghostwriter who just lost her husband is packing up her life and moving to

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I am so far behind. Yesterday I started #TheStalker by Paula Bomer (stop autocorrecting to Boner..) and I hope this is not based on her experiences. The MMC Doughty is a professional fuckboy, con-man, narcissistic, asshole… it’s just amazing the lack of self awareness (or he is overly aware).

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Also the weather is tits.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

107/303 - #RomanticFriction So this is about a popular author that gets her work hijacked by a fan who uses AI to basically strip and repackage it as her own. I am enjoying the commentary/criticisms on the publishing industry. What’s lacking is a realistic response from readers who feel

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

DNF - #MarkTwain Honestly I should know better. It’s not like it’s not interesting but looking at this book feels like homework. After about 200 pages.. I’m not really learning anything substantial. Eh.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

129/1175 - #MarkTwain I am reading this one real slow. Like three chapters a day slow. On today’s adventures of MT~ •he’s very racist although he tries not to be, until he gets to Europe and realizes it’s not all populated by white people and made dwarf jokes about an entire country.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

61% - #KissOfTheBasilisk DNF. If this book was half the length, it would’ve been better. It’s 500 pages and getting more incoherent as time goes on. My gripe is that they just went through a super strenuous mating ritual so Tem would be accepted by the basilisks.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

40% - #KissOfTheBasilisk Story time. I’m walking on my treadmill and I have a mount for my kindle (so I can walk hands free and read. Firming up minds and asses.) Tem is having sex with her basilisk teacher Caspian like.. madly. And the scenes are so well executed and written, that I’ve been

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

3% - #KissOfTheBasilisk Or known as “a spit or swallow novel” was pointed out by a friend and then started trending on TikTok everyone. Someone online said “I just read 500 pages of snake smut and I want more??” My first thought was to google a basilisk because I’m trying to figure out where the

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Finished #CellarRat and it does a great job of explaining why the restaurant business is not for the faint of heart. Not I’m on to #KissOfTheBasilisk Aka snake smuts.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

44%- #CellarRat So she got fired for trying to cover for a manager that was stealing alcohol.. and then that same manager told everyone they mutually knew to not give her a job? I also stopped reading this book because my petty would NEVER. If I’m going down, you can get fucked.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I am roughly 25% into #CellarRat and she talk about her time working with Bobby Flay. Dude had some banging ass burgers and a restaurant roughly 20 minutes from where I used to live. It was EXPONSIVE so the burger was a tiny little treat. Occasionally I think about them because I haven’t had

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I’m like six books past Nocturne (which I didn’t even finish.) Onto #CellarRat, about working in the NYC restaurant scene. If serving weren’t so chaotic and shitty, I would do it as a part time job. My job already requires me to listen to people talk.. why not do it for the tipssss.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Finished #BloodOnHerTongue and I wanted it a little more fleshed out in the end. Of course they kill everyone in the way and escape, but I just wanted… more. More explanation of the parasite. It’s such a fascinating angle to vampires, mental illness, etc. Now starting #Nocturne by Karina Halle.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

73% - #BloodOnHerTongue So it’s a parasite that infects a person and eats part of their brain.. like a bacteria vampire. Her sister is “dead” but the parasite can use her memories to think, act, and speak like a person. Now she’s asking Lucy (her sister) to help her live by murdering someone cause

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

10% - #BloodOnHerTongue Lucy has a sister named Sarah. Sarah is acting odd. Seeing people who aren’t there. Saying it feels like her brain is being scooped out with a hot spoon. I’m going to say the moment her family pulled out a big bodice and her knuckles got cut on it and some fluid was

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Finished #Claire,Darling and she was the unreliable narrator. Was never with him. We just went on a four hour journey of her psychosis. Is anything real.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

103/276 #Clarie,Darling Okay so she discovered her cheating fiancée actually lived an upgraded life. She found their address and noted a gingery boi (cat) in the window. Plot hole: ginger cats shed like a motherfucker. No way he has a cat and was going between two households and she never noticed.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Finished #TheWayUpIsDeath and it delivered on its promise. Death, everywhere. Like Hunger Games, but vertical. I’m now starting #Claire,Darling which has me questioning. If you have a lover that travels for work - automatically assume they have a hotter lover than you, have a high end executive

