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Briar in Blue
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Please don't follow me for my Science of Reading skeets. Please.

She/Her
I bought the print version of Forever Your Rogue when it first came out based solely on its good reviews because I don't have a Kindle or use KU. Print was *my* only option in this case; so, yes!
November 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
It's particularly egregious when Elphaba sings "I'm Not That Girl" in the forest set vs. the boat set.
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
There were 13 Rumis and one Mira at the costume parade today.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I just want to weep at the cruelty of this.
October 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Like, Spuds MacKenzie? America's glorious past is SPUDS MACKENZIE?
October 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
It's a Harlequin Historical about a young member of the gentry whose mother is murdered and who seeks refuge with her widower neighbor. They set out on an adventure across Tudor England (he works for Henry VIII, you see) to solve the murder and protect the lady's inheritance. I did read it haha.
September 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Yeah, I know. I would be one of the aforementioned Romance girlies. And I like to think that I have a brain.
September 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
All of us are honorary Romance girlies in times like these.
September 22, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I'm not surprised romance readers are reading the book; I'm surprised that it broke the algo. Usually, these recc lists are more about content vs what people are reading, but this has clearly hit a tipping point toward the latter.
September 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I was tongue-in-cheek and referring to myself as a "girlie."
September 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I'm not a full-blown go-to-Disney-every-year adult, but I'd be lying if I said the Disney Renaissance and the classic fairytales didn't turn me into a romance lover.
a man and a woman are dancing in a forest
Alt: A gif of the Princess Aurora dressed in her Briar Rose outfit twirling with Prince Phillip deep in the forest of Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty (1959)
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September 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I am one of them, so. Literally, who do you think enjoyed "A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune"?
September 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I mean, GR doesn't recognize what DNF is, so it will recommend books like those as it just sees it as another shelf you have. I have never seen a book so completely unrelated to the "you liked" book recommended before. I mean, A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune is a Harlequin Historical.
September 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Yeah, it's a journey across Tudor England, and it's a marriage of convenience with a neighbor to protect her from a villainous cousin. It's cute and short.
September 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM