My Heart is Booked Blog

This book makes me smile because of its cheesy cuteness. It’s just such a relatable, feel-good story in the underappreciated NA category. Not to mention, we get our first glimpses of Simon and Baz!

Sorcery makes me smile for one reason: Silas. I just adore that unassuming, little demon. While I did enjoy this story for the romance and the epic libraries, Silas brought it home and made me actually love it. I wish I had a snarky demon companion of my own (without the whole slavery bit).

While we are on the subject, Bartimaeus was my first introduction to the hilarity that is snarky demons. This series gives me fond memories of sarcastic banter and battles of wits. I wish they would consider it for a film adaptation, but I don’t want them to butcher it like they did Artemis Fowl.

I find a lot of pleasure in morally gray characters and this book features one of the best. It’s not often that female characters are written as morally gray, so I delighted in the MC’s wicked deeds and constant plotting.

Good Omens is one of those books that just gets better every time I read it. The banter is everything, but even the plot is so out of left field that it makes smile just thinking about it. The TV adaptation was one of only a few that I thought did the book justice.

A severely underrated series, Penryn & the End of Days is a dark and twisted angel story that features my favorite trope, enemies-to-lovers, in a delicious slow burn. When I say slow, I mean they still hate each other for most of the first book.

The last 4 books are some of my favorites. The entire TOG series makes me smile (pretty much anything by SJM does). I know this series is not for everyone, but I adored this conclusion. I cried, but I definitely smiled more than I cried.

Once again hate-to-love features strongly in this book. I loved reading it in a contemporary setting. Everything about this book makes me smile and I’m looking forward to the film adaptation. Fingers crossed they do right by it.

Once again SJM appears on the list, but I just adore this series. Enemies-to-lovers, SLOW burn, chapter 55, Illyrian wings… what’s not to love? Obviously many people find faults with this series, but I am not one of them. I guess I’m just easy to please.

I couldn’t make a list of books that make me smile without including a book from the Fever series. Honestly, I could include every book from this series on this list, but I found the Dani/Ryodan thread in High Voltage immensely satisfying. After Iced, these two became my favorite characters and I absolutely cried happy tears for the end of this book.