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Step into a sanctuary of Wicked Tales & Wild Romances, where we explore the most captivating corners of dark fantasy and heart-tugging rom-coms. This is more than just a reading log; it’s a collection of Curated Chronicles for the Modern She-Wolf who isn’t afraid to get lost in the shadows or fall for the monster. ​Whether it’s a slow-burn magic system or a spicy contemporary trope, every story here is chosen to be Wildly Devoured.
  • CROWN OF BRIARS

    CROWN OF BRIARS

    By: RL Perez
    Pub Date: NOW AVAILABLE
    Genre: Romantasy

    Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕
    Heat Level: 🔥🔥🔥 (Howl)
    Tropes: Beauty and the Beast, Touch her and ☠️,  Enemies to Lovers, Forced Marriage, Found Family

    PUBLISHER’S SYNOPSIS

    Every generation, the Earthen Court gives a princess bride to the Wraith King to protect their realm from his deadly shadows. Princess Sybelle has prepared her entire life to be married to the monster who has been terrorizing her people.

    And she has a plan to end her people’s suffering for good.

    With the help of her dragon familiar, who can sniff out powerful enchantments, she intends to uncover the source of the Wraith King’s shadow magic. Once he is rendered powerless, she plans to kill him.

    But despite his demonic appearance, the Wraith King is not who he appears to be. He is as alluring as he is deadly and, as Sybelle comes to know him, he awakens a fire in her soul she never knew she had.

    When she realizes he is trapped by a powerful curse, she wants to do everything in her power to break it.

    But to do so would endanger her own life and the lives of her people.

    Torn between her duty to her kingdom and breaking the Wraith King’s curse, Sybelle must decide where her loyalties lie: to the home she was raised to protect, or to the dark king who has worked his way into her heart?

    REVIEW

    This book was a fantastic Beauty and the Beast retelling. You have a Gaston figure who gets spicy right away, you have the sympathetic Beast figure, and you have a Belle. However, this is full of court intrigue and real danger and involves a sacrificial marriage to prevent the destruction of the kingdom. But nothing is as it seems. They don’t even really know about the curse situation at the Earthen Kingdom, all the princess really knows is that she must find a way to end the king she is wed to in order to save her people, and even then she doesn’t know a thing. I do love the growth of the relationship between Sybelle and the Wraith King and the growth that comes from it for both of them. There are so many lies that must be weeded through and pieces of the story that Sybelle never had and we discover them right along with her. The magic system is also an interesting one and take crystal work to a whole different level.

    Thanks to NetGalley and Willow Haven Press for the advanced ebook copy in exchange for a fair and honest review.

  • HEAD WITCH IN CHARGE

    Sherwood Witches Book 2

    By: Avery Flynn
    Pub Date: NOW AVAILABLE!
    Genre: Contemporary Supernatural Romance

    Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌗
    Heat Level: 🔥🔥🔥
    Tropes: Thick Babe, Witchy, Enemies to Lovers

    PUBLISHER’S SYNOPSIS

    “It’s the curse of every family’s heir to be the responsible one. My family being the most powerful family in all of Witchingdom doesn’t eliminate that fact, it only makes it worse—and that’s why I, Leona Amber Sherwood, never do the unexpected. Except for that one time I did.

    Believe me, I have rued the day that I got married in a midnight ceremony under a full moon to Erik Svensen, the heir to my family’s deepest, bitterest enemies, and now, he won’t agree to a divorce unless we return an ancient spell book to his family’s secured facility.

    But on our road trip to return the book, I learn more about Erik as we encounter trolls, nymphs, satyrs, and more. The longer we work together, the more I’m convinced that he might not be the evil trickster I assumed he was. Any more time together will leave me even more enchanted with my husband and that’s the last thing I want. And if I keep telling myself that, maybe I’ll start to believe it.”

    THOUGHTS

    HEAD WITCH IN CHARGE By Avery Flynn book two in the Sherwood Witches series and is just as magical as the first one. I love witchy fantasy romcoms. You could throw a dart at any of my review accounts and hit one. This more than met my expectations. I love a good enemies to lovers/fauxmance/fake marriage and this has all three. Add in a bunch of magical creatures, an epic road trip, and a morally grey MMC and you have a seriously good time. I loved the banter between Erik and Leona and the way their relationship develops. They’re forced to work together through some unexpected challenges and it makes for a truly spicy adventure.