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Okay I’ve been really lazy. Reading #TheWayUpIsDeath And all I can say is yes, the higher you go the more death there is.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

17% - #TheChristmasTreeFarm So Kira’s house has no heat. They live in the north. Bennett (MMC) comes in with no experience but manages to fix it. She notices how his pants wrap tightly around his thighs - totally freaks out - and then rushes him out the door. Ma’am. They’re just thighs.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Starting #TheChristmasTreeFarm and I immediately noticed the MFC is typecast as a grouchy, unapproachable shrew. Her call sign? Huffing. She huffs everywhere. She huffs in every chapter - 33 times total. I love my kindle for validating me.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Finished #CarelessPeople and not only do I never want to touch a meta product again, but it explains so much why you see these heads of companies align with specific administrations. They don’t care about anyone or anything and the filters are down. The last chapters are just a shame gauntlet but

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I haven’t been updating as much because I forget this space exists. I was super lucky to snag a copy of #CarelessPeople by Sarah Wynn-Williams on Libby. Literally a day later, 80 more people are queued up to read this. It’s well written and verifying what people suspected about these spaces.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

13% #BookBoyfriend She is doing the cringiest shit. Like attending one of those festivals where you become part of a fantasy book series. All attendees have a week to solve a puzzle where three clues are hidden throughout the area. The winner gets to dine with the character from the series, Lord

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This morning I’m starting #BookBoyfriend about a woman who has dreams of a romantic elopement in Ireland.. but can’t find the right guy. She met a guy in a coffee shop and it’s been a lukewarm 6 months of dating. Time to go to Ireland and just find him. Calling it.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Okay… gonna DNF #TheUnworthy. Not because it sucks but it just might be a little too relevant and graphic for me right now. Sigh. I need like, a soft ass romance or something.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Starting #TheUnworthy by Agustina Bazterrica. Basically the end of the world and a nuclear event has passed. Somewhere in the woods a religious order has popped up called the sacred sisterhood. They’re suffering - eating bugs and trying to fend off random desperate seeking shelter from fallout.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I switched to #TheFavorites by Layne Fargo and I wish I would’ve slowed down to catalog my thoughts. I finished this book in three days and it was just.. fucking amazing. A totally random hold I placed and I can’t stop thinking about it.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Starting #Priest which is religious smut. FF to 13%, the MFC tells the priest that she dances in a club.. then super casually: “I want to be fucked, fucked and used. I want to be filled with someone’s dick. I wanted to have fingers in my mouth and in my cunt. In my ass.” I could never.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Finished #MySecretlyHotHusband It was okay. Not sure I’ll pick up any more of the series because nothing really captured my attention. At least when the story picks up, she’s 19.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

147/290 #MySecretlyHotHusband So they have piles and piles of bland food on their engagement ceremony. She is totally confused as to why since the kitchen staff are renowned for their culinary skills. Turns out, the ceremony is throwing salt like confetti on the newly weds which.. lands in

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

109/290 #MySecretlyHotHusband … okay so she’s 12 and he’s 15. He wants to wait three more years until they become of age. This math is not matching but kudos to not sleeping with children.. I guess? *furiously googles age of consent in South Korea* 16. She’ll only be 15 though. 😭

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Reading #MySecretlyHotHusband vol. 1 If you are betrothed to a demon lord because your family is selling you off to settle a blood debt, this might be for you.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I have a ventie. Whenever I’m starting a smuts and the MMC has two brothers just as sexually attractive - I know they are setting up for books 2 and 3. I see it from a mile away and immediately disinvest in the rest of the series emotionally. It’s a marketing device I don’t like. #booksky

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Finished #KeepMe It overpromised and under delivered. The scenes were descriptively repetitive, you never figure out the wild side of the manor (beyond him screwing her in front of his friends and then it fades to black??), and the jealousy between her and Claire could’ve been explored and fleshed

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

78% - #KeepMe One of the coolest things about the #kindle is the search feature. So when I suspect a phrase is overused, I can check. The phrase is “leaking from the tip / cock tip leaking” and he should see a doctor. Maybe this is normal though? I haven’t seen it in any of my other smuts…

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

58% - #KeepMe First sex scene wooo 🥳 All downhill from here.

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k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

50% - #KeepMe Book, this was not the kind of grinding I meant. It’s totally overused with his penis AND her mouth.

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