Aprilthebookqueen
April/31/Canadian. I love reading and dogs. You can find me on Storygraph, Instagram and Threads with the same name! I also have an Insta/Threads where I focus on indie authors @ indie.authorbookclub
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Aprilthebookqueen started reading...
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
Margaret Atwood
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Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)
Stephanie Garber
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I really loved this book. I found it super intimidating to start due to its length, but I barely noticed because I was so invested in it. I felt so lost at first. This does happen with Sanderson novels for me it seems. I hurt my brain trying to understand the world as it’s presented in the first few chapters and it just doesn’t ever work. But when it begins to come together? It’s magical. There are three main pov’s in this one. All from different statuses in society which really allows you to get a good idea of how this all works. I also found myself invested in all three storylines. I’d have that moment of disappointed when they switched because I wanted to know what happened next but I’d get sucked into the next storyline so quickly and forget about it. I love seeing the different relationships explored, from father/son in one storyline and mentor/student in another and the found family in the third storyline. You really get to see these relationships develop. While father/son is already an established relationship beforehand, you get to see the challenges they navigate and what they learn about each other and how that changes their relationship. The mentor/student was a fun storyline to watch, though for obvious reasons if you read, I was anxious from the beginning how that would end. But the found family we see explored is what really I really enjoyed the most. Seeing things change from a feeling of “neutrality” as in, you don’t care one way or the other about another to the way it ended was amazing and well done. I find it more interesting to see a relationship go from indifference to what I’d define as a mutual respect and love. There’s a lot of themes explored in this one, and this would end up so long if I talked about them all. But I will say it’s a really thought provoking and interesting read. While it ends with questions and an eagerness for the next one, it also feels like it ends at a good enough point to feel satisfied with where it leaves off. (Which is good for me because the next one I’m reading in the Cosmere order isn’t the next one of these.)
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Somewhere between my never-ending TBR pile 😅 and a plan to actually reduce it this year (which... isn’t exactly going great), I’ve decided that 2025 is the year I finally read Tolkien. 💫 But now I’m stuck on the big question: 🧙♂️ Do I start with The Fellowship of the Ring and go straight into the main trilogy? 🐉 Or do I begin with The Hobbit? 📖 Or maybe follow the timeline of Middle-earth events instead? If you’ve read Tolkien, how did you approach it? Would love your thoughts! 🙏
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Lately I've been so obsessed with special edition books, to the point where if I finish a book and I really enjoyed it, I'll immediately be on the lookout for any special editions that are released in the future 😭. I try to only either buy special editions if I can find them really cheap on second hand websites or only buy special editions of books that I reallyyyy liked and find special to me, as much as I'd like to buy special editions of a lot of books, they tend to be quite pricey and I just can't afford it lmao. Do you tend to collect special editions? If so, what's your criteria, like do you buy them cause you found them pretty or you've already read the book and liked it or any other reason?
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I want to put ONE of the Brandon Sanderson books on my docket soon and he has so many. I saw he had a "Where to start" on his page and Mistborn was one of the recommendations - I just wanted to know what everyone else thought!
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I love hearing everyone's opinions and thoughts. I also love discovering new books to read when I hear people's answers to questions. My answer: I would love for The Poppy War to be turned into a movie. I need it to be given the "Holes" treatment though and have a super super faithful adaptation made 😂😂
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Us Dark Few (Us Dark Few #1)
Alexis Patton
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I would absolutely be so into it if someone created a quest for a bunch of dragon books. Books where the dragons have a big role and aren’t just a small part of it. It would be fun to tick off a bunch and also give me a bunch more to read 😂 What are your favourite dragon books?
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I would absolutely be so into it if someone created a quest for a bunch of dragon books. Books where the dragons have a big role and aren’t just a small part of it. It would be fun to tick off a bunch and also give me a bunch more to read 😂 What are your favourite dragon books?
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I can’t be in Snow’s head, I just can’t do it. Maybe one day when the world hasn’t gone to shit, but it wasn’t the time when this book came out in 2020, and it’s certainly not the time now. I’ll just read a recap before going into Sunrise on the Reaping 😄
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