RikeRandom

mid 30s 🎂 has degrees in stuff like medieval lit and gender things 📚 reads lots of queer + feminist sf/f 🌈 aro-ace, they/she

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All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)

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The Raven Scholar (The Eternal Path, #1)

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A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl)

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Thoughts from 2% (After Samantha's Recap)

I have a horrible feeling that this will get confusing as hell - I read the previous seven books one right after another and then started reading along with the chapters being posted on Patreon for a bit before deciding to wait until the whole book was out.

Only now I just read Sam's recap of book 7 at the beginning of this one and who the fuck are all those people?! Why don't I remember like half of them? Do I reread the entire series or just hope there's enough context clues to trigger some memories where necessary?

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Thoughts from 37% (Beginning of chapter 37)

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Vile Lady Villains

Danai Christopoulou

PRE-ORDER THE WORLD-BURNING HORROMANTASY, BRINGING TOGETHER LITERATURE'S MOST FAMOUS LADY VILLAINS, LADY MACBETH AND KLYTEMNESTRA . . . For fans of A Dowry of Blood, Clytemnestra, and Piranesi, Vile Lady Villains is an unforgettable ride into the realm of stories -- With the consequences of her murderous actions closing in, Lady Macbeth turns to the three witches for help. She’s given a brew that transports her to an unknown realm. Desperately lost, she opens a door and comes face to face with a beautiful woman drenched in blood. Klytemnestra, Queen of Mycenae, is exacting bloody vengeance on her husband. Yet as she revels in her triumph, an otherworldly door appears and a strange woman steps in. Thinking this stranger a spirit, she chases Lady Macbeth into the realm of stories. Hunted by screaming wraiths into worlds that are hell bent on their demise, this murderous pair are forced to form an alliance or perish. Yet the realm’s goddess, The Mistress of the House of Books, claims to hold the key to saving them. But can they trust this ancient goddess? As every threat brings our vile lady villains closer, turning ill intentions into fiery attraction that no author dare write, they have a remain within the confines of their original tales … Or burn down the world to pen a new story together . . .

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The Raven Scholar (The Eternal Path, #1)

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The Raven Scholar (The Eternal Path, #1)

Antonia Hodgson

From an electrifying new voice in epic fantasy comes The Raven Scholar, a masterfully woven and playfully inventive tale of imperial intrigue, cutthroat competition, and one scholar’s quest to uncover the truth. Let us fly now to the empire of Orrun, where after twenty-four years of peace, Bersun the Brusque must end his reign. In the dizzying heat of mid-summer, seven contenders compete to replace him. They are exceptional warriors, thinkers, strategists—the best of the best. Then one of them is murdered. It falls to Neema Kraa, the emperor’s brilliant, idiosyncratic High Scholar, to find the killer before the trials end. To do so, she must untangle a web of deadly secrets that stretches back generations, all while competing against six warriors with their own dark histories and fierce ambitions. Neema believes she is alone. But we are here to help; all she has to do is let us in. If she succeeds, she will win the throne. If she fails, death awaits her. But we won’t let that happen. We are the Raven, and we are magnificent.

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The Raven Scholar (The Eternal Path, #1)

Antonia Hodgson

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The Raven Scholar (The Eternal Path, #1)

Antonia Hodgson

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Thoughts from 79%

Every time someone says "Hail!" I get flashbacks to my Latin teacher having us act out the texts we were supposed to translate and standing in that classroom shouting "Salve!" at each other because that was more or less all the dialogue we understood without a dictionary 😂

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Feb 12, 2026

3.5

Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 3.5

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A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl)

Matt Dinniman

It’s off to the races in the explosive eighth book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. As chaos and mass panic spread outside the dungeon in the wake of Faction Wars, Carl and Donut find themselves on the tenth floor, where they’re forced to compete in a surprisingly normal set of tasks. Well, normal for the dungeon. Races. Get from point A to point B, and don’t come in last. After each race, they pick an upgrade for their vehicle and the track gets more challenging. It all seems a little too normal, a little too simple. Ignore those strange glitches that are occurring with increasing frequency. Don’t listen to those whispers about what’s happening on the mysterious eleventh floor, something the system AI calls A Parade of Horribles. Nobody, not even the showrunners, knows what that means. Just that the AI has ominously dubbed it “a coming-out party for the ages.” Everything is fine, Crawler. I repeat, everything is fine. Carl hates that it’s business as usual. The rules of this floor have taken away his agency. That just will not do. So Carl is planning a party of his own. It’s a plan so dangerous, so insane, he can’t even consult his friends lest the AI put a stop to it. Because if it goes wrong, it’s not just the end of Carl and Donut. No. The stakes are higher than they’ve ever been.