Angmara

she/her | 32 | USA - I just got back into reading a few years ago, slowly catching up! My favorite genres are horror, science fiction, dystopian, and thrillers; if it's a mind melter, I'm interested!

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The Six Deaths of the Saint (Into Shadow, #3)

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A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)

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The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)

Angmara

May 17, 2026

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let's be real solovey is the real hero of this book, no one has busted their ass more than him.

once again arden has proven to be one of the most beautiful writers i've come across - her ability to toggle between detailing a dream-like world that glitters like fresh snow and a hard unforgiving landscape with compelling trials is masterful. the world is filled with rich characters that display a host of powerful characteristics like independence, emotional and physical strength, duty, and loyalty. it was empowering to see vasya continue coming into her own and evolve her relationship with her siblings while balancing their respective values.

i appreciate the themes of the book "grew up" with the characters, the tangible real-world themes were strong but i fell in love with the chyerti and the clash between catholicism and the old gods. i miss the magic and the enchantment. the presence was strong enough through a few key players to be sufficient and i have a feeling it'll come back in book three. not that vasya needs a big strong man but i'm looking forward to more of the frost king swooping in to save the day.

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Weird Horror Unrealities

by Adzuki

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cosmic, violent, nightmareish, ancient, warped, bizarre, absurd, strange, surreal

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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror

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The White Bishop

Brandon Perras-Sanchez

WHEN GOD HAS FORSAKEN YOU, WHO WILL YOU PRAY TO? A skeleton crew of desperate men looks to capitalize on a handsome reward offered by an eerie outsider. But when they brave the harsh winter waters to transport an ominous crate, their food supply mysteriously spoils, forcing them to stray off course. After several weeks of dead winds, absent sunlight, and diminishing rations, the crew begins to question not only their faith, but each other. As past lives of the crew are put on the chopping block, blood begins to spill. Has starvation driven them to delirium? Have they fallen out of the Lord’s good graces? Or is someone or something watching their plan unfold?

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Mechanical : A Frankenstein Retelling

Lorien Ray

Nova doesn't know Jay watches her in the shadows when she walks to work. Or that he never misses one of her dances at the Flesh and Code nightclub. Nor does she have an idea that he follows her home.When Jay's infatuation takes a dark turn, he devises a plan to turn the woman of his dreams into a mechanical Frankenstein.Little does he know that his cybernetic fantasy will soon become his robotic nightmare."Was I a damsel in distress and everything worked out in his favor, or am I a victim in his twisted science fiction fantasy?"

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Hello, Listener

Lorien Ray

The life of Thalia Smith is the epitome of routine. Get up, go to work, check social media. The only thing that keeps her life from becoming mundane is the hour she allows herself to listen to her favorite true crime podcast.She never expects how much her life would soon change when she attracts the attention of the host and the producer of the show."Who are you, new listener...I can't wait to find out."Hello, Listener is an Erotic Horror novel with some elements of Extreme Horror and of the subgenre of horror known as Splatterpunk. It contains many forms of content that are not meant for anyone under 18 such as but not limited -Stalking-Strong sexual content-Alcohol abuse-Infidelity-Strong acts of violence

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Disappoint Me

Nicola Dinan

After a rough tumble and maybe-serious head injury, a disillusioned trans poet falls for a charming corporate lawyer in a love story that grapples with the explosive ghosts of relationships past, romantic and familial, from the Lambda Award-nominated author of Bellies, Nicola Dinan “Fell down the stairs and woke up a trad wife.” Max is thirty, a published poet and grossly overpaid legal counsel for a tech company. With a lifetime of dysphoria and fuccbois rattling around in her head, Max is plagued with a deep dissatisfaction during what should be the best years of her life. After taking a spill down the stairs at a New Year’s Eve party, she decides to make some changes. First things first: a stab at good old-fashioned heteronormativity. Max thinks she’s found the answer in Vincent, a corporate lawyer and hobby baker, whose trad friendship group may as well speak a foreign language, and whose Chinese parents never pictured their son dating a trans woman. This uncharted territory may have rough terrain, but Vincent cares for Max in a way she’d long given up on as a foolish fantasy. Yet Vincent is carrying his own baggage from his gap year in Thailand a decade prior: an explosive entanglement with a mysterious, gorgeous traveler. Voice-driven, warm, and poignant, Disappoint Me is an exploration of millennial angst, race, trans panic, and the allure of bourgeois domesticity that asks if we are defined by our worst mistakes.

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Mariette in Ecstasy

Ron Hansen

The highly acclaimed and provocatively rendered story of a young postulant's claim to divine possession and religious ecstasy. In 1906, a beautiful seventeen year old postulant enters the convent of the Sisters of the Crucifixion in upstate New York. When she begins to bleed from her hands, feet, and side, the entire community is thrown into turmoil. Is Mariette a cunning sham, or sexually hysterical, or does God stalk her like a pitiless lover? Mariette in Ecstasy is a stunning immersion into the society of a small convent at the turn of the century, where a mysterious and ultimately harrowing world lies beneath the lovely, placid surface of everyday life. With Mariette In Ecstasy, critically acclaimed author Ron Hansen again powerfully demonstrates his gift for brilliantly recreating time and place. As intriguing as The Name Of The Rose, as sensually hypnotic as Marguerite Duras' The Lover, this is an intimate portrait of a fascinating young woman in the grip of an intractable fate, and it raises provocative questions about the complex nature of passionate faith. Exquisitely crafted, Mariette in Ecstasy is a spellbinding novel that marks a new level of achievement in one of our most gifted writers. ~ from 1991 hardcover dustjacket

