What’s all the fuss about arranged marriages, anyway? And why are people so obsessed with getting married overall? How can we honor our deceased loved ones while also honoring ourselves?

Trigger/Content Warnings: strained familial ties, death of a parent (off-page), mentions of dead family members, discussion of arranged marriage, grief, misogyny, mentions of medical racism

Tropes: Shakespeare Retelling (Taming of the Shrew), fake dating, enemies to lovers, romcom, contemporary romance, 3rd person

Who might feel repped? Hopeless romantics, love deniers, children of immigrants, Indian Americans, Punjabi Americans, eldest daughters, people with dead moms

Master Kim’s Corner:
Sick of swiping, some South Asian Americans consider arranged marriage - Sakshi Venkatraman

What's the difference between angst and yearning? Why are vampires so frequently the good guys (but bad boys)? What’re the implications of posing white people as indigenous in the USA?

Trigger/Content Warnings:

• Death of several people within the context of a war between different species (vampires, werewolves, and humans) is mentioned

• Frequent mentions of blood

• Abductions

• Descriptions of suicide

• Threats of assault, including sexual, and of violence

• Poisoning and attempted murder

• Attempted kidnapping/harming of a child (she is unharmed)

• Death of parents

• Explicit and graphic sexual content

• Knotting

• Cursing and vulgar language

• Cults/brainwashing

• Mating cycles

• Child neglect (in the past)

• Discussions of terminal illness

• Drugs

• Discussions of infertility

• Tropes: paranormal romance, fated mates, shifter romance, orphan, Help her through her heat, slow burn, touch and her die

  
  

  Master Kim's corner:

  AVAB - all vampires are bad

  
  

Why don't we see more diversity in body shapes/sizes from male main characters? Do you picks books based on "hot" sports, or sports YOU played? Sex work is work!

Trigger/Content Warnings: Cuckholding, threesomes, degradation, physical assault to a stranger, light stalking, unaliving of a parent (off page), injury (off-page), body shaming

Who might feel repped? Ruggers, polyamorous people, rich people, strained familial relationships, bisexuals, demisexuals, professional athletes

Tropes: friends to lovers, sports romance, why choose, workplace romance, blast from the past

Master Kim's Corner:

https://www.instagram.com/ilonamaher/ - Ilona Maher