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emsie

✨️🎀 I'm from Italy and i love all type of books! My favorites are romance, thriller and fantasy! 🎀✨️ | 29 | INTJ | virgo, gemini rising

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Romantasy Starter Pack Vol I
Fantasy and Sci-Fi with a Side of Romance
Every Villain is a Hero
My Taste
Red Rising
The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)
Sunrise on the Reaping
The Poppy War
Assassin's Apprentice
Reading...
Ironside (Modern Faerie Tales, #3)
0%
The Shards
31%
Love Unwritten (Lakefront Billionaires, #2)
20%
1984
0%
Sinful Hearts (Dark Hearts, #3)
30%
Ship of Magic
28%
Iron Gold
0%
Water Moon
19%
Januaries: Stories of Love, Magic & Betrayal
34%
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
6%

emsie wrote a review...

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  • Valiant (Modern Faerie Tales, #2)
    emsie
    Aug 16, 2026
    Valiant (Modern Faerie Tales, #2)
    5.0
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0
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    Slow start but it's the most crude and real book of Holly Black I've read. Remember to check the tw for this because some things are described on page ♡

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  • Tithe (Modern Faerie Tales, #1)
    emsie
    Jul 13, 2026
    Tithe (Modern Faerie Tales, #1)
    5.0
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 3.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.5
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    I love it 💞 Holly Black is the fairies queen for a reason! And she was clearly ahead of her times (and a lot of people took inspiration from her works without a doubt — like i can clearly think of another famous fae knight slave of a evil fae queen, with white hair and a difficult personality and who found a blondie to fall in love, mh? 👀 no names needed). Yes of course this as a first book and as an old one there are things that maybe couldn't be perfect BUT if you consider the years in wich was written is perfect. A 10/10! I loved everything but nothing compares to the worldbuilding and the fae themselves. I love this type, the dark and real one, not the polished version you found in the modern romantasy. You can feel them like getting out of folklore and old stories (and as a lover of Grimm and old folktales myself this clearly satisfies me). AH and btw representation always matter and Corny story is really dear to me (for the queer part and the abuse one, both written perfectly even in the little span of few pages) 💓 Kaye, the protagonist, it's a cute one. I loved her and it's a little different from the classic ones. The big problems of this book instead are that is too short (I wanted moooore) and the instalove-ish (but it was not disturbing, I mean it's a book of less than 300 pages). The funny thing btw is that people label this as YA but IS NOT. Some themes I think are for a more mature audience even if the protagonist is young 🏃🏻‍♀️✨️

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  • emsie is interested in reading...

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    Dark Fae (Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac, #1)

    Dark Fae (Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac, #1)

    Caroline Peckham

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    Silver Under Nightfall

    Silver Under Nightfall

    Rin Chupeco

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    emsie made progress on...

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    Tithe (Modern Faerie Tales, #1)

    Tithe (Modern Faerie Tales, #1)

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