Bluehairedboy
She/they. le Ge be teh quahđđđ. Currently obsessing over The Jasad Heir and her husband the Nizahl heir.
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The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar
Indra Das
Ru is a boy from nowhere. Though he lives somewhereâthe city of Calcuttaâhis classmates in school remind him he doesnât look like them, and must come from somewhere else. When Ru asks his parents, they tell him they are descended from nomads. But even nomads must come from somewhere. The question, forever on the mind of the boy from nowhere, is where.
Ru dreams things that wouldnât seem out of place in the fantasy novels his father read to him when young. Fragments of a culture that doesnât exist in this world, but might in another, where sky and sea are one, and humans sail this eternal ocean on the backs of divine beasts.
Ru dreams of dragons, of serpents impossible. Perhaps Ru remembers dragons.
Alone in a city thatâs home but doesnât feel like it, Ru befriends Alice, his neighbor from the nearby Chinatown. As they grow with their friendship, Ru finds that Calcutta may yet be a home for him. But with his best friend starting to realize that Ruâs house and family hide a myriad of secrets, the question haunts him stillâwhere is his family from? Are they truly from nowhere, migrants to this reality? And if so, what strange wings brought them across the vast reaches of impossibility to hereâand what is their purpose?
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The Devourers
Indra Das
On a cool evening in Kolkata, India, beneath a full moon, as the whirling rhythms of traveling musicians fill the night, college professor Alok encounters a mysterious stranger with a bizarre confession and an extraordinary story. Tantalized by the manâs unfinished tale, Alok will do anything to hear its completion. So Alok agrees, at the strangerâs behest, to transcribe a collection of battered notebooks, weathered parchments, and once-living skins. From these documents spills the chronicle of a race of people at once more than human yet kin to beasts, ruled by instincts and desires blood-deep and ages-old. The tale features a rough wanderer in seventeenth-century Mughal India who finds himself irrevocably drawn to a defiant womanâand destined to be torn asunder by two clashing worlds. With every passing chapter of beauty and brutality, Alokâs interest in the stranger grows and evolves into something darker and more urgent.
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Empire of Sand (The Books of Ambha, #1)
Tasha Suri
A noblemanâs daughter with magic in her blood. An empire built on the dreams of enslaved gods. Empire of Sand is Tasha Suriâs captivating, Mughal India-inspired debut fantasy.
The Amrithi are outcasts; nomads descended of desert spirits, they are coveted and persecuted throughout the Empire for the power in their blood. Mehr is the illegitimate daughter of an imperial governor and an exiled Amrithi mother she can barely remember, but whose face and magic she has inherited.
When Mehrâs power comes to the attention of the Emperorâs most feared mystics, she must use every ounce of will, subtlety, and power she possesses to resist their cruel agenda.
Should she fail, the gods themselves may awaken seeking vengeanceâŠ
Empire of Sand is a lush, dazzling fantasy novel perfect for readers of City of Brass and The Wrath & the Dawn.
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Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)
Kendare Blake
When kingdom come, there will be one.
In every generation on the island of Fennbirn, a set of triplets is bornâthree queens, all equal heirs to the crown and each possessor of a coveted magic. Mirabella is a fierce elemental, able to spark hungry flames or vicious storms at the snap of her fingers. Katharine is a poisoner, one who can ingest the deadliest poisons without so much as a stomachache. Arsinoe, a naturalist, is said to have the ability to bloom the reddest rose and control the fiercest of lions.
But becoming the Queen Crowned isnât solely a matter of royal birth. Each sister has to fight for it. And itâs not just a game of win or loseâŠitâs life or death. The night the sisters turn sixteen, the battle begins.
The last queen standing gets the crown.Â
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Immortal Consequences (Untitled, #1)
I.V. Marie
A multi-POV YA dark fantasy in which six teens, caught between life and death at the enigmatic Blackwood Academy, must compete for the chance to make a once-in-eternity choiceâcross over to the other side, or Ascend and remain at Blackwood foreverâbut sinister forces are playing the game, too.
Publication is set for summer 2025.
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Found it super boring. Couldn't even get 150 pages through
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Nine Tailed (Realm of Four Kingdoms, #1)
Jayci Lee
An enemy on her tails, an innocent at her side, and a dangerous power within her that could destroy them all. Jayci Lee melds Korean folklore with modern Americana in this fiery new series.
In a race to stop an ancient evil from destroying the worlds as they know them, Sunny comes to a startling, heartbreaking if she chooses loveâeverything will burn.
Sunny Cho aspires to be the dullest, least interesting person in any given room, which can be challenging for a nine-tailed fox spirit. So she drifts from city to cityâstaying clear of any and all attachmentâand keeps her fox buried deep inside her. It is better this way. She would rather live as half of herself than risk losing control of her terrible powers.
