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The Long-Forgotten Winter King
Everyone is keeping secrets. Zak won’t reveal what really happened between us ten years ago. Ríkr’s been hiding so much I scarcely recognize him anymore. But the biggest secret belongs to my parents, and it’s the one I’m most desperate to unravel. Finding out who they really were, and who I am, means solving their…
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The One and Only Crystal Druid
Ten years ago, I risked everything on a nameless boy. I came out the other side with a murder conviction, a prison sentence, and a minor case of amnesia. I forgot everything about that boy, and now I’m out on parole, just a nobody witch volunteering at an animal rescue and keeping a low profile.…
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Be My Worst Nightmare
This third volume ends up going into another doll-dream situation, this one much more dire. Older brother bumps into a kid and starts mother hen-ing the guy, then it turns out the kid is a sex worker and has been sucking dick for attention. Needless to say, our bro ends up trying to save the…
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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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She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat Vol. 1-2
Cooking is how Nomoto de-stresses, but one day, she finds herself making way more than she can eat by herself. And so, she invites her neighbor Kasuga, who also lives alone. What will come out of this impromptu dinner invitation…? I have two more volumes to read later but I figured I would tackle this…
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The Person I Loved Asked Me to Die in My Sister’s Stead Vol. 1
Wisteria, the daughter of a count, secretly has feelings for Bright, a beautiful childhood friend and son of a duke who, unable to use magic, had been conducting forbidden research in the shadows. Devastated when Bright confesses his love for her younger sister, Wisteria is even more hurt when he asks her to take her…
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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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Asahina Wakaba and Her Chubby-Chubby Boyfriend Vol. 1-3
Asahina Wakaba, a girl who is a bit clumsy and not good at socializing, gets bullied into asking out the school’s biggest, most despised, otaku, Haruto Iruma. However, this experience changes her pitch-black high school years into the ultimate young-love experience. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this series. I just sort of pick…
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The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor Season 1
Jill breaks out of prison the night before she’s set to be executed by her fiancé, Crown Prince Gerald. She’s struck by an arrow while escaping, but instead of dying, she’s transported six years into the past—to the night she and Gerald met. Desperate to alter fate, she instead proposes to the first man she…
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How to Grill Our Love Vol. 1
Dating can be tough when you nerd out over barbecue. Kenta, a practical pitmaster, looks for a grill-friend in Chihiro, an aloof and faultless business babe…or is she? Scared of being rejected for who they really are, the two of them find comfort in food and each other…and all is well until Kenta must transfer…
M's Media Menagerie
Thoughtful Dumping Grounds
Trope: the YEARNING
Unbearably strong pining that slow burn wishes to inflict upon the reader.
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:
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