Genre: Romance

  • Follow Her Down

    Follow Her Down

    The hunt is on.Sera Vale stalks her tormentor.Men stalk Sera.And somewhere in the dark, a killer waits. Will this be Sera Vale’s final unmaking? That depends. She’s not running. She’s collecting—tools, weapons, worshippers.They bow to her.Crave her.Kill for her.Follow her down, even to hell. Her monsters aren’t just lovers.They’re trophies.They’re jewels in her bloody crown.

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  • Boyfriend, Sometimes Girlfriend #2

    Boyfriend, Sometimes Girlfriend #2

    It’s still cute but maybe I’m just getting a bit bored of it. It took me longer than expected to read it. I’m not really feeling like putting the effort in to hit all the tropes and stuff.

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  • The Barbarian’s Bride #5

    The Barbarian’s Bride #5

    We NEED more MEN to be NAKED in this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! god DMANAIT Anyway, very masculine as always. Talking dragons are interesting. We have a fucking C-section to do as well. I like the series at least and the author admits in this one they’re just throwing their fetishes out in this as well so. At least

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  • Caterpillar Girl and Bad Texter Boy

    Caterpillar Girl and Bad Texter Boy

    Beautiful, smart, and kind Suzume Kikuo is perfect in every way, the girl of anyone’s dreams. But when she asks out her socially awkward childhood friend Akane, his response is a shocker: “You’re too perfect.” What’s a girl to do, except transform into a giant caterpillar and try, try again? This is like the opposite

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  • The Apothecary Diaries Vol. 01

    The Apothecary Diaries Vol. 01

    In the East is a land ruled by an emperor, whose consorts and serving women live in a sprawling complex known as the hougong, the rear palace. Maomao, an unassuming girl raised in an unassuming town by her apothecary father, never imagined the rear palace would have anything to do with her—until she was kidnapped

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  • A Guest in the House

    A Guest in the House

    After many lonely years, Abby’s just gotten married. She met her new husband, a recently widowed dentist, when he arrived in town with his young daughter seeking a new start. Although it’s strange living in the shadow of her predecessor, Abby does her best to be a good wife and mother, but the more she

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  • Confessions of a Shy Baker Vol. 1-2

    Confessions of a Shy Baker Vol. 1-2

    Cute and gay. It’s a food manga about making low-cal and healthy desserts, and also a realtor who is gay on the down-low. He’s dealing with being fay on the DL and being more tightly strung than others. It’s cute, it’s easy, it dives into queer issues rather neatly. The style reminds me of Detective

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  • The 31st Consort Vol 2-3

    The 31st Consort Vol 2-3

    I really like the 31st Consort. The conceit is having a queen who stands as an equal no matter what, changing the patriarchal idea of demure women who only fight socially. She’s forced to live within this construct but still manages despite her headstrong nature. The romance is cute, but the political infighting is what

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  • Don’t Hold Back, Lord Hades! Vol. 1

    Don’t Hold Back, Lord Hades! Vol. 1

    In the Realm of the Gods, new goddess Persephone spends her days tending to her fields of flowers. Every new sprout comes at the cost of an old one withering and dying—which is how she meets the handsome but taciturn Hades, who visits to collect the dead. Persephone grieves for the death of her beloved

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  • Cutie & the Beast

    Cutie & the Beast

    Unlike her friends who are into pretty boys, Momoka has a crush on a giant professional wrestler named Kuga who plays a villainous heel on TV. But in real life, Kuga is a big softie, and he really appreciates her fan mail! In this lighthearted romantic comedy, a little TV crush for a very big

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Welcome to the Menagerie.

Here is where M logs their media activity. Partly because Goodreads is forgettable and keeping physical logs is harder. Sometimes M writes a lot. Sometimes M doesn’t write enough. It doesn’t matter. This is just a for-fun little blog so that M can remember what they thought about whatever they watched or read or played or. Whatever.


What is M?

I read. Voraciously. I have subscriptions to those book things on digital retailers. I consume books at nearly all hours. The hours I don’t spend reading? I’m writing. I’m drawing. I have a problem. I have a problem in that I love to read things that are in the same vein repeatedly. Book journals don’t work and as much as I text my friends screenshots of book passages, it doesn’t scratch the itch. Now I’m going to be doing… tiny… tiny book reports.


Truck-Kun Kill Count:


Books & Light Novels Read in 2025: 23/50
46%
Comics Read in 2026: 51/200
25%
Physical Owned Books Read: 470/809
58%


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Absolute Asshole NPC (93) Accidentally in Charge (43) A Fetish For Suffering (48) Can't Say No (76) Chekov's Gun (47) Childhood Friends (52) Curiosity Fucks You Up (79) Cursed (64) Damsel in Distress (64) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (91) Dangerous Reputation (89) Doting Husband (68) Everyone Loves MC (94) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (49) Fan Service (98) Grumpy x Sunshine (54) Hypercompetent MC (74) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (55) I Know a Guy (52) Last Minute Hero (106) Loss of Humanity (53) Main Character Coloring (75) MC's Skewed Metrics (76) Mean Boy (123) Mean Boy Love Interest (49) Modern Morals (48) Nat 20s (92) Not Actually Dead (80) Nuclear Revenge (70) OP Protag (92) Petty Revenge (45) Power of Friendship (78) Power of Love (74) Self-Sacrifice (69) Shock Value (47) Sympathetic Evil (67) The Moral is Community (62) Tragic Backstory (84) Twist! (59) Uniquely Skilled (90) Unreliable Narrator (56) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (80) Western-Style Fantasy (87) Wrong Place Wrong Time (65) Zero to Hero (81)


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