grassangels

25 ♉︎ ✡︎ she/her🌲🕯️☕️just a witch in the woods 🐻 sci-fi/fantasy and varying nonfiction, occasional horror ⭐️ my star ratings are entirely subjective (was previously @pagesandpine)

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My Taste

A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)

The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

Child of Tulathne (The Child of Tulathne Trilogy Book 1)

Reading...

What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

75%

Lies of the Goddess (The Child of Tulathne Trilogy Book 2)

13%

Looking for the Hidden Folk: How Iceland's Elves Can Save the Earth

27%

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women and white power in the united states

by leylines

13 books

white women have defined, upheld, and reified the white power movement in the US from day one. if you’re a white woman, this is your history.

these are primarily academic history, political science and philosophy books used in my research during my MA in history. consequently they may be a bit dense and/or dry to the casual reader.

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The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization

Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s

Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching

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Fishbone Cinderella

Elizabeth Lim

A bracelet. A curse. And golden fishbones to be returned to the sea ...Guangdong, 1940. When Ha Yut Ying narrowly escapes Japanese soldiers by turning invisible, she knows her new-found magic must be kept a secret. But her mother, whose dreams foretell the future, suspects her daughter has changed, and warns her of a curse upon their family. For her protection, she gives her a gold bracelet whose links are shaped like fishbones.After the war, Ha Yut Ying is sent to live with her father and his second wife, who have become wealthy factory owners in Hong Kong. Her stepmother, jealous of her beauty, forces her to work in the family's shoe factory.But when Yut Ying collides with a boy on a bicycle on her way to work, she loses her bracelet. The boy is Tommy Yeung, scion of a local soymilk tycoon. And their encounter will change both of their destinies forever...

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Scorned Prince (Ringdweller #1)

Brady Hunsaker

Prince Migo Rikaydian's cowardice has lost him his mother's favor. He learns of a plan to have him assassinated before he turns 18 so his mother can retain the throne. He seeks to regain her favor by hunting down a shaman assassin and eliminating any other shaman he can find. Katsi Danan, the shaman girl he's after, is no killer. She's an outcast seeking to end the 400 year conflict between her tribe and city-state ruled by Migo's mother. She uncovers a plot by the tribe to revive ancient, terrible magic that would allow them to ravage the city, but thousands would die on both sides. Her power alone might not be enough to stop it. Migo sees that there's more than his own life at stake and must decide how deep his loyalties lie.

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Human Scars on Planet Skin

Effie Joe Stock

Turr is fighting back for what was stolen from her: her body and her children living on it. After the humans tried to colonize her, Turr was forced to resort to mass violence to reclaim her skin. But in fleeing the planet, the humans left behind a chemical disaster—the dead zone. To bring peace and life back to herself, Turr sends out a desperate plea to two shroom people: Invidia and Clyra. Invidia, though surrounded by death, is tasked with learning how to breathe life back into the land. Clyra must lead a group of broken failed experiments through the forest, following a trail of visions. Death and uncertainty face them at every turn, but only when they’re all together can the planet truly begin to heal. Human Scars on Planet Skin will leave you haunted by the stark realities of upsetting the balance of life, aching against the sorrow unmitigated death brings, and shivering against the horrors of being trapped within your own body. More than anything, it will leave you comforted, knowing hope always exists in the life around us, no matter how dark our surroundings may seem.

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grassangels

Apr 08, 2026

DNF

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DNF. I kept going back to this book over and over to try and read and just couldn’t.

Aside from the blatant ChatGPT usage, this is horribly un-edited and veeeery difficult to follow and get into. It could have benefited from a real human editor and multiple rewrites—I followed the author years ago on TikTok bc the concept was fun but it’s clear now that she just wanted to get her name out there as a fantasy author with a Big Book™️ and not actually telling a cohesive story.

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Rogue Souls

Rania Faris

Revenge is one heartbeat away In a world fractured by oppression, six kingdoms bow to the ruthless King Ronan of Eldoria. Betrayed by Dax, her only ally, childhood confidant, and fiercest rival, Irene Delmare embarks on a relentless quest for the Divine Sapphire, a lost treasure said to hold the power to rewrite fate itself. The Sapphire is Irene's only hope for revenge and a chance to settle the score with the man who shattered her trust. But as destiny draws Irene and Dax together in a deadly race, their obsession reignites a bitter rivalry and an undeniable pull between them. Two broken souls, bound by ambition and survival, destined to destroy or save each other, but never both. With the enigmatic Captain Jessalyn and a crew of outcasts by her side, Irene sails treacherous seas, locked in a perilous chase with Dax, who remains bound to the tyrant king’s will. Unwitting pawns in a game as old as the world itself, their hunt awakens an ancient curse, a darkness that once brought ruin and now threatens to rise again. In a land where betrayal is currency and loyalty a weapon, Irene and Dax hurtle toward a reckoning that could set the world ablaze or drown it in blood. This treasure will cost their soul. Standalone.

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Rogue Souls

Rania Faris

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Haunting the Narrative (17% page 66, chapter 9)

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Bad Creek

Peyton June

Three lifelong friends confront restless ghosts and malevolent family secrets in this fierce, propulsive debut young adult horror novel. Iris, Gum, and Aidan are vacationing in Bad Creek, just like every summer. Except Iris’s older sister, Glory, drowned in the lake last year, and Iris can’t seem to move on; Gum is hiding his sexuality from his family while being viciously haunted by Glory’s rotting ghost; and Aidan is distraught over a drunken argument with Glory that he fears may have led to her death. When Iris sleepwalks to the dilapidated house that Glory obsessively sketched in her final days, she and the boys begin to uncover a sinister history in the very bones of the town. The trio must reckon with the events of last summer and uncover what lurks within Bad Creek before it takes Iris’s life next. Gripping and vengeful, Bad Creek confronts the intersection of religion, sexuality, and feminism, and forces readers to reckon with monsters in all their forms—human included.