    Thanks to NetGalley and Berkeley Publishing for the advanced copy in exchange for a fair and honest review!

  • CLARA & THE DEVIL

    CLARA & THE DEVIL

    Graphic Novel.

    Story By Olivie Blake. Pub Date 5/25/26.

    Rating 3.5*

    PUBLISHER’S SYNOPSIS

    Clara has the rest of her life figured out. She’ll graduate college with the support of her best friend, Jonah; marry her adoring boyfriend; take a full-time job at her local library; and settle down in her small seaside hometown. But when an unusual tourist—tall, dark, and infernal—comes to town, Clara’s careful plans quickly start to unravel.

    And even while the stranger, who openly calls himself the devil, strikes up a situationship with Jonah, he continues to tempt Clara with reckless talk of power, ambition, and lust. Over the course of one sultry summer, tensions between Clara, Jonah, and the devil mount to an intolerable degree, and Clara is forced to confront the desires she’s kept secret her whole life, even from herself.


    REVIEW

    For a graphic novel, the story was interesting and thankfully not too high-handed with the whole ‘devil’ situation. Don’t get me wrong, she’s dark. The illustrations were pretty cool and multilayered, which really added a lot to the story and also fed into the ending really well (which–spoiler alert– is a cliffhanger).

    Naturally, ole Nicky Scratch plays on the innate fears and desires of these townie kids and the ending was actually what I was hoping would happen, but there is definitely going to be more to this story, and my curiosity is piqued.

    Thanks to NetGalley and First Second Books for the advanced ebook copy in exchange for a fair and honest review!

  • THE UNDERGRADS: STUDENT UNION

    THE UNDERGRADS: STUDENT UNION

    By: Julie Murphy
    Pub Date: 5/05/2026
    Genre: College RomCom

    Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
    Heat Level: 🔥🔥🔥🔥(feral)
    Tropes: Second Chance, friends to enemies to lovers, fake marriage, one bed

    PUBLISHER’S SYNOPSIS

    CLOVER ROWAN WALSH knows The Plan™.
    1. Get a full ride to her dream school, Wexley University.
    2. Conquer the school of business.
    3. Say goodbye to the paycheck-to-paycheck life she and her mom have known for years.

    There’s just one hiccup. With the first semester rapidly approaching, Clover learns her housing grant has fallen through. But a loophole presents itself: Married couples can live in the dorms for the price of one student. Clover is willing to sacrifice the sanctity of marriage . . . even if it means proposing to the one person she swore she’d never speak to again.

    Bennett Andrew Graves is the only heir to the Graves Coffee empire. After spending his first year at Wexley, squeaking by in classes and becoming personally acquainted with the female student body, he is looking forward to living off campus. Until the girl he grew up with (and whom he completely devastated years ago) walks back into his life with the most absurd question: Will you marry me?

    Bennett can’t refuse Clover. He owes her this, but that doesn’t change the fact that these two can barely carry on a conversation without getting at each other’s throats. Forget about sharing a dorm—much less one bed.

    But as Clover and Bennett hide the true nature of their marriage, they find that playing house isn’t all that bad—especially with certain marital benefits in the mix. In fact, Clover and Bennett are soon forgetting the most important part of their fake marriage of convenience . . . that it’s supposed to be fake.

    REVIEW

    I highly recommend having something akin to milk on hand, because despite the sunshiney yellow and pop-pink cover, this little honey is 500,000 scovilles of spice!

    There’s something about a poor little rich boy being in love with the ‘outcast’ that gets my head spinning and shortens my breath. Add a fake marriage to your enemy (who may already have some less than chivalrous feelings towards our FMC), one bed, and super high stakes if it goes wrong (like a conviction of FRAUD), and you have a recipe for a tension filled RomCom that quickly begins to boil over.

    Buried feelings resurface along with some much more adult situations. There are just some intimacies that are inescapable when you live together in a single dorm room with just the one bed that’s basically two beds nailed together and to the floor. Inescapable trap. A simple flash of lingerie here, a bare chest there, and long held feelings start to fly.

    Honestly, our Bennett did absolutely deserve Clover’s scorn for what he did when they were teens and definitely owes her at least one…and does he ever give it. With interest. 🥵

    Julie Murphy is such a great author and having had the opportunity to read her upcoming solo New Adult and Adult romcoms, her ability to write a fully formed scene and cast is fantastic and the way she writes spice is IMMACULATE. I absolutely loved Student Union and am looking forward to the next book in The Undergrads, All Nighter, featuring our girl Daisy. ❤️

    Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Publishing for the advanced ebook copy in exchange for a fair and honest review!

  • SEVEN YEAR ITCH

    SEVEN YEAR ITCH

    By: Amy Daws
    Narrator(s): Teddy Hamilton; Erin Mallon
    Pub Date: NOW AVAILABLE
    Genre: ROMCOM

    Rating (Story): 🌕🌕🌕🌗
    Rating (Narration): 👄👄💋
    Heat Level: 🔥🔥🔥 (Howl)
    Tropes: Enemies to Lovers

    PUBLISHER’S SYNOPSIS

    All I wanted was a casual plus-one to my brother’s destination wedding, but those idiots on my family tree hacked my dating profile and sabotaged my quest for the perfect weekend fling. Now I’m stuck on a tropical vacation with only my hand to keep me company.

    Until I’m forced to share a room with the bane of my existence: my sister-in-law’s best friend.

    Dakota has hated me for the past seven years. I wasn’t losing much sleep over her screaming rants because she was some other guy’s problem. Or she was, until she got divorced.

    Being stuck in paradise with a woman who loathes your very existence doesn’t sound hot, but after an unexpected moment in our shared palapa, she starts screaming at me in a different way.

    What happens in paradise stays in paradise. That is, until Dakota shows up on my mountain with a proposition: be her wingman to help her regain her pre-divorce confidence.

    Suddenly, Dakota’s not just a person I love to fight with. She’s the woman I want everything with.

    REVIEW

    This one was spicy, and I don’t shy away from anything that Teddy Hamilton narrates even if Erin Mallon isn’t my cup of tea.

    Post-Divorce Dakota is finally exploring her sexual appetites. Unfortunately for her, her best friend’s destination wedding turns into more of a hostage situation when Calder, her BFF’s BIL, is forced to bunk with her in her palapa. Somehow it becomes the prime environment for the two to confront their animosity towards one another that started 7 years ago. This conversation leads to confrontation and exploration in the form of a friends with bennies.

    The enemies to lovers aspect is kind of fun in this one. Something that was truly so small caused the animosity between the two to grow so much. I guess the line between love and hate really is incredibly thin. But if course, the real reason these books are so fun is the meddling neice, though the addition of the Cat Daddy aspect? No complaints here.

    Thanks to NetGalley and Harlequin Audio for the advanced Audiobook copy in exchange for a fair and honest review.

  • THE ROOMMATE ARRANGEMENT

    THE ROOMMATE ARRANGEMENT

    By: Samantha Markhum
    Narrator(s): Laura Knight Keating
    Pub Date: AVAILABLE NOW!
    Genre: Contemporary Romance

    Rating (Story): 🌕🌕🌕🌗
    Rating (Narration):👄👄👄💋
    Heat Level: 🔥🔥(Wolf Whistle)
    Tropes: Enemies, Second Chance, Deals, Found Family

    PUBLISHER’S SYNOPSIS

    Blair might be a little type-A, but she never thought of herself as completely overbearing … that is, until her two best friends drop her from their housing arrangement a week before her pre-college summer coding program is about to start.

    Blair knows if she switches to an on-campus dorm, her parents will make her give up her expensive sculpture class with her dream mentor in order to pay for it. Desperate, she agrees to be the fifth roommate to four off-campus sophomores who are also in a last-minute bind. But things get complicated when one of her new roommates turns out to be her brother’s best friend, Jamie Atwater.

    Blair begs Jamie not to tell her brother about the new living arrangement. Her brother would go straight to their parents, who would definitely not approve, and all her plans would fall apart. So they strike a deal: she’ll help him finish coding the app he’s building if he promises to keep her secret.

    Spending more time together shouldn’t be a problem. Sure, Jamie has a new haircut, a mysterious tattoo, and a year’s worth of earned muscle, but it’s not like Blair is noticing. After all, they’re only roommates, right?

    REVIEW

    If you like found family and enemies-to-more-than-friends and he fell first, I think you’ll really enjoy The Roommate Arrangement. It’s a study in high expectations and what happens when a Type A personality meets failure for the first time. The drivers for pacing are a mixed bag. Yes, the romance is super important and good, but the rest of the story has all the earmarks of an excellent drama. Heartbreak, triumph, betrayal, etc. It’s a well told story with characters that feel like real people, even the tertiary characters.

    We have it all here. The super hateable, characters with real flaws who don’t always make the best decisions, relationships that take real work, and endings that may not be entirely HEA and roses, but they are satisfying. Yeah, I cried at some points–let’s not make a huge deal out of it, but when you read/listen (because you should!) You’ll get it. I also laughed, y’all. Don’t look at me like that. It’s not all rainbows, but it’s not all rainclouds. It’s the whole storm, from beginning to the end. From when the clouds roll in to when the sun comes out after and the world feels new. And I love a good storm.

    Thanks to NetGalley and RBMedia for the advanced Audiobook copy in exchange for a fair and honest review!

  • THE CUPID DILEMMA

    THE CUPID DILEMMA

    By: April Asher
    Pub Date: 5/12/2026
    Genre: Supernatural RomCom

    Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌙
    Heat Level: 🔥🔥🔥 (Howl)
    Tropes: Fake Dating

    PUBLISHER’S SYNOPSIS

    A lover of love and a champion for happily ever after. Those are two of many things people expect from Aphrodite’s daughter. To Adalyn Whitlock, ‘love’ pays the bills, and currently, not well. Business is dropping at Happily Ever Forever, with her latest wedding planning catastrophe ending in a negative social media storm and her sister Maxi’s matchmaking ability on the fritz. To top it off, there’s an ex-boyfriend calling her ‘the Anti-Aphrodite’ and paparazzi pics linking Addie to her new client’s older brother.

    Phoenix “Nix” Cross—songwriter and drummer for the hot new band, The Stone Talons—is no saint, but he’s far from the womanizer the band’s image rep bestowed on him. If anything, Nix is a romantic, hopeful he’ll find a love like the one his parents share. With the band’s star quickly rising and the record label pressuring him to deliver their next hit, Nix’s writer’s block couldn’t have come at a worse time. But when he opens his door to his irate new next-door neighbor, Nix feels the brief flash of inspiration for the first time in ages. And it just so happens that his new Muse is none other than his little sister’s new wedding planner.

    With Addie needing an end to her public-relations nightmare and the record label breathing down Nix’s neck, the pair agree to a fauxmance. But what happens when the emotions turned on for the cameras don’t turn off?

    REVIEW

    I always enjoy a cozy supernatural romcom and Asher has yet to disappoint me on that front. I love this new direction with Greek gods playing a part in the overarching plot line and I’m hoping we will get to see other members of Happily Ever Forever get theirs.

    Addie is such a vibe and Nix is spicy hot. I really loved their meet cute and the relationship that flowed even before the fake dating contract came into play. It was so clear that Nix was already so far past the ability to keep professional distance from Addie even before they signed on the dotted line. The body positivity (thick babes will always be my fave type of protagonist in a spicy romance) and the “finding your power” plot always bring something delicious to the table.

    I did find the plot to be a little formulaic. That’s not always a bad thing–sometimes that is exactly what you need. That said, the spice was spicing, the heat was heating, and it set up a solid foundation for a new trilogy!

    Thanks to NetGalley and St Martin’s Press for the advanced ebook copy in exchange for a fair and honest review!!

  • PLUS SIZE MISADVENTURES IN LOVE!: VOLUME 2

    PLUS SIZE MISADVENTURES IN LOVE!: VOLUME 2

    By mamakari. AVAILABLE NOW!

    By: mamakari
    Pub Date: Available Now!
    Genre: RomCom Graphic Novel

    Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌗
    Heat Level: 🔥 (Tame)
    Tropes: Crush RomCom

    PUBLISHER’S SYNOPSIS

    All Yumeko ever saw were her flaws. Her unhappy outlook infected not just her, but everyone around her, too. It’s only after a car accident that leaves Yumeko with amnesia that she wakes up with a brand-new lease on life, one that attracts all kinds of adventures and maybe even love.

    REVIEW

    This is the second volume, so you might want to start woth thr first, but you get the picture from this. Yumeko’s accident takes away all of her self consciousness and she sees herself as beautiful in a way that may be confusing to others, but to have that kind of unbridled confidence and lack of caring about what anyone else says would be a dream everyone would love to achieve. The art is cute and the crushing and main character are absolutely adorable. If you need a cute and silly Manga, this is the perfect option.

    Thanks to NetGalley and William Morrow for the advanced ebook copy in exchange for a fair and honest review!

  • PSYCHO FAE

    PSYCHO FAE

    BY Jaymin Eve. Now Available!
    Genre: Romantasy, Reverse Harem W/ Bi Rep

    Rating: 🌕🌕🌕
    Heat Level: 🔥🔥🔥 (Yearning–The Anticipation is Killing Me!)
    Tropes: Reverse Harem, Touch Her and ☠️

    PUBLISHER’S SYNOPSIS

    Are you ready to enter into a new realm?
    It’s an all-out fight for survival in the deadly gladiator Fae Games.
    I shifted into a saber-toothed tiger…but that was just the beginning.
    Jax, Cobra, and Ascher are now my teammates.
    Once again, we’re fighting for our lives. And our futures.
    But nothing is as it seems, and for every secret we uncover, another unfolds.

    Under the spiteful watch of Xerxes and the evil Fae Queen, it’s not clear we’re going to survive.
    Can we work together? Or will we implode?

    One thing is for sure, I’m about to uncover my destiny.
    Power is in my veins.

    REVIEW:

    Psycho Fae is a mix of Gladiator and ACOTAR, but make it Reverse Harem full of shifters and fae. The action is fast and the characters are still obsessed with our MC. The fight scenes are pretty great, though as with any fantasy it can be unrealistic at times (duh). The heat is what really kept me going. Those boys were beyond. But I also loved the tertiary friendship relationships that started to grow, and there’s a surprising addition to the gang that is pretty swoonworthy.

    Overall, it was pretty good and kept my attention, even during the parts when FMC was starting to get on my nerves. Girl, you had a hard life–your skin should be thicker than this!

    Thanks to NetGalley and Harlequin Trade for the free ebook copy in exchange for a fair and honest review!

  • THE BOYFRIEND

    THE BOYFRIEND

    By: Seth Sherwood
    Pub Date: 2/24/2026 – NOW AVAILABLE
    Genre: Horror (Graphic Novel)

    Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕
    Creep Level: 👻👻👻

    Art: 🎨🎨🎨🎨

    PUBLISHER’S SYNOPSIS

    Chloe, an outcast teen relentlessly bullied by everyone, conjures up an imaginary boyfriend to boost her confidence and win the approval of her peers. To her surprise, the plan works, and she soon lands a real boyfriend, believing her life has finally turned around. But her excitement turns to terror when the imaginary lover she created comes to life, determined to eliminate anyone who stands in the way of their twisted connection.

    REVIEW

    Girlfriend is the supernatural stalker graphic horror novel you didn’t know you needed. If you’re the spooky goth girl, you might know what it’s like to have people be less than nice to you, but when it’s your own twin sister, that can be a special level of hell. Especially when your parents drag you to summer on the beach with only your immediate family. Sometimes its necessary to make your own fun, though probably summoning an entity bent on your happiness by whatever means possible, including horrific murder, might be a little over the top.

    A surprising story of eldritch horror and sisterly bonding told through beautiful art, this is definitely one for the shelves.

    Thanks to NetGalley and Mad Cave Studios for the advanced ebook copy in exchange for a fair and honest review!