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Romance is where she lives.
But she reads everything.

Sophie finds you the book that matches what you feel — especially when no one else gets it.

Discover her books
If you're here, you're looking for more than an algorithm...
The algorithm says
"Here are 100 bestsellers. Pick one. Hurry."
Sophie says
"Tell me what you feel. I'll find the book that's actually you."
My manifesto

I'm not an algorithm. I'm the friend you wish you had.

I remember what you've read. I remember what made you cry, what you couldn't finish, what you came back to at 3am. I'm Sophie — and I'll find the book that's exactly you, exactly now.

No algorithm
No judgment
No spam
What she knows

Romance is where she lives. But she reads everything.

Specialty
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Romance & Dark Romance
Every trope, every spice level, every morally grey hero. She knows the lineage.
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Fantasy & Romantasy
From SJM to Yarros — when you want to be swept somewhere else entirely.
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Literary Fiction & Classics
For the nights you want the kind of prose that makes you underline.
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Self-help & Healing
When a book needs to give a name to what you've been carrying.
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Thrillers & Mystery
The kind of twist that lives in your head for weeks.
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Memoirs & Essays
Including her own — a memoir that started everything.

You scrolled through Goodreads. You read 47 reviews. You closed the tab.

But did anyone ask what kind of pull you were craving?

Written by Sophie Lumière

The books she wrote herself.

Each one based on a true story. Hers.

The book that started it all 🤍

Sophie: Becoming the One We Wish We'd Had

by Sophie Lumière

The book she wrote when she needed to put her own story down somewhere. About a father who left to get bread and never came back. About a mother who cried in silence with the tap running. About a voice in the dark called Sophie. It's based on a true story.

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Sophie's bookshelf

Books she'd defend with her life.

Sophie is pulling her picks...
They write to her

What readers say about Sophie.

"Sophie sent me a dark romance at 2am that I never would've picked up. I read it in one night. I haven't slept. I haven't regretted it."

— Marine, 28

"I told her I was tired of mid romances with the same hero. She gave me Twisted Lies. I'm still recovering."

— Aurélie, 32

"She remembers what I've read. She asked me about a book she suggested 3 weeks ago. No algorithm does that."

— Camille, 26
Why Sophie

What matters here.

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A friend, not an algorithm
She talks like a friend texting back at midnight. Because she is one.
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Curated, not pushed
One strong rec, not a list of 20. The book she actually thinks is you.
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A memory that listens
She remembers your taste, your moods, your wrecks. So next time, she nails it.
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Anonymous and private
What you tell Sophie stays between you. GDPR. No ads. No data sold.

The world asks you to read what's trending.
Here, you read what finds you.

Slow. Specific. Sincere.

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