18 oddly specific book recommendations 📚⭐️ (based on your requests)

And I think it appears in the second book. I don't think it appears yet in A Darker Shade of Magic, but once you get to A Conjuring of Light, you will meet the cat. It's not a very prominent character, but it's there enough.

There is so much yearning, like probably the most yearning I have ever read in a book. And it is a standalone. This was a fivestar read for me.

I feel like it wasn't like a twist at the end that got me, but there's a twist in the middle, like a big reveal that just like my jaw was literally on the floor. So, I immediately thought of this.

These were not five star reads for me. I really enjoyed the Daisy book.

But yeah, a lot of the first book takes place like kind of like stranded in the desert vibes, so I thought that was fitting. Felt very hot reading that one.

This is a YA fantasy romance, very based in Chinese folklore. Also a really, really good spring read because we have a lot of floral imagery and I feel like the vibes are just perfection for spring.

There is a lot of dragons in this book and also in the sequel in this duogy. It's literally called The Dragon's Promise.

This is the second book of a series, but I feel like the character in this, she's very girly pop and she kind of goes off on her own little adventure.

So, Every Summer After is her first book, I actually really loved this. If you've read Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren, though, it is very much like the same plot, but just set in Canada.

This one is about six characters who just like all betray each other. So, this definitely has a lot of twists and turns and I remember the ending just like baffling me.

And the situations these two got put in made me like I was in physical pain while reading this, but in the best way.

I pulled The Prisoner of Aszaban by Harry Potter by Harry Potter. Harry Potter, the third book. , I feel like this requires no explanation.

I'm still on the fence about the Magnolia side of this universe, but the Magnolia Parks and Daisy Hayes books I feel like go quite deep into character and character development. These are definitely more character-driven books versus plot- driven books.

Her second book was Meet Me at the Lake, and I was very mixed on this, but this one also takes place between Toronto and Msoka.

So, our main character actually ends up in the fictional town of her favorite book series. And she also ends up staying like above a bookstore as well. So, lots of bookie vibes in that one.

And it also happens to be like on a day where like the air conditioning breaks. There's no cooling. It's very hot and sticky.

Also, incredible book. So good. Made me actually sob.

I don't actually know if this is categorized as adult or YA, but I feel like her writing feels very mature. So, even if her stories are YA, they don't feel YA, if that makes sense.

There is a lot of dragons in this book and also in the sequel in this duogy. It's literally called The Dragon's Promise.

It's not sundress vibes, but it is like summer adventure vibes. It's like this contemporary romance that is it turns dangerous.

I would say Spark of the Everflame by Pen Cole but I feel like that feels quite YA.

It is more just a fantasy with a side plot of romance. But I do really like the romance in this book. And it is not overly spicy, at least from the first two books that I've read so far in this series.

The cat and mouse in this book worked so well. and I feel like set up that tension between our two main characters so well. I loved it.

It is very toxic. It is just drama, but it does set up the tension so well. I wanted to throw this book across the room so many times while reading it.

Because there were points in that book where the narrator broke the fourth wall and like spoke to the reader directly and they were like, "Hey, as I tell you this story, I'm going to say this, but remember this." And I feel like that was very meta feeling.

This is a mystery book. It is not a thriller. Anyone who's expecting a thriller, don't read this book because it is quite slow and not thrillery.

But with this one, there's like a dreamlike library and every book in it is a different life. So, our main character like opens up these different books and lives these different lives. So, very book themed.

I feel like this one focuses more on the like emotional impacts and the cultural impacts of time travel versus just time traveling over and over again if that makes sense.

It's I don't know how like metatextual it is, but it definitely has some interesting POVs. We have multi-POV with mostly third person POV, but then we get these second POV chapters mixed in throughout.

These characters, I will never forget about these characters and this world and this entire trilogy as a whole. So immersive. The characters are so complex.

But this does have some really good elements of romance. And again, like they're not very spicy.

This is a YA fantasy and while some of this book was I think quite predictable for me, there was a twist at the end of this that absolutely caught me off guard and I don't know how it caught me so offguard but yeah, this one definitely had a big twist for me.

And the structure of this book is really interesting. We live the same day over and over and over again, but our main character every day wakes up in a different body while reliving the same day.

It is such an immersive book and for a standalone to get you so into the world and so into the characters, it's just incredible. I feel like ML Wang is really, really good at writing these standalone types of books because in this book within the first 30 pages, I was hooked to the characters.

And I absolutely loved this book. It's like a time travel mystery with a little bit of romance tiein. And I'm obsessed with this book.

This absolutely blew my mind last year. It was so good.

This one is just so fuzzy and cozy and like tugs at your emotions, but like it's a good feeling. Like a good wholesome, warm hug feeling.

But that one made me feel all sorts of emotional vibes, but also like cozy fuzzy emotional vibes and hugged on my heartstrings, but yeah, didn't make me fully cry.

I read on my Kindle, so I don't have in physical, but that one is actually set in PEI, which is really fun. It's very coastal, very seaside.

We go to like the sun realm in this one. I just feel like this fits boiling. There's some spicy scenes in here, so you could take that as like hot in another way.

The dragons also crystallize into moons in this book and I feel like the way dragons are portrayed in this one is very poetic and I really enjoyed that.