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NotableMagpie

Love a mystery and a good fantasy setting. Will overanalyze every single book. She/her. 🏳️‍🌈

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Reading...Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
My Taste
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
The River Has Roots
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
The God of the Woods
The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
  • Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
    Thoughts from 44% (page 220)

    I love the characters, I love the plot, am I the only one who doesn't understand anything about the lore?? Sure you're all dark and pray a dark king but what are the houses purpose?? H e l p

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    The Ministry of Time

    The Ministry of Time

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  • The Wedding People
    Thoughts from 43% (page 156)

    I realized that Phoebe really reminds me of Fleabag for some reason. I can't exactly point it down yet, maybe the narration that sometimes is quite similar to how the 4th wall is broken in Fleabag (although this doesn't exactly happen in the book here) or just similarities between the women...Maybe initially her name just reminded me of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who knows?! Regardless, this is definitely a plus, and I'm really hooked!

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  • The Ministry of Time
    Thoughts from 15% (page 63)
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  • The Ministry of Time
    Thoughts from 27% (page 101)

    As a Doctor Who fan (and anything time-travelly), this book is definitely underwhelming. The characters are just empty vessels for the author's ideas (which are not subtle nor really interesting). It just had so much potential and so far nothing is happening.

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  • Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
    Thoughts from 34% (page 174) - vampire rules
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  • Do you start reading the next book in a series right after finishing the previous one?

    I'm wondering if you read other books in between or if you finish a series without reading anything else (if all books or at least more than one book are available).

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  • Who else cannot wait for Katabasis?

    Cause I can't o.o

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    The Ministry of Time

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  • What qualifies as Dark Academia?

    I see this discourse a lot and have yet to find a satisfying definition (especially one that everyone can agree on!). As the genre gets more popular, publishers are smacking the "Dark Academia" label on a wider range of books and further diluting the definition. I'm reading the anthology In These Hallowed Halls right now and its a huge issue - many of the short stories are simply campus stories that (imho) are NOT Dark Academia. To me, some element of the supernatural or the occult separates a campus novel from Dark Academia. Some argue secret societies qualify as occult, and while I typically agree, I wouldn't consider a frat/sorority a secret society. Even the Secret History has a slight element of the occult (attempted bacchanalia). Curious what others deem Dark Academia, and specifically what makes it different from a campus novel?

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  • Who else cannot wait for Katabasis?

    Cause I can't o.o

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