The Introvert's Book Club

  Buy on Amazon Wicked Sisters #3 Rating: 3.75/5 Spice: 3 Primary Genre: Contemporary Romance Plot: 4/5 Blurb: A tea shop owner good girl and a reformed microbrewer bad boy reunite in this wonderfully wicked love story. Sometimes the second sip is sweetest. In the cozy town of Birch Lake, tea shop owner Poppy Kitchener thought she’d left her mistakes, and her failed marriage, in the past. But when her ex-husband, Alistair Miller, turns up—as charming and irritatingly handsome as ever—those old feelings float to the surface. To top it off, he has a puzzling pretend they’re still married for his cousin’s wedding in exchange for a lucrative business deal with his family. Easy enough, right? After all, this could be Poppy’s last chance to get closure, grow her business  and use Alistair’s knowledge of microbrewing to help her finish that winning recipe for the tea competition. But even after all this time, he still knows how to make her laugh. And he’s changed in ways that m...

  Buy on Amazon Twisted Kings MC #2 Rating: 4/5 Spice: 3 Primary Genre: Dark Romance/MC Romance Plot: 4/5 Blurb: Ghost lied to his club to protect me, putting a target on both our backs. Trouble is… I didn’t know I needed saving. Or that I was still being haunted by my past. Now my loyalty to the Twisted Kings is in question, and the only man who can protect me is a tall, tattooed biker with a taste for revenge and a vow of abstinence. Ghost is haunted. He’s reclusive. He ignores me at every turn, and I’m certain I mean nothing to him. Until I discover Ghost has been watching more than surveillance through the clubhouse cameras. He sees everything.And I’m his favorite subject. Author's Note: Ghost is a dark MC romance with a morally grey hero, heavy subject matter, mature content, and explicit scenes. Content/TWs (which contain spoilers) can be found on author's website. 18+ Standalone with HEA guaranteed The Good: * Strong found family themes. I assume that’s with most ...

  Buy on Amazon Rating: 4/5 Spice: 5/5 Primary Genre: Dark Romance, Traumance Trigger Warnings: Please check the author’s website before reading here Plot: 4/5 Blurb: If you don't stop, you'll live. If you do, you know what will happen. So for the love of all things unholy, don't stop. -Dalton and Rayna The Halloween Harvesters This is a similar hitchhiker themed romance but is more horror. It won't be in the series with the regular dark hitchhiker romances (Ride or Die Romances). Ride AND die! Tropes: Unhinged fmc and mmc More innocent mmc damsel in distress insta obsession enemies to lovers dark humor/banter mask kink (they both wear masks) The Good: * Call me crazy but I guess that I enjoyed the shock factor of this spicy little book. I thought that I had read everything in a dark romance and let me tell you, I was seriously wrong. * This felt more like a horror romance than a dark romance to me. If you like horror/scary stuff, there’s a good chance that you’l...

  Buy on Amazon Rating: 3.5/5 Spice: .5 Primary Genre: Romantic Comedy Plot: 4/5 Blurb: From # 1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Kate comes an enemies-to-lovers “what if” romance about a prom kiss that never was, and one woman’s magical chance to live what might have been.This is not how Liv wanted to see Jake Glasswell for the first time in ten years. Once her high school rival and the prom date who humiliated her, now a successful TV personality, he’s more attractive than he has any right to be. And he’s her Lyft passenger.Since the prom night kiss that never was, Liv’s life has not gone to plan. She deferred Julliard to be with her mom during a crisis, and now swears she’s happy as a recently furloughed drama teacher going on no-strings dates. This weekend she’s maid of honor to her best friend, Masha, and, of course, Jake is the best man. But when Liv glares into Jake’s eyes as Masha says, “I do,” the universe turns on its axis and Liv is suddenly living a version ...

  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 Tropes: Age gap Innocent FMC Unhinged MMC Forced Proximity Enemies-to-Lovers Primal Blurb: "Ready or not, rabbit, here I come" Lex The moment I open the car door and see her sweet face, I know I'm making a mistake. By offering to give me a ride, so is she. I spot the rabbit’s foot hanging from the rear-view mirror. It's not her lucky day. I take her with me as I run from the law. Despite being a felon and a documented sociopath, I only mean for Selena to be a ride to the border. But somewhere along the way she stirs up feelings I've long thought myself incapable of. She's my rabbit, my sweet little bunny, and I need to teach her how to run from me so I can catch her and show her what it's like to be devoured by the predator she should be afraid of. Danger lurks in every corner, and the risk of getting ca...

  Buy on Amazon A Cat & Mouse Duet spinoff Rating: 4/5 Spice: 3/5 Plot: 4/5 Primary Genre: Dark Romance Trigger Warnings: See author website here Blurb: “Molly Devereaux has been missing for more than two weeks, and police are still searching for the girl who seemed to vanish out of thin air. The world still wants to know... Where's Molly?” In my dreams, I never escaped the Oregon woods. Life after death isn't easy to accept, especially when I still feel like a ghost. Now, I live deep in the mountains of Montana—the paradigm of beauty. But they are also the home of horrors. Horrors that I only unleash at night. When my pigs are allowed to feast. It is strongly recommended to read Haunting Adeline and Hunting Adeline before reading Where's Molly. Important Note: This is a dark romance that contains dark subject matter. Please refer to the author's website for content warnings The Good: * This book made me want more of this storyline in general. More Molly, Zade, Addi...

  Buy on Amazon Rating: 4/5 Spice: 1/5 Plot: 4/5 Primary Genre: Cozy fantasy Blurb: "I just thought my life would be different." At 34, Elaine spends each day going through the motions---alone. When she learns of her father's passing, she puts her home up for sale, hoping it will give her the strength to abandon the city, its memories, and the ghosts of her dashed hopes. Like her mother "There’s no longer a reason to stay." But soon, Elaine wonders if reason may have agreed to split spices at the market. Tall, handsome, green, with a bone shaking laugh, and a glorious smile, the orc innkeeper seems set on wooing her, but he doesn’t know the depth of her heartache. Or the truth that could very well push him away. "This one can still be good." Innkeeper by day, smuggler by night, Satyr dreams of a future where he can keep the Aspen Inn afloat without skimming Arnell’s precious pearls—but too many rely on him for it to be a choice. When the pressur...