Scarlet
She/her, 21 đ Mood readerâĄď¸ Dark academia, classics, and cosy fantasy loverâĄď¸
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My Taste
Post from the Januaries: Stories of Love, Magic & Betrayal forum
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Scarlet
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The Audit 13% (page 51)
I was hoping for a more satisfying ending that explained why everything felt so off but no.
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Scarlet commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
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how often do you clean/sort through your tbr?
curious as to how often people take books off of their tbr, and decide that theyâre not going to read a book? Does anyone do a spring cleaning of theirs? I usually review my tbr at least a few times a year and take off books that have been on it for a long time and Iâve lost interest in, or that I feel like Iâm just never going to read. I also do this cause itâs easy for me to get overwhelmed if I think my tbr is too long
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Scarlet commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
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How often do you re-read a book?
I usually have to fight against the urge to re-read my favourite books and it's always hard when the urge hits in the middle of my planned reads. I brought this up with a colleague recently, while I was explaining that I only give 5 stars to my Definitely Re-reading At Some Point Again, and she was so confused??? She said she's never re-read a book and I was shocked??? HAHA After I read Emily Henry's Funny Story, I was so excited to re-read it. I've re-read The Raven Cycle series every other year. I immediately re-read The Foxhole Court a week or two after I finished the first trilogy. It feels so good re-reading a favourite, it never gets old for me. đĽşđ
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Fearless (The Powerless Trilogy, #3)
Lauren Roberts
OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD. THE SIZZLING FINALE TO THE NO 1 BESTSELLING ROMANTASY PHENOMENON! âPraise for âNothing short of epicâ Rosie Talbot, bestselling author of Sixteen Souls âA thrilling fantasy with the most delicious slow-burn romanceâ M.A. Kuzniar, bestselling author of Midnight in Everwood â[A] titillating debutâ Publishers Weekly âA masterpieceâ Goodreads Reader Review âEveryone needs to read itâ TikTok Review âThe BEST book Iâve readâ NetGalley Reader Review âA sizzling slice of fantasy romanceâ Booksellers Review  Paedyn Gray and Kai Azer return to the Kingdom of Ilya... â â And Paedyn has a life-altering choice to make. Whatever she decides will determine her fate â and the fate of those around her â forever. â â In the ultimate battle of love and loyalty, who wins?  Be swept away by the conclusion to the smash hit, dagger-to-the-throat romantasy trilogy. Follow Lauren Roberts on TikTok and Instagram @LaurenRobertsLibrary Â
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Scarlet commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
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Anyone bought a kindle recently?
I just got one in the sale and I'm obsessed but now I feel bad for my physical tbr that I'm meant to be getting through. Also what are people's opinions on kindles?
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Anyone bought a kindle recently?
I just got one in the sale and I'm obsessed but now I feel bad for my physical tbr that I'm meant to be getting through. Also what are people's opinions on kindles?
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Victoria Schwab
Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532.
London, 1837.
Boston, 2019.
Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots.
One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild.
And all of them grow teeth.
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How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
Holly Black
An irresistible return to the captivating world of Elfhame.
Once upon a time, there was a boy with a wicked tongue.
Before he was a cruel prince or a wicked king, he was a faerie child with a heart of stone . Revealing a deeper look into the dramatic life of Elfhameâs enigmatic high king, Cardan, his tale includes delicious details of life before The Cruel Prince, an adventure beyond The Queen of Nothing, and familiar moments from The Folk of the Air trilogy, told wholly from Cardanâs perspective.
This new installment in the Folk of the Air series is a return to the heart-racing romance, danger, humor, and drama that enchanted readers everywhere. Each chapter is paired with lavish and luminous full-color art, making this the perfect collectorâs item to be enjoyed by both new audiences and old.
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Cleat Cute
Meryl Wilsner
A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two soccer teammates are at odds before falling in love as their team gears up for the World Cup.Grace Henderson has been a star of the US Womenâs National Team for ten years, even though sheâs only 26. But when sheâs sidelined with an injury, a bold new upstart, Phoebe Matthews, takes her spot. Phoebe is everything Grace isnâtâa gregarious jokester who plays with a joy that Grace lost somewhere along the way. The last thing Grace expects is to become friends with benefits with this class clown she sees as her rival.Phoebe Matthews has always admired Graceâs skill and was star struck to be training alongside her idol. But she quickly finds herself looking at Grace as more than a mere teammate. After one daring kiss, sheâs hooked. Grace is everything she has been waiting to find.As the World Cup approaches, and Grace works her way back from injury, the women decide to find a way they can play together instead of vying for the same position. Except, when they are off the field, Grace is worried sheâs catching feelings while Phoebe thinks they are dating. As the tension between them grows, will both players realize they care more about their relationship than making the roster?
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Go Set a Watchman
Harper Lee
From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finchâ"Scout"âreturns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman perfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in a painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the pastâa journey that can be guided only by one's conscience. Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer understanding and appreciation of Harper Lee. Here is an unforgettable novel of wisdom, humanity, passion, humor and effortless precisionâa profoundly affecting work of art that is both wonderfully evocative of another era and relevant to our own times. It not only confirms the enduring brilliance of To Kill a Mockingbird, but also serves as its essential companion, adding depth, context and new meaning to an American classic.
