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Some non-cozy stuff happens but it’s all filtered through the narrator, who would never write anything to upset the reader! It’s not a romance.

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Not a fantasy world, but set in a highly magical town. Some monsters attack and some injuries happen, but without long-lasting effects.

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Not a romance at all, and it has some fighting, but I found the quest framework to be very cozy.

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There’s some high-stakes drama, but the main focus is on the romance, and nothing too graphic happens.

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Most of the book is the protagonist guiding some folks through the woods as they learn about each other; toward the end, things get more stressful to the point it no longer felt cozy.

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What makes this cozy is the tone that it’s written in, more than the things that happen. I never felt super nervous, even when the protagonist is attacked by a horrible monster. The least cozy parts were when the characters argue or hurt each other emotionally.

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The heroine has a traumatic history that comes up over and over in the story and leads her to feel fear, even though nothing bad happens to her in the demon realm.

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This is set in historical England, not a fantasy world, but has lighthearted magic and romance.

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This is a cozy mystery in a fantasy world, but has no romance. Members of a dark cult sacrifice a cow in one scene.

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There is a sinister evil that lurks but doesn't feel too threatening, and one fight scene at the end.

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It's set in England (not a fantasy world) and there's barely a romance (it reads more like a mystery), but nothing bad happens for very long.

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The heroine lacks agency in the beginning of the story, and upsetting things happen to her up to a point that I couldn't consider this 100% cozy.

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One character is heading for a terrible fate for the entire book, but I always felt sure he would avoid it. I couldn't decide if the book counted as "almost cozy" but decided to include it because the ending was so perfectly cozy.

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I didn't consider this cozy when I read it, but someone suggested it recently, and I cannot remember why I didn't think it was cozy. I'm not sure if it was an oversight or if I'm forgetting something stressful about it!

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I was torn about where to place this book. It's cozy with dark undercurrents. But there's one scene where my stomach dropped out and the tension lasted a while, so I decided it was "almost cozy."

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I was torn about where to place this book. It's cozy with dark undercurrents.

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I love this book! But it is sci-fi and doesn't have a central romance. There is some violence and trauma, but each time there is, it gets resolved fairly quickly.

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Someone suggested this book as cozy fantasy romance, and I wish I could include it because of how much I loved it, but there is a lot of violence and trauma in it.

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Someone recommended this and I wasn't sure... I remember it being violent, but it's been years since I read it so I may need to reconsider.

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This starts off cozy and I wanted to include it so badly, but there's some gory violence and then a drawn-out plot-line where a character is in peril with no agency, and I became so stressed I had to skim it.

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