ixie531

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The Alpha of Bleake Isle (Dragonkin, #1)

The Wolf and the Crown of Blood (The Broken Accords #1)

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ixie531

Jun 12, 2026

Gather the Daughters

5.0

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.5

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When a Scot Ties the Knot (Castles Ever After, #3)

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Jun 12, 2026

When a Scot Ties the Knot (Castles Ever After, #3)

5.0

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.5

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ReadQueerBooks

What to read while I wait for book 2?

Hey all, can you recommend me something similar to this book to read while I wait for book two? I've already read and loved Sara Raasch's Romance and Royals books. I've also read Night of the Witch and the Snow Like Ashes series (but sadly didn't enjoy them as must). Gimme your cozy queer fantasy recs!

Side note: I refuse to buy books from Amazon, so recs must be available elsewhere. TIA!

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Strange the Dreamer

Laini Taylor

The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around—and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he’s been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in search of it. Then a stunning opportunity presents itself, in the person of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he has to seize his chance or lose his dream forever. What happened in Weep two hundred years ago to cut it off from the rest of the world? What exactly did the Godslayer slay that went by the name of god? And what is the mysterious problem he now seeks help in solving? The answers await in Weep, but so do more mysteries—including the blue-skinned goddess who appears in Lazlo’s dreams. How did he dream her before he knew she existed? And if all the gods are dead, why does she seem so real? Welcome to Weep.

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Wild Reverence

Rebecca Ross

Born in the firelit domain of the under realm, Matilda is the youngest goddess of her clan, blessed with humble messenger magic. But in a land where gods often kill each other to steal power and alliances break as quickly as they are forged, Matilda must come of age sooner than most. She may be known to carry words and letters through the realms, but she holds a secret she must hide from even her dearest of allies to ensure her survival. And to complicate matters . . . there is a mortal boy who dreams of her, despite the fact they have never met in the waking world. Ten years ago, Vincent of Beckett wrote to Matilda on the darkest night of his life―begging the goddess he befriended in dreams to help him. When his request went unanswered, Vincent moved on, becoming the hardened, irreverent lord of the river who has long forgotten Matilda. That is, until she comes tumbling into his bedroom window with a letter for him. As Fate would have it, Matilda and Vincent were destined to find each other beyond dreams. There may be a chance for Matilda to rewrite the blood-soaked ways of the gods, but at immense sacrifice. She will have to face something she fears even more than losing her magic: to be vulnerable, and to allow herself to finally be loved.

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old age is not for the young

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“We live a full human life not by stopping at any stage, but by becoming all that is in us to become.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin

Books that talk about or illustrate aging, elderhood, and living the last chapters of a life.

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Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters

Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life

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What to read while I wait for book 2?

Side note: I refuse to buy books from Amazon, so recs must be available elsewhere. TIA!

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friends if this is not a low stakes rivals to lovers romance with some charm and obnoxiously witty characters, tell me know so I can pause on this and find something else. my last read was A Lot so I'm looking for this to be a nice break.

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ixie531

Mar 03, 2026

The Entanglement of Rival Wizards

4.5

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.0

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I really liked it. I will say, I read it looking for a bit of an escape, and thus was not expecting the staggering amount of childhood trauma, but it was still thoroughly enjoyable.

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The Entanglement of Rival Wizards

Sara Raasch

Ali Hazelwood meets Dungeons & Dragons in this enemies-to-lovers fantasy academia romcom where rival grad student wizards are forced to work together without killing―or falling for―each other. Will they conjure love, or evoke chaos? Two rival wizards are about to find out. Sebastian Walsh: twenty-four. Grad student at Lesiara University in the Mageus of Evocation program. Human. The first of his family to go to college rather than the military (and it goes over at family get-togethers about as well as you’d think). Elethior Tourael: also twenty-four. Also a grad student, but in the far more inferior Mageus of Conjuration program. Half-elf. The latest in a long line of Touraels to grace the hallowed halls of Lesiara U (what would the world do if the Touraels ran out of rich douches to lead their magical weapons manufacturing empire?). ―and the other finalist for the Mageus Research Grant. Sebastian needs that grant to fund the last few months of research for his degree, after which he’ll get a job that actually helps people. He isn’t about to let anyone snatch this from him, least of all a snob who doesn’t even need the money because his family is loaded thanks to war profiteering. But there’s something worse than having a conceited academic nemesis steal grant money from you: you could be forced to work with him. Thio is secretive, broody, and his stunning biceps take up far too much shared lab space―but even as volatile as their partnership is, Sebastian just might find himself falling for his rival―and it could blow up his whole future.

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🗡️ Is He Morally Gray, or Just Hot?

Let’s talk about the epidemic.

At what point did "morally gray" become: A. War crimes, but make it romantic B. Emotional unavailability with good cheekbones C. “I’d burn the world for you” (sir, why is your world so flammable?) We eat it up every time.

Discussion fuel: If your fave morally gray man were described as “medium height accountant with a receding hairline,” would he still be complex?

Do we forgive violence faster when it’s aesthetic?

Are fantasy readers more comfortable with authoritarian love interests because the world-building distances the harm?

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ixie531

Feb 09, 2026

Vesselless (The Merciless Realms #1)

4.5

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.0

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I loved it! I knew going in it was going to be book 1 in a series, but that cliffhanger was painfulll. I wish we'd gotten a little more worldbuilding about how certain things worked, including the spirits and vessels and the like, I hope we get more in the next book!

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Vesselless (The Merciless Realms #1)

Cortney L. Winn

She’s heiress to the throne. The throne her father stole from him. Nizzara has always been able to perceive spirits better than the average caster. When she enters a deadly tournament to end her betrothal, she's determined to win without succumbing to the addictive spirit magic she channels or taking a life in the duel ring. Finding herself outmatched, Nizzara must face her fear of power and team up with Dagen—an enemy who is half-ghost and all charm—to survive the tournament. Dagen, the last King of Zarr, was killed by Nizzara’s father ten years ago. Now a half-ghost—able to phase between his human and spirit form—he is stuck in another realm, hunting wretched souls. When his keeper offers him a chance to reclaim his freedom in exchange for Nizzara’s soul, Dagen takes the deal. There’s only one catch: she must freely give it to him by the tournament’s end or his own soul is forfeit.

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Pre listen rant

I haven't had to put any of books 1-6 on hold, so I've just been zooming through them, 1 a day, and now you're telling me I gotta wait for this one?????? 😤

Friends, how am I possibly going to remember the craziness of these books 2 weeks from now? I'm so locked in rn 😭

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Uprooted

Naomi Novik

“Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.” Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life. Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood. The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka is afraid. She knows—everyone knows—that the Dragon will take Kasia: beautiful, graceful, brave Kasia, all the things Agnieszka isn’t, and her dearest friend in the world. And there is no way to save her. But Agnieszka fears the wrong things. For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose.

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