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Just another binational bisexual nonbinary bilingual biped✨️🪱📖✨️ (he/they) Fave YA for January 👇💖

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Gothic Literature
Tiny but Mighty Nonfiction
My Taste
Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)
Peeps (Peeps, #1)
The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)
The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
Evil Genius (Genius, #1)
Reading...
Runaway Prince
42%
México: Biografía del poder (Spanish Edition)
35%
SHWD: The Complete Yuri Collection
20%
Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
20%
Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology
10%

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  • SANCTIFY, Volume 1
    esties
    Jan 31, 2026
    3.5
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    It's edgy, violent, and extremely toxic. Campy horror BL with interesting twists and sadistic leanings. Not for everyone, but for those who like their romance fucked up and feral, it's fun.

    Nice art with some beautifully dark illustrations in here.

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  • Star Crossed, Volume 1 (Star Crossed, #1)
    esties
    Jan 31, 2026
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  • QQ Sweeper, Vol. 1
    esties
    Jan 31, 2026
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    Runaway Prince

    Runaway Prince

    Morgan Dante

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    esties commented on pykora's review of Dark Matter

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  • Dark Matter
    pykora
    Jul 09, 2025
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    schrödinger's main character: simultaneously a scientific-minded genius and a clueless fucking idiot

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  • Not enough time

    So stick with me here it might get rambley. So today I was thinking wow I’ve read like over 100 books in my lifetime that’s cool but it seems so low. (Only last year did I get back into reading on a regular basis and read 50 books) and then it had me thinking about how many books I’ll have read by the time I die if I die by old age. So let’s say I die by 85. I’m almost 30. If I read 50 books a year until my tragic death then I’ll only have read 2,750 books in my lifetime and that is simply not enough. 😭

    Doesn’t that number seem so low?

    I do hope at least one of those 2,750 books is ACOTAR 6. Fingers crossed it’s done before I’m 85. 🤞🏼

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  • esties commented on PopCultureLibrarian's review of House of Slaughter, Vol. 1: The Butcher's Mark

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  • House of Slaughter, Vol. 1: The Butcher's Mark
    Dec 28, 2025
    4.0
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    Where I work, there is a rabid following for Tynion's Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1, and when this book was announced all of the subscribers ordered multiple copies of the first issue, but by issue three, most of them had dropped it. I was worried that this meant there was a dip in quality to the stories. It turns out the old white guys who read SiKtC might be homophobic.

    This is a solid entry in the SiKtC mythology, as we get a story about Aaron Slaughter and how his queer relationship as a kid might completely change the future of monster hunting. It's told in easy-to-follow flashback style with comparable art to the main series. The layouts are even more fancy (but not too fancy) than the main series but I never had a problem telling how the artist intended me to read the pages.

    I'm eager to see how this plays into the larger story, and hope there are more detours like this to expand the universe. If you like horror comics, specifically SiKtC and you aren't completely disarmed by main characters being queer, I highly recommend this.

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  • esties commented on hannn's review of House of Slaughter, Vol. 1: The Butcher's Mark

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  • House of Slaughter, Vol. 1: The Butcher's Mark
    hannn
    Oct 13, 2025
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    and they were roommates

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  • esties commented on polterbooks's review of House of Slaughter, Vol. 1: The Butcher's Mark

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  • House of Slaughter, Vol. 1: The Butcher's Mark
    polterbooks
    Oct 21, 2025
    5.0
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0
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    What if we killed a monster and then fucked right next to its corpse after saving a girl 👉🏽👈🏽

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    Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

    Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

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  • House of Slaughter, Vol. 1: The Butcher's Mark
    esties
    Jan 30, 2026
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    What can I possibly say? It's more of Something is Killing the Children. Mandatory reading for fans. It was awesome and gay and I'm ready to have my heart ripped out and stomped on all over again over Aaron.

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    Youth Group

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    House of Slaughter, Vol. 1: The Butcher's Mark

    House of Slaughter, Vol. 1: The Butcher's Mark

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  • El juego del ángel (El cementerio de los libros olvidados, #2)
    esties
    Jan 30, 2026
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