J. Curtis’ ISLA
Pop fresh batteries into your Walkman and follow twelve-year-old George Perez from Chicago to the Yucatán coast, where myth isn’t as dead as it seems. With every step, the line blurs further between memory, music, and a history he can’t ignore.
Rowan Beck Anderson’s Regrets
Regrets is a queer literary noir about power, legacy, and the cost of survival. Seventeen days before an engagement she doesn’t want, Nicole Templeton is forced to confront the life she’s built versus the truth she’s been avoiding for way too long. What follows is a slow-burn reckoning about control, desire, and the price of choosing yourself.
Camillethespellpire’s Tideborn
The ocean remembers what the land has forgotten. In the realm of the Tideborn, humans are not apex predators—they are prey, cattle, or for the lucky few… consorts. It begins with Amara, a trade captain shipwrecked on the forbidden Gilded Isles. To survive the hungry eyes of the reef, she strikes a desperate blood bargain with Star, a mermaid who walks on land, and Abyssa, the ancient, shark-toothed Queen of the Deep. But what starts as a deal for survival spirals into a seductive, dangerous romance that will rewrite the laws of nature.
Victor Jimenez’s The Fallen Years
A romance of enemies to lovers who get violently separated and seek each other across the post climate apocalyptic wastelands as an insane warlord goes around destroying the company towns with weapons she found from the Before Times.
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Did you think about writing reviews for these yourself or having others do so from your reciprocal review circle. Just think it could be more interesting vs just the story blurb.