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The 6th Loop: I’m Finally Free of Auto Mode in this Otome Game Vol 1-6

Harem Scale H: She can and will do things to help or save people to an insane degree, despite being constantly worried about dying. A: She is aware it is a harem game, however, she is not aware that the harem is hers now. R: You can’t see it but romance is a solid 3
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100 Ghost Stories That Will Lead to My Own Death Vol. 3

The framing story is getting more intense and I am DYING to get the next book. Favorite story: Shizuka.
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Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Party Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to an Infinite Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out for Revenge Vol. 1-9

Harem Scale H: MC is sufficiently heroic but is kind of sadistic. A: Very aware of the women always being like That. R: Ignores all of it. E: Entirely for the male gaze. Just look at the covers. M: I got invested enough in the plot and the revenge stuff. A kid named Light is
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For readers of Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma’s Severance: a tight, propulsive, chilling novel by a rising international star about a group of young colleagues working as social media content monitors—reviewers of violent or illegal videos for an unnamed megacorporation—who convince themselves they’re in control . . . until the violence strikes
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Edenville

An unsettling, immersive, and wildly entertaining debut novel from an exciting new voice in horror for fans of Paul Tremblay and Stephen Graham Jones. After publishing his debut novel, The Shattered Man, to disappointing sales and reviews, Campbell P. Marion is struggling to find inspiration for a follow-up. When Edenville College invites him to join as a
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The 100th Time’s the Charm: She Was Executed 99 Times, So How Did She Unlock Super Love Mode?! Vol. 01-04

Super Love Mode is actually the ability to read minds because every death stockpiled all the mana of one life into the next, over and over and over. It was actually quite amusing but not thoroughly ground-breaking.
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QQ Sweeper Vol. 1-3

In human hearts, negative energy sometimes finds a place to dwell. This negativity can begin to take shape into monstrous creatures, which can only be dealt with by “Sweepers,” special people with the ability to banish them and bring peace. Kyuutarou Horikita comes from a long line of Sweepers, but most of his classmates see
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Bury Your Gays

This is an AWESOME takedown of rainbow capitalism and AI in creative spaces. Chuck Tingle has always been a stellar writer, but holy shit, this is fantastic. It really leans into a paranormal angle at first, and it’s definitely along the lines I was thinking, but the execution turned the expected turnout into something more.
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Shadows House Vol. 1-9

Shadows House—a strange mansion that receives no callers, inhabited by a race of faceless shadows who play at being aristocrats and are waited on hand and foot by “living dolls,” who also serve as their masters’ faces. What goes on inside this enigmatic manor is anyone’s guess, but soot and shrieks billow up from within…
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After God Vol. 1-6

Desperate for answers about her friend’s disappearance, Waka breaches the Tokyo danger zone in search of clues. Instead, she finds Tokinaga, a researcher with the Anti-God Scientific Research Institute. While Waka tries to decide if she should trust Tokinaga, he quickly realizes Waka is hiding a dangerous secret of her own—one that may just be
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