AmarisSkye

Ash [they/them] | 38 yo disabled nonbinary queer content creator with an avid love of reading & doing so critically | just getting back into the habit post concussive brain injury

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The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

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Thoughts from 84% (page 257)

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Jun 11, 2026

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Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0

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Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen

Marjorie M. Liu

A new war between humans and Arcanics is bubbling to the surface. A rift in the sky has revealed the devastating potential of the long-imprisoned Monstra. And Maika Halfwolf is at the center of it all. In this fourth volume of MONSTRESS, Maika comes closer than ever before to the answers she’s long sought - but those answers carry a steep price. As her friends and allies reveal long-held secrets and shifting allegiances, Maika finds herself at the mercy of the Lord Doctor, a charismatic demagogue whose connections to Maika and Zinn run deeper than anyone could have imagined. Collects MONSTRESS #19-24.

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Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen

Marjorie M. Liu

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jessikasreadingdiary

Hi everyone! 🖤

Im new to pagebound and was super happy to come across this quest! Pretty much all of these books have been on my radar, and I have already read a few. Thanks so much for this, and Im really excited! 🥹

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Thoughts from 36% (page 131) | audio narration complaints

i am really struggling with the audiobook narrator for this one. something about both their cadence & tone is frustrating me. when played at 1x speed it actually sounds like the audio file was slowed down because there appears to be some artifacting in the file & the voice sounds artificially stretched out. unfortunately, speeding up the audiobook doesn't help because the fidelity of the audio file has been compromised.

additionally, there have been multiple pronunciation issues. i am not sure if audio book submissions have an editor comb through but its been jarring to hear things blatantly pronounced wrong especially when i am already trying to ignore the weird cadence issues.

the most recent moment was the narrator saying "abestos" instead of "asbestos" (just completely eliminating the first s from the word. i replayed the sentence multiple times just to ensure i didn't mishear.

i can't tell if i am not into this book (which is quite different than my experience with They Bloom at Night) or if the audio narration is spoiling my experience. since i struggle to absorb information if i am not doing immersive reading (audio along with text), i am not sure there is much i can do to remedy this. i may need to DNF.

(sorry for so much techno babble - i went to school for music & have done live stream broadcasts for years in addition to getting paid to do a few voice over pieces so this is something i know about from a technical standpoint due to personal experience)

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The Dragon and the Sun Lotus (The Three Realms Book 2)

Amélie Wen Zhao

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Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark

Leigh Ann Henion

On this imperiled planet, nature’s magic still exists, often in the places we least expect it. Night Magic is a glorious celebration of the dark! New York Times bestselling nature writer Leigh Ann Henion makes the case for embracing night as a profoundly beautiful part of the world we inhabit—and she invites us to leave our well-lit homes and step outside. It turns out we don’t have to go far to find marvels: We are surrounded by animals that rise with the moon, gigantic moths, and nocturnal blooms that reveal themselves, incrementally, as light fades. In her quest to know night with greater intimacy, Henion travels through forests alight with bioluminescent mushrooms and mountain valleys teeming with migratory salamanders. She ventures into the dark alongside naturalists, biologists, primitive-skills experts, and others who’ve dedicated their lives to cultivating relationships with darkness and the creatures who depend on it. Every page of this lyrical book feels like an opportunity to ask: How did I not know about this before? For example, we learn that it can take hours, not minutes, for human eyes to reach full night vision capacity. And that there are thousands of firefly species on earth, each with flash patterns as unique as fingerprints—with one million tourists making pilgrimages to witness synchronous fireflies every year. In this age of increasing artificial light, Night Magic is an invitation to focus on the biodiversity that surrounds us. We do not need to stargaze into the distant cosmos or to dive into the depths of oceans to find awe in the dark—when we reclaim night, dazzling wonders can be found in our own backyards.

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The Veiled Throne (The Dandelion Dynasty, #3)

Ken Liu

With the invasion of Dara complete, and the Wall of Storms breached, the world has opened to new possibilities for the gods and peoples of both empires as the sweeping saga of the award-winning Dandelion Dynasty continues in this third book of the “magnificent fantasy epic” (NPR). Princess Théra, once known as Empress Üna of Dara, entrusted the throne to her younger brother in order to journey to Ukyu-Gondé to war with the Lyucu. She has crossed the fabled Wall of Storms with a fleet of advanced warships and ten thousand people. Beset by adversity, Théra and her most trusted companions attempt to overcome every challenge by doing the most interesting thing. But is not letting the past dictate the present always possible or even desirable? In Dara, the Lyucu leadership as well as the surviving Dandelion Court bristle with rivalries as currents of power surge and ebb and perspectives spin and shift. Here, parents and children, teachers and students, Empress and Pékyu, all nurture the seeds of plans that will take years to bloom. Will tradition yield to new justifications for power? Everywhere, the spirit of innovation dances like dandelion seeds on the wind, and the commoners, the forgotten, the ignored begin to engineer new solutions for a new age. Ken Liu returns to the series that draws from a tradition of the great epics of our history from the Aeneid to the Romance on the Three Kingdoms and builds a new tale unsurpassed in its scope and ambition.

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The Wall of Storms (The Dandelion Dynasty, #2)

Ken Liu

Kuni Garu, now known as Emperor Ragin, runs the archipelago kingdom of Dara, but struggles to maintain progress while serving the demands of the people and his vision. Then an unexpected invading force from the Lyucu empire in the far distant west comes to the shores of Dara—and chaos results. But Emperor Kuni cannot go and lead his kingdom against the threat himself with his recently healed empire fraying at the seams, so he sends the only people he trusts to be Dara’s savvy and cunning hopes against the invincible invaders: his children, now grown and ready to make their mark on history.

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The Starless Sea

Erin Morgenstern

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world—a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea. Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues—a bee, a key, and a sword—that lead him to a masquerade party in New York, to a secret club, and through a doorway to an ancient library hidden far below the surface of the earth. What Zachary finds in this curious place is more than just a buried home for books and their guardians—it is a place of lost cities and seas, lovers who pass notes under doors and across time, and of stories whispered by the dead. Zachary learns of those who have sacrificed much to protect this realm, relinquishing their sight and their tongues to preserve this archive, and also of those who are intent on its destruction. Together with Mirabel, a fierce, pink-haired protector of the place, and Dorian, a handsome, barefoot man with shifting alliances, Zachary travels the twisting tunnels, darkened stairwells, crowded ballrooms, and sweetly soaked shores of this magical world, discovering his purpose—in both the mysterious book and in his own life.

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Thoughts from 4% (page 21) | before “this spear”

Wait a minute ✋🏼 No one told me the writing and the way the story is unfolding is so similar to The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern?? I am now twice as excited to read this book. Maybe three times because the dedication (This one’s for me) also immediately reeled me in LOL

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