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Kasia Landry

📚 = Series | 📕 = Single Book 📖 I've tried to include a synopsis and series info in the notes of each book. 🫶 Every single one of these books were read and loved by yours truly! I have my fair share of books that I did not care for - those didn't ...

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Dark Romance 🌶️🥵

Romantasy 🫦

Dystopian

All Time Literary Favorites

Dark Romance 🌶️🥵

Like some really dark romance? Yeah, me too. I should probably go back to therapy but instead I'll read another dark romance book…

Liars Like Us by JT Geissinger 📖 A struggling bookstore owner reluctantly agrees to a marriage of convenience with a charismatic billionaire to save her business. However, as sparks fly, his obsession deepens into control and deceit — a morally gray...

📚 Obsessive Billionaire

Lights Out by Navessa Allen 📖 A trauma nurse accidentally messages her favorite masked TikTok cosplayer with a risqué fantasy - and wakes up to find him in her house. What starts as a playful encounter turns into a twisted, steamy romance with stalk...

📚 Stalker Comedy

The Ritual by Shantel Tessier 📖 Dark romance series centered around a powerful secret society where love, loyalty, and revenge intertwine at an elite university. Reading Order: The Ritual - The Sinner - The Sacrifice - Sabotage - Carnage - Madness

📚 Possessive Enemy

The Sinner by Shantel Tessier 📖 Dark romance series centered around a powerful secret society where love, loyalty, and revenge intertwine at an elite university. Reading Order: The Ritual - The Sinner - The Sacrifice - Sabotage - Carnage - Madness

📚 Forbidden Obsession

The Sacrifice by Shantel Tessier 📖 Dark romance series centered around a powerful secret society where love, loyalty, and revenge intertwine at an elite university. Reading Order: The Ritual - The Sinner - The Sacrifice - Sabotage - Carnage - Madne...

📚 Corrupted Innocence

Carnage by Shantel Tessier 📖 Dark romance series centered around a powerful secret society where love, loyalty, and revenge intertwine at an elite university. Reading Order: The Ritual - The Sinner - The Sacrifice - Sabotage - Carnage - Madness

📚 Violent Devotion

Madness by Shantel Tessier 📖 Dark romance series centered around a powerful secret society where love, loyalty, and revenge intertwine at an elite university. Reading Order: The Ritual - The Sinner - The Sacrifice - Sabotage - Carnage - Madness

📚 Psychotic Love

Crossfire Series by Sylvia Day 📖 Two emotionally scarred people find intense passion and face their pasts while learning to love deeply and honestly. (Individual Books available at the link) Reading Order: Bared to You - Reflected in You - Entwined...

📚 Trauma Bonding

Cat & Mouse Duet by HD Carlton 📖 A gothic dark romance about a reclusive writer, a mysterious stalker, and the blurred line between obsession and love. Reading Order: Haunting Adeline - Hunting Adeline Reading Order with optional additions: Sa...

📚 Stalker Romance

Romantasy 🫦

🤗 FAE & DRAGONS & VAMPIRES, OH MY! Sprinkle in some "who hurt you" and I'm done for

📖 A steamy fantasy romance series featuring dangerous FAE rulers and the women who challenge their power, passion, and fate. Reading Order: The Dark King - The Rebel King - The Vicious King (Book 3 currently is not available on Barnes & Noble w...

📚 The Dark King by Gina L. Maxwell

📚 The Rebel King by Gina L. Maxwell

📖 A deadly assassin is drawn into a world of magic, war, and ancient secrets as she fights for freedom and discovers her true destiny. (Individual Books available at the link.) Not to be dramatic or anything, but this series changed my life. Readi...

📚 Throne of Glass Series by Sarah J. Maas

📖 A mortal girl enters the FAE world after killing a wolf and becomes entangled in magical politics, ancient curses, and powerful romance. (Individual Books available at the link) Reading Order: A Court of Thorns and Roses - A Court of Mist and Fur...