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Legend of the Lightborn

Abbey Peterson

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Thoughts from 6% (page 35, chapter 5)

“What was the full name you used to call him again, Bang-Bang?” “Noch nho bej,” Bang-Bang replied […] “Little beige guy,” [Beck] translated.

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obsessed with that omg, the banter in this is so casual and fun. i feel like too often authors make it too “LOOK SEE HAHA THEY’RE BANTERING” instead of it feeling natural. Peterson is very good at making it feel natural.

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Gold and Gossamer

Riley S. Quinn

The Mage King of Avonbend is meant to be untouchable. With his throne balanced on the precipice of the human and fairy world, Dante is the sworn protector of the Talamherra he knows from the Talamherra he doesn't. But he cannot help feeling that the formidable Fairy Queen who lurks beyond the ruins and rivers of Avonbend's borderlands is not truly the threat that human legends describe her to be. When he finds himself in need of a favor, he dares to ask for her generosity, in hopes of saving his own people from a mysterious blight. The Fairy Queen questions why the Mage King would not turn to his own allies in such a time of uncertainty, but she is never one to stay in the dark for long, and is eager to lure this ambitious king into the shadows of her dominion. When a rivalry blooms from her refusal to aid him, enflamed by his desperation for victory against her, the Fairy Queen offers up a different one that leads to a truth that Dante is not yet prepared to unveil. The webs of secrets, oaths, and intrigue that await Dante in Fairyland are all at the mysterious queen's fingertips... and now, to his bewilderment, so is he. Dante knows one ruler will have to yield to another eventually, but perhaps it will not be the enemy they expect... and the fates that await them are more intertwined than he ever dared to imagine.

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easy/comfy reads

sorry for yet another recommendation thread 😭 i unfortunately get frequent/chronic migraines (i'm not sure if i meet the requirement for "chronic" 100%, but they're certainly frequent) which makes it hard to read properly. on a "good" day/when i'm recovering in bed reading something easy is a nice way to spend time as it doesn't involve much movement or energy. unfortunately a lot of the books i tend to read don't fall under the "easy-reading" category so i find myself struggling and thought i'd ask here so...

what books would you recommend that are good for migraines? i'm thinking like, cozy/comfy fiction (ideally), low stakes, non-confusing plot etc. i've not read much (modern) fiction in the last.. 10 yrs or so, so i'm not really sure what my typical genres are anymore, but i'm going to try to compile a list, ty in advance 🫶 (also happy to answer questions that clarify i just dk what else to put rn sorry 😅)

ETA: thank you for all the recs! i've compiled them all into a list here, feel free to suggest more 🫶

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good-aligned blond MMCs

by grassangels

5 books

We all know about the evil blond men. What about the good ones? - upstanding, chivalrous men who exhume positive masculinity… and happen to be blond

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Legend of the Lightborn

Abbey Peterson

Beck Winborn has cheated death many times in his twenty-five years. But he didn’t consider himself lucky when he survived an epidemic as a child, nor when he survived a brutal war he’d been drafted into at only sixteen years old. If anything, Beck felt cursed to continue living.That was before he truly knew what it meant to be cursed.Now a captain in the Royal Guard, Beck is tasked with the safety of Elandria’s princess and heir to the throne, Sola. But after a mysterious encounter with a woman in black, Beck finds himself plagued by visions of a terrible fate befalling the kingdom, and with them, an insidious presence threatens to claim his life from within.If he has any hope of saving his people and himself, Beck must find answers in a world where curses and magic are supposed to no longer exist. The Lightborn—gifted magic-wielders of old—have long been killed off. But is any of their power lingering in the world beyond the palace walls?Beck will need to risk everything to follow the thread of fate tugging on him. But where will it lead? And will Beck be the same when he finds what he’s looking for?

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Moon Soul

Nathaniel Luscombe

"I don't think I can justify it any longer. I'm going to quit my job." August has never been good with change and isn’t sure who she is beyond her job of reading memories in the sand. When she comes to the conclusion that she has to quit her job, she’s left with an overwhelming sense of emptiness. What follows is the quiet chaos of a girl regaining control over her life on a small desert moon. Deciding to take a job in the hanging gardens of the Spire, August discovers more to life as she meets new friends, forms a different connection with her home, and faces an unexpected visitor from her past. Rich in relatable emotions and experiences, inspiring in message, and written in prose that will hook you from page one, Moon Soul is a science fantasy novella unlike any you’ve read before. It will leave you feeling seen and understood.

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Yearninggggg (14% page 55, Ch. 7)

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Lies of the Goddess (The Child of Tulathne Trilogy Book 2)

Lila Samson

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Read Rituals

Does anyone have anything they do AFTER they finish a book? Maybe making an entry in their journal, moving it to a different shelf, etc—I wanna hear about the post-read things you do!

I personally have a personalized “from the library of” embosser my husband gave me for my birthday, and I only stamp the books once I finish. Its such a fun lil reward 🫶🏼

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Read Rituals

Does anyone have anything they do AFTER they finish a book? Maybe making an entry in their journal, moving it to a different shelf, etc—I wanna hear about the post-read things you do!

I personally have a personalized “from the library of” embosser my husband gave me for my birthday, and I only stamp the books once I finish. Its such a fun lil reward 🫶🏼

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