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The Memory Police
Yōko Ogawa
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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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Valiant (Modern Faerie Tales, #2)
Holly Black
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Ironside (Modern Faerie Tales, #3)
Holly Black
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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
Shannon Chakraborty
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
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Valiant (Modern Faerie Tales, #2)
Holly Black
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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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Tithe (Modern Faerie Tales, #1)
Holly Black
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Realm Breaker (Realm Breaker, #1)
Victoria Aveyard
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The Assassin's Blade
Sarah J. Maas
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Dark Fae (Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac, #1)
Caroline Peckham
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Silver Under Nightfall
Rin Chupeco
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Victoria Schwab