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Recent Reviews

  • Contemporary Wholesome Witchy Books

    Cozy witchy rom-coms for when your brain needs a warm blanket and a familiar.

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  • The Sixth Faction by Veronica Roth book cover

    The Sixth Faction

    Veronica Roth is rewriting Divergent and I’m screaming!!!!!!

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    Acid Magazine

    A surfing magazine that makes the ocean thrum in your blood

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  • Book cover for 'Immortal Dark' by Tigert Girma, featuring a skeletal hand holding a gravestone with intricate designs.

    Immortal Dark - Tigest Girma

    A vampire story to find the hard parts of you in.

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  • Cover of a book titled "Goth Garden: An Illustrated Guide to the Mystery, Beauty, and Lore of Dark Gardening" featuring dark purple and black flowers with gothic decorative elements.

    Goth Garden

    Casual, unique, and quietly out to educate you.

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  • Book cover titled 'Goth Parenting: The Dark Joys of Raising Baby Bats' by Casey Gilly with illustrations by Robin Robinson, featuring a gothic-style illustration of a woman in black gothic attire tending to a baby bat in a crib, set against a red background with black borders.

    Goth Parenting - Casey Gilly

    Proof you can raise a kid without surrendering your whole personality.

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  • Fang Fiction

    Fang Fiction - Kate Stayman-London

    Come for the hot vampires, stay for the Emotional damage.

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Welcome to Dark Heart Reviews, where my bookshelf refuses to pick a personality. One night I'm three hundred years deep in a vampire's tragic backstory; the next I'm crying over a poem or underlining a parenting book at 2 a.m. like my life depends on it (it does).

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