Slow Burn

Slow burn refers to a slow build up to a pivotal moment where the pent-up feelings or explosive emotions are released all at once. The type of feelings can be of different kinds, for example anger, romantic emotions or sexual chemistry.

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Slow-Burn Romance
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A Vow in Vengeance (Immortal Desires, #1)
Graceless Heart (The Spellbound History, #1)
The Swan's Daughter
The Exception
A Killer Kind of Romance
Dragon Cursed
Fruit of the Flesh
The Re-Do List
King of Ravens (Upon a Broken Throne, #1)
Last First Kiss
Hard Feelings (Serendipity & Shenanigans)
Cross Your Heart and Hope He Dies
Silver & Blood (Silver & Blood, #1)
Darkrooms
The Slow Burn
People We Meet on Vacation
The Love Hypothesis
Just for the Cameras (Bay Area Players, #1)
Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)
The Wild Card (Vancouver Storm, #5)
Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)
Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)
Alchemised
The Wolf King (The Wolf King, #1)
Daggermouth (The Heart, #1)
The Night Prince (The Wolf King, #2)
Saving 6 (Boys of Tommen, #3)
Dire Bound (The Wolves of Ruin, #1)
Shield of Sparrows (Shield of Sparrows, #1)
We Who Will Die (Empire of Blood, #1)
As Above by Julie ManninoThe Foxhole Court by Nora SakavicPrince of Pain I by Julie ManninoGilded Lies by Julie ManninoThrall by Julie Mannino
MM Slow Burn Series
42 books — 28 voters

Grave Matter by Karina HalleAngelfall by Susan EeWhispers of the Deep by Emma HammPainted Scars by Neva AltajSwordheart by T. Kingfisher
Reb Masel TikTok Book Recs
45 books — 1 voter
Fourth Wing by Rebecca YarrosA Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. MaasA Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. MaasRhapsodic by Laura ThalassaIron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
Shadow Men Megathread
111 books — 58 voters

The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
Kulti
From Lukov with Love
All Rhodes Lead Here
Wait for It
Luna and the Lie
Under Locke
The Love Hypothesis
The Spanish Love Deception (Love Deception, #1)
Dear Aaron
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
Marriage for One
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
Hands Down
The Hating Game
Leigh Bardugo
We were fools.” “You were children. Was there no one to protect you?” “Was there anyone to protect you?” “My father. My mother. They would have done anything to keep me from being stolen.” “And they would have been mowed down by slavers.” “Then I guess I was lucky I didn’t have to see that.” How could she still look at the world that way? “Sold into a brothel at age fourteen and you count yourself lucky.” “They loved me. They love me. I believe that.” He saw her draw closer in the mirror. ...more
Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

You're not scared of me? he murmured. Maybe not, she whispered. What if this is a mistake? he asked. What if this is right? she countered. ...more
Navreet Sran, Diamonds and Stones: An Unlikely Story

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