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My Name is Monster

Katie Hale

After the Sickness has killed off her parents, and the bombs have fallen on the last safe cities, Monster emerges from the arctic vault which has kept her alive. When she washes up on the coast of Scotland, everyone she knows is dead, and she believes she is alone in an empty world. Monster begins the long walk south, scavenging and learning the contours of this familiar land made new. Slowly, piece by piece, she begins to rebuild a life. Until, one day, she finds a girl: feral, and ready to be taught all that Monster knows. Changing her own name to Mother, Monster names the child after herself. As young Monster learns from Mother, she also discovers her own desires, realising that she wants very different things to the woman who made, but did not create, her. Inspired by Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein, My Name is Monster is a novel about power, about the things that society leaves imprinted on us when the rules no longer apply, and about the strength and the danger of a mother’s love.

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A Game of Hearts and Heists (Girl Games #1)

Ruby Roe

Two enemies, one goal: steal each other's hearts. Scarlett Grey, disgraced assassin, is determined to get revenge. Quinn Adams, medic turned-poisoner for hire, is her deadliest rival. For years, they've stolen each other's clients, sabotaged each other's business, and occasionally… slept together. When the Magician Queen offers an irresistible deal, Scarlett and Quinn are forced to work together. But this is not a simple job. With an impossible heist ahead, they’re going to have to trust each other… And that's not easy when they both have secrets to hide. Harder still when those secrets will betray the ones they love. Now neither woman is sure if it’s a heist they want to win or a heart. Two women, two deadly professions, and a romance that could be their downfall. This is a steamy lesbian fantasy romance with enemies to lovers, a heist, found family, a secret royal, and only one bed.

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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

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Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1)

Ada Palmer

Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer--a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away. The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would be to a native of the 1500s. It is a hard-won utopia built on technologically-generated abundance, and also on complex and mandatory systems of labeling all public writing and speech. What seem to us normal gender distinctions are now distinctly taboo in most social situations. And most of the world's population is affiliated with globe-girdling clans of the like-minded, whose endless economic and cultural competition is carefully managed by central planners of inestimable subtlety. To us it seems like a mad combination of heaven and hell. To them, it seems like normal life. And in this world, Mycroft and Carlyle have stumbled on the wild card that may destablize the system: the boy Bridger, who can effortlessly make his wishes come true. Who can, it would seem, bring inanimate objects to life...

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A Vow of Blood (The Purgatory Chronicles)

C.M. Quinn

Set 10 years before ‘A Song of Death’ Monster. Vicious. Alone. All Aya Sinclair has ever known since the extermination of her people is that no one can know her secret, or she too, will follow them to the grave. At sixteen, she’s made a name for herself in the Dusk Quarter but at a price. Her latest mission ought to be a simple one, but a chance discovery will alter the course of her life—forever. Now, she must do what she has never done before—trust a stranger, forge a bond, and her carve out the home she never thought possible. For the last necromancer, it’s time for a little carnage.

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List appreciation - unofficial badges #2✨✨✨

Hello my fellow pageboundlings! To continue my series (yes, I’ve decided it’s a series now, albeit with only two parts) of list appreciation posts, I have created two more badges to honor lists that I have been lucky enough to find here 😌

Firstly, I made a badge for the Cooking is magic list by no one other than the fabulous @the_rags - even though the badge itself leans a bit more into the baking direction (you might see that I’ve read The wizard’s guide to defensive baking). Cooking as magic is such a cool idea and I hope to read more of that list in the future!🍪🍜🍳

And then I made one for Polter’s (@Polterbooks) Oath of pride list! It took me quite a while to figure out the design but I’m super happy with it. I just love me a good knight (or adjacent) and some yearning 🤭

Many people have great ideas for new quests that could be created but since there are just too many cool niche sub genres and creating quests takes a long while, I think list also deserve their spotlight - so if you’re missing out on a curated sub genre or theme quest, don’t be shy and dig through all the create lists - or, if you’re can’t find any, you can always do some research and create your own 🙂‍↕️🙌🏻💃

Here is the link where you can see all badges a bit more up close if you’d like!

And for everyone who can’t access Imgur, I also added the Badges to a google doc which you can access Here 🥰

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pearl_reads

Are you a commenter or a poster?

Are you the type of person to comment or post more on Pagebound?

Personally, I've noticed I comment MUCH more than I post. Sometimes I don't post for a book at all. I only do so when I have something to say. Meanwhile, I feel like comments spark much more discussion (imo ofc) bc sometimes I can't exactly explain my point on a book, but then someone might make a post on it, then I can engage with it properly. It just makes it easier for me, if that makes sense. When the forum's empty, I feel like I'm talking to myself sometimes tho. 😭

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Avalon commented on Avalon's review of The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

Avalon

Feb 05, 2026

3.5

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I feel refreshed but left wanting. Perhaps its because the steps to take to address reciprocity in your area of the world is, naturally, left in your hands to decipher and focus on, but I did want more out of this book. More content, more direct examples and highlights of people and their experience in the gift economy, more references, more future planning and envisioning. Perhaps I just craved more of the hope this gave me. But I found great benefit in the discussion forum on PB. Posts like Karigans here discussing post-read personal call to actions gave me a glimpse into the network of digital to real-life web of collaboration and conversation that was driven by Robin Wall Kimmerer's prompting questions and reflections. And you, as an individual, are a small piece in a larger wheel that requires community leverage and power to turn and bring about change. So step by step, we look to the Earth and each other and we do what we can.

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Feb 05, 2026

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