Anonymous #1 15w

Same!! I mentally cannot handle it I already have normal books putting me into a slump I don’t need a slump + being mentally exhausted 😭

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Anonymous OP 15w

FINALLY someone who gets me!! Im way too mentally ill to be making myself sadder by reading sad books! I need the serotonin from books, not more sadness. If I get sad I just get a reading slump, then that just makes me worse

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Anonymous #1 15w

Yes THANK YOUUUU oh my gosh I feel like no one really understands. Every time I say I read romance people are like 🤨🫵🏽 but no I just need a cutie little book to distract me for a little.

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Anonymous OP 15w

That’s why I read romance too! I read fantasy and romance because it gives me serotonin and a sense of escapism. I need distractions from my own shitty brain

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Anonymous #1 15w

Ayy twinzies 🤭

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Anonymous #2 15w

This is what I’ve heard too, and why tf do we keep getting disgusting yet popular trad pub when indie spaces are full of amazing, underrated titles 😭

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Anonymous #2 15w

Can I ask disgusting how? I know it has SA and stuff like that but how bad is it?

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Anonymous #3 15w

Indie recs 👀👀

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Anonymous OP 15w

Give me genres/ vibes and I’ve got yooou 👀

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Anonymous OP 15w

It’s explicitly Child SA. Vile.

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Anonymous OP 15w

Even the fanbase is disgusted by the new book…which says a lot…

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Anonymous #2 15w

Woah wait I thought they just mentioned that it happened and when it happened I didn’t know she put the scenes in there

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Anonymous #3 15w

Romance and I love all vibes so it doesn’t really matter 😋

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Anonymous OP 15w

His Unexpected (+ series) by Bailey Elizabeth is a fun slowww burn paranormal romance. It starts out w some comfort tropes that feel Wattpad-y (mafia, forced prox) but flips them on their head. AE Bennet’s serulatta saga is full of misc romances of all sorts over a dystopian fantasy world. Silver Blood by TL Morgan is amazing mm vamp romance. SC Grayson has a variety of fun fantasy romance. A Thorn-Kindled Flame is a sweet Hades x Perseph retelling. I can keep going if you have more specifics!!

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Anonymous OP 15w

No. It’s graphic. And I feel like publishing that as YA is honestly gross. As a victim, I think writing explicit CSA is too far, I don’t care if the author was a victim as well. That is far too close to CP for my liking.

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Anonymous #2 15w

I don’t like SA scenes in general I feel like now in days it’s way too normalized and yes it does happen and there should be awareness but every single book does not need an SA scene you can create trauma and drama/ plot without having that not to mention a lot of these books don’t actually bring awareness so I agree wholeheartedly with your point

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Anonymous #3 15w

These sound sooooo good I just read the descriptions 😝 I’m about to eat these up. Do you have any that are like dark academia??

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Anonymous OP 15w

Apparently it’s not even one scene. It’s THREE count them THREE explicit scenes. I do like seeing survivors in lit, seeing myself in characters makes me happy. But SA scenes that add nothing to the story and are clearly fetish content or used as a shock factor make me sick.

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Anonymous #2 15w

3 is absolutely unnecessary and I feel like she probably did that because of the amount of hate that Lizzie gets she needed to show readers “oh look she’s so traumatized that’s why she does it” but you can do that without 3 child r- scenes

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