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  • ๐Ÿ“š Come Read With Me: My 2026 TBR

    2025 was a great year! New releases, long-overdue backlist discoveries, and a few books that really touched me emotionally. Hereโ€™s whatโ€™s currently sitting on my TBR for 2026. Some are continuations, some are finally-Iโ€™ll-get-to-it promises, I’m hoping some will emotionally destroy me! We’ll see. ๐Ÿ”ฅ Continuing Series Iโ€™m Locked Into โš”๏ธ Epic Fantasy Commitments ๐Ÿฉธ

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  • Best of 2025

    Best of 2025

    I read a lot of books in 2025 (92). Some were good, some bad, some just okay. A few just voluntary junk food. But hereโ€™s a list of some serious sci-fi, fantasy stand-outs. A few of these were new and a few old, but all great picks to check out in 2026 if you havenโ€™t

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  • ๐ŸŒ‹ The Broken Earth Trilogy left me struck

    Spoiler free review Themes: motherhood as strength, oppression and rebellion, environmental apocalypse, unconventional love, black voices- black characters โ€œLetโ€™s start with the end of the world, why donโ€™t we? Get it over with and move onto more interesting things.โ€ This story (clearly) takes place at the end of the world as we know it. It

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  • When you’re forced to root for the villains

    โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜† Vicious and Vengeful were both such fun quick reads. While I can definitely tell that this was some of Schwab’s earlier writing, it was still great- and managed to get me out of a slight reading slump with the fast pace! The story isn’t as rich in prose or emotionally heavy as some of

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  • A Love Triangle with the Devil

    A Love Triangle with the Devil

    โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜… Non-spoiler review I’m new to V.E. Schwab, and so happy to realize that the hype around her work is well deserved. I started my journey with Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, which is now a favorite of mine. I recently picked up The Secret Life of Addie LaRue, and while it doesn’t

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