Ethan Lee, a friend she left behind eight years ago, is a brilliant and distractingly hot PI. When he tracks her down and asks her to help him find his brotherâs murderer, Sunny knows her uneventful life is about to be turned upside down.
Traversing the mortal realm and the world of gods, Sunny and Ethan discover their quest is much more dire than mere vengeance, and their friendship might beâŠmore. An ancient evil is stirring, and Sunny is faced with an impossible save the worlds from annihilation or claim the love fated by the heavens.
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Hot take from a brown queer woman
Idk who needs to hear this but if you're a straight woman who consumes mlm media a lot without giving the same importance to wlw media; then you're the female equivalent of straight men fetishising lesbian and bisexual women.
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Nine Tailed (Realm of Four Kingdoms, #1)
Jayci Lee
An enemy on her tails, an innocent at her side, and a dangerous power within her that could destroy them all. Jayci Lee melds Korean folklore with modern Americana in this fiery new series.
In a race to stop an ancient evil from destroying the worlds as they know them, Sunny comes to a startling, heartbreaking if she chooses loveâeverything will burn.
Sunny Cho aspires to be the dullest, least interesting person in any given room, which can be challenging for a nine-tailed fox spirit. So she drifts from city to cityâstaying clear of any and all attachmentâand keeps her fox buried deep inside her. It is better this way. She would rather live as half of herself than risk losing control of her terrible powers.
Ethan Lee, a friend she left behind eight years ago, is a brilliant and distractingly hot PI. When he tracks her down and asks her to help him find his brotherâs murderer, Sunny knows her uneventful life is about to be turned upside down.
Traversing the mortal realm and the world of gods, Sunny and Ethan discover their quest is much more dire than mere vengeance, and their friendship might beâŠmore. An ancient evil is stirring, and Sunny is faced with an impossible save the worlds from annihilation or claim the love fated by the heavens.
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Dreadful
Caitlin Rozakis
A sharp-witted, high fantasy farce featuring killer moat squid, toxic masculinity, evil wizards and a garlic festival - all at once. Perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher, K. J. Parker and Travis Baldree.
Itâs bad enough waking up in a half-destroyed evil wizardâs workshop with no eyebrows, no memories, and no idea how long you have before the Dread Lord Whomever shows up to murder you horribly and then turn your skull into a goblet or something.
Itâs a lot worse when you realize that Dread Lord Whomever is⊠you.
Gav isnât really sure how he ended up with a castle full of goblins, or why he has a princess locked in a cell. All he can do is play along with his own evil plan in hopes of getting his memories back before he gets himself killed.
But as he realizes that nothing â from the incredibly tasteless cloak adorned with flames to the aforementioned princess â is quite what it seems, Gav must face up to all the things the Dread Lord Gavrax has done. And heâll have to answer the hardest question of all â who does he want to be?
Dread Lord Gavrax has had better weeks.
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Hey y'all. I was wondering if you have any horror novels recs that have a dash of romance like The Hacienda or The Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas. If you have a book in mind; please drop them below. Much love to everyone thank you. Yours, A cup of Tea
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Only a Monster (Monsters, #1)
Vanessa Len
It should have been the perfect summer. Sent to stay with her late motherâs eccentric family in London, sixteen-year-old Joan is determined to enjoy herself. She loves her nerdy job at the historic Holland House, and when her super cute co-worker Nick asks her on a date, it feels like everything is falling into place.
But she soon learns the truth. Her family arenât just eccentric: theyâre monsters, with terrifying, hidden powers. And Nick isnât just a cute boy: heâs a legendary monster slayer, who will do anything to bring them down.
As she battles Nick, Joan is forced to work with the beautiful and ruthless Aaron Oliver, heir to a monster family that hates her own. Sheâll have to embrace her own monstrousness if she is to save herself, and her family. Because in this story...
...she is not the hero.
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Broken Web (Shamanborn, #2)
Lori M. Lee
The sequel to the hotly-anticipated Forest of Souls, an epic and immersive tale of destiny and sisterhood. Perfect for fans of Susan Dennard, Sarah J. Maas, and Netflix's The Witcher!
The Soulless has woken from his centuries-long imprisonment. Now, he lurks in the Dead Wood recovering his strength, while Sirscha and her allies journey east to the shaman empire of Nuvalyn. Everyone believes she is a soulguideâa saviorâbut Sirscha knows the truth. Sheâs a monster, a soulrender like the Soulless, and if anyone discovers the truth, sheâll be executed.
But thereâs nothing Sirscha wonât risk to stop the shaman responsible for the rot thatâs killing her best friend. While the Soulless is formidable, like all shamans, his magic must be channeled through a familiar. If Sirscha can discover whatâor whoâthat is, she might be able to cut him off from his power.
