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The Never King by Nikki St. Crowe

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 Vicious Lost Boys #1 Purchase a copy on Amazon πŸ–‰ Rating: 3.5/5 πŸ–‰ Spice:  4/5 πŸ–‰ Plot: 3/5 πŸ–‰ Primary Genre: Dark Romance πŸ–‰ Blurb:   The first book in the bestselling BookTok viral Vicious Lost Boys series, a Peter Pan-inspired enemies-to-lovers spicy romantasy where the villain gets the girl. The stories were all wrong—Hook was never the villain. For two centuries, all of the Darling women have disappeared on their eighteenth birthday. Sometimes they’re gone for only a day, some for as long as a week or a month. But they always return broken. Now, on the afternoon of my eighteenth birthday, my mother runs around the house, making sure all the windows are barred and the doors locked. But it’s pointless. Because when night falls, he comes for me. And this time, the Never King and the Lost Boys aren’t willing to let me go. NOTE: The Never King is a reimagining of Peter Pan and Wendy. Characters have been aged-up for this darker, grittier version. If you like your enem...

Quicksilver by Callie Hart

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  Fae & Alchemy #1 πŸ–‰ Rating:  5/5 πŸ–‰ Spice: 3/5 πŸ–‰ Plot: 5/5 πŸ–‰ Primary Genre: Romantasy πŸ–‰ Blurb:  Goodreads Choice AwardNominee for Readers' Favorite Romantasy (2024) Do not touch the sword. Do not turn the key. Do not open the gate. In the land of the unforgiving desert, there isn’t much a girl wouldn’t do for a glass of water. Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen’s reservoirs for as long as she can remember. But a secret is like a knot. Sooner or later, it is bound to come undone. When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently reopens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of ice and snow. The Fae have always been the stuff of myth, of legend, of nightmares…but it turns out they’re real, and Saeris has landed herself right in the middle of a centuries-long conflict tha...

The Ever King by LJ Andrews

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  Purchase Here The Ever Seas #1 πŸ–‰ Rating:  4/5 πŸ–‰ Spice: 3/5 πŸ–‰ Plot: 5/5 πŸ–‰ Primary Genre: Dark Fantasy Romance πŸ–‰ Blurb:  The first in the TikTok sensation Ever Seas series! They stole his crown. So he stole their daughter.... For years, Erik, the scarred king of the Ever Kingdom, has thought of nothing but vengeance against the man who killed his father and trapped him beneath the waves, making him a prisoner in his own realm. Until his enemy’s daughter unintentionally breaks the chains on the Ever, and Erik makes her the unwitting pawn in his vicious game of revenge. She’s innocent. He’s vicious. But he will take back what he lost, no matter the price. Unless she steals his heart first. πŸ–‰ My Thoughts: Get your swashbuckin' boots on because you're in for a story about fae🧚 who are...you guessed it! Pirates!⚔  I'll admit, I had a bit of a hard time getting in to the story at first. I think that I started this book approximately 3 times. However, once I got a...