📚 A Court of Thorns and Roses Series by Sarah J. Maas

📖 Half-FAE party girl Bryce Quinlan investigates a murder in a futuristic city and discovers powers, secrets, and allies that could change her world forever. (Individual Books available at the link) Reading Order: House of Earth and Blood - House o...

📚 Crescent City Series by Sarah J. Maas

📖 Twin sisters discover they are the heirs to a powerful celestial throne and are thrust into a brutal magical academy where they must master elemental powers and survive deadly rivalries. Romance, betrayal, and destiny collide in this dark paranorm...

📚 Zodiac Academy Series by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti

📖 A young woman is forced into a deadly DRAGON-rider academy where survival depends on grit, alliances, and uncovering secrets that could change everything.(Individual Books available at the link) Reading Order: Fourth Wing - Iron Flame - Onyx Stor...

📚 The Empyrean Series by Rebecca Yarros

📖 Every hundred years, an island called Lightlark reappears, and six rulers must compete in a deadly game to break the curses on their realms. One of them must die to succeed. Isla Crown enters the Centennial with secrets of her own, navigating betr...

📚 Lightlark Saga by Alex Aster

Dystopian

🫶 Want to escape to different reality for a bit? I don't blame ya 💕As you can see by all the YA titles, this genre has long been a favorite of mine. I long to re-read these, but there are so many new titles vying for my attention!

4 Book Series. Reading Order: Uglies - Pretties - Specials - Extras

Synopsis: In a future where everyone gets surgically made “pretty” at sixteen, one girl challenges the system and uncovers the dark truth behind perfection.

Uglies (Uglies Series #1) by Scott Westerfeld

Pretties (Uglies Series #2) by Scott Westerfeld, Paperback

Specials (Uglies Series #3)|Paperback

Extras (Uglies Series #4)|Paperback

Reading Order: Delirium - Pandemonium - Requiem

Synopsis: In a dystopian world where love is seen as a disease, one girl starts to feel and must decide whether to accept the cure or follow her heart

Delirium (Delirium Trilogy #1) by Lauren Oliver

Reading Order: Delirium - Pandemonium - Requiem

Synopsis: In a dystopian world where love is seen as a disease, one girl starts to feel and must decide whether to accept the cure or follow her heart

Pandemonium (Delirium Trilogy #2) by Lauren Oliver

Reading Order: Delirium - Pandemonium - Requiem

Synopsis: In a dystopian world where love is seen as a disease, one girl starts to feel and must decide whether to accept the cure or follow her heart

Requiem (Delirium Series #3) by Lauren Oliver

Reading Order: Divergent - Insurgent - Allegiant - Four: A Divergent Collection (optional prequel)

Synopsis: In a society divided by traits, one girl’s divergence puts her in danger and sparks a revolution that challenges everything.

Divergent Series by Veronica Roth

Reading Order: Matched - Crossed - Reached

Synopsis: In a world where choices are made for you, including who you love, one girl questions the system and sets out to make her own path.

Matched (Matched Trilogy Series #1)|Paperback

Reading Order: Matched - Crossed - Reached

Synopsis: In a world where choices are made for you, including who you love, one girl questions the system and sets out to make her own path.

Crossed (Matched Trilogy Series #2)|Paperback

Reading Order: Matched - Crossed - Reached

Synopsis: In a world where choices are made for you, including who you love, one girl questions the system and sets out to make her own path.

Reached (Matched Trilogy Series #3)|Paperback

All Time Literary Favorites

I've included personal notes for each. These are old classics that I hold near and dear.
So good they've made it onto my book tattoo sleeve

I felt so seen in this book. The outcast. The weirdo. My favorite passage: “We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past ”weird" and “strange” and “goofy." A single word seemed to hover in the cloudl...

Stargirl Jerry Spinelli

One of my all time favorites! I even got a tattoo of him

The Little Prince|Paperback