The Introvert's Book Club

Buy a copy on Amazon 🖉 Rating: 3/5 🖉 Spice: 5/5 🖉 Plot: 5/5 🖉 Primary Genre: Dark Romance 🖉 Blurb:   A USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Amazon Charts bestselling novel. The first letter arrived the day my husband was buried. It was postmarked from the state penitentiary, and contained a single sentence: I’ll wait forever if I have to. It was signed by Dante, a man I didn’t know. Out of simple curiosity, I wrote back to ask him what exactly he was waiting for. His reply? You. I told the mystery man he had the wrong girl. He said he didn’t. I said we’d never met, but he said I was wrong. We went back and forth, exchanging letters every week that grew increasingly more intimate. Then one day, the letters stopped. When I found out why, it was already too late. Dante was at my doorstep. And nothing on earth could have prepared me for what happened next. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WARNING: This novel contains content intended for a mature audience only. Due to explicit languag...

  Get Yourself A Copy 🖉 Rating : 5/5 🖉 Spice: 0/5 🖉 Plot : 5/5 🖉 Primary Genre : Contemporary Romance 🖉 Blurb : Goodreads Choice Award  Winner for Readers' Favorite Romance (2023) Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now—for reasons they’re still not discussing—they don’t. They broke up six months ago. And still haven’t told their best friends. Which is how they find themselves sharing the largest bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blue week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most. Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Be...

Purchase on Amazon 🖉 Rating : 5/5 🖉 Spice: 0/5 🖉 Plot : 5/5 🖉 Primary Genre : Contemporary Romance 🖉 Blurb : Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Readers' Favorite Romance (2020) Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They’re polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block. Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love....

Purchase from Amazon 🖉 Rating : 5/5 🖉 Spice: 0/5 🖉 Plot : 5/5 🖉 Primary Genre : Contemporary Romance 🖉 Blurb : Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Readers' Favorite Romance (2022) One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming....Nora Stephens’ life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small-town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a booki...

Buy Legendary on Amazon Caraval #2 🖉 Rating:  4/5 🖉 Spice:  0/5 🖉 Plot:  5/5 🖉 Primary Genre:  YA   Romantasy 🖉 Blurb:  Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Readers' Favorite Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2018) A heart to protect. A debt to repay. A game to win. After being swept up in the magical world of Caraval, Donatella Dragna has finally escaped her father and saved her sister, Scarlett, from a disastrous arranged marriage. The girls should be celebrating, but Tella isn’t yet free. She made a desperate bargain with a mysterious criminal, and what Tella owes him no one has ever been able to deliver: Caraval Master Legend’s true name. The only chance of uncovering Legend’s identity is to win Caraval, so Tella throws herself into the legendary competition once more—and into the path of the murderous heir to the throne, a doomed love story, and a web of secrets…including her sister's. Caraval has always demanded bravery, cunning, and sacr...

Purchase 🖉Rating: 5/5 🖉 Spice: 0/5 🖉 Plot: 5/5 🖉 Primary Genre: Contemporary Romance 🖉 Blurb:  Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Readers' Favorite Romance (2021). Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows without a doubt it was on that ill-fated final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convi...

  Buy on Amazon 🖉 Rating: 4/5 🖉 Spice: 5/5 🖉 Plot: 5/5 🖉 Primary Genre: Dark Romance 🖉Blurb: It’s too deranged to be a dream But to one, it is beautiful. Creating fear and possessing souls. None of this is a figment of imagination. Everyone involved is very awake, even if they wish they weren’t. With beating hearts and trembling lips, tranquility no longer exists. Because tonight, nightmares become real. Welcome to Agatha Manor, in Hollows Grove. This is a paranormal thriller which ends in a HEA. 🖉 My Thoughts: This book is just in time for Halloween because it’s creepy and scary AF. The romance element is dark, tortuous and twisted. Check the trigger warnings before picking this one up because as usual, Kinsley is not for the faint of heart. There’s a VAMPIRE love interest in this book so if that’s your thing, be prepared to be very excited and happy. I honestly am not quite sure what Prince is. A demon? Either way he’s a twisted a**hole that you’ll love to read. Our FMC Roy...

