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In fact, I sobbed at the end of both of these books, so there's already one thing that these books have in common. But, as I mentioned, if you like following just kind of like grumpy old characters that are really stubborn and set in their ways, but you kind of see how they start opening up to things like the more they interact with other people whether it's other people younger or just expanding their circles, meeting new people, being more open to things.

As a theater lover myself, I absolutely loved this. We have a magic system that is based on acting techniques, which is so cool.

I think both of these have critiques on all of that sort of stuff and I really enjoyed both of these. They very much give the feeling of like what would our world be like if there was just a little bit of magic in it.

The main difference is that while Once Upon a Broken Heart is just straight true whimsy, Belladonna has a little bit of a gothic twist to it. So, we do have the same elements, as I mentioned, of a female character who just wants love, who wants a nice life, who wants to find a husband.

So, these two books I just found very similar as I was reading and I honestly really loved both of them. Really entertaining, really wild, but that's our first wreck.

I absolutely love this book. I actually love this more than the Emily Wilde books, but these two are both very similar in terms of the fact that they're both cozy fantasies.

Basically, around the middle parts of both of these books, I started to just feeling bored, started feeling over it. But then at the very end, both of these books really brought it together and I did sob like a baby at the end of both of these books.

But where Recursion goes kind of a more thriller exciting sci-fi type of a way, like an Inception type of a direction, Lightbreakers definitely goes more into the literary fiction character side of it all, which is really interesting because, you know, while I did love Recursion and I actually loved Recursion more than this one.

So we continue to follow the story as we get like twist after twist after twist and it's just so exciting and such a bingeable read. So definitely a really good thriller.

Like in both of these, we have a main character who just wants to find a husband, find the love of their life, go to fancy balls, wear a dress, and run through the castle. And I loved that about both of these.

The second book kind of just felt like just more of the same that we got in Heartless Hunter, which I know a lot of people really loved, but it wasn't just for me.

With The Dagger and The Flame on the other hand, in the second book, The Rebel and The Rose, we actually did like venture out, explore more of the world, develop a little bit more of our magic, but still kept that main romance plot line as a really strong element in the book, too. Like definitely stayed very prominent in terms of importance. This series is going to be a trilogy.

Recursion was really fun for the plot. It was really fun for the excitement. It was really fun for the twists and just like what the heck is happening, like all of those feelings.

But, in Sorcery and Small Magics, we also have a little bit of a queer romance, which I absolutely love.

I just really loved that about this book and how it highlighted letter writing in that way. And yeah, we do see Sybil as she continues to interact, correspond with all of these people. She really grows as a character as well even in like her 70s and I love that.

I feel like both of these are also quite simple in terms of the fantasy world, so they're really easy to dive into, really quick to read, really just bingeable, addictive. But, honestly, where I really loved Heartless Hunter, I felt kind of disappointed in the second book in this duology, The Rebel Witch, because I wanted us to expand a little bit more on our characters, on the magic and also the world in the second book and we didn't really get that.

I feel like both of these are also quite simple in terms of the fantasy world, so they're really easy to dive into, really quick to read, really just bingeable, addictive.

And in both of these books, I just loved the commitment to the bit. Like dedicated to their themes, and both such atmospheric and unique reads.

So I think both of these were just very exciting for me to read. Both of these have plot twists that are just embedded throughout the story instead of like a build-up to one big plot twist at the end.

I think both of these have critiques on all of that sort of stuff and I really enjoyed both of these. They very much give the feeling of like what would our world be like if there was just a little bit of magic in it.

So, these two books I just found very similar as I was reading and I honestly really loved both of them. Really entertaining, really wild, but that's our first wreck.

Basically, around the middle parts of both of these books, I started to just feeling bored, started feeling over it. But then at the very end, both of these books really brought it together and I did sob like a baby at the end of both of these books.