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A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)

Rebecca Ross

Jack Tamerlaine hasn’t set foot on Cadence in ten long years, content to study music at the mainland university. But when young girls start disappearing from the isle, Jack is summoned home to help find them. Enchantments run deep on Cadence: gossip is carried by the wind; plaid shawls can be as strong as armor, and the smallest cut of a knife can instil fathomless fear. The capricious spirits that rule the isle by fire, water, earth, and wind find mirth in the lives of the humans who call the land home. Adaira, heiress of the east and Jack’s childhood enemy, knows the spirits only answer to a bard’s music, and she hopes Jack can draw them forth by song, enticing them to return the missing girls. As Jack and Adaira reluctantly work together, they find they make better allies than rivals as their partnership turns into something more. But with each passing song, it becomes apparent the trouble with the spirits is far more sinister than they first expected, and an older, darker secret about Cadence lurks beneath the surface, threatening to undo them all.

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The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)

Katherine Arden

The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden’s enchanting first novel, introduced readers to an irresistible heroine. Vasilisa has grown up at the edge of a Russian wilderness, where snowdrifts reach the eaves of her family’s wooden house and there is truth in the fairy tales told around the fire. Vasilisa’s gift for seeing what others do not won her the attention of Morozko—Frost, the winter demon from the stories—and together they saved her people from destruction. But Frost’s aid comes at a cost, and her people have condemned her as a witch. In The Girl in the Tower, Vasilisa faces an impossible choice. Driven from her home by frightened villagers, she has only two options left: marriage or the convent. She cannot bring herself to accept either fate and instead chooses adventure, dressing herself as a boy and setting off astride her magnificent stallion Solovey. But after she prevails in a skirmish with bandits, everything changes. The Grand Prince of Moscow anoints her a hero for her exploits, and she is reunited with her beloved sister and brother, who are now part of the Grand Prince’s inner circle. She dares not reveal to the court that she is a girl, for if her deception were discovered it would have terrible consequences for herself and her family. Before she can untangle herself from Moscow’s intrigues—and as Frost provides counsel that may or may not be trustworthy—she will also confront an even graver threat lying in wait for all of Moscow itself.

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108 Asian Cookies: Not-Too-Sweet Treats from a Third-Culture Kitchen

Kat Lieu

A first-of-its-kind collection of mouthwatering cookie recipes inspired by Asian flavors and techniques, from Cantonese Shortbread to Ube Linzer Cookies, from IACP award finalist and bestselling cookbook author Kat Lieu If baking was one big epic tournament, and all the baked goodies in the world were delicious warriors, there’s no doubt in Kat Lieu's mind that the cookie would be the ultimate champion. Why? Because the cookie, so often underestimated by its compact size, is a baking powerhouse, a shapeshifting canvas. This very adaptability endears the cookie to the masses, and it's no wonder that everyone has a favorite cookie (or two). Beyond their flavors, cookies represent a multitude of stories, with each baker infusing a fragment of their journey into every batch. In Lieu's own baking, she's discovered pieces of her spirit, heritage, and dreams stirred into the batter and dough, each cookie a chapter of a larger narrative waiting to be savored and shared. 108 Asian Cookies is an ode to this personal and intimate world of cookies—a world as varied and rich as the tapestry of Asian cultures and ingredients that inspired these recipes. Some of the cookies reflect Lieu's third-culture identity as a Canadian-born Vietnamese Chinese American while other recipes blend flavors and stories from across Asia and its diasporas. And some recipes are by members of Subtle Asian Baking, the global online baking group Lieu founded in 2020. The recipes here aren't just about introducing black sesame, pandan, miso, and ube into the cookie these 108 cookies will also dive into timeless recipes passed down through generations, the ones that meld our personal histories with broader ones—that of colonization and immigration, of adapting and settling, of practicality and creativity. With 108 Asian Cookies as your guide, your kitchen will be filled with sweet—just not too sweet—desserts.

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A House at the Bottom of a Lake

Josh Malerman

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie comes a haunting tale of love and mystery, as the date of a lifetime becomes a maddening exploration of the depths of the heart."Malerman expertly conjures a fairy tale nostalgia of first love, and we follow along, all too willingly, ignoring the warning signs even as the fear takes hold."--Lit Reactor The story begins: young lovers, anxious to connect, agree to a first date, thinking outside of the box. At seventeen years old, James and Amelia can feel the rest of their lives beginning. They have got this summer and this summer alone to experience the extraordinary. But they didn't expect to find it in a house at the bottom of a lake. The house is cold and dark, but it's also their own. Caution be damned, until being carefree becomes dangerous. For the teens must decide: swim deeper into the house--all the while falling deeper in love? Whatever they do, they will never be able to turn their backs on what they discovered together. And what they learned: Just because a house is empty, doesn't mean nobody's home.

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The Blood Plagues: Blood Demands Blood: Book I

Anavrin Jay

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May 13, 2026

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sometimes algorithms are a beautiful thing because i stumbled on this as an instagram ad and am happy to be influenced if this is what i'm getting. this old world grimdark tale is a fun bite-sized read about a battle royale for a spot in a strigoi house and the consequences when it goes a bit sideways. there's a surprising amount of world-building, action, and political intrigue for ~80 pages. and the characters retain well-known fantasy tropes that work well within the story and define their relationships with others. i'm not the biggest fan of the "yup, that’s me. you’re probably wondering how i got in this situation" narration, it unfortunately didn't quite fit the environment for me but i appreciated using the character's history to help build out the complex houses/hierarchy. worth a read for sure especially if looking for a short "game of thrones"-esque gladiator battle.

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