Moonville #2 🖉 Rating: 3.5/5  🖉 Spice: 0/5 🖉 Plot: 4/5 🖉 Primary Genre: Paranormal/Fantasy Romance 🖉 Blurb: From the acclaimed author of Old Flames and New Fortunes comes a steamy enemies-to-lovers romantasy about a paranormal skeptic who is roped into a ghost hunting romp by the charming boy next door . . . who might just show her what real fantasies are made of. Paranormal skeptic Zelda Tempest is hoping for a much-needed creativity boost for a new paranormal mystery novel. But despite the alleged magic of her hometown, Moonville, Ohio, she’s as stuck as ever. With two witch sisters, not believing in magic is strange for a Tempest, but no one is more disappointed than Morgan Angelopoulos, the charming man next door. So, to cure her of her writer's block and her disbelief in magic, Morgan ropes her into a ghost-hunting romp, only for Zelda to discover something else bizarre, never-before-seen creatures that appear as ordinary pets to everyone else. Curious about what else...

  Buy on Amazon Moonville #1 🖉 Rating: 3.5/5 (Rounding up to 4 for Goodreads, Amazon, etc) 🖉 Spice: 2/5 🖉 Plot: 3/5 🖉 Primary Genre: Paranormal/Fantasy Romance 🖉 Blurb: A small, magical town tucked away in rural Ohio, Moonville is the perfect place for flora fortunist Romina Tempest to expand her shop, where she uses the language of flowers to help the hopeful manifest their love lives. After giving up on her own big romance eleven years ago, at least she can bask in the promise of others’. So, when the shop’s potential financier shares news of his wedding, Romina jumps on the opportunity to discuss buying the business. What better place to negotiate a deal than at a wedding, even if she has to fake-date her chaotic colleague Trevor to get an invitation? But all hell breaks loose when she discovers Trevor’s soon-to-be stepbrother is none other than Alex, her high school sweetheart. Her greatest love. The boy who, eleven years ago, broke her heart, and who now thinks she a...

Sisters of Light And Shadow #1 Buy on Amazon 🖉 Rating: 4/5 🖉 Spice: 1/5 🖉 Plot: 4/5 🖉 Primary Genre: Romantasy/Fantasy Romance 🖉 Blurb: A young witch cursed with sacrificing memories to cast spells must decide how much she’s willing to lose to save her town in this thrilling tale of magic, love, and self-discovery—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic . In the small town of Gold Springs, Calliope Petridi and her two sisters carefully guard the secret of their magic and the price they must pay to practice memories. The more powerful the magic, the greater the memory required. Luckily, all Calliope wants to do is forget. Forget the mother who left them without a trace. Forget the cracks in her relationships with her judgmental oldest sister, Thalia, and her distant middle sister, Eurydice. Forget about the very cost of her magic. And most of all, forget the way the love of her life shattered her heart two years ago. But w...

  Buy on Amazon Rating: 4/5 Spice: 0/5 Plot: 4/5 Primary Genre: Women’s Fiction/Magical Realism Trigger Warnings: Death of a loved one on page, unaliving of oneself attempt Blurb: For fans of Practical Magic, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic is a debut novel that explores the shields we build around our hearts to retain our own magic. Sadie Revelare has always believed that the curse of four heartbreaks that accompanies her magic would be worth the price. But when her grandmother is diagnosed with cancer with only weeks to live, and her first heartbreak, Jake McNealy, returns to town after a decade, her carefully structured life begins to unravel. With the news of their grandmother's impending death, Sadie's estranged twin brother Seth returns to town, bringing with him deeply buried family secrets that threaten to tear Sadie's world apart. Their grandmother has been the backbone of the family for generations, and with her death, Sadie isn't su...

  Buy on Amazon Rating: 4/5 Spice: 5/5 Plot: 4/5 Primary Genre: Dark Romance Trigger Warnings: Please check the author’s website before reading here Blurb: You Can Never Escape The Town The Legacy The Legends Are Your Responsibility Welcome to Port Canyon This is a Very Taboo Dark Romance The Good: * This book is just fucking funny. The dual POV is perfect and both MCs have hilarious thoughts. You may not get a comedy vibe from the blurb/cover but this was actually really lighthearted and amusing in my opinion. * The MMC. aka the FMC’s dead uncle, is completely unhinged. He’s a complete bully, an asshole and possessive. He’s got severe mommy issues and a very twisted sense of humor. So, ideal for a dark romance MMC. * While this is a romance between a niece and her dead uncle, it doesn’t feel so gross because 1. They never met because he died before she was born 2. He died at a young age so they meet at a time that they’re at the same age The Meh: * I mean, I cou...