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Summer 2025 Readalong
Reading...The River Has Roots
My Taste
The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
The Serpent and the Wings of Night (Crowns of Nyaxia, #1)

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  • Got any audible exclusive recs?

    So I have a few credits I gotta use up before they expire from the last promo they offer on prime day. I refuse to buy audible full price, and only get books that are usually ā€œaudible exclusiveā€ because I can’t get them through Libby, Hoopla, Libro.fm, and Spotify. šŸ˜µā€šŸ’« Got any awesome ā€œAudible Exclusiveā€ recommendations?

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  • SarahQueen commented on SarahQueen's review of The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)

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  • The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
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    2.5
    Enjoyment: 2.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 2.0Plot: 2.0

    I don’t think this book was for me. Sorry yall. 😭 Okay…I really wanted to like this book, but the amount of times I almost DNF after the first 30% was, let’s just say a lot. I really had to PUSH to finish this one. I felt like the plot and character development got consumed by the theme being drilled into my head. I guess the repetition made it less enjoyable for me, and I lost sight of the actual story and characters. I thought her technical writing skills were great and easy to read, but it just didn’t have that ✨, which I needed. Edit: I realized what it is. The writing over explained so much that I didn’t feel like it left room for imagination. I think something’s could have been left out to be more symbolic and allowed us to infer what the themes were about.

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  • The River Has Roots
    Thoughts from 13% (page 17)

    Just started and wow! The writing is so lyrical; it matches so well with the idea of both sister’s singing.

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  • A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)
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  • The River Has Roots
    Thoughts from 13% (page 17)

    Just started and wow! The writing is so lyrical; it matches so well with the idea of both sister’s singing.

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    Thoughts from 2% (page 3)

    ā€œBut that is the nature of grammar-it is always tense, like an instrument, aching for release, longing to transform present into past into future, is into was into willā€ Oooo it’s so good to be back in El-Mohtar’s writing 🄰

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  • A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)
    The Power of Choice (page 217)

    ā€œChoice. It had always been about my choice with him. And for others as well. Long before he’d ever learned the hard way about it.ā€ Feyre keeps bringing up that Rhysand is all about giving people a choice. It’s always her choice if she wants to do something. Which is a full 180 from Tamlin who barely let her have a choice in anything. I really like that through Rhys always giving Feyre, his friends, and his people a choice, we can see that true power lies not in control but in granting others the freedom to shape their own destiny.

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  • The icons and the emojis

    Hello! The icons and the emojis are lovely - but quite east asian focused. I know the list is predominantly east asian right now, but I know that there are books from other regions, and we want to expand that. I wonder if a different selection of emojis (maybe just 2/3) would be better representative of this, and more inclusive? /pos šŸ˜ŠšŸ’›

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