PigtailPrincess Posted October 18 Report Posted October 18 Hello all Pigtail book wurm extraordinaire here! Yesss you heard me right! It is finally time to vote for our next read! Below is the official list of those involved. If you arnt on this list I am unaware that you want to read with us so please get in contact. If you are not on this list please do not vote as I only count votes from those joining us. If you are on the list and changed your mind please let me know. The list: @RoseyLittle @Pink_MyMelody @Cherry Pout @innerchildtml @MissNMTX @Fox H @Jazzylove22 @Zina So this time yall there was kind of a combo on votes. You all wanted to go dark. Some wanted stalker and some mafia and some monster romance. So we have a selection! I try to switch it up so all can enjoy. Per usual there are 5 options. you only have one vote so choose carefully! I have given a good variety but if these arnt for you we will see you on the next one. Each book has a description below and a picture attached. if you are sensitive to triggers or material I encourage you to do a deeper dive looking into your choice but what I give should be enough for most folks to choose. I will save my vote till the end in case a tie breaker is needed. This pole will be up for one week so please make your vote ASAP so we can start immediately. After yall choose I will immedietly make the topics for the read available. These include: General Discussion/Chat, Important Posts - Questions and Announcments, Question Answers, Quotes, and several Activity topics. If you have questions or need help please reach out to me at any time. I will be making a quick How to Navigate topic for our group reads so see that as well for help. Alright here are your options: Option 1: Bad Bishop by L. J. Shen Dark Mafia Romance - Enemies to Lovers Triggers: Gruesome Death, SA/Violence, Suicide Attempt/Thoughts, Unwanted Pregnancy, Complex Family Dynamics, Torture, Gun Violence Blurb: He's Deathless. She's trying to find a reason to live. Lila My innocence was ripped from me one fateful night under the starless sky. Resulting in an unwanted teenage pregnancy and a secret the Camorra must bury. My father decided to hand me off to the highest bidder. The lucky winner? Tiernan Callaghan, psychopath extraordinaire. The Irish mafia prince wants me for all the wrong reasons. Alliance. Money. Prestige. War. I am but a pawn in his twisted game. The man who sits on a throne of his enemies' skulls thinks I'm a weakling. Little does he know, in this chess game, the underdog wins. Because the thing about bad bishops? They protect good pawns. Pages: 448 📖📖📖📖📖 Option 2: Ruthless Creatures by J. T. Geissinger Dark Spicy Mafia Romance - Enemies to Lovers Triggers: Gun Violence, Murder, Gore, Deathof a Parent, Kidnapping, Child Death, Self Harm Thoughts Blurb: Five years ago, my fiancé disappeared. He left me with a wedding dress I’d never wear. Left me with the kind of scars that can’t be healed. The man I built my future on vanished like a ghost. All that remained were my broken heart and a million unanswered questions. Until a mysterious stranger arrives in town. Tall, dark, and dangerous, Kage is as full of secrets as he is sex appeal. Though I know he’s hiding something, I’m drawn to him like a moth to flame. Heat crackles between us with every look, desire flares into passion, and I fall hard, helpless to resist. But then I discover he’s been sent to collect on an unpaid debt from my missing fiancé… And that debt is me. Pages: 376 📖📖📖📖📖 Option 3: Butcher and Blackbird by Brynne Weaver Dark Romance Serial Killer - Friends to Lovers Triggers: Amateur Surgury, Lots of Sharp Objects, Cannibalism, Gore, Intense BDSM Spice Scenes, Reference to Parent Loss and Child Abuse Blurb: Every serial killer needs a friend. Every game must have a winner. When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, the two find something elusive—the friendship of a like-minded, pitch-black soul. From small town West Virginia to upscale California, from downtown Boston to rural Texas, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, one that pits them against the most dangerous monsters in the country. But as their friendship develops into something more, the restless ghosts left in their wake are only a few steps behind, ready to claim more than just their newfound love. Can Rowan and Sloane dig themselves out of a game of graves? Or have they finally met their match? Pages: 355 📖📖📖📖📖 Option 4: Halfling by S. E. Wendel Monster Romance - Forced Proximity Triggers: Trafficking, Abuse, Violence Blurb: A half-orc, half-human belongs nowhere… Orek has spent his life trying to prove himself to a clan that despises him. The son of a deposed orc chief and human captive, he must try twice as hard to prove himself a worthy male, a strong hunter, a potential mate… Resigned to a thankless place in the shadows, Orek ekes out a living on the fringes of the clan, just waiting for an opportunity. But what he finds instead one cold autumn night could ruin everything he’s worked so hard to gain—a human woman, captured just as his mother was so many years ago. The choice to protect her from the clan isn’t a choice at all, but what will protect him and his lonely heart from her? A life about to begin, usurped by fate… Sorcha has spent her life helping raise her many siblings, but now finally has