BookGlints – Book Review & Trope Scanner by BookGlints

BookGlints reads real book reviews to help you decide whether a book is right for you before you commit hours to reading it.

Tell BookGlints what you want to find or avoid — “strong friendships,” “dungeon crawling,” “slow pacing,” “love triangle,” “protagonist too perfect,” “unfinished series” — anything, in your own words.

BookGlints scans reviews semantically, matching meaning rather than relying on exact keywords.

FIND WHAT YOU WANT. AVOID WHAT YOU DON'T.
My Flags — free, always

Describe anything you care about and BookGlints looks for relevant mentions in reviews.

Search for:

• Tropes
• Character traits
• Pacing
• Romance
• Writing style
• Content warnings
• Worldbuilding
• Positive qualities
• Dealbreakers
• Anything else reviewers discuss

BookGlints isn't limited to a fixed list of tags or tropes.

Auto-Scan — optional $9.99 one-time unlock

Don't know what to search for?

Auto-Scan reads the reviews and automatically surfaces recurring themes, praise, complaints, and patterns readers bring up.

Pay once. No subscription.

GOODREADS, STORYGRAPH & ROYAL ROAD

Goodreads — scan books, search by title, and import titles from your reading lists.

StoryGraph — scan books, search by title, and import titles from your lists.

Royal Road — scan fiction reviews, search by title, and import stories from your Read Later list.

CURRENT BOOK OR ANOTHER TITLE

Current Book scans the book open in your active tab.

Find Another Book lets you search for a different title without leaving the page you're on.

THREE SCAN DEPTHS

Fast — quick sample for everyday checks.

Thorough: Extremes — deeper coverage focused on stronger praise and criticism.

Thorough: All Stars — scans across ratings for maximum coverage.

BookGlints adapts its review-gathering strategy to each supported platform.

BATCH SCAN

Paste a list of titles or import them from Goodreads, StoryGraph, or Royal Road.

BookGlints searches for each title and scans them automatically one at a time using either My Flags or Auto-Scan.

LOCAL SCAN HISTORY

Your recent completed scans are stored locally in Firefox so you can revisit previous results.

No BookGlints account is required.

REAL REVIEW EVIDENCE

Every match can show:

• The flag or theme detected
• How many scanned reviews mentioned it
• An excerpt from the real review
• Rating/context when available

BookGlints verifies excerpts against the review text before displaying them. It does not generate fake review quotes.

BRING YOUR OWN AI KEY

Choose your preferred provider:

• Google Gemini
• Groq
• OpenRouter
• OpenAI

Your API key is stored locally in Firefox.

Review text is sent directly from your browser to your chosen AI provider for analysis. It never passes through a BookGlints server.

Provider pricing and availability may vary.

PRIVACY

BookGlints has no accounts and does not track your browsing.

It only accesses supported Goodreads, StoryGraph, and Royal Road content when needed for BookGlints features.

Your API key stays in your browser, and review text goes directly to the AI provider you selected.

The optional Auto-Scan license is verified through the BookGlints license service.

Free forever with your own AI key.

Optional Auto-Scan: $9.99 once. No subscription.

Find what you'll love. Avoid what you won't. Know before you read.