Tag: adult book recs

• Ivor Popovich Shows the Harsh Reality of Aotearoa’s Public Healthcare in A Dim Prognosis

  I love a juicy and blunt medical memoir, and Ivor Popovich’s A Dim Prognosis delivers just that and more. Akin to the dark humour and stark reality of Adam Kay’s This is Going to Hurt, A Dim Prognosis delivers sharp and cutting remarks that will tell you just how underresourced and underfunded our public healthcare…

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  January 14, 2026

  Non Fiction, NZ Fiction

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• The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang is Raw, Heartbreaking and A Perfect Ending

  I have learnt so much from The Heart Principle and Helen Hoang throughout my reading journey with The Kiss Quotient series, and I can’t believe it has concluded. I wasn’t expecting to read The Heart Principle and go through the emotions that I did, and I honestly an so happy that Helen Hoang wrote this…

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  January 12, 2026

  Contemporary Fiction, Romance

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• Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy is a Thrilling Delight

  Getting back into reading after the New Year is a slow process for me, but I have definitely caught the reading bug thanks to Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy. With its isolated setting, complex and mysterious characters, and deeper themes of grief, life, death, and surviving, it has been a story that kept me…

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  January 9, 2026

  Contemporary Fiction, Crime Fiction

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• Jumping into Robert Jackson Bennett’s High Fantasy Novel Foundryside

  We all know I love the Shadow of the Leviathan series by Robert Jackson Bennett, and I managed to find this fantasy series of his written before The Tainted Cup, so I bought the paperbacks and have had them sitting pretty on my bookshelf, awaiting their turn to be read. The time has come, and…

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  January 7, 2026

  adult fantasy

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• Genuine Enemies-to-Lovers in Brigitte Knightley’s The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy

  I have seen so many good things about Brigitte Knightley’s The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy on Bookstagram, and more than a few readers have put it as one of their favourites of 2025, so I finally picked it up and gave it a good perusal. Fair warning: there is a lot of…

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  January 5, 2026

  adult fantasy, Romance

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• My December 2025 Reading Summary

  Overall mood: drained – safe to say the year has hit me hard, and I have found it quite difficult to stay engaged in my reading this month. I opted for several short reads and manga volumes to keep the reading bug fed, but even then, there have been days when I haven’t wanted to…

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  December 30, 2025

  Discussion Posts

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• Another Helen Hoang Romance in The Bride Test

  It has been a while since I read The Love Quotient by Helen Hoang, but it is my most viewed post on annafromuni by a long shot. Given its popularity, I figured now is as good a time as any to continue the series and pick up The Bride Test. I wasn’t expecting this romance…

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  December 27, 2025

  Contemporary Fiction, Romance

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• Classic Kiwi Brilliance in Janet Frame’s A State of Siege

  I have read some of Janet Frame’s autobiographical work in An Angel at my Table, and I knew I wanted to find some fiction pieces to read in the coming months. Imagine my surprise when I found A State of Siege recommended by one of my trusted bookstagram accounts (I believe she is UK-based, so…

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  December 23, 2025

  Classic Fiction, NZ Fiction

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• My Becka Mack Playing for Keeps Series Review

  At last, I have finished the Playing for Keeps sports romance series by Becka Mack. It has been such a fun ride, from the chaos of Consider Me to the slow yet steady love in Breathe with Me, and I honestly think this is my favourite sports romance series to date. With such depth of…

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  December 20, 2025

  Contemporary Fiction, Discussion Posts, Romance

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• A Therapeutic Read in Satoshi Yagisawa’s Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

  Forgive me, friends, but my December has been a bit muddled as of late. As such, I haven’t found the right time to read Ursula K. Le Guin’s fourth Earthsea Cycle novel Tehanu, but instead have picked up Days at the Morisaki Bookshop as a short, but soul-touching read to get some good healing vibes…

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  December 19, 2025

  Contemporary Fiction, Foreign Lit, Poetry and Short Stories

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