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Mama Chaos + One More Chapter
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items Books that this busy mom was able to sit back and enjoy when that nap time hits!
Sections
7
Adult Moments
Dark
Fantasy & Fairytales
Greek Mythology
Thriller / Horror
Bio
Adult Moments
Books with a bit of spicy to the whole pepper bush
Adult romance with some spicy, steamy scenes aren’t over the top smutty but still hit the spot. Hades, God of the Underworld meeting Persephone, this is his story line of the series. Modern twist retelling of their love story. It is all about how he ...
A Game of Fate (Hades series # 1 of 3) by Scarlett St. Clair
First in the series of Hades X Persephone by Scarlett St. Clair. This is Persephone’s side of the story line; how she met Hades, the deal she makes, and falling in love. Some spicy scenes aren’t overly smutty but give off a nice steam.
Love the seri...
A Touch of Darkness (Hades & Persephone, #1 of 4) by Scarlett St. Clair
A dark fantasy retelling mixture of Beauty and the Beast and Rumpelstiltskin with some smutty spice. Story follows Gesella, she is given 7 days to guess her captures name for her freedom and ends up falling for “The Beast” while she’s stuck between ...
Mountains Made of Glass (Fairytale Retelling #1) by Scarlett St. Clair
A dark fairytale retelling of enemies to lovers with gothic Cinderella vibes and some smutty spice scenes, Lore is haunted with dreams of Samara. Samara is tormented by her brothers. Pushed together by fate their desire for each other grows.
Apples Dipped in Gold (Fairytale Retelling #2) by Scarlett St. Clair
Gild is a dark fantasy retelling of the King Midas myth where Auren, a woman with the power to turn anything she touches into gold, is kept as a prized possession in a gilded cage by a ruthless king. Surrounded by luxury but stripped of freedom, she ...
Gild (The Plated Prisoner series # 1 of 6) by Raven Kennedy
Dark
There is no sunshine or rainbows.
Starting of this story is a man getting in an accident with his car and almost losing his life. He ends up in a burn ward where he meets an unhinged woman who sculpts Gargoyles. She shares love stories from different time periods all ending in traged...
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Bunny by Mona Awad is a dark, surreal, and wildly unsettling story that blends satire, horror, and academia in a way that feels completely unique. Following Samantha, an outsider in an elite MFA program, the novel spirals into bizarre rituals and dis...
Bunny by Mona Awad
Fantasy & Fairytales
From Princesses, Fairies, Dragons,and Witches
Addie LaRue, a young woman who doesn’t want the life pushed for her makes a deal with the devil to be able to live her own life and gets more than she bargained for.
There’s mixed feelings of this book but I ended up loving it. It is something that ...
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by
V. E. Schwab
Greek Mythology
The wonderful world of Greek Mythology and retelling of the stories!
Ariadne, the retelling of a young princess who gives it all up for Theseus and help end The Minotaur. But things don’t end for her as she hopes.
I am a huge fan of Greek Mythology and Jennifer Saint writes on the female protagonist. Gripping story t...
Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
Hera, the Queen of the Gods and the story retelling of her struggle living with Zeus
Hera by Jennifer Saint
The Song of Achilles, the story of the great warrior who battled in Trojan War, his life from beginning to end. A beautiful retelling with, warning here incase some people don’t like, a love story from his main man Patroclus. I could not put it down!
Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Circe the story of the witch who can turn men into animals. A retelling of how she became a loner, misunderstood, and finding her place once in for all.
Circe by Madeline Miller
In Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes reimagines the story of Medusa, giving a voice to the woman behind one of Greek mythology’s most misunderstood monsters. Born mortal among immortal sisters, Medusa’s life is forever changed after the cruelty of gods tur...
Stone Blind: A Novel by Natalie Haynes
Thriller / Horror
Mysteries and clutching the book tighter
Two sisters try to survive post revolutionary Russia when Bolshevik’s move into their house, and the spirits aren’t happy.
The Haunting of Moscow House by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
A lone survivor of a family murder moves back into her family home where the crime happened and weird things start to happen around her, does she solve the mystery of what happened to her family?
Totally gripping book I had a hard time putting it do...
Theme Music by T. Marie Vandelly
Hidden Pictures is a gripping thriller that blends mystery with subtle supernatural elements in a really unique way. The story follows a recovering addict working as a nanny, who discovers eerie drawings that hint at something much darker beneath the...
Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
Bio
Inside the day and life of…
How to Make Love Like a Porn Star by Jenna Jameson is a raw, unfiltered memoir on her rise to being a big name in the adult entertainment industry. She’s open on her vulnerability, her childhood, her struggles, her choices that created the path she m...
How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale by Jenna Jameson
Stripped Down is one of the rawest celebrity memoirs I’ve read, with Bunnie XO sharing her life story in a way that feels completely honest and unfiltered. She doesn’t shy away from the painful parts of her past, but balances the heavier moments with...
Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic by Bunnie XO
Mystery / Thriller
Well gang, it looks like we have another mystery on our hands
A story about a woman who loses it all during Covid and is figuring out how to survive, meeting a woman who just wants to end it. Thrilling, twists, a gripping read!
The Drowning Woman by Robyn Harding
A dinner party is on its way but there’s a bump in the road for Nadine, she is standing over a dead body. It’s the game Clue in a book, a classic who done it as the book looks back to before someone lost their life.
A Death At The Party by Amy Stuart
Part murder mystery and part breathtaking coming-of-age story, this novel will completely pull you into the quiet world of the North Carolina marshes. The story follows Kya Clark, the isolated "Marsh Girl," who has survived alone for years in the wil...
Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens