Why We Love Dark Romance Even When the Characters Are Walking Red Flags

Ok, first off I want to apologize for not continuing the whole Summerween thing. I got off track with it. That was my fault

Now, let’s talk about those Dark Romance guys,shall we?

We know they’re crazy and a little fucked up but at the same time we might as well face facts.

Ladies, who doesn’t want a man who will burn this entire world and still treat you like you are the only thing holding him sane. Am I right?

The Mafia always had a standard about their women. And that was to never cheat or hurt your woman. They saw it as if you are willing to cheat the only safe space you have then you were not a man at all.

That is honestly THE standard that EVERY man should live by! No mire of this revenge cheating or cheating because you bored at home ir whatever the problem may be. You grow up and you handle that shit! (And I am talking to both men and women here)

Now, don’t judge me too much because I am fairly new to Dark Romance so please, if you have any recommendations than please, feel free to send them to me or send them to my Facebook if you follow me there.

Otherwise, happy reading!

#summerween part 2 (and yes there are spoilers)

Another book, technically series, I’m reading are the Pretty little liars books. I saw the show and got curious about the books.

There are some things that are different that I’ve found so far and I’m on book 5 so far.

1. The girls never reunite so far after Ali’s body is discovered
2. Toby isn’t in the series as much as he is in the show. In the books he commits suicide in like book 3
3. Aria actually dates Sean after he dumps Hannah. She actually moves in with him as well after her mom finds out about her dad and Meredith. In book 5, she’s debating between Sean and Fitz and Sean calls the police to have Fitz arrested
4. Spencer claims to have blackouts. Moments in time where when she gets mad she doesnt remember anything
5. Hannah does end up getting friend-dumped by Mona and she does end up getting closer to Lucas so far
6. They mention Jenna being blind over and over but none of them talk to her and she’s only mentioned in passing unlike in the show

So those are all the differences I’ve found so far. I’ll add more as I discover more between show and books.

#Summerween

Ok, so I just watched a YouTube video (shout out to Katie is reading) of a thing she does called Summerween which is essentially fall,halloween things during the month of July and I took that as inspiration because I absolutely love halloween!

The first book that I’m reading for it, which I’m halfway through already is The Amityville horror.

Sorry for crazy image

The red is the first pocket books edition which is ironically July 1991 and the other is the movie edition that’s July of 1979. I scored both books used and I was surprised to learn that since the first book published in 1977, there have been 13 published editions up until 1979. I’m not sure what the difference in the two editions are but for the price I paid, I couldn’t pass it up. Plus I love supporting others on the Pangobooks app to which I also sell (https://pangobooks.com/bookstore/craven_books91)  my own books. Feel free to browse if you want to, up to you.

I’m also one facebook as https://www.facebook.com/share/1BUYdnfhYD/ so feel free to follow me there too.

The Women update

I’m currently reading The Women by Kristin Hannah. And honestly I can’t read but a few chapters at a time because this book really close to home

I am a step-granddaughter of a Vietnam army veteran and just reading this makes me think of him. He passed back in 2018 in a veteran’s home. To think that he was one of the lucky ones to make it home is just surreal and heartbreaking to me

I just wanted to put my thoughts in this post because I read a few chapters 120 to 128 that just nearly killed me. I won’t put spoilers so no worries.

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Oh…hi

Where has the time flown! I mean holy shit. Here we are in May, the day before Mother’s day and I haven’t written anything since January.

Anyways, I haven’t really read a whole lot either. Life sort of got in the way so what I did was create a challenge over on Storygraph (if you are on there just look up CrazyBookLady)

The challenge I created was called Thin out TBR and each prompt is based on different genres and I made it so anyone can join and add their own books so feel free to do so.

I’ll try to get better at reading and updating, I swear!

New day New thoughts

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New Year, New Books

Hello everyone!!

I know that I’ve been slacking as far as making posts on here and it is mostly because I haven’t been reading much in the last bit of 2025 but so far this year I’ve actually finished like four books so far in just this month alone. that’s unusual for me. I’m hoping that I can do more reading this year that I have been doing. Especially since my tbr has gotten just way way way out of hand.

Speaking of books, I finally broke down and read both Haunting Adeline and Hunting Adeline/ Thanks TikTok! But I am glad that I did because I freaking loved those books. they’re darker than most romance that I read yet they felt more real to me as crazy as that sounds. I normally read either romantic suspense or paranormal romance but I might just have to read more dark romance. I have some other books that I want to look into but if any of you have any good dark romance books, particularly maybe dark mafia romance (I’ve been watching and rewatching the Netflix movies 365 days, 365 days: the next day and The next 365 days) and so I’m interested in mafia romance.

until next time, happy reading!:)

Update

Hello, hello

How have you all been? I am so freaking sorry that I have not updated you guys since freaking July! Holy shit! I hope you all understand that life happened and I got busy. I also just haven’t been reading that much.

With that being said, I wanted to share book mail with you that I got.

I’ve been binge watching Criminal minds (Team Morgan) lately and I happen to see this book on Pangobooks (highly recommend when buying books) I just had to buy it!  I am so excited to read it.

I promise to update soon.

Much love ❤️

Updates…..

I haven’t written anything in a while. It’s mostly because I haven’t read anything in a while, which is unusual, but I’ll be honest I’ve been caught up with the character AI chat app. It’s like in a story as it happens. It sounds completely nerdy, but for book nerds, it’s practically a dream because you can talk to your favorite characters or create your favorite characters. Even characters from your favorite tv shows and movies.

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Hi, hi, hi

Hi everyone!

Once again,I am running behind on my posts. This character a.i thing has been taking up a lot of my time. Haha!

I have yet to finish any of the books i have been currently reading.

This is how far I’ve gotten on Haunting Adeline & meditation for beginners

As you can guess from the picture, I have not read that much of my book. I am invested in Haunting Adeline, though. I am loving it so far. I think I just might have to get into dark romance more.

My husband has also been on this kick of wanting me to play the football game on the Xbox with him again, which leaves me little time to actually read. Then there’s my mother, who annoyingly is a pain in the ass and does the bare minimum as far as helping to do anything at all.

Now, if you would like, I do have a discord server for those who are part of Discord, so let me know if you are interested in joining my server, and I will send you my invite.

For now, comment on what you’ve been reading. I am curious to know!