dark romance – literary gluttony

October 17, 2025

🕯️ Review: Gothikana by RuNyx 🕯️

There’s something intoxicating about the idea of a crumbling castle tucked in mist, a forbidden university where the walls remember their ghosts, and a brooding professor whose secrets are as thick as the fog rolling off the cliffs. Gothikana promises all of that—a romance draped in mystery, laced with melancholy—but the execution left me adrift

📚☕ Books & Brews: My Weekend Reads

There’s something sacred about slow weekends—the kind where the coffee stays warm, the pages keep turning, and the real world feels just a bit farther away. This weekend, I leaned into comfort and curiosity, mixing spicy romance with windswept fantasy and letting my reading mood take the lead. Here’s what’s been keeping me company: 📖

Review: Court of the Undying Seasons

Fin doesn’t belong. Never has, never will. Growing up in a small fishing village, she hasn’t amounted to much. Her mother was taken when Fin was young. Her father never really stepped up before his death. So Fin has simply tried to make it on her own, and done a piss poor job of it