MagPiper

I'm Mags 📚🌈 queer autistic book reviewer, grad student, + publishing intern

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These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1)

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MagPiper

Aug 25, 2025

4.5

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

I love a creative story structure and I love a good revenge tale, and this delivers both. I actually expected this to be darker than it was, and most of the horror here is in the historical content rather than Good Stab's own actions. The bulk of the story is told through the journaling of a preacher in 1912 who records both Good Stab's past along with his own present, and these dual timelines play well off each other and highlight the narrator's complete lack of reliability and his ego in a way that's both chilling and comedic. This book is really smartly done.

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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Stephen Graham Jones

A chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice. A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story written by one of the new masters of horror, Stephen Graham Jones.

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Botanical Horror/Fantasy

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These detectives are here to solve the mystery and to break or mend queer hearts. Whether legit or amateurs, they always solve the case.

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Horror Starter Pack Vol I 👹🦇⚰️

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An introduction to the Horror genre, these books are part of the cultural zeitgeist or the 'canon' that many would recognize. Look for more niche titles in later Starter Pack volumes.

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polterbooks

Arthur

Reading the fetishistic way Arthur talks about and describes Good Stab is certainly an experience.

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Underrated Books

Alright we all know the big-name authors and books that show up everywhere on social media, but what are some gems that don’t get nearly enough attention? Give me your “criminally underrated” titles and writers!

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Looking for Smoke

K.A. Cobell

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK In her powerful debut novel, Looking for Smoke, author K. A. Cobell (Blackfeet) weaves loss, betrayal, and complex characters into a thriller that will illuminate, surprise, and engage readers until the final word. A must-pick for readers who enjoy books by Angeline Boulley and Karen McManus! When local girl Loren includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet Giveaway to honor Loren’s missing sister, Mara thinks she’ll finally make some friends on the Blackfeet reservation. Instead, a girl from the Giveaway, Samantha White Tail, is found murdered. Because the four members of the Giveaway group were the last to see Samantha alive, each becomes a person of interest in the investigation. And all of them—Mara, Loren, Brody, and Eli—have a complicated history with Samantha. Despite deep mistrust, the four must now take matters into their own hands and clear their names. Even though one of them may be the murderer.

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literaryWonder

How do you all find time to read so much? ⏰📖

Hey everyone! 😊 I’ve been wondering… how do you all manage to get everything done and still find time to read so many books? 📚✨ Do you have routines, tricks, or any tips to share? Would love to hear how you fit reading into your days!

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moss-mylk

Non fiction/essay/academic paper recs please<3

Heya! I’d love non-fiction/essay collections/academic paper recs please! Something not too dense or violent/graphic, nothing too hard to read. Happy with something reflective or lit just “omg listen to this”. I love learning about social history. And anthropology, food, linguistics, feminism, anything leftist or anti-imperialist, utopian stuff, nature, historical fashion. But it doesnt have to be this. And either way, doesn’t have to be heavy. Please give me a little detail (can just be topics and vibe) about the recs if you can <3 thank you so much!

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Thoughts from 16% (page 71)

i have to confess that i skipped chapter 3 …oops…i just couldn’t focus and the writing dumbing down in order to mimic how a native american would speak, yeah no. it’s my first time reading from this author and im trying to give it a fair chance because i heard this is about vampires! if someone read that chapter please lemme know what i missed 😅

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Hungerstone

Kat Dunn

The fiercest, most powerful novel of 2025. For what do you hunger . . .?Lenore is the wife of steel magnate Henry, but ten years into their marriage the relationship has soured, and no child has arrived to fill the distance growing between them. Henry's ambitions take them from London to Sheffield, and with his success hinged on a hunt, an old tradition looms over the home; the hunt is a time to settle old scores. If a bullet finds a human home, then it is only that they were foolish to become prey. In the weeks leading up to the hunt, a carriage accident near their remote home brings the mysterious Carmilla into Lenore's life. Carmilla, who is weak and pale during the day but vibrant at night, Carmilla who will not eat meals with the family, Carmilla who stirs up a hunger deep within Lenore. Soon girls from local villages begin to fall sick before being consumed by a terrible hunger . . .Set against the violent wilderness of the Peaks and the uncontrolled appetite of the industrial revolution HUNGERSTONE is a compulsive feminist reworking of CARMILLA, the book that inspired a captivating story of appetite and desire.

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Thoughts from 75%

I've been creeping through this bit by bit and finally I'm giving up😩 I was super invested up through like 30-40% and then turning on the audiobook sort of became a chore. Maybe I'll try again with the physical book at some point but I keep zoning out while listening😅

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sabrina

What is the "new adult" genre?

Is it just a way of classifying books that are YA+spice? I am just now seeing this category for the first time and maybe I'm wildly late, but is that the vibe? Trying to understand so I can better know what to expect from a "New Adult" novel.

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literaryWonder

How do you all find time to read so much? ⏰📖

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MiniButMighty

The Unbroken by C.L. Clark

It would be awesome if you could add The Unbroken by C.L. Clark to the list. It fits perfectly into this quest.

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