Natalie_H

Natalie (She/Her) 15 Chronic ✨Procrastinator✨

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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)

The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

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Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)

Amie Kaufman

This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded. The year is 2575, and two rival mega-corporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than a speck at the edge of the universe. Now with enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra — who are barely even talking to each other—are forced to evacuate with a hostile warship in hot pursuit. But their problems are just getting started. A plague has broken out and is mutating with terrifying results; the fleet’s AI may actually be their enemy; and nobody in charge will say what’s really going on. As Kady hacks into a web of data to find the truth, it’s clear the only person who can help her is the ex-boyfriend she swore she’d never speak to again. Told through a fascinating dossier of hacked documents — including emails, maps, files, IMs, medical reports, interviews, and more — Illuminae is the first book in a heart-stopping trilogy about lives interrupted, the price of truth, and the courage of everyday heroes.

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How To Survive This Fairytale

S. M. Hallow

You are not a hero.You don't get your True Love.This is the part where you lose everything.This is the part where you rewrite your story.After losing everything in service to the Evil Queen, and driven to the edge of sanity by a cruel narrator who won't let him die, Hansel must bring himself to do the impossible: forge his own destiny or give up on his Happily Ever After.For fans of T. Kingfisher's THORNHEDGE and Tamsyn Muir's HARROW THE NINTH, comes a story crafted by S. M. Hallow. Twining together a dark fairy tale retelling with mental health and disability representation plus queer normative world-building splashed with a cozy horror game vibe, HOW TO SURVIVE THIS FAIRYTALE is rewriting Happily Ever Afters.

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Scorpion Deep

C.G. Drews

CG Drews, New York Times-bestselling author of Don't Let the Forest In and Hazelthorn, weaves a disturbing and intoxicating siren-call in Scorpion Deep, about a lonely boy who accidentally awakens an obsessive eldritch sea god.The only thing Jonathan Covey wants from the gloomy, moldering isle of Kelcarrow is to leave it. Summer is ending, and his friends are looking forward to college on the mainland, unaware that Jonathan was not accepted to join them. He'll be left behind with nothing but the ocean's haunts and a rising dread of being abandoned.In an act of wild desperation, Jonathan pays a tithe to Scorpion Deep, an eldritch sea god who many of the locals have dismissed as myth. He wants to forget the past, he wants to follow his friends, and most of all he wants to finally escape.To his shock and horror, the ritual works—Scorpion Deep awakens. And despite his terror, Jonathan can't help but feel drawn toward the ageless entity that seems just as mutually obsessed with him. As scales start growing down his spine and Scorpion Deep's adoration of him turns bloody, Jonathan realizes the only way to end the nightmare is to destroy the monster one way or another.But once a god has awoken, the only way to be free is to pay a price of blood.

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whatemmareads

(qotd!) childhood book

what is your favorite childhood book (or series)? and why?

mine is Linnea in Monet’s Garden

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Hazelthorn

C.G. Drews

CG Drews, acclaimed author of Don't Let the Forest In, returns with another deeply unsettling and yet hauntingly beautiful tale of murder and botanical body horror, perfect for fans of Andrew Joseph White and We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Evander has lived like a ghost in the forgotten corners of the Hazelthorn estate ever since he was taken in by his reclusive billionaire guardian, Byron Lennox-Hall, when he was a child. For his safety, Evander has been given three ironclad rules to follow: He can never leave the estate. He can never go into the gardens. And most importantly, he can never again be left alone with Byron's charming, underachieving grandson, Laurie. That last rule has been in place ever since Laurie tried to kill Evander seven years ago, and yet somehow Evander is still obsessed with him. But when Byron suddenly dies, Evander inherits Hazelthorn’s immense gothic mansion and acres of sprawling grounds, along with the entirety of the Lennox-Hall family's vast wealth. There’s just one caveat: He must choose a new guardian from amongst Laurie's scheming, backstabbing relatives to help manage the estate until he turns eighteen. Except Evander's sure his guardian was murdered, and Laurie may be the only one who can help him find the killer before they come for Evander next. Perhaps even more concerning is how the overgrown garden is refusing to stay behind its walls, slipping its vines and spores deeper into the house with each passing day. As the family’s dark secrets unravel alongside the growing horror of their terribly alive, bloodthirsty garden, Evander needs to find out what he’s really inheriting before the garden demands to be fed once more.

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Legendary (Caraval, #2)

Stephanie Garber

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Natalie_H

How to Pay Attention to Audiobooks?

