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Books you NEED to read 📚✨
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Kristi Smith
These books range from fantasy to sci fi to just straight smut, but they are all worth the read!! Give them a read and let’s chat!
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ACOTAR
 
Fourth Wing
 
Cowboys, anyone?

ACOTAR

5-book fantasy series with magic, faeries and spice 

 
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The first book of the series and where you will truly learn to crave more in this fantasy world. The tension is thiiickkk.
A Court of Thorns and Roses (Book 1)
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I need to take a moment here. This is, by far, one of the best books I have read, simply because of the slow-burn, the build-up, the tension, the character development. When I tell you that I saw myself in Feyre, and I haven't stopped since reading t...
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
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This one is a long one, but well worth the read. Without spoiling too much, this book is full fantasy (but still with smut)! There is war, and despair (OMG the despair), feminine rage and love in the air.
A Court of Wings and Ruin - A Court of Thorns and Roses Wiki - Fandom
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Okay so the previous book is a little heavier, so this one is a little sweet treat (and the last one in Feyre's POV). Cute moments, whimsy, and, of course, smut.
A Court of Frost and Starlight
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Okay… being honest, I haven't read this one yet. Simply for the fact that I can't imagine seeing this world if it isn't from Feyre's point of view. Will I read it? Yes? No? Maybe? I know I have to, but I'm hanging onto the Feyre magic for a bit longe...
A ​Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
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Fourth Wing

3/5 books are released of this fantasy war college series with… DRAGONS (and smut).

 
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I was in a slump after ACOTAR and let me tell you, this book had me out of that within the first chapter. Rebecca shows us this harsh, cruel, and yet fantastical world and has you yearning for more (and there is a looooottt of yearning in this). This...
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1) by Rebecca Yarros
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Couldn't get enough of this series and had the second one preordered the MINUTE it came out. We follow Violet (our FMC) as she continues in  her second year as a dragon rider, and where she learns that her world is not at all what she once thought. And the people in it? They aren't who she thought either…
Iron Flame (Standard Edition) - Yarros
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….Ashamed to say I have not read this one yet (nursing school has me worn thin… I miss reading…) HOWEVER, the MINUTE I get a break from school I am going to devour this book in two seconds flat, especially after the cliffhanger the last one ended on!
Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3) by Rebecca Yarros
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Cowboys, anyone?

I went through a phase where I was desperate to read about any western/cowboy book I could get my hands on…. here are my top ones. Happy reading!

 
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Enemies-to-lovers? Grump/Sunshine? Cowboys and Horses? Sign. Me. Up. This book follows Mollie a city girl but country in her roots as she takes over her deceased father's ranch. The only problem? Cash. And, no, not the money type. The cowboy type. Ca...
Cash (Lucky River Ranch, #1) by Jessica Peterson
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