📚 The Reckless Bookshelf
41 reviews.
No regrets.
Rated on vibes, emotional damage, and how hard it lives in my head rent-free. These are MY reviews — unfiltered, unhinged, unapologetic.
Heartless
★★★★★5🖤 Heartless — Elsie Silver (Chestnut Springs #2) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ · 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧
Painters Obsession Vol 1
★★★★★5🖤 Painter's Obsession: Volume I — Luna K. Wicked Audible version (spoiler-free)
Painters Obsession Vol 2
★★★★★5🖤 Painter's Obsession: Volume II — Luna K. Wicked ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ · 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧
Unbound. By Shadows
★★★★★5i am NOT the same person i was before i read this book. something inside me shifted and i don't think it's going back. five stars. no notes. only feral devotion.
Capicu Summer
★★★★★5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5
FOURTH WING
★★★★★5This book dragged me back into reading after YEARS away and I have never recovered. I devoured the audiobook in three days and then immediately read it again because apparently I have no self-control.
A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES
★★★★★3I need you to understand the context of this read: I was heavily pregnant, chasing a toddler, living in an RV while we built our house during tornado season. I needed ESCAPE and this book gave it to me. This is the book that made me want to start a BookTok account. That matters.
A COURT OF MIST AND FURY
★★★★★5Let me set the scene: Feyre DIED. Suffered PTSD. Had nightmares. Lost weight. Was puking her guts out. And Tamlin just… didn't notice? WHAT?
A COURT OF WINGS AND RUIN
★★★★★5My favorite book in this entire series. I said what I said.
A COURT OF FROST AND STARLIGHT
★★★★★3This is essentially a holiday novella disguised as a full book. It's not necessary for plot — you could skip it and miss nothing critical — but it's a cozy little palette cleanser after the war and gives some much-needed insight into where everyone's at emotionally.
A COURT OF SILVER FLAMES
★★★★★4I loved almost everything about this book. The girl boss energy. The training montages. The quests. The sex — oh, the SEX. Nesta and Cassian's spice was on another level compared to the rest of this series. Finally, someone said "let's give the adults adult content" and DELIVERED.
FROM BLOOD AND ASH
★★★★★3I'm going to be honest — I know I enjoyed this book while I was reading it, but ask me to tell you what happened and I'll stare at you blankly. It's the literary equivalent of a meal that tasted great but left you hungry an hour later.
A KINGDOM OF FLESH AND FIRE
★★★★★5Book two is where this series found its groove. Casteel's kingdom was genuinely cool — a whole new world that made me want to explore every corner. And Poppy? She finally opened up. The banter between them went from tense to playful to electric, and watching her personality bloom outside of the Maiden cage was everything.
THE CROWN OF GILDED BONES
★★★★★2DNF at 30%.
THE SERPENT AND THE WINGS OF NIGHT
★★★★★4THIS BOOK ATE AND LEFT NO CRUMBS.
HOW DOES IT FEEL?
★★★★★4Their meet cute was him STABBING HER. That's it. That's the hook. I was sold immediately.
BUTCHER & BLACKBIRD
★★★★★5I gave this six stars. Goodreads won't let me but I need you to know that.
LEATHER AND LARK
★★★★★4Not as good as Butcher & Blackbird — but honestly, what could be? That's an unfair bar. This was still a great time.
IRON FLAME
★★★★★5If Fourth Wing was the spark, Iron Flame was the wildfire.
ZODIAC ACADEMY 1: THE AWAKENING
★★★★★5This series is crack. I don't mean that lightly. I mean I picked up book one and immediately lost all sense of time, responsibility, and dignity. By the end I was fully addicted and making zero apologies about it.
ZODIAC ACADEMY 2: RUTHLESS FAE
★★★★★5Book one was the gateway drug. Book two was the full addiction.
ZODIAC ACADEMY 3: THE RECKONING
★★★★★5The crack continues. The crack INTENSIFIES.
ZODIAC ACADEMY 4: SHADOW PRINCESS
★★★★★4This is where the crack stopped being fun and started being DARK.
ZODIAC ACADEMY 5: CURSED FATES
★★★★★3This book wrecked me. I don't even fully remember WHY — the details have blurred together — but I know I was crying. I know I was depressed for a solid week after finishing it. That's not an exaggeration. A WEEK.
WHAT DID YOU DO?
★★★★★4.5SHE DID IT AGAIN. THE UNRELIABLE NARRATOR. AND I FELL FOR IT. AGAIN.
SCREAM FOR US
★★★★★3Let me be very clear about what this book is: a girl gets railed by multiple masked men on Halloween. That's it. That's the plot. There IS no plot. And I mean that as a compliment.
THE BOOK OF AZRAEL
★★★★★5This is my all-time favorite book. Out of everything I have ever read. EVERYTHING. And I need you to understand the weight of that statement because I have read a LOT of books.
THE THRONE OF BROKEN GODS
★★★★★5She's BAD now. Full villain mode. No leash. No sister. No reason to hold back. And Samkiel — this desperate, devoted, absolute WRECK of a god — is trying so hard to save her and she WILL NOT LET HIM.
THE BIG A.S.S. PARTY
★★★★★4.5One sitting. Devoured. No regrets.
FATED THRONE
★★★★★4.5My brain has blocked out the specifics of this book to protect me from emotional damage, and honestly? That's valid. Self-preservation is real.
A TOUCH OF GOLD AND MADNESS
★★★★★5I completely forgot about this book until right now and I'm genuinely mad at myself because it was SO GOOD.
ZODIAC ACADEMY 7: HEARTLESS SKY
★★★★★3.5This book broke me. That's not a figure of speech. It BROKE me.
LITTLE STRANGER
★★★★★4This was my first real dip into dark romance. Like DARK dark. Not "morally grey MMC with a troubled past" dark. I mean "what did I just read and why am I still listening" DARK.
ZODIAC ACADEMY 8: SORROW AND STARLIGHT
★★★★★3.5More screaming. More crying. More hating. More loving. The Peckham and Valenti cycle continues and I am powerless against it.
PHANTASMA
★★★★★5New Orleans. A haunted mystery house. A missing sister. A Danny Phantom-ass ghost who has NO BUSINESS being that hot. I was SOLD from page one.
THE DAWN OF THE CURSED QUEEN
★★★★★5This book ripped my heart out, showed it to me, and then asked me to keep reading. I had to take BREAKS. Physical, emotional breaks where I put the book down and stared at nothing because I couldn't handle what was happening to these characters.
LIGHTS OUT
★★★★★5ATE. THIS. BITCH. UP.
THE MINDF*CK SERIES
★★★★★4A female serial killer hunting down the men who destroyed her life while dating the FBI agent assigned to catch her. The PREMISE alone had me by the throat.
ZODIAC ACADEMY 9: RESTLESS STARS
★★★★★5DNF at 45%. Five stars anyway.
ONYX STORM
★★★★★4.5Fucking amazing. But also too long. Rebecca Yarros, I love you, but girl — an editor is your friend.
WHERE DID YOU GO?
★★★★★5She did it AGAIN. Three books in and Jeneane O'Riley STILL managed to fool me with the unreliable narrator. At this point it's embarrassing. I KNOW it's coming and I STILL fall for it. This woman has my number and she keeps calling.