#morallygray

[littlebookishblog]

Gothikana by RuNyx 🖤🕸️👻🔪📜

Synopsis: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57426932-gothikana

Genres: Romantasy, Suspense, Academia, Gothic, Paranormal, Ghosts

Warnings: death, murder, explicit sexual content, sexual assault, suicide, dark, mental health

Dates Read: December 26, 2024 - January 2, 2025 / 456 pages / Kindle

Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Review: Join Corvina on this erotic and epic dark academia journey, where shadows whisper secrets, and danger lurks behind every corner.

Raised in isolation, Corvina Clemm is no stranger to loneliness. But when she receives a mysterious scholarship to the enigmatic University of Verenmore, she’s thrust into a world of dark hallways, forbidden knowledge, and an alluring professor who may be more than he seems. Vad Deverell is a man surrounded by mystery, his presence both intoxicating and dangerous. As Corvina unravels the school’s sinister history, she finds herself drawn into a web of secrets, obsession, and a passion that threatens to consume her.

Gothikana is a book that seems to divide readers—you’ll either love it or hate it. I, however, fall somewhere in the middle. The premise had so much potential, but the execution didn’t quite deliver. Plot holes and unresolved threads left me feeling unsatisfied, and the inconsistent writing, paired with editing issues, made certain parts difficult to follow.

The relationship between Corvina and Vad also didn’t quite work for me. It felt rushed and unbalanced, with a power dynamic that made some of their interactions uncomfortable to read. That said, I loved the dark, moody atmosphere and the layers of mystery that kept me engaged.

Despite its flaws, I still enjoyed the story overall. If you’re looking for a gothic romance with an eerie setting and mind-numbing spice—where the plot takes a backseat—this might be worth a read!

[zeithforge]

There’s something about the raw intensity of well-written enemies-to-lovers that just hits differently. The emotional stakes, the betrayal, the unbearable tension—it’s what keeps me up at night. Give me two morally gray, deeply flawed characters with a history of blood and lies, and I’ll never recover.

you read stuff on wattpad for shit and giggles where most of the fics there are reader-inserted ones written in 1st person pov where y/n is a barely legal white girl with blonde hair and blue “orbs” who’s so smol and fragile that she’s dependent entirely on this morally questionable guy who’s killing people for a living but for some reason happens to have a soft spot for her.

you read real actual literature on archive of our own where it’s two middle aged men, who are each other’s sworn enemies, with tragic past, trauma and strong homoerotic tension. and while they’ve made each other bleed, killed each other’s friends and loved ones out of jealousy / possessiveness, lied and betrayed and manipulated, the rawness, depth, complexity and slow burn will keep you up all night, haunt you during your day and possibly change your life forever. and also the sex isn’t just smut. the sex is poetry that puts Shakespeare to shame

[joyffree]

They’ve shattered my mind, twisted my memories, and turned my world upside down.

Mind Maze a dark enemies-to-lovers romance by K Webster is coming March 31st!

Mind Maze is book two in The Crowne Conspiracy trilogy. This book is a dark, psychological romance that contains triggering content. This book ends on a cliffhanger.

What to Expect in Mind Maze: · Enemies-to-Lovers · Morally Gray MMC · Mind Games · Touch Her and Die Vibes · Dark Family Secrets · Obsessive Anti-Hero · Forbidden Attraction

[irishsnowflakeluv]

First on Ao3, NOW ON WATTPAD, with pictures!! Intro and the first part is up now. Act One will be uploaded every Friday this month. Check it out if you perfer Wattpad over Ao3, I like that I get to include photo refrences here. Thank you everyone!

Blood in the Water // The Batman - Part 1 ~Lamb to the Slaughter~ (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/1486637850-blood-in-the-water-the-batman-part-1-%7Elamb-to-the?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_reading&wp_uname=irishsnowflakeluv ~ You poisoned me just for Another dollar in your pocket ~ --------------------------- Juliet Wayne, the eldest Child of Thomas and Martha Wayne. She knows how to make friends with the most unlikely of people... they think their playing her for her money, but she's smarter then they think. She plays Rich Socialite for the sake of her family's company, but that not who she really is. And neither is her brother, not that she's aware of his hobby's anyway. --------------------------- ~The price of your greed is your son and your daughter What you gonna do when there's blood in the water? ~ __________________________ All for fun. I don't own anything but Juliet and any other random side characters you've never heard off. Everything is own by DC or Matt Reeves. I just love this universe and want to have some fun.

[bianca-alexander88]

Black and white narratives exist at the cost of the truth; we don’t live in a Disney world universe where there’s the good guy and the bad guy and nothing in between; that’s not the truth of the human experience. 

[lunasquidd]

The Rest of my artfight stuff!

Part 1 below!

SwagPanda - https://artfight.net/~DaEvilPanda (@daevilpanda71 )

2. Breanne - https://artfight.net/~giftreceipt

3. Mass attack! Features:

Rooke - https://artfight.net/~Komoroshi

Clover - https://artfight.net/~Quish

Jordbær - https://artfight.net/~MorallyGrayed

Chepi, Deema, Clementine - https://artfight.net/~artfromegg (@art-from-egg )

Asagao - https://artfight.net/~pygmypear

Ms. Bee - https://artfight.net/~TaxiBirds (@taxibirds )

Little Bee - https://artfight.net/~Littledc

Basil - https://artfight.net/~StoatallyBored (@stoatallybored )

Fuzzy - https://artfight.net/~ImazArtz

YAYYYY THATS ALL OF EM!!

I had a lot of fun this artfight! :D

[jossyreadssmut]

𝓑𝓮 𝓜𝔂 𝓢𝓪𝓬𝓻𝓲𝓯𝓲𝓬𝓮

https://books2read.com/Be-My-Sacrifice

𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟑𝟎𝐭𝐡

Death called to me like a sweet 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇, embracing me in its cold hands, and just when I was about to 𝕤𝕦𝕓𝕞𝕚𝕥. To give into the darkness that welcomed me home, his voice called out to me, begging me not to leave him. 𝑴𝒚 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆, 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆, 𝒎𝒚 𝒌𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕.

Betrayal almost took my life from me. Now, my purpose has once again changed from 🅅🄴🄽🄶🄴🄰🄽🄲🄴 on those who once trapped me in a world not of my making, to ⓓⓔⓢⓣⓡⓤⓒⓣⓘⓞⓝ of all that was once holy.

𝓑𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓼 𝓶𝓮, 𝓕𝓪𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻, 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓘 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓼𝓲𝓷𝓷𝓮𝓭. I am about to lay waste to your kingdom and take what is mine back by 𝕓𝕝𝕒𝕕𝕖 and 🅱🅻🅾🅾🅳. The Brotherhood will fall at my feet, and all three of them will be mine forever, or at least until I deem them unworthy to breathe.

I am the 𝚄𝚗𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚢 𝙶𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚝, and I will have my 𝒔𝒂𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒆.

𝐁𝐞 𝐌𝐲 𝐒𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞 is the 2nd book in the 𝐵𝓇𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝒽𝑜𝑜𝒹 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒮𝒶𝒸𝓇𝒶𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉 series. This book has over 45 TW and may not be suitable for all readers.

Ⓣⓡⓞⓟⓔⓢ:

🖤 Enemies to lovers

🔥 Stalker/serial unaliver

⚔️ Age Gap - 10+

☠️ Gothic Romance Aesthetics

🎭 Secret Society

♝ Religious undertones

🔪 Revenge

🖤 Villain Romance

🥵 MMFM

🚹 He falls first

🔥 Unhinged MMcs.

🤺 Protector/bodyguard

😈 45+ TWs

۞ Start with Be My Sinner: https://books2read.com/Be-My-Sinner

�� Preorder Be My Salvation: https://books2read.com/Bemysalvation

۞ Please see the author’s website for a list of 𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔. This book is for adult readers only.

#gothicromance #darkromance #enemiestolovers #enemiestoloversbooks #darkreads #antihero #whychoose #whychooseseries #whychoosebooks #bemysinner #almaruga #stalker #stalkerromance #bemysacrifice #stalkerromancebooks #bemysalvation #spicyromanace #spicybooks #booktok #morallygray

[belindaclemons]

Ruthless Beauty is now available in ebook and paperback on Amazon! This dark contemporary romance is a standalone with a HEA.

Available in Kindle Unlimited: https://books2read.com/ruthlessbeauty

 Why choose romance

 Mafia

 Enemies to lovers

 Friends to lovers

 Off limits / bodyguard romance

 Spice!

 A strong FMC

 Check your tr!ggers!

 Blurb:  

Eleven years ago, my entire family was massacred.

Only my brother and I survived that fateful night.

Now someone has returned to finish what they started.

My notorious gang leader brother keeps me in a gilded cage, out of his business and away from the sinister underworld of Reaper Falls.

