Let’s talk about spice, baby!🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
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Let’s talk about spice, baby!🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

If you’ve spent any time in online book spaces lately, especially on BookTok, Bookstagram, or romance blogs that rate heat levels like wine notes, you’ve probably noticed one thing: everyone is talking about spice.
Readers don’t just recommend books anymore. They qualify them, rate them, and warn their friends about them. Some accounts even brand themselves around loving “high spice,” “unhinged spice,” or “spice with emotional damage.” Give me all the triggers.
This trilogy takes a playful look at how spice became such a big part of women’s fiction: why readers love it, what it really means, and where it fits best.
Think of this as your friendly, slightly chaotic guide to the spicy side of books.

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Relationship trade-offs: We all do the sums in our heads.
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Relationship trade-offs: We all do the sums in our heads.

If you’ve ever tried dating in the modern world, you’ve probably asked yourself at least one of the following questions:
“Is it shallow to prefer someone attractive… if I also pretend to value personality?”
“Does a six-figure salary offset a four-figure hairline?”
“If someone looks like a marble statue carved by angels but texts back once every election cycle… what is the exchange rate on that?”

Welcome to the thrilling and sometimes terrifying world of relationship trade-offs.

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Real-Life Rom-Coms. Your Guide to Swiping, Matching, and Mild Emotional Chaos.
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Real-Life Rom-Coms. Your Guide to Swiping, Matching, and Mild Emotional Chaos.

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably checked your phone and wondered, “Is my soulmate stuck between ‘New Match!’ and ‘No New Likes Today’?” Welcome to modern romance, where love isn’t found in cafés with quirky meet-cutes, but in an app store full of platforms promising to deliver The One, or at least someone who won’t disappear after three messages.

Grab your popcorn, because we’re about to explore the dating-app universe as if it’s a romantic comedy and you’re the main character who still believes in love.

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The Best Fiction Books About Dating: Stories That Get It.
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The Best Fiction Books About Dating: Stories That Get It.

Dating in real life is messy, funny, sometimes heartbreaking, and sometimes magical. The best fiction books about dating capture all that chaos, often with much better dialogue than we manage ourselves. If you want novels that feel like reading romantic texts with your best friend, or stories that make you want to toss your phone because the characters are making bad choices, you’re in the right place. Here are some standout fiction books about dating that will make you laugh, cringe, swoon, or even rethink your own romantic choices.

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So, Who’s Actually Reading Rom-Coms?💕📚
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So, Who’s Actually Reading Rom-Coms?💕📚

Have you ever wondered who’s buying all those cute illustrated-cover rom-coms flooding bookstore tables ? You know, the ones with titles like The Love Hypothesis or Better Than the Movies. The romantic comedy book boom isn’t just a publishing fad; it’s a reflection of a dedicated (and surprisingly data-rich) readership.

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💔 The Gentle Fade of the Workplace Romance
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💔 The Gentle Fade of the Workplace Romance

Once upon a time, the office was as much a dating venue as a place to earn a living. People met at the photocopier, flirted over lunch, and bonded on late projects. For decades, the workplace offered the perfect mix of proximity, familiarity, and shared purpose, the three classic conditions for attraction.

But today, the office romance is gently fading…

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Your dating score, out of 100, is…
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Your dating score, out of 100, is…

Imagine a dating service where each client is summarised as a single dating eligibility factor. Basically, a score out of one hundred that encapsulates looks, personality, intelligence, age, wealth and talent.

Could this work in practice, or is human attraction too nuanced to apply any rigid formula?

We asked AI to derive a formula, using real world data. Read on to discover how you would score…

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