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    Tropes I love:

    Found family

    Enemies to lovers

    Robot learns the power of love (actual robot/ android or just someone with stiff personality)

    Morally grey character learns to trust

    Tropes/ things I dislike:

    Miscommunication

    General secondhand embarrassment

    Intensely scary

    Fantasy, sci-fi, western, general fiction, non-fiction, or whatever- I like all genres. Spice or none -either is good

    Extra bonuses- I enjoy books that involve cultures and places I am less familiar with (I’m white North American), stand alone over series, prefer less than ~500 pages/ 20hrs

    I would love any suggestions in the wheelhouse of anything above. Thank you! (crossposted)

    by Mint_Tea_7

    4 Comments

    1. *The Safekeep* by Yael van der Wouden. Historical literary fiction set in the Netherlands 15 years after WWII. Won the Women’s Prize for Fiction last year. Around 250 pages iirc. Enemies to lovers trope, sort of.

    2. sophistifelicity on

      I imagine you’ll get a lot of recommendations of both of these, but:

      Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (and the rest of The Locked Tomb series)

      The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (and the rest of the Wayfarers series)

    3. Legends and Lattes series by Travis Baldree

      The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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