Lillithofthevalley

✨️Beth ✨️ Witch who loves horror, mysteries, sappy feel-good novels, witty banter, comics, and a smattering of smut Always reading multiple books at a time 🏳️‍🌈🕯🪄🗝🌲😈💖

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Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1

The Stranger Times (The Stranger Times #1)

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The Complete Folk Herbal: An Illustrated Guide to Natural Remedies and Everyday Healing

Urban Magick: A Guide for the City Witch

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Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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Urban Magick: A Guide for the City Witch

Diana Rajchel

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Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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Fall Readalong + Limited Time Quest Updates (9/1/26)

A few quick updates to share - a new app version was released a few days ago, please make sure your app is updated to see all available features!

Limited Time Quest Updates: We've majorly revamped the badge system for Limited Time Quests; now, you can earn the badge for reading just 1 book in the Quest, and finishing subsequent books will unlock decorations on your badge. See below for an example from the new Sponsored Limited Time Quest launched today: The Cozy Crimes of Shady Hallows (note: there is a bug on the app where the 3 decorated versions do not show - a fix will be available in the next day or two! In the meantime, reference this pic or the web to see all badge variations)

Part of our ethos at Pagebound is reading what you want when you want, while encouraging branching out of your comfort zone. With this new setup, you're rewarded for trying even one new book in a Limited Time quest (much like a Readalong!) while also being rewarded for each subsequent read. We hope this encourages folks to try new genres and authors, and alleviates needing to pick up a book you truly do not want to read just for a badge.

Fall 2026 Readalong is live!: Head to the Discuss tab to see the picks - the readalong will run through the end of November!

Small product update in this new version: you can now post from a specific page or % in the book forums even when the book is not in "currently reading" status

We'll be back soon with more major product updates!

Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy

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Gold: Finished 15 Main Quest books.

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The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love

India Holton

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The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love

India Holton

Rival ornithologists hunt through England for a rare magical bird in this historical-fantasy rom-com reminiscent of Indiana Jones but with manners, tea, and helicopter parasols. Beth Pickering is on the verge of finally capturing the rare deathwhistler bird when Professor Devon Lockley swoops in, capturing both her bird and her imagination like a villain. Albeit a handsome and charming villain, but that's beside the point. As someone highly educated in the ruthless discipline of ornithology, Beth knows trouble when she sees it, and she is determined to keep her distance from Devon. For his part, Devon has never been more smitten than when he first set eyes on Professor Beth Pickering. She's so pretty, so polite, so capable of bringing down a fiery, deadly bird using only her wits. In other words, an angel. Devon understands he must not get close to her, however, since they're professional rivals. When a competition to become Birder of the Year by capturing an endangered caladrius bird is announced, Beth and Devon are forced to team up to have any chance of winning. Now keeping their distance becomes a question of one bed or two. But they must take the risk, because fowl play is afoot, and they can't trust anyone else—for all may be fair in love and war, but this is ornithology.

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Aug 31, 2026

The Invited

4.5

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.5Audiobook: 5.0

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This kept me on my toes the whole time. It had good twists, they all felt earned. I'm happy my worries over the direction of the story were unfounded. It genuinely creeped me out at times and also was really touching and heartbreaking. Very glad I read it.

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Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find—her cousin’s husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemí knows little about the region. Noemí is also an unlikely rescuer: She’s a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited for cocktail parties than amateur sleuthing. But she’s also tough and smart, with an indomitable will, and she is not afraid: Not of her cousin’s new husband, who is both menacing and alluring; not of his father, the ancient patriarch who seems to be fascinated by Noemí; and not even of the house itself, which begins to invade Noemí’s dreams with visions of blood and doom. Her only ally in this inhospitable abode is the family’s youngest son. Shy and gentle, he seems to want to help Noemí, but might also be hiding dark knowledge of his family’s past. For there are many secrets behind the walls of High Place. The family’s once colossal wealth and faded mining empire kept them from prying eyes, but as Noemí digs deeper she unearths stories of violence and madness. And Noemí, mesmerized by the terrifying yet seductive world of High Place, may soon find it impossible to ever leave this enigmatic house behind.

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Aug 31, 2026

The Invited

4.5

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.5Audiobook: 5.0

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The Invited

Jennifer McMahon

A chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People returns to the woods of Vermont to tell the story of a husband and wife who don't simply move into a haunted house--they build one. . . . In a quest for a simpler life, Helen and Nate have abandoned the comforts of suburbia to take up residence on forty-four acres of rural land where they will begin the ultimate, aspirational do-it-yourself project: building the house of their dreams. When they discover that this beautiful property has a dark and violent past, Helen, a former history teacher, becomes consumed by the local legend of Hattie Breckenridge, a woman who lived and died there a century ago. With her passion for artifacts, Helen finds special materials to incorporate into the house--a beam from an old schoolroom, bricks from a mill, a mantel from a farmhouse--objects that draw her deeper into the story of Hattie and her descendants, three generations of Breckenridge women, each of whom died suspiciously. As the building project progresses, the house will become a place of menace and unfinished business: a new home, now haunted, that beckons its owners and their neighbors toward unimaginable danger.

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Aug 31, 2026

How to Cheat Your Own Death

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Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: Characters: 4.5Plot: 5.0Audiobook: 3.0

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Oh god I loved this one 😭 definitely a step up from the slump of book 2. I was so emotionally invested and it was a great mystery. Hopefully the next year+ goes by quickly because I'm desperate to know what happens next!!

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How to Cheat Your Own Death

Kristen Perrin

From the gritty streets of 1960s Soho to the lofty galleries of present-day West London, two interlocking mysteries decades apart unfold in this latest instalment in the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Castle Knoll Murder Mystery series Some secrets are deadlier than others 1968: Frances Adams is loving her new London life, and she’s stepped into a world of glamour thanks to her new friend, Vera Huntington–a magnetic socialite as mysterious as she is provocative. Vera dances around London like she owns it, taking Frances with her. Present day: When Annie Adams heads to London to visit her famous artist mother, Laura, the last thing she expects to find is a dead body. Least of all for it to be Laura’s new protégée, left in an alley with her heart surgically removed from her chest. Annie is no stranger to murder–after all, she’s solved a few already. And something about this case feels familiar. She’s read about one just like it in the journals of her late great aunt Frances, whose friend Vera was killed in the 1960s in the exact same way. As Annie investigates, threats pile up on Laura’s doorstep, and it soon becomes clear that she’s next. With her mother’s life on the line, can Annie find the killer before it’s too late?

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Urban Magick: A Guide for the City Witch

Diana Rajchel

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