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I am really struggling with staying interested - I'm not sure if its me or the strange pacing but this is a book I keep putting down. Can someone tell me it gets better?
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Go Set a Watchman
Harper Lee
From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finchâ"Scout"âreturns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman perfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in a painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the pastâa journey that can be guided only by one's conscience. Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer understanding and appreciation of Harper Lee. Here is an unforgettable novel of wisdom, humanity, passion, humor and effortless precisionâa profoundly affecting work of art that is both wonderfully evocative of another era and relevant to our own times. It not only confirms the enduring brilliance of To Kill a Mockingbird, but also serves as its essential companion, adding depth, context and new meaning to an American classic.
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Girls Like Girls
Hayley Kiyoko
Trailblazing pop star, actor, and director, Hayley Kiyoko debuts her first novel, a coming-of-age romance based on her breakthrough hit song and viral video, GIRLS LIKE GIRLS.
Itâs summertime and 17-year-old Coley has found herself alone, again. Forced to move to rural Oregon after just losing her mother, she is in no position to risk her already fragile heart. But when she meets Sonya, the attraction is immediate.
Coley worries she isn't worthy of love. Up until now, everyone she's loved has left her. And Sonya's never been with a girl before. What if she's too afraid to show up for Coley? What if by opening her heart, Coley's risking it all?
They both realize that when things are pushed down, and feelings are forced to shrivel away, Coley and Sonya will be the ones to shrink. Itâs not until they accept the love they fear and deserve most, that suddenly the song makes sense.
Based on the billboard-charting smash hit song and viral music video GIRLS LIKE GIRLS, Hayley Kiyoko's debut novel is about embracing your truth and realizing we are all worthy of being loved back.
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The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)
Olivie Blake
Only the extraordinary are chosen. Only the cunning survive.
An explosive return to the library leaves the six Alexandrians vulnerable to the lethal terms of their recruitment.
Old alliances quickly fracture as the initiates take opposing strategies as to how to deal with the deadly bargain they have so far failed to uphold. Those who remain with the archives wrestle with the ethics of their astronomical abilities, while elsewhere, an unlikely pair from the Society cohort partner to influence politics on a global stage.
And still the outside world mobilizes to destroy them, while the Caretaker himself, Atlas Blakely, may yet succeed with a plan foreseen to have world-ending stakes. Itâs a race to survive as the six Society recruits are faced with the question of what they're willing to betray for limitless powerâand who will be destroyed along the way.
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The Little Friend
Donna Tartt
Bestselling author Donna Tartt returns with a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil.
The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Motherâs Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parentsâ yard. Twelve years later Robinâs murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robinâs sister Harriet - unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her townâs rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her familyâs history of loss.
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I read this in one sitting in a speakeasy with a cocktail in hand and the vibes were immaculate, highly recommend just going to a bar by yourself and reading :)
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Graveyard Shift
M.L. Rio
Author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night shift workers who meet in the local cemetery to unearth the secrets lurking in an open grave.
Every night, in the collegeâs ancient cemetery, five people cross paths as they work the late shift: a bartender, a rideshare driver, a hotel receptionist, the steward of the derelict church that looms over them, and the editor-in-chief of the college paper, always in search of a story.
One dark October evening in the defunct churchyard, they find a hole that wasnât there before. A fresh, open grave where no grave should be. But who dug it, and for whom?
Before they go their separate ways, the gravedigger returns. As they trail him through the night, they realize he may be the key to a string of strange happenings around town that have made headlines for the last few weeksâand that they may be closer to the mystery than they thought.
Atmospheric and eerie, with the ensemble cast her fans love and a delightfully familiar academic backdrop, Graveyard Shift is a modern Gothic tale in If We Were Villains author M. L. Rioâs inimitable style.
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Girls Like Girls
Hayley Kiyoko
Trailblazing pop star, actor, and director, Hayley Kiyoko debuts her first novel, a coming-of-age romance based on her breakthrough hit song and viral video, GIRLS LIKE GIRLS.
Itâs summertime and 17-year-old Coley has found herself alone, again. Forced to move to rural Oregon after just losing her mother, she is in no position to risk her already fragile heart. But when she meets Sonya, the attraction is immediate.
Coley worries she isn't worthy of love. Up until now, everyone she's loved has left her. And Sonya's never been with a girl before. What if she's too afraid to show up for Coley? What if by opening her heart, Coley's risking it all?
They both realize that when things are pushed down, and feelings are forced to shrivel away, Coley and Sonya will be the ones to shrink. Itâs not until they accept the love they fear and deserve most, that suddenly the song makes sense.
Based on the billboard-charting smash hit song and viral music video GIRLS LIKE GIRLS, Hayley Kiyoko's debut novel is about embracing your truth and realizing we are all worthy of being loved back.
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The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062060624.
Achilles, "the best of all the Greeks," son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful, irresistible to all who meet him. Patroclus is an awkward young prince, exiled from his homeland after an act of shocking violence. Brought together by chance, they forge an inseparable bond, despite risking the gods' wrath.
They are trained by the centaur Chiron in the arts of war and medicine, but when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, all the heroes of Greece are called upon to lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause, and torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows. Little do they know that the cruel Fates will test them both as never before and demand a terrible sacrifice.
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