heathersdesk

Lover of fantasy, sci-fi, history, cats, genetics, Mormonism, Shakespeare, and possessing a chaos of knowledge on nearly every subject. (She/Her)

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Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)

Daindreth's Assassin (Daindreth's Assassin #1)

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The Truth (Discworld, #25; Industrial Revolution, #2)

Daindreth's Outlaw (Daindreth's Assassin, #2)

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Nov 06, 2025

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0

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Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1)

Fonda Lee

JADE CITY is a gripping Godfather-esque saga of intergenerational blood feuds, vicious politics, magic, and kungfu. The Kaul family is one of two crime syndicates that control the island of Kekon. It's the only place in the world that produces rare magical jade, which grants those with the right training and heritage superhuman abilities. The Green Bone clans of honorable jade-wearing warriors once protected the island from foreign invasion--but nowadays, in a bustling post-war metropolis full of fast cars and foreign money, Green Bone families like the Kauls are primarily involved in commerce, construction, and the everyday upkeep of the districts under their protection. When the simmering tension between the Kauls and their greatest rivals erupts into open violence in the streets, the outcome of this clan war will determine the fate of all Green Bones and the future of Kekon itself.

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Magical Hotels and Inns

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Aug 27, 2025

5.0

Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0

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C.S. Lewis executes a truly masterful retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche, from the perspective of her sister. Anyone who assumes that Lewis can only write children's stories is proven wrong here as he tackles the humanization of one character who is remembered only as a monster. The parentified Orual, who raises Psyche and loses her to whims of men and the heartlessness of the gods, spends the book in a profound sense of pain and loss after her tragic flaw is revealed. Watching Orual navigate the misogyny that surrounds her with so much mastery, and the personal transformation that attends it, was something I didn't know C.S. Lewis could do! More people should get to know the full breadth of his capabilities, outside of his allegorical and whimsical playing with Christianity. Those who love modern myth retellings would also love this one and might hesitate to read it because it's mistakenly shelved in the Christian Fiction section of the local Barnes and Noble. (I know, because I checked mine and that's where it was!) Worth a read, even if the rest of his dealings with Christianity don't appeal to you at all.

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Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1)

Fonda Lee

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just.linh

End of Chapter 19 (Vol 1)

God grants me patience to carry on after all the things Mr. Collins just said.

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Chloehelling

Thoughts from 48% (page 194) - How do we feel about Mr. Rochester?

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Thoughts from 38% (page 162)

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Post from the The Truth (Discworld, #25; Industrial Revolution, #2) forum

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“They can gen’rally turn a house into a hole in the ground,” said Sergeant Colon.

So the alchemists are basically DND artificers👍🏽

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Restarting due to formatting issues in Libby

The missing scene breaks on Libby were severe enough of an issue that I paused the book, thinking I would go back to it another time. But I decided to just buy it on Kobo and start over.

So that's what I'm doing now. And warning to future uninitiated folks who might want to read Discworld. There are no chapter breaks in most of them. The only way you know the scene changes is a break between the paragraphs. Libby doesn't always preserve these though, making the ebook nigh on unreadable. So if that happens, you can get the same edition on Kobo and the breaks will be there. The issue is with Libby, not the edition of the book.

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The Truth (Discworld, #25; Industrial Revolution, #2)

Terry Pratchett

William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first newspaper. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life - people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes. William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...

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The Scarlet Alchemist (The Scarlet Alchemist, #1)

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’Of course he came for us,’ I thought. ‘What rich men couldn’t buy, they took.’

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decembercapricorn

Thoughts from 61%

I was so engrossed in the love story I forgot that there may or may not be a deranged woman living in the walls!

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unofficiallibrarian

Audiobook Thoughts from 9% (page 23)

I tried listening to the audio of the 1818 text on Spotify and it sounds awful, I think it's AI?! Just a heads up to anyone looking to listen! I did find that someone uploaded their own narration so I'll try that instead

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Paladin’s Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1)

T. Kingfisher

Stephen's god died on the longest day of the year… Three years later, Stephen is a broken paladin, living only for the chance to be useful before he dies. But all that changes when he encounters a fugitive named Grace in an alley and witnesses an assassination attempt gone wrong. Now the pair must navigate a web of treachery, beset on all sides by spies and poisoners, while a cryptic killer stalks one step behind… From the Hugo and Nebula Award winning author of Swordheart and The Twisted Ones comes a saga of murder, magic, and love on the far side of despair.

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casbee

First book I dnf'd in a while

This was too shallow for me. It's a first story I've read from this author, and I'm not sure I'll give them another chance... :/

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InkDrinkerrr

Thoughts from 4% (page 14)

Okay…. Okay! This has been on my TBR for some time, but seeing you guys post about it in the forum has gotten me all gitty and so…. I’m finally reading it. Already I love seeing a MMC at age 37 ( I haven’t met the FMC yet so I don’t know her age, but I’m assuming she’s around his age). I officially entered the 30’s club about a month ago and although I love my books where the MC’s are in their mid twenties (or the commonly used age of 19 in fantasy books) I really love it when the characters are closer to my age bracket.

Anywho… any suggestions while reading this one? Things to look out for? Things to look forward to? Of course no straight up spoilers lol.

Also I’m only 14 pages in and I get “Stephen opened his pack and pulled out his needles and a thick ball of yarn.”Ummmm….. adorable.

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