With Queen Meilyr bent on destroying the magical kingdoms, Sirscha finds herself caught between a war brewing in the east and the Soulless waiting in the west. She should be trying to unite what peoples she can to face their common enemies, but instead, her hunt for clues about the Soulless leads to a grim discovery, forcing Sirscha to question who her enemies really are.
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Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)
Lori M. Lee
Sirscha Ashwyn comes from nothing, but sheâs intent on becoming something. After years of training to become the queenâs next royal spy, her plans are derailed when shamans attack and kill her best friend Saengo.
And then Sirscha, somehow, restores Saengo to life.
Unveiled as the first soulguide in living memory, Sirscha is summoned to the domain of the Spider King. For centuries, he has used his influence over the Dead Woodâan ancient forest possessed by soulsâto enforce peace between the kingdoms. Now, with the trees growing wild and untamed, only a soulguide can restrain them. As war looms, Sirscha must master her newly awakened abilities before the trees shatter the brittle peace, or worse, claim Saengo, the friend she would die for.
Danger lurks within the roots of Forest of Souls, an epic, unrelenting tale of destiny and sisterhood, perfect for fans of Naomi Novik and Susan Dennard.
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Concerning My Daughter
Kim Hye-jin
When a mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants for her what many mothers might say they want for their a steady income, and, even better, a good husband with a good job with whom to start a family. But when Green turns up with her girlfriend, Lane, in tow, her mother is unprepared and unwilling to welcome Lane into her home. In fact, she can barely bring herself to be civil. Having centred her life on her husband and child, her daughterâs definition of family is not one she can accept. Her daughterâs involvement in a case of unfair dismissal involving gay colleagues from the university where she works is similarly strange to her. And yet when the care home where she works insists that she lower her standard of care for an elderly dementia patient who has no family, who travelled the world as a successful diplomat, who chose not to have children, Greenâs mother cannot accept it. Why should not having chosen a traditional life mean that your life is worth nothing at all?In Concerning My Daughter, translated from Korean by Jamie Chang, Kim Hye-jin lays bare our most universal fears on ageing, death, and isolation, to offer finally a paean to love in all its forms.
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The Hollow Places
T. Kingfisher
A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncleâs house, leading to madness and terror in this gripping new novel.
Pray they are hungry.
Kara finds these words in the mysterious bunker that sheâs discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncleâs house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring the peculiar bunkerâonly to discover that it holds portals to countless alternate realities. But these places are haunted by creatures that seem to hear thoughtsâŠand the more you fear them, the stronger they become.
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Need recommendations please đ«¶
Hey y'all. I was wondering if you have any horror novels recs that have a dash of romance like The Hacienda or The Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas. If you have a book in mind; please drop them below. Much love to everyone thank you. Yours, A cup of Tea
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Ice Station (Shane Schofield, #1)
Matthew Reilly
Antarctica is the last unconquered continent, a murderous expanse of howling winds, blinding whiteouts and deadly crevasses. On one edge of Antarctica is Wilkes Station. Beneath Wilkes Station is the gate to hell itself...A team of U.S. divers, exploring three thousand feet beneath the ice shelf has vanished. Sending out an SOS, Wilkes draws a rapid deployment team of Marines-and someone else...First comes a horrific firefight. Then comes a plunge into a drowning pool filled with killer whales. Next comes the hard part, as a handful of survivors begin an electrifying, red-hot, non-stop battle of survival across the continent and against wave after wave of elite military assassins-who've all come for one thing: a secret buried deep beneath the ice...
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Need recommendations please đ«¶
Hey y'all. I was wondering if you have any horror novels recs that have a dash of romance like The Hacienda or The Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas. If you have a book in mind; please drop them below. Much love to everyone thank you. Yours, A cup of Tea
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The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen
Isaac Blum
The Chosen meets Darius the Great in this irreverent and timely story of worlds colliding in friendship, betrayal, and hatred.
Hoodie Rosen's life isn't that bad. Sure, his entire Orthodox Jewish community has just picked up and moved to the quiet, mostly non-Jewish town of Tregaron, but Hoodie's world hasn't changed that much. He's got basketball to play, studies to avoid, and a supermarket full of delicious kosher snacks to eat. The people of Tregaron arenât happy that so many Orthodox Jews are moving in at once, but thatâs not Hoodieâs problem.
That is, until he meets and falls for Anna-Marie Diaz-OâLearyâwho happens to be the daughter of the headstrong mayor trying to keep Hoodieâs community out of the town. And things only get more complicated when Tregaron is struck by a series of antisemitic crimes that quickly escalate to deadly violence.
As his community turns on him for siding with the enemy, Hoodie finds himself caught between his first love and the only world heâs ever known.
Isaac Blum delivers a wry, witty debut novel about a deeply important and timely subject, in a story of hatred and betrayalâand the friendships we find in the most unexpected places.
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