Oh, I *love* that book!!

What was the book?? *nosey*

For actual genre romance, KJ Charles is great. She writes a lot of historical/fantasy, and there is sex, but the plot never revolves around it. Jordan Hawk and Harper Fox (Tyack and Frayne series) are also great. And Alexis Hall's Prosperity series is lovely and very fantasy-focused.

I really love Daryl Gregory for this, especially Afterparty. Natasha Pulley also--The Mars House is very romantic. Currently reading The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson and loving it. Most of Becky Chambers' books have touches of lovely queer romance. And Karin Lowachee's books are amazing.

Yes, so true! I love a standalone, and she always delivers.

Was going to reply with this sentiment. It's such a good one.

I completely agree! Bookstores are the best.

Yeah, I only ever see glowing reviews for it.

I get this! I thought the ideas and writing in Vicious were so good, but I just didn't care about any of the characters, so I didn't care about the story. It was my one and only V.E. Schwab and it didn't make me want to pick up another. 🤷‍♀️

This is such an incredible (and weirdly underrated) book!

I will! Thank you for the rec!

I'm always here for a weird story, so I'm definitely going to have to check this out!

I've never heard of this (and I read *a lot* of manga!) The cover is so pretty!

Sounds a little like Catherine Asaro's Skolian Empire books, starting with Primary Inversion.

I did! My intro was the Divergent series (which I still love) and then Arch-Conspirator. I have Poster Girl but haven't read it yet--now I'm even more excited to.

I loved the audiobook of this!

Those look so cool!

I like Fable--I don't use any reading apps a lot, so I'm not sure how it is for heavy use, but it's a pretty clean interface and I like that you can make your own lists and search within them.

Oooh, I didn't know about the extras!