LemonLime

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The Family Upstairs (The Family Upstairs, #1)

The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity

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shatter me #1

Tahereh Mafi

A fragile teenage girl is held captive. Locked in a cell by The Reestablishment, a harsh dictatorship in charge of a crumbling world. But Juliette is no ordinary teenager one touch from her can kill. The Reestablishment wants to use her as a weapon. But Juliette has other plans. After a lifetime without freedom, she's finally discovered the strength to fight back - and to find a future with the one person she thought she'd lost forever…

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Defy Me (Shatter Me, #5)

Tahereh Mafi

The gripping fifth installment in the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Shatter Me series. Will Juliette’s broken heart make her vulnerable to the strengthening darkness within her? Juliette’s short tenure as the supreme commander of North America has been an utter disaster. When the children of the other world leaders show up on her doorstep, she wants nothing more than to turn to Warner for support and guidance. But he shatters her heart when he reveals that he’s been keeping secrets about her family and her identity from her—secrets that change everything. Juliette is devastated, and the darkness that’s always dwelled within her threatens to consume her. An explosive encounter with unexpected visitors might be enough to push her over the edge.

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Chocoohunnie

24 hours readathon

Anyone is into 24 hours readathon? I'm interested and wanna try it, but actually kind of confuse to choose the books and what should I prepare 🤣👉👈

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gmigsi

Thoughts from 23%

as an autistic person who’s job is related to their special interest this book is so strangely relatable

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LemonLime

Scariest Books 🥶😱🤯😬

What book has actually scared you while reading? (Hoping without gore because gross doesn’t always equate to scary…just yucky!). I don’t think I’ve ever stopped reading a book because I was scared - have you?

Enjoyably scary options for me have included The Mist - Stephen King ⛈️ We Used to Live Here - Marcus Kliewer 🐕🏚️ Little Eve - Catriona Ward 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😬👁️

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LemonLime

Scariest Books 🥶😱🤯😬

Enjoyably scary options for me have included The Mist - Stephen King ⛈️ We Used to Live Here - Marcus Kliewer 🐕🏚️ Little Eve - Catriona Ward 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😬👁️

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Book slump rec

I hope this is the right place for this!

I'm kind of going crazy because I've been on a book slump since march and I hate everything I pick up, so I was wondering if anyone had book recs to stop it?

My main genres are fantasy & romance, I like mysteries too (no thrillers) but I think anything fun and fast paced will be good? Anything is okay really cause I don't even know what I'm looking for 😭

Thank you 💗

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Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

Brom Brom

Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only dark fantasist Brom can tell it.A spirited young Englishwoman, Abitha, arrives at a Puritan colony betrothed to a stranger – only to become quickly widowed when her husband dies under mysterious circumstances. All alone in this pious and patriarchal society, Abitha fights for what little freedom she can grasp onto, while trying to stay true to herself and her past.Enter Slewfoot, a powerful spirit of antiquity newly woken ... and trying to find his own role in the world. Healer or destroyer? Protector or predator? But as the shadows walk and villagers start dying, a new rumor is whispered: Witch.Both Abitha and Slewfoot must swiftly decide who they are, and what they must do to survive in a world intent on hanging any who meddle in the dark arts.Complete with 8 pages of Brom’s mesmerizing full-color artwork and chapter illustrations throughout, his latest book is sure to delight.

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Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

Erika Engelhaupt

Science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bodies and our universe. From the research biologist who stung himself with every conceivable insect to the world's most murderous mammals, this book explores oft-ignored but alluring facets of biology, anatomy, space exploration, nature, and more. Featuring interviews with leading researchers in the field and a large dose of wit, the author reveals the most intriguing real-world applications of science in all their glory.

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Julie Chan Is Dead

Liann Zhang

In this razor-sharp, diabolical debut thriller, a young woman steps into her deceased twin’s influencer life, only to discover dark secrets hidden behind her social media façade. Julie Chan has nothing. Her twin sister has everything. Except a pulse. Julie Chan, a supermarket cashier with nothing to lose, finds herself thrust into the glamorous yet perilous world of her late twin sister, Chloe VanHuusen, a popular influencer. Separated at a young age, the identical twins were polar opposites and rarely spoke, except for one viral video that Chloe initiated (Finding My Long-Lost Twin And Buying Her A House #EMOTIONAL). When Julie discovers Chloe’s lifeless body under mysterious circumstances, she seizes the chance to live the life she’s always envied. Transforming into Chloe is easier than expected. Julie effortlessly adopts Chloe’s luxurious influencer life, complete with designer clothes, a meticulous skincare routine, and millions of adoring followers. However, Julie soon realizes that Chloe’s seemingly picture-perfect life was anything but. Haunted by Chloe’s untimely death and struggling to fit into the privileged influencer circle, Julie faces mounting challenges during a weeklong island retreat with Chloe’s exclusive group of influencer friends. As events spiral out of control, Julie uncovers the sinister forces that may have led to her sister’s demise and realizes she might be the next target.

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teddybear

Thoughts from 50%

Honestly feeling like this book is a little slow for me, I just expected more from a horror novel, like I can tell shit will hit the fan at some point, but idk I’m just a little bored atp? Hoping it’ll pick up soon? This is just my personal preference, I know everyone has different taste, this just might not be for me

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A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life

Robert McGill

A bold and absurd new take on the dystopian plague novel, where people are treated like IKEA furniture Distraught and hopeless, eighteen-year-old distance runner, Regan, decides to end her life--and she’ll do it through an unusual new method available only on the dark web. Enter Ülle, a woman with amnesia, who will, inadvertently, make Regan’s wish come true. But Ülle begins to remember her past and the outrageous steps her government took to combat a deadly pandemic of parasitic infections, which have brought her to this new country and to Regan’s house. Meanwhile, Regan might be changing her mind, and she finds herself more and more concerned about keeping both Ülle and herself alive. But the shadowy organization that brought them together wants to keep them both quiet--permanently. A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life is a darkly comic dystopian tale that probes our anxieties around boundaries, whether territorial or bodily, and our fraught desire not to die alone.

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Homecoming

Kate Morton

Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of the grand and mysterious mansion, a local delivery man makes a terrible discovery. A police investigation is called and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most shocking and perplexing murder cases in the history of South Australia. Sixty years later, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Having lived and worked in London for almost twenty years, she now finds herself laid off from her full-time job and struggling to make ends meet. A phone call out of nowhere summons her back to Sydney, where her beloved grandmother, Nora, who raised Jess when her mother could not, has suffered a fall and been raced to the hospital. Nora has always been a vibrant and strong presence: decisive, encouraging, young despite her years. When Jess visits her in the hospital, she is alarmed to find her grandmother frail and confused. It’s even more alarming to hear from Nora's housekeeper that Nora had been distracted in the weeks before her accident and had fallen on the steps to the attic—the one place Jess was forbidden from playing in when she was small. At loose ends in Nora's house, Jess does some digging of her own. In Nora's bedroom, she discovers a true crime book, chronicling the police investigation into a long-buried tragedy: the Turner Family Tragedy of Christmas Eve, 1959. It is only when Jess skims through the book that she finds a shocking connection between her own family and this once-infamous crime—a crime that has never been resolved satisfactorily. And for a journalist without a story, a cold case might be the best distraction she can find… An epic novel that spans generations, Homecoming asks what we would do for those we love, and how we protect the lies we tell. It explores the power of motherhood, the corrosive effects of tightly held secrets, and the healing nature of truth. Above all, it is a beguiling and immensely satisfying novel from one of the finest writers working today.

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An Education in Malice

S.T. Gibson

Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insatiable hungers from Sunday Times bestselling author S.T. Gibson, author of the cult hit A Dowry of Blood. Deep in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts stands Saint Perpetua's College. Isolated and ancient, it is not a place for timid girls. Here, secrets are currency, ambition is lifeblood, and strange ceremonies welcome students into the fold. On her first day of class, Laura Sheridan is thrust into an intense academic rivalry with the beautiful and enigmatic Carmilla. Together, they are drawn into the confidence of their demanding poetry professor, De Lafontaine, who holds her own dark obsession with Carmilla. But as their rivalry blossoms into something far more delicious, Laura must confront her own strange hungers. Tangled in a sinister game of politics, bloodthirsty professors and dark magic, Laura and Carmilla must decide how much they are willing to sacrifice in their ruthless pursuit of knowledge.

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Batboy

Ratings

I was just looking at my 2025 reading challenge and I’ve just realised quite how many books I’ve left unrated I think sometimes I get anxious to rate because I’m often unsure of myself/overthinking or I plan on coming back and writing a full review but then it’s been months and I’m not even sure what I’d rate it at this point. Does anybody else have this problem? Do you think I should go back and sit down and decide/do a backlog of late reviews? Or just leave them to be lost in the wind 🌬️🍃

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gardenlitgirl

Upcoming fiction book

Really looking forward to seeing how her writing style will translate in her upcoming fiction book

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Remus

Books genre.

Is there any way to find books on here by genre? Or, when you go onto a book's forum/description is there any way to figure out what genre the book is? I think it'd be a really cool feature to have. Especially for people like me who can't completely identify which genre a book is outside of really really basic genres, such as non-fiction, fiction, fantasy, and romance. Like, I can't really identify the specific genre of each book I read.

LemonLime commented on howlinglibraries's review of Little Eve

howlinglibraries

Sep 13, 2025

5.0

Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:

Here is the jar with its pale contents. It is yours now. I hope it haunts your nights. I think it will.

This book was such a wild, unpredictable ride that won my heart over from the very beginning—if I hadn't been convinced that Catriona Ward is an auto-buy author for me before, I certainly would be now. I'm a sucker for this sort of cold, misty seaside setting in gothic tales and Little Eve delivers that in spades with its melancholy descriptions and isolated, claustrophobic feeling. Every page of this story is unsettling and tragic, full of complex characters whose motives are rarely entirely forthcoming.

I began this as an exorcism but it is also a summoning.

Little Eve herself is such a fascinating protagonist. The story begins at the end and then goes back, so we're immediately given a particular viewpoint of Eve as a villain, and then we're treated to the origins of how she came to her breaking point. The entire book is such an interesting ride because, despite knowing from the start that she has committed a terrible crime, it was impossible for me not to love her and feel compassion for her when I saw the cult-like setting she had been raised in and the terrible treatment that she and her siblings had undergone.

In unguarded moments fear runs through me. Will He be terrible when He comes from the ocean?

There's so much going on within this story, yet somehow, it never felt like too many moving parts; Catriona Ward juggled them all so fluidly that I never wanted Little Eve to end. Every time I read a Catriona Ward novel, I'm utterly captivated, and immediately crave another of her books the moment I finish the final page, so this was no exception. Not only has Ward become an auto-buy author for me, she has also become one of my favorite authors of all time and I cannot recommend her work highly enough.

Buddy read with the lovely Ashley!

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The Host (The Host, #1)

Stephenie Meyer

Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of human hosts while leaving their bodies intact. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, didn't expect to find its former tenant refusing to relinquish possession of her mind. As Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of Jared, a human who still lives in hiding, Wanderer begins to yearn for a man she's never met. Reluctant allies, Wanderer and Melanie set off to search for the man they both love. Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE] ACE #1 - ACE #2

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