HapennyBooks

fantasy & lit fic, find me on booksta (same name) Irish, 30s, healthcare, mum

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H.M. Wolfe

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whatiskaylareading

I am Ireland obsessed! 🇮🇪

Pleaseee give me your favorite book(s) that take place in Ireland! I love literary fiction, historical fiction, romance, a little fantasy and a tiny bit of sci fi! Mostly I’ll just read anything that place on the Emerald Isle! 🍀

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water goblet filled to the meniscus?

…. as in, the surface of water when it curves?

that’s not a level, that could be literally any level of water with the right shape.

ban thesauruses 😔

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So far so dumb (complimentary)

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Daggermouth

H.M. Wolfe

Set in a corrupt surveillance state ruled by the masked elite, this true enemies-to-lovers dystopian romance that’s Conform meets V For Vendetta follows a mercenary who botches the assassination of the president’s son and ends up forced to marry him. The first thing you’ll learn in New Found Haven is that mercy doesn’t exist. The second thing is that, from the highest glass atrium in the Heart to the windowless slums of the Boundary, the Veyra are always watching. The last lesson is the hardest, but you must remember it: Love outside of your ring is a death sentence. The city is carved into rings of privilege and poverty, ruled by the masked elite who will do whatever it takes to hold onto power. Obedience is demanded. Rebellion is crushed. Greyson Serel has spent his life caught between two worlds. Publicly, he’s the flawless heir to the presidency. Privately, he’s entangled in secrets that could topple the regime. But when he’s forced into a political marriage meant to bind him tighter to the government’s brutal laws, he finds himself shackled to a bride as lethal as she is unwilling. Shadera Kael is a mercenary raised to kill, not to wed. Yet when her bullet misses its mark, survival leaves her tied to the very man she was sent to eliminate. Trapped inside the corrupt heart of the city, she becomes both prisoner and wife, her every step watched, her every move tested. Their union is no love story—it’s a battlefield. As secrets come to light and betrayals fester within the walls of power, Greyson and Shadera must decide between annihilating each other or burning the city to the ground together. In a world where passion has consequences and loyalty is paid for in blood, their forced bond may be the spark that ignites a revolution. Or the fire that consumes them both.

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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

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If Not Friend, Why Friend Shaped?

For the Romantasy/Fantasy fans, have you ever thought about how—if you were to set foot in a dragon world—you would take the term "if not friend, why friend shaped?" Too literally and be literal toast?

Because knowing me, I'd go into a dragon field and try to pet all the dragons because they're friend shaped. And these dragons would get real mad, I would not be the next Violet Sorrengail by booping the dragons.

Amd if it's not a dragon, what other Fantasy creates would make you be literal toast because they're friend shaped?

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House of Earth and Blood

Sarah J. Maas

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House of Earth and Blood

Sarah J. Maas

Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life-working hard all day and partying all night-until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. When the accused is behind bars but the crimes start up again, Bryce finds herself at the heart of the investigation. She'll do whatever it takes to avenge their deaths. Hunt Athalar is a notorious Fallen angel, now enslaved to the Archangels he once attempted to overthrow. His brutal skills and incredible strength have been set to one purpose-to assassinate his boss's enemies, no questions asked. But with a demon wreaking havoc in the city, he's offered an irresistible deal: help Bryce find the murderer, and his freedom will be within reach. As Bryce and Hunt dig deep into Crescent City's underbelly, they discover a dark power that threatens everything and everyone they hold dear, and they find, in each other, a blazing passion-one that could set them both free, if they'd only let it. With unforgettable characters, sizzling romance, and page-turning suspense, this richly inventive new fantasy series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas delves into the heartache of loss, the price of freedom-and the power of love.

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Tananarive Due

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The Reformatory

Tananarive Due

A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead. Gracetown, Florida June 1950 Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie’s journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory. Robbie has a talent for seeing ghosts, or haints. But what was once a comfort to him after the loss of his mother has become a window to the truth of what happens at the reformatory. Boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, but the haints Robbie sees hint at worse things. Through his friends Redbone and Blue, Robbie is learning not just the rules but how to survive. Meanwhile, Gloria is rallying every family member and connection in Florida to find a way to get Robbie out before it’s too late. The Reformatory is a haunting work of historical fiction written as only American Book Award–winning author Tananarive Due could, by piecing together the life of the relative her family never spoke of and bringing his tragedy and those of so many others at the infamous Dozier School for Boys to the light in this riveting novel.

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The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy

HapennyBooks

Aug 01, 2026

The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy

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Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.0

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He was an assassin She was a healer Can I make it any more obvious?

Ughhhh. Book 1 was funny, full of banter and good fun. Book 2 was off the charts romantic. The build up to the kiss by the lake…. Pure magic.

Pretty sure I’ll buy anything Brigitte Knightley produces from here on out.

There’s enough open ends that I think we could be returning to this world but to meet different characters, and I gladly welcome that possibility.

Pretty much a perfect duology. Could it have been a standalone? Yes. But I loved part two so much that I’m willing to overlook book 1’s slowish pace.

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The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy

Brigitte Knightley

The stakes are high, the love is forbidden, and the slow burn turns steamy in this swoony, witty, and heart-stoppingly romantic sequel to instant New York Times bestseller The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy. This stunning hardcover features a cover with foil, beautifully designed endpapers, and a black-and-white interior map! Osric is a member of the Fyren Order, a guild of assassins who gleefully murder for money. Aurienne is a Haelan, a scholar-healer whose Order’s motto is Harm to none. Clear-cut absolutes separate them: good and bad, right and wrong, light and dark . . . Until they don’t. When Osric first bribed Aurienne to heal him, he never imagined those lines would begin to blur. But every healing session draws them closer together. He finds himself developing unwanted feelings for Aurienne as her capable hands heal his body—and his heart. Aurienne’s perfect life has been flung into chaos in the form of a devastatingly handsome assassin. She should be in her research lab, not illicitly healing a Fyren every full moon—nor wrestling an attraction to him that threatens to slip into something else. Things go superbly sideways when Osric and Aurienne discover more about the deadly Pox deliberately unleashed through the Tīendoms. The plague may be t

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Any media - the most insane plot twist you’ve seen

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Okay, I'm only five pages in, but I'm LOVING it so far! Laughed out loud a few times already.

I don't have a life, and will likely celebrate by drinking alone and going down Reddit rabbit holes researching random and upsetting things like fecal-matter transplants, or the Golden State Killer, while making myself regret everything. I'm not sure that's relatable, so I'll say I'm having dinner with friends. Oh, the lies I'm forced to tell just to fit it at the western regional office of Supershops Incorporated.

So many office situations show no regard for people with anxiety, yet we're the bad guys if we can't cope.

Oh, and one quote on the back cover says: "Clever, funny, bittersweet... if Eleanor Oliphant worked in an office, she'd be friends with Jolene." And OMG, I love Eleanor Oliphant so much! Please let this be a perfect book for me, please. 🥹

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This book has no right to be this romantic though ugh

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Ideal airplane reads

I'm finally going my honeymoon... three years later! I lost my job one month post-wedding so it was postponed. Me and my wife will be going to Italy later this year and looking at a full travel day to get there. I have an inability to sleep on planes, so my Kobo is my lifesaver.

When reading on an airplane, what is your ideal book lineup? Specific genres? Books about travel or your destination? Ideal lengths of books? A mix?

I love a good romcom on a plane, as well as novellas.

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