Let’s not pretend we don’t all assign our fictional characters to Taylor Swift eras like it’s a spiritual experience. As an author and full-time Swiftie (I take both roles equally seriously), I’ve realized something crucial:
My books are basically Taylor Swift albums with more blood and fewer metaphors.
And if you think that’s a reach? Let me take you on a very serious, very correct journey.
Folklore if heartbreak came with a side of literary murder
Let’s get this straight: folklore walked so Miniature Novels I could spiral into an emotional collapse in 400 pages.
This is the book you read when you want to feel everything and nothing at the same time. It’s prose that sounds like a piano in an abandoned cabin. Think “exile,” “this is me trying,” and “my tears ricochet — except with slightly more murder and fewer lowercase letters.
If you didn’t flinch at least once while reading it, congrats on being emotionally stable (teach me your ways).
All the pop feels, zero chill, and unresolved drama
How to Get the Girl is if 1989 y Lover had a baby with intrusive thoughts and unresolved sexual tension, which, let’s be honest, it they kinda already do.
It’s the serotonin in my lineup. The flirt. The nostalgia. The childhood friends-to-lovers that practically begs you to scream “just kiss already!”
Think “You Are In Love” for every stolen glance. “I Wish You Would” for the internal monologues. “Daylight” for THE scene. And obviously, “How You Get the Girl” because… well, I’m not subtle.
It’s my rom-com with anxiety. The fanfic of your teen dreams, except a little smarter and with better grammar.
If H2GTG were a person, it would post soft launch photos with cryptic captions and never text first but think about it for hours.
TYNU but that 10-minute version you play on repeat when you’re feeling ALL the feels
Things You’ll Never Understand is set in the patriarchal emotional battlefield with feminist undertones and lyrical trauma that is Red.
It’s “All Too Well (Sad Girl Autumn Version) (Recorded at Long Pond Studios) (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault]”. It’s what happens when you write about grief and then make it art.
These are chapters that feel like driving through the night screaming “Treacherous” and others that ache like “The Moment I Knew.”
This book is not for the faint of heart. It’s for the reader who’s loved and lost.
Evermore ghosts her past… but the ghosts write back
If MN1 is folklore in mourning, then Miniature Novels II is evermore after you decided to dig up the body and ask a few more questions.
This book is strange. Haunting. It’s what happens after the heartbreak. It’s less “I miss you” and more “I’m not sure you ever existed the way I remembered.”
It’s “ivy” for the ones who self-destructed beautifully. It’s “no body, no crime” but make it slightly more stabby. It’s “tolerate it” and the in-between.
You finish MN2 and feel like something followed you home from the page.
If you liked evermore, you’ll probably love MN2. If you are evermore, you should maybe hydrate and schedule a therapy session before starting.
Closing arguments
Taylor Swift once said, “I come back stronger than a ’90s trend.” Well, I come back with a new emotionally devastating book.
So the next time you listen to one of her albums and feel that ache in your chest, it just might be one of my books whispering “we’re not so different, you and I.” Or it’s simply Taylor’s pen on fire.
Now go assign an era to your favorite character and cry in the bath like the emotionally literate reader I know you are.
— Montse