baileyisbooked

[she/her] fairy sun, vampire moon, mermaid rising🌾🧺🫂📖disclaimer that opinions are my own, nothing i say is legal advice, and i am NOT your attorney:)

12530 points

0% overlap

My Taste

The Jasad Heir (The Scorched Throne, #1)

Reading...

baileyisbooked commented on baileyisbooked's update

baileyisbooked started reading...

Vampires of El Norte

Isabel Cañas

Vampires and vaqueros face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the author of The Hacienda. As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters—her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that drains men of their blood and leaves them for dead. Something that once attacked Nena nine years ago. Believing Nena dead, Néstor has been on the run from his grief ever since, moving from ranch to ranch working as a vaquero. But no amount of drink can dispel the night terrors of sharp teeth; no woman can erase his childhood sweetheart from his mind. When the United States attacks Mexico in 1846, the two are brought abruptly together on the road to war: Nena as a curandera, a healer striving to prove her worth to her father so that he does not marry her off to a stranger, and Néstor as a member of the auxiliary cavalry of ranchers and vaqueros. But the shock of their reunion—and Nena’s rage at Néstor for seemingly abandoning her long ago—is quickly overshadowed by the appearance of a nightmare made flesh. And unless Nena and Néstor work through their past and face the future together, neither will survive to see the dawn.

baileyisbooked started reading...

Vampires of El Norte

Isabel Cañas

baileyisbooked commented on baileyisbooked's update

baileyisbooked wants to read...

I, Vampire: The Confessions of a Vampire - His Life, His Loves, His Strangest Desires ...

Michael Romkey

From yesterday to a hundred years ago, he lives in the world and walks among us. He enjoys the finest things in life, including beautfiul women, well-aged wine, and the finest classical composers. He has no guilt—he has no need of it. Neither good, nor bad, neither angel nor devil, he is a man, he is a vampire. And this is his story. . . . “Women are my weakness. Or to be more accurate, I should say they are my greatest weakness, for I have many. Travel. Books. Classical music. Art. Excellent wine. And, formerly, cocaine. I admit these things without a sense of guilt. I am, as my friend from Vienna says, a man with a man’s contradictions. I am neither good nor bad, neither angel nor devil. I am a man. I am a vampire.” —From I, Vampire

baileyisbooked wants to read...

I, Vampire: The Confessions of a Vampire - His Life, His Loves, His Strangest Desires ...

Michael Romkey

baileyisbooked commented on baileyisbooked's update

baileyisbooked wants to read...

Incubus

Ann Arensberg

Dry Falls, Maine was a simple farming town. Its residents lived innocently in sync with the seasons--honest churchgoing folk who looked to the land for a living and to tiny St. Anthony's church for spiritual sustenance. Until the spring of 1974, when a premature, blistering heat wave envelops the vicinity . . . along with something far more sinister. As crops wither, livestock birth only deformed offspring, and husbands lose all desire for sex, an ancient, unholy evil hungry for lust, an Incubus, secretly begins to prey on the town's women. As one female after another falls victim to erotic nightmares and dark violations, Cora Leiber, the wife of St. Anthony's rector, must look for answers in the depths of faith-- and her own tormented soul.

baileyisbooked commented on OhMyDio's update

OhMyDio earned a badge

Level 7

5000 points

baileyisbooked wants to read...

Incubus

Ann Arensberg

baileyisbooked commented on baileyisbooked's update

baileyisbooked earned a badge

Level 9

12000 points

164

129

baileyisbooked commented on baileyisbooked's update

baileyisbooked wants to read...

The Library of Lost Girls

Kristen Pipps

Gwen Donovan adores her beautiful and rebellious older sister, Izzy. But the Izzy who returns from the Delphi School for Girls is not the sister who left for the finishing school. Now she is Isolde: dull and complacent and—most shocking—eager to marry. Gwen is determined to discover what happened to Izzy at Delphi, and the only solution she can conceive of is to cheat her way into the mysterious school. If she can see for herself what they did, maybe she can get her Izzy back. But Delphi is far from the finishing school Gwen expects. Several days’ travel away, the estate is the only building on an icy, remote island. Sinister shadows lurk in the hallways, her classmates are strange and secretive, and she is told to never leave her room after dark. More curious, though are the thousands of books, each with the name of a girl on its spine. They line the walls from floor to ceiling, and the students at Delphi are prohibited to read them. Delphi says they’re reforming the students, but when Gwen discovers a note left for her by her sister, she realizes that what is happening at the school is much more terrifying than she could have ever imagined. There’s something dark at the center of Delphi, and somehow it’s tied to those books—and to the girls who are sent there. And if Gwen doesn’t confront what hides in the shadows, it won’t be just Izzy who’s lost forever.

