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The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)

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Thoughts from 67% (page 145)

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🤍Polycule Reads🤍

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Novels with throuples, polycules, best found family romance vibes

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Court of Wanderers (Silver Under Nightfall, #2)

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Strzyga owl form (36%)

Maybe thats an insane question to ask after 1,5 books but...is the strzyga transformation to their owl form...complete?😭 like are they a "normal" owl at the end??? Because for some reason i keep imagining them like half changed, sort of like a human in an owl costume😭😭😭 idk maybe something in their fight in the first book (where elza showed up) made me feel like Niko wasn't a full owl there??? Anyone know what they look like? Did my head just make up the creepy image of an owl in human shape on its own?💀💀 please help

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The Change

Kirsten Miller

In the Long Island oceanfront community of Mattauk, three different women discover that midlife changes bring a whole new type of empowerment… After Nessa James’s husband dies and her twin daughters leave for college, she’s left all alone in a trim white house not far from the ocean. In the quiet of her late forties, the former nurse begins to hear voices. It doesn’t take long for Nessa to realize that the voices calling out to her belong to the dead—a gift she’s inherited from her grandmother, which comes with special responsibilities. On the cusp of 50, suave advertising director Harriett Osborne has just witnessed the implosion of her lucrative career and her marriage. She hasn’t left her house in months, and from the outside, it appears as if she and her garden have both gone to seed. But Harriett’s life is far from over—in fact, she’s undergone a stunning and very welcome metamorphosis. Ambitious former executive Jo Levison has spent thirty long years at war with her body. The free-floating rage and hot flashes that arrive with the beginning of menopause feel like the very last straw—until she realizes she has the ability to channel them, and finally comes into her power. Guided by voices only Nessa can hear, the trio of women discover a teenage girl whose body was abandoned beside a remote beach. The police have written the victim off as a drug-addicted sex worker, but the women refuse to buy into the official narrative. Their investigation into the girl’s murder leads to more bodies, and to the town’s most exclusive and isolated enclave, a world of stupendous wealth where the rules don’t apply. With their newfound powers, Jo, Nessa, and Harriett will take matters into their own hands…

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Thoughts from 20% (page 42)

Still not sure what I think of the sniffing lmao but goooods I love reading about Dymitr and Niko again.

Also I didn't realize Baba Jagas quest would be THAT insane, curious to see whether any killing will actually occur💀

And Veronica Roth has a thing with pain doesn't she? With how Dymitr endures physical pain I keep having to think back to Cyra in Carve the Mark (also the whole central role of pain in both these series). But god does she write suffering well.

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Veronica Roth

#1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth pulls from Slavic folklore to explore family, duty, and what it means to be a monster in this sequel to the USA Today bestselling novella When Among Crows A funeral. A heist. A mission born of desperation. When someone in Dymitr’s family dies, he’s called back home for the Empty Night, a funeral rite intended to keep evil at bay. The secret Dymitr is keeping from them makes returning home downright dangerous, but if he wants to get his hands on a book of curses that might appease Baba Jaga’s blood lust, he has no choice. And when that same funeral brings ferocious creature-of-legend Niko to town for his own bloody purposes, Dymitr’s charade becomes impossible to maintain. Family gatherings can be brutal. Dymitr’s might just be fatal.

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Veronica Roth

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Slavic Folklore Books

Does anyone have any recs for Slavic folklore books? Specifically Slavic fantasy that has accurate and respectful depictions of Slavic folklore? (The author does not necessarily have to be Slavic) Can be nonfiction books as well, I'm always open to learning more about the stories from a historical or cultural perspective.

My mother's family hails from Slovakia and Ukraine and I have been wanting to connect with that part of my heritage for most of my life. I've studied and read some Slavic folklore stories but I would love to read more stories with this kind of folklore as the backdrop.

Baba Yaga is a character in particular who I love to see interpreted through the eyes of different people. She brings me a certain type of comfort I can't really express. But I'm open to books involving any Slavic characters, creatures, etc

I have/have read the following so far:

Finding Baba Yaga by Jane Yolen The Bear Nightingale by Katherine Arden Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott

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