Author: Sonia M. Rompoti
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The Translation of Tired
She had four different kinds of tired, and after nine years, he could tell them apart without her saying a word. There was work-tired, which wanted silence and a specific blanket. There was emotionally-tired, which wanted to be asked a direct question rather than left alone. There was the-world-is-too-much tired, which wanted distraction — something…
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The Anatomy of a Slow Burn: Why Waiting 300 Pages for a Kiss is Worth the Torture
Let’s be completely honest with ourselves, bestie. As romance readers, we are absolute masochists. It is late August, we are celebrating the final stretch of Read-a-Romance Month, and what are we doing? We are willingly paying money to read 300 pages of two fictional characters making intense eye contact across a room without so much…
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The Defense
He’d never raised his voice for himself. Not once, in the eight years she’d known him — not at bad service, not at unfair treatment, not even when he probably should have. He raised it for her, though. Exactly once, memorably, at a dinner where her brother had made an offhand comment about her career…
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The Ultimate Summer Romance Tropes Bingo: How Many Have You Read?
We are officially in the home stretch of August, bestie, which means two things. One: the sun is actively trying to melt us. Two: Read-a-Romance Month is almost over, and we need to audit our reading habits. It’s time to play a game I like to call Romance Tropes Bingo. The romance book community on…
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The Photograph Wall
Every year on their anniversary, they added one photograph to the hallway wall. Just one — chosen carefully, sometimes after genuine debate, meant to represent the entire year in a single frame. It had started accidentally. Their first anniversary, neither of them had planned anything elaborate, and Theo had simply printed a photo from a…
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The Understudy
He learned her job. Not formally — he had no reason to, no professional overlap, an entirely different field. But over six years of listening to her talk through cases at dinner, he’d absorbed enough of family law to occasionally, accurately, predict how a judge might rule. “You’d have made a decent lawyer,” Solange told…
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What is Romantasy? A Sassy Beginner’s Guide to the Hottest Trend in Fiction
Okay, bestie, look at me. If you’ve spent more than five minutes on social media lately, you’ve definitely seen people stressing out over fictional kingdoms, shadow daddies, and literal dragons. Welcome to the world of romantasy books—the glorious, completely addictive lovechild of high-stakes fantasy and unhinged, spicy romance. During Read-a-Romance Month this August, searches for…
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The Worry Stone
He kept a smooth gray stone in his pocket. Had for as long as she’d known him — and before that too, apparently, since childhood, a habit from a grandfather who’d given him the original and told him to rub it when his thoughts got too loud. Bea had thought it was sweet, slightly odd,…
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Red Flags vs. Green Flags: Ranking Our Ultimate Summer Book Boyfriends
Alright, bestie, pull up a chair and grab your iced matcha, because it’s time to have a very serious, completely unhinged intervention. We are officially in the final stretch of Read-a-Romance Month, and our Kindle highlights are getting out of hand. It’s time to talk about the fictional men who have been ruining our real-life…
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The Late Shift
She worked nights. Had for years, long before he came along, and she’d assumed any relationship would eventually buckle under the strange architecture of her schedule. Idris hadn’t buckled. He’d rearranged. He couldn’t change his own hours — a normal nine-to-five, immovable — but he’d quietly shifted everything else. Dinner became breakfast, eaten together at…
Sonia M. Rompoti, MSc, Bsc 