When a threat too great for him to handle throws my perfectly orchestrated life into chaos, I’m finally set free. Free from not only him, but from myself. Because I’m not the girl everyone thinks I am.

Those who crossed my family will pay a hefty price. I’ll make sure of it.

The only complication? Three men who refuse to let me out of their sight.

Emilio, my newly appointed, grumpy bodyguard.

My best friend, Rhys, who turned me down when I confessed my feelings for him.

And Torsten, the assassin who I want to k!ll as much as I want to f*ck.

Not only is my entire future on the line. We’re risking our lives, and hearts, as we try to uncover the true enemy before it’s too late.

Read in KU:  https://books2read.com/ruthlessbeauty

#whychooseromance #reverseharem #reverseharemromance #mafiaromance #mafiabooks #darkromance #enemiestolovers #friendstolovers #forbiddenromance #bodyguardromance #mafiawhychoose #darkreverseharem #mafiaromancerecs #spicybook #spicyromance #steamybook #newrelease #ku #kindleunlimited #kindleunlimitedromance #cassiabriar #morallygrey #mornallygreymen #morallygray

[shiroselia]

I know going onto the “We like Sabine” site and going “Wow I really dislike everything about the Eq festival and what it’s doing with MC and Sabine” is brave at absolute best, but alas

Like here’s the thing, it reeks of fanservice for the detriment of the actual main plot, which I have way too much familiarity with from other franchises, and it’s Really obvious that this is a thing only because SSE knows that people a) want a morally ambiguous MC and often headcanon theirs as such (nothing wrong with this at all, y’all do y’all you’re doing great) and b) that people find Sabine Really Fucking Hot (if they know people thirst for Ydris, they know people thirst for Sabine, and once again nothing bad about this, y’all do y’all)

But it makes Absolutely no sense to the current narrative that SSE are writing in the main story quests that MC would actually be morally ambiguous, the only instance of that we’ve seen comes from Mr fucking Sands of all people, so MC suddenly being all #Bad and #MorallyGray just doesn’t make sense in the current place where the main story is, and therefore it just makes me go “Oh y’all only did this for fandom cookie points” (which is fine for the fans, but it always feels very dumb for a company to go against their own established canon to appeal to fans because it makes their story and narrative look weaker if they have to literally go against it to do something like this)

It’s just a huge case of having your cake and eating it too, either MC is ambiguous and then you fucking commit SSE, or they aren’t and then you don’t pretend they are for an event which you Really can’t decide if it is actually canon or not

(It also makes Sabine looks less threatening by comparison, very similar to what happened with Jessica and the Beeper plot, where she just looks silly because she can’t even sabotage One Event with fucking Fireworks, so much for being a part of the big bad squad)

[cocktailsfairytales]

══ . •🤍 RELEASE TOUR 🤍•. ══

Romantic Realms

Hearts at War

An Enemies to Lovers Fantasy Romance Anthology

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/215965272/

𝑹𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒎𝒔, 𝒂𝒏 𝑬𝒏𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒚 𝑹𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚, 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚.

𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕..

🖤Enemies-to-lovers

🤍Shifter Romance

🖤Faerie Realm

🤍Faerie Bargain

🖤K! dnapping

🤍Dueling

🖤Star-Crossed Lovers

🤍Secret Identity

🖤Forb!dden Love

🤍Touch Her & D!e

🖤Sweet Romance

🤍Strong FMC

🖤Morally Gray Characters

🤍Villain Romance

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1-Click on Amazon

https://books2read.com/u/bMlGLv

Read on Kindle Unlimited

Featuring heart-stirring stories from:

Brandi Elledge

Brooke Clonts

Evelina Griggs

Harper Lynn

Jacqueline Pawl

Michelle Helen Fritz

Nicole Zoltack

Shae Merritt

Sophea Chan

T. S. Devon

The clash of swords, the spark of magic, and the heat of forbidden love. Enter a world where enemies become lovers in Romantic Realms Volume 1: Hearts at War, a closed-door fantasy romance anthology that will sweep you off your feet. These stories are enchanting, heartfelt, and utterly captivating.

Step into a realm of magic and romance, and see if love can truly conquer all in Hearts at War...

#booktour #villainromance #romancereaders #booklovers #enemiestolovers #shifterromance #morallygray #bookloversunite #fantasyromance #bookrecs #forbiddenlove

#tsdevon #dsbookpromotions

@T.S. Devon @DS_Promotions

[joyffree]

Everything is coming to the surface with Haunted by Secrets by Maddison Cole!