baileyisbooked commented on a post

baileyisbooked

end of ch 1 thoughts @ 3% / pg 10

i am loving the anxious little plant assistant - spider plants are so cute!!! kiela’s lack of prep / concern about the revolution is irking me to a level that is disproportionate with how the narrative is treating it. it seems like the book is not going to come back to the revolution + consequences of it, just from the blurb on the cover but i just want to shake her & be like YOU COULDVE SAVED MORE WHY DIDNT YOU TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY!!! WHY DIDNT YOU PLAN!!!!

but yeah. i am trying to detach from the feeling & just let the story flow. this is my first ✨cozy✨ fantasy type book & i think i am just not used to the lack of stakes yet

baileyisbooked commented on baileyisbooked's update

baileyisbooked wants to read...

12h

Empire of the Damned (Empire of the Vampire, #2)

Jay Kristoff

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Nevernight Chronicle, Jay Kristoff, comes the much-anticipated sequel to the #1 international bestselling sensation EMPIRE OF THE VAMPIRE. From holy cup comes holy light; The faithful hands sets world aright. And in the Seven Martyrs’ sight, Mere man shall end this endless night. Gabriel de León has saved the Holy Grail from death, but his chance to end the endless night is lost. Drawn into an uneasy alliance with the mysterious vampire Liathe, Gabriel must now deliver the Grail to ancients of the Blood Esani, and learn the truth of how Daysdeath might be finally undone. But the Last Silversaint faces peril, within and without. Pursued by terrors of the Blood Voss, drawn into warfare between the Blood Dyvok and duskdancers of the frozen Highlands, and ravaged by his own rising bloodlust, Gabriel may not survive to see the Grail learn her truth. And that truth may be too awful for any to imagine.

baileyisbooked wants to read...

12h

Empire of the Damned (Empire of the Vampire, #2)

Jay Kristoff

baileyisbooked commented on a post

12h

Empire of the Vampire (Empire of the Vampire, #1)

baileyisbooked

fortuna @ 85% (page 624)

spoilers

View spoiler

baileyisbooked commented on a post

12h

baileyisbooked

liathe @ 98% (page 719)

spoilers

View spoiler

baileyisbooked commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

12h

hauntedxlore

Percentage Update for CR

Tbh… I’m not a fan of the percentage update while reading. I don’t get the hype 🤷🏼‍♀️ I think it’s more work than necessary. I totally get the reading list updates, or reading goal updates. What does everyone else think?? What am I missing??

I’m curious why it was important enough to be added

-15

109

baileyisbooked commented on a post

12h

jordynreads

Edited

Halloween Countdown! AHHHHH!!

Bloody hell, where’s the time gone! (the blood, because it’s the blood… sucker… you got it) We only have one week left until Halloween ushers in the end of October 🧛🏼‍♀️

How has everyone’s TBR goals been going and did you manage to read anything for the quest? If you did, what was your favourite and what would you recommend others try out? Will you try finish anything for Blood Suckers in the next week?

I loved Hungerstone! Highly recommend if you love character studies focusing on female rage and self discovery, and highly recommend reading shortly after Carmilla!

baileyisbooked commented on baileyisbooked's update

baileyisbooked finished a book

20h

Empire of the Vampire (Empire of the Vampire, #1)

Jay Kristoff

From holy cup comes holy light; The faithful hand sets world aright. And in the Seven Martyrs’ sight, Mere man shall end this endless night. It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity; building their eternal empire even as they tear down our own. Now, only a few tiny sparks of light endure in a sea of darkness.Gabriel de León is a silversaint: a member of a holy brotherhood dedicated to defending realm and church from the creatures of the night. But even the Silver Order could not stem the tide once daylight failed us, and now, only Gabriel remains.Imprisoned by the very monsters he vowed to destroy, the last silversaint is forced to tell his story. A story of legendary battles and forbidden love, of faith lost and friendships won, of the Wars of the Blood and the Forever King and the quest for humanity’s last remaining hope: The Holy Grail. From author Jay Kristoff comes Empire of the Vampire, the first illustrated volume of an astonishing new dark fantasy saga.

baileyisbooked commented on a post

19h

baileyisbooked

literally crying my eyes out @ 72% (page 527)

spoilers

View spoiler