fiction

  • 🩸A Love Letter to VE Schwab’s “Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil”

    TLDR; This book was so beautiful, and everyone should read it. THIS is what is so fantastic about reading. Spoiler free sum-up: This novel is a slow burn- rich in prose and description, and heavily focused on character reflection and internal monologues. If you’re looking for fast paced, plot heavy fantasy I’d skip this one.

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  • The Duology I Didn’t Know I Needed

    Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo Spoiler Free ★★★★★ This duology took me by surprise! I went in blind, without reading the Shadow and Bone trilogy (which technically kicks off the Grishaverse), but I’m here to tell you, Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom work perfectly fine as a standalone pair. Overall,

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  • 🗡️When your favorite trope stabs you in the back

    Serious spoilers for The Dragon Republic ahead. Ah, enemies to lovers.That wonderful slow burn. The bickering. The tension. The awkward but heavy eye contact. The- knife in the back? Sure, the trope has its flaws. (A little toxicity never hurt… until it does.) But what happens when the tension doesn’t spark love and instead, it

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  • The Sword of Kaigen- M.L. Wang

    Hello fellow fantasy lovers. I’ve come here with one message- if you love captivating magic, immersive world- building, and dynamic and complex character writing- go read this book!! This story will break your heart and then put it right back together again, filling in the missing pieces with jijakalu-forged ice, because every heart could use

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