I’m extremely behind on my reading goal for this year. The big part of it is I struggle to sit down and read outside of school since school’s exhausting. I’ve been wanting to listen to more audiobooks so I can read while drawing or getting chores done. The only issue is, anytime I listen to an audiobook, I zone out within seconds. I really want to read more this summer and audiobooks may help me accomplish that. If anyone has any tips on how to stay focused on the audio I would greatly appreciate it. 🙏

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Let's Split Up

Bill Wood

A nail-biting and perfectly formed Thriller for the YA BookTok generation. This is SCOOBY DOO meets WIN LOSE KILL DIE. When hot "it-couple" Brad and Shelley are brutally murdered in a Victorian mansion, a group of teen friends investigate. Set in a small town where rumour spreads as fast as the fire on the day of the killings, the theory is the old ghoul who haunts the house after his own murder nearly a century ago has finally taken revenge. As Cam, Jonesy, Amber and new-girl Buffy investigate, the rumour feels closer to the truth than they ever dared think possible, and as they enter the mansion themselves, the idea of splitting up to find evidence will prove to be either the best ... or worst decision of all... A guaranteed page turner full of tension and twists you won't see coming! From BookToker Bill Wood comes SCOOBY DOO meets WIN KILL LOSE DIE Perfect for the YA BookTok generation.

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Forbidden Romance recs with low to no spice?

Okay this seems like my go-to question in every book related community. But I've not been lucky enough to have good recs so here I'm to my Pagebound people.

Do you guys have any Forbidden Romance recs that have low to no spice? B'Coz most of the time I get to this trope it's either smut or heavy on spice. I'm not comfortable in reading that. It's one of my fav tropes so I want to enjoy it fully.

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Natalie_H commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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Looking for a book I read as a kid!

EDIT: Found!!! thank you!

I have very specific memories of this book I would have read in 5th grade (US) with an old teacher of mine. This was before I was old enough to do anything with book tracking, so I don’t remember the title, but I remember some very specific details and was wondering if anyone else would know this or remember reading it?? I know it was not curriculum specific, it was just a book that my teacher would have read to us out loud because he enjoyed doing so and we read several books for fun for 30 mins of class time.

The book was focused on these two young kids, a brother and sister, whose mom died. I think she was sick with something and that was why. I remember the book mentioning that the mom used to sing Greensleeves to them. It was a recent death because they were grieving her.

The father moved them into this giant manor near a lake and they befriended this boy their age who lived near them and at the end you find out that it’s his ghost, and that the boy died because his own father drowned him in the lake with an anchor.

Oddly specific, I know, but every time I try to Google anything, nothing comes up for me. I would love to reread it at some point which is why I ask!

Natalie_H is interested in reading...

Moonflower: The Script of Serun

Shaina Anastasi

MOONFLOWER by author Shaina Anastasi is an upcoming horrantasy novel from the Script of Serun series. It blends horror, fantasy, and a splash of romance in a dystopian setting. The Goddess of Kepler vanished fifty-seven years ago, taking the light with her. Since then, darkness has consumed the world, and creatures of the night have emerged from the shadows to make it their home. Twenty-eight-year-old Saya Claymore and her younger brother have been trapped in Darkovish Feeding Ground for ten years. Unlike other Feeding Grounds where they can leave freely, the Bleeders in Darkovish refuse to let them go unless it’s by the fangs of a nightwalker. Saya, her younger brother, and her friends are planning their next escape, and this time they promise to succeed. But as they plot their freedom, things that should stay in the dark are making a move. Will they survive, or will whatever’s hiding in the shadows finally emerge to take a bite? If you love The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Anathema by Keri Lake, The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa, featuring slowburn romance, political intrigue, horror with your romance, and dystopian with your fantasy, you will love MOONFLOWER.

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Whatshisface

Gordon Korman

Gordon Korman's next stand-alone novel, a fun, funny ghost story about a nobody kid who becomes a somebody while helping a ghost right a wrong from the past. Cooper Vega's family moves so often that he's practically invisible at any school he attends. Now they've relocated to the town of Stratford - where nobody even makes an effort to learn Cooper's name. To them, he's just . . . whatshisface.Cooper's parents feel bad about moving him around so much, so they get him a fancy new phone. Almost immediately, it starts to malfunction. First there's a buzzing. Then there's a weird glare on the screen. Then that glare starts to take on the form of . . . a person?It's not just any person trapped inside Cooper's phone. It's a boy named Roderick, who says he lived in the time of William Shakespeare - and had a very tangled history with the famous playwright. Cooper thinks his phone has gone haywire, but there's nothing he can do to get rid of Roderick. Then, even stranger, Roderick starts helping him. Even though his seventeenth-century advice isn't always the best for a twenty-first century middle school.

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Natalie_H

Does Anyone Know This Book?

There was a book I read a few years ago. I think it was ya but it may have been middle grade, I’m not sure. I believe it followed the story of a boy who was haunted by a ghost. The ghost had worked under Shakespeare and Shakespeare had stolen one of his play ideas. The boy was doing that same play at his school. I also remember about something with the ghost being able to communicate with other living people through the boy’s cell phone? If anyone knows what this book is I would greatly appreciate. 🙏

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