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shadow-elf

Best easy-read book recs please

Book Request: No Self-Promo

Sooooo bored of reading posts talking about how X and Y popular books aren't well written, only books 3 people and a rat have heard of are worth reading, smut ruins a book because how can a character be both interesting AND horny, etc etc etc

I have one braincell and its only sometimes available. For every complex, intriguing, plot-twisting, fleshed out book I read (and love and enjoy!), I also need some chaotic easy-reading cringe to balance it out. I'm here for a good time not to wallow in my literary superiority. Is Throne of Glass a masterpiece to be studied by future generations? No. Does it slap? Yes.

That being said please give me your best fantasy chic-lit-esq reads. I'm talking somewhat farfetched plot, next to no political scheming unless its fun, makes me laugh (even if it doesn't intend to), characters who may or may not be walking stereotypes, less than 500 pages, and where it doesn't matter if the magical system/world building/character's family tree goes in one ear and out the other. Books set in the modern world seem to be excellent at this, but generic fantasy setting will do. Doesn't need to be spicy but it can be.

Books I read recently that I consider in this category that I liked:

- The entire Filthy Rich Vampire series and Filthy Rich Fae by Geneva Lee. Top tier books

- Tusk Love by Thea Guanzon

- The Dark Lord's Guide to Dating by Tiffany Hunt

- The Lunatics by Navessa Allen

- Payback's A Witch by Lana Harper

- My Vampire Plus One by Jenna Levine

Posted Sep 11, 2026, 3:35 PM UTC

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