Marnie
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The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling 🐝 ⭐⭐⭐. 5 Do you like: ✅ Sapphic characters ✅ Medieval settings ✅ Religious undertones ✅ Cannibalism as a metaphor ✅ Straight up cannibalism The Starving Saints is a medieval-fantasy-horror. To me it's more medieval fantasy with a slice of horror on top. This is a story of three characters and their lives within a castle that is slowly consuming itself. Phosyne and Sir Voyne are shoved together in an attempt to create the impossible. Treila just wants out and is willing to make whatever deals possible to do so. I really, really wanted to love this. I had been so excited to read Starving Saints when my book club chose it for July. I had heard so many great things about it from the imagery to the unresolved yearning to the direct pulls from Catholicism. I'm also a sucker for cannibalism as metaphor and literal. Unfortunately, it took me a while to finish this. I can usually finish a 300 page book in a day and it took me three weeks to finish Saints. I just could not get into it. Whether it was the names I struggled to pronounce or the disjointed feeling of switching POVs, I don't know. I talked with someone in my book club and another of Starling's books have a similar feeling as Saints and suggested I read that then re-read Saints. I'm considering doing that since this is my first impression of Starling.
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What's a book you were excited to read and ended up being disappointed by the end? For me it was Audition by Pip Adams. It's a trippy sci-fi that was right up my alley and just fell flat.
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If you had the power to force people to read one book, which would it be? For me it's The Host by Stephanie Meyer. Yes, it's the same author as Twilight but you'd never guess by reading it. It's infinitely better. Just trust me. If you've ever liked any romance/romantasy/sci-fi, if you like found family, if you like an insanely interesting and unique plot with your romance, you should give this a try. (Also, (bonus?) it's lowkey pro communism.)
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Someone comes up to you and asks for a book rec with no other context, what do you say?
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What is one micro trope you hate to read? I'm not talking about the big ones like ennemies-to-lovers, found family, etc but the small ones that add details in the story and build up to the climax of the book
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Which book formats do you prefer to read in? Paperback, audiobook or ebook? Is there a reason as to why?
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Curious what others think.. do you count a book you have DNF'd as read on your year goals? I know some who do and some who don't. I'm on the doesn't count side. If you count it as read.. why? Honestly just curious!
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Hihi! After seeing reels about PageBound on socials and having a friend recommend it, I decided to pop over! I love seeing people chat about things they love, so I figured it could be fun :) After being a super avid reader as a teen, I ended up taking a years-long hiatus from reading to pursue other hobbies despite my utter love for books. At the top of 2025 and after a lot of procrastinating and failing, I decided to take a leap of faith and dive into Babel by R.F. Kuang, mostly by intrigue of the front cover illustration and the book flap synopsis/blurb. It was difficult, I won't lie, it's a really dense book to try to start out with after a while of not reading at all, but it did kickstart my first reading year in a while and I ended up really liking it! Maybe conquering a book of its length made me feel brave enough to keep going~ For anyone who's dealt with prolonged reading slumps/hiatuses, I'm curious, what book sort of brought you back into reading again? Is there a particular reason why that book did it for you?
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Girl in the Creek
Wendy N. Wagner
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What's a book you started expecting to not like it and it surprised you? For me it was A God in the Shed by J-F. Dubeau.
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What's a book you started expecting to not like it and it surprised you? For me it was A God in the Shed by J-F. Dubeau.
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