Pick up the final installment of the Shadowed Souls series today!

🌸Why Choose

💀Dark Secrets

🌸Grumpy/Sunshine

💀Academy

🌸Hate To Want

💀Morally Gray

🌸Touch Her & Die

💀Obsessive Anti-Hero

🌸Redemption Arc

and so so much more!

[rethar-quips]

Under article 137a subsection ii of Alliance Law, you cannot throw a party, function, gathering, or celebration for the purpose of “having fun”.

The rest of the article proceeds to outline all other prohibited forms of fun which all denizens of Azeroth are expected to not do.

[dehartfoto]

Oh hello! 📚❤️ I haven’t introduced myself! Let me rectify that. (Fun fact #1 - “rectify” is one of my favorite words. Another is “shenanigans.”) I’m Leslie! I’m from #Oklahoma and almost always have been. I’m 42, married more than half my life and mom to a 15 year old hooligan (also a good word). 📕 I have 3 #dogs (one is new as of this week and I’ve included #puppy tax in the photo lineup!) 📕 At one point in time I owned every @norarobertsauthor first edition including a signed copy of her first novel. Then I was stupid and sold them to downsize. 📕 A used bookseller introduced me to @mysherrilyn and the Dark Hunters and I never looked back. Give me #morallygray all day! 📕 I drink too much #icedcoffee (that’s my husband’s opinion and is arguable). 📕 I am often listening to an audiobook so I can #crochet or #knit because I’m also a #yarnaddict. 📕 Aside from #books and #yarn, #chipsandqueso fix everything. 🧀 I have never met a #taco I didn’t love (mmm #quesabirria 🌮). 📕 I love #truecrime #documentaries and have turned my child into a true crime junkie as well. Lordy, the conversations at our dinner table. 📕 I spent a couple of years thinking I had to read a particular type of book and none of those made me happy (though they promised to make me a better person) and as a result I just didn’t read for awhile. In September of 2022, I dove back into some #spicybooks and never looked back. 📕 I certainly read any format I can get my hands on but LOVE my @amazonkindle and read #ebooks obsessively. I’d love to meet you as well! Come say hello! 💋💋 #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #books #bookish #booksofinstagram #readersofinstagram #readwhatyoulove https://www.instagram.com/p/CnSbuMKPOwI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[israsravenheartfantasywriter]

Right though?? ✅️ #darkspellseries #witch #witches #book #books #villainous #darkfantasy #warlock #MorallyGray #fantasynovel #fantasyreads #witchyreads #witchbook #darkhumour #funny #funnyvideo #witchesofinstagram #bookstagram #fantasy #kindlereads #kindleunlimitedreads #kindleunlimited #darkside #witchaesthetic #raven #story #darkaesthetic #magic #witchywoman #sorcery https://www.instagram.com/p/CcTTtzHrUk_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[puzzlepaws]

Today's #BlogTour is #MissingForGood I've been waiting for this book since April! Hold on, Alex Coombs is back with a new Hanlon book! bit.ly/2S5J5h3 @rararesources @AlexHowardCrime @BoldwoodBooks #crimefiction #strongwomen #BookReview #GreatReads #MYSTERY #fiction #morallygray #bisexualcharacter #gaycharacters #femaleprivateinvestigator https://www.instagram.com/p/CFpKHLXhNq_/?igshid=1khdebj49o1l2

[taylorfennersbookishworld]

“Waiting. Not waiting. One lover. A hundred lovers. There should be no judgement either way. A woman is not defined by what she does or doesn‘t do in the bedroom.” ― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us • • Happy Friday Bookdragons! Who else is ready for some relaxing time this weekend? I’m going to watch some movies, catch up on some sleep, and do some self-care. • • #gothandliterature day 3: Hades | Stole Your Heart • • I love Alessandra and Kallias in The Shadows Between Us! • • Q: Who is your favorite morally gray character? • • #astrangerdream #theshadowsbetweenus #tricialevenseller #slytherinromance #owlcrate #owlcrateexclusivecover #youngadultbooks #fantasybooks #bookstagram #bookrecommendations #2020reads #charactersilove #bookstagrammer #bookish #bookmarks #bookbloggersofig #readersofinstagram #amreading #morallygray #bookdragon (at Clintonville, Wisconsin) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-h7h95A2aH/?igshid=skt7wd0ckif3