the chance to seek her own adventures. At least, she did, before she was snatched from her horse and peddled by slavers. Taken far from home, she’s brought to the worst place imaginable—the craggy western mountains infested with brutal, brutish orcs. All humans know to fear them and stay away, and now she’s been sold to the cruelest clan-chief of them all. But the first orc she meets is nothing like the stories. He’s gentle. He frees her. Nothing is what it seems as they lose themselves in the forest, hunted by trackers and slavers. Out of her depth, Sorcha has no choice but to rely on the mysterious halfling who saved her—but she’s been betrayed already and cannot afford to trust him. Even if, little by little, the quiet male reveals himself to be everything she could ever want. A human and a halfling, lives ripped apart, brought together by coincidence or fate. Running for their lives, they may find the most dangerous place is together… Pages: 465 📖📖📖📖📖 Option 5: A Soul to Keep by Opal Reyne Monster Romance - Forced Proximity Triggers: Violence, Gore, Self Harm, Death (Less Dark Option) Blurb: All Reia ever wanted was freedom. Known as a harbinger of bad omens and blamed for Demons eating her family, Reia is shunned by her entire village. When the next offering is due and the monstrous Duskwalker is seen heading their way, her village offers her an impossible choice – be thrown into the prison cells or allow herself to be sacrificed to a faceless monster. However, he is not what he seems. His skull face and glow eyes are ethereal, and she finds herself unwittingly enchanted by him. All Orpheus ever wanted was a companion. Each decade, in exchange for a protection ward from the Demons that terrorize the world, Orpheus takes a human offering to the Veil – the place he lives and the home of Demons. The brief companionship does little to ease his loneliness, and their lives were always, unfortunately, cut short. He'd thought it was a hopeless endeavour, until he met her. She’s not afraid of him, and his insatiable desire deepens within every moment of her presence. But will Orpheus be able to convince Reia to stay before she’s lost to him forever? Pages: 515
RoseyLittle Posted October 18 Report Posted October 18 Gah it was soo hard picking this round! I wanted to read at least three this very minute and the other two I want to now add to my TBR list 🤣 1
MissNMTX Posted October 18 Report Posted October 18 I didn't vote for it, because I've already read it, but "Bad Bishop" is so good! Highly recommend to anyone who might be interested. 1
PigtailPrincess Posted October 19 Author Report Posted October 19 4 hours ago, RoseyLittle said: Gah it was soo hard picking this round! I wanted to read at least three this very minute and the other two I want to now add to my TBR list 🤣 Yesss save them for later. I agree though I want to read them all. I have already read A Soul to Keep and it is one of my favorites
PigtailPrincess Posted October 19 Author Report Posted October 19 4 hours ago, MissNMTX said: I didn't vote for it, because I've already read it, but "Bad Bishop" is so good! Highly recommend to anyone who might be interested. Ohhhh I have heard amazing things too. Very excited to eventually read it.
PigtailPrincess Posted October 19 Author Report Posted October 19 @RoseyLittle @Pink_MyMelody @innerchildtml @MissNMTX @Fox H @Cherry Pout @Jazzylove22 @Zina Alright!!! 5 of yall have already voted for Ruthless Creatures by J. T. Gessinger so that is a majority even if the last two vote for something else. So that will be our next read. I will be setting up the channels this week that we will be doing our chatting and checking in on. I am also going to make that guide I have been meaning to make to help folks get down the way we do our reads. For now please all go and buy the book and please comment here "Got it!" When you have it so I know where we all are. Excited to read with you guys!!! 2 1
Fox H Posted October 19 Report Posted October 19 Sorry was busy all day the last 2 days. So me did not vote. That ok. But got the book now. Lucky it free on kindle ultimate 1
PigtailPrincess Posted October 19 Author Report Posted October 19 1 hour ago, Fox H said: Sorry was busy all day the last 2 days. So me did not vote. That ok. But got the book now. Lucky it free on kindle ultimate No worries, I wasnt not counting your vote, we just had enough people vote for this book that it would have won regardless of what you and the last person voted for. It was a pretty unanamous vote suprisingly. 1
RoseyLittle Posted October 20 Report Posted October 20 On 10/18/2026 at 4:07 PM, MissNMTX said: I didn't vote for it, because I've already read it, but "Bad Bishop" is so good! Highly recommend to anyone who might be interested. That was my vote, okay I am for sure getting it too, woot books! 1
PigtailPrincess Posted October 22 Author Report Posted October 22 @innerchildtml and @MissNMTX You are the last two friends who need to get the book so we can start. I will give you a few more days so let me know an then we will get our first chapter assignment going!!!
PigtailPrincess Posted October 24 Author Report Posted October 24 @innerchildtml Hooe you are well. We are going to go agead and get started since I havnt heard from you. Please let me know if you are still with us.
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