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The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)

He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Victoria Schwab

France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.

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Dec 12, 2025

5.0

Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.5

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Finished on December 12th, 2025 Ever since 2021 'The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue' has been on my shelf, it's been picked up several times but has always remained unread. I now understand why my heart always told me to put the book back down.

This has quickly become one of my absolute favorite books that I have ever read. The writing is so incredibly beautiful, the story is just so incredible and it keeps pulling you in - though I genuinely do had to read the book in multiple sessions just because it was all so overwhelming and left such an impression on me.

This is one of those books that you simply HAVE to reread. The first time is such an emotional rollercoaster where you get to know the characters and their stories and it is all so overwhelmingly beautiful that I feel like I simply have to reread the book to be able to place all these details that you learn about during the first read. As I marked the book as read, I placed it in my 'books-I-want-to-reread' list immediately.

I feel like I'm going to love this book and hold Addie LaRue close to my heart for as long as I live and as I do, I will recommend this book to each and every reader that I have the pleasure to meet.

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The Ending Writes Itself

Evelyn Clarke

'Secrets don't stay secret for long in publishing' Six authors. One private island. Seventy-two hours to write the ending that will change their lives. ‘This is a house of novelists, not murderers. You dream up crimes. You don’t commit them.’ ‘But a writer has. And so, who better than a writer to catch them?’ World famous author Arthur Fletch is dead. His final novel, the most anticipated book in history, remains unfinished. But the ending won’t write itself. Fletch’s publisher, Merriweather Press, has invited six authors to Fletch’s private island in Scotland. Authors whose books have never had the big marketing budgets or publicity opportunities. In other words, midlist. And they’re about to be presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. Whoever writes a worthy ending will receive one million dollars, and a further one million dollars for a new three-book contract. They have just seventy-two hours, with no access to the outside world, just a typewriter and a blank page. All they have to do is write… Starting is often the hardest part. But getting to the end could be murder. ‘Smart, original and completely addictive…The Ending Writes Itself is both a great locked-room thriller and a brilliant satire on the publishing industry. An absolute must-read’ Karin Slaughter

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Dec 12, 2025

5.0

Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.5

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I feel like I'm going to love this book and hold Addie LaRue close to my heart for as long as I live and as I do, I will recommend this book to each and every reader that I have the pleasure to meet.

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The Burning God (The Poppy War, #3)

R.F. Kuang

After saving her nation of Nikan from foreign invaders and battling the evil Empress Su Daji in a brutal civil war, Fang Runin was betrayed by allies and left for dead. Despite her losses, Rin hasn’t given up on those for whom she has sacrificed so much—the people of the southern provinces and especially Tikany, the village that is her home. Returning to her roots, Rin meets difficult challenges—and unexpected opportunities. While her new allies in the Southern Coalition leadership are sly and untrustworthy, Rin quickly realizes that the real power in Nikan lies with the millions of common people who thirst for vengeance and revere her as a goddess of salvation. Backed by the masses and her Southern Army, Rin will use every weapon to defeat the Dragon Republic, the colonizing Hesperians, and all who threaten the shamanic arts and their practitioners. As her power and influence grows, though, will she be strong enough to resist the Phoenix’s intoxicating voice urging her to burn the world and everything in it? The exciting end to The Poppy War trilogy, R. F. Kuang’s acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating, enthralling effect.

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The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War, #2)

R.F. Kuang

In the aftermath of the Third Poppy War, shaman and warrior Rin is on the run: haunted by the atrocity she committed to end the war, addicted to opium, and hiding from the murderous commands of her vengeful god, the fiery Phoenix. Her only reason for living is to get revenge on the traitorous Empress who sold out Nikan to their enemies. With no other options, Rin joins forces with the powerful Dragon Warlord, who has a plan to conquer Nikan, unseat the Empress, and create a new Republic. Rin throws herself into his war. After all, making war is all she knows how to do. But the Empress is a more powerful foe than she appears, and the Dragon Warlord’s motivations are not as democratic as they seem. The more Rin learns, the more she fears her love for Nikan will drive her away from every ally and lead her to rely more and more on the Phoenix’s deadly power. Because there is nothing she won’t sacrifice for her country and her vengeance The sequel to R.F. Kuang’s acclaimed debut THE POPPY WAR, THE DRAGON REPUBLIC combines the history of 20th-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating effect.

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Honeysuckle: A Novel

Bar Fridman-Tell

Once upon a time, in the middle of the forest, there was a lonely child with only his older sister for company. So his sister made him a playmate – Daye, a girl woven from carefully selected flowers and words. And finally, this boy, Rory, had a friend.Rory is finally, gloriously happy, until he learns that Daye is a seasonal creature. At the end of each season, she must be woven back together or fall gruesomely apart. And when, one autumn, his sister fails to return home from university in time, Rory has no choice but to watch his best friend slowly crumble, not knowing until the last second if she can still be pieced together again.Realizing he can no longer rely on his sister to keep Daye alive, Rory determines he must leave home to learn how to do it himself. And the more he learns the more he starts to Why can’t Daye survive more than one season? Can he do anything to break this cycle of bloom and decay? But as Rory grows older his thoughts turn darker too . . .While Rory sinks deeper into research and experiments, ensconced in libraries and hunched in university labs, Daye is left to wait for his return. Alone. Sometimes, the silence seems to seep all the way to her branch-bones. Sometimes, the company of birds is the only thing to remind her that she is still alive. And as Rory keeps pushing his experiments further and further, Daye starts to wonder – how far is too far?A feminist Frankenstein with flowers, Honeysuckle is a deliciously dark and twisted, horror-tinged fairytale with rot at its heart . . .

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Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

When Mr. Earnshaw, master of Wuthering Heights, returns from a trip with an unkempt orphan in tow, he announces that the child, Heathcliff, is now a member of the family. While young Catherine Earnshaw becomes close with Heathcliff, her older brother, Hindley, sinks into bitter resentment. As Catherine and Heathcliff mature, and their affection blossoms into desire, Hindley’s resentment boils over into hatred, setting the stage for a tragic drama whose aftermath will shake the foundations of their world.

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unhinged obsession

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for all the shave your head because you can, do the opposite of what people expect you to do, love and hate really are the same thing if the obsession runs deep enough people

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