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Sage — they/them — a silly bean reading books to escape reality 🙂‍↕️ 🌈 LGBTQ+ rep, romance, mystery, and fantasy ❤️

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All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World #1)
Hell Followed With Us
It's a Love/Skate Relationship
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  • Moby Duck (Cryptid Kids #2)
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    Feb 20, 2026
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0

    This second book in the series was definitely not a disappointment. A wild ride, but incredibly funny and wholesome. I appreciated the growth of the main characters and the unexpected plot twists! Wanted more of Moby Duck, but that's okay. Will be looking forward to continuing the series when the third book comes out :)

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  • The Bawk-ness Monster (Cryptid Kids #1)
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    I re-read this so I could go into Moby Duck with a fresh memory of the characters and the storyline (since I read this back in 2024 and it's now 2026 lmao) I enjoyed this book like I did the first time, so I'll be keeping the same star rating, but definitely picked up on things I didn't catch the first time/appreciated more. Like after reading Dungeon Critters by the same authors, I noticed on the first page, that there's a picture of those characters on Penny's wall in her room :0 That's pretty neat! I also felt more connected with the characters this time around, when it came to their emotions and growth :)

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    What was it like? Living in that house. Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity—and skepticism. Today, Maggie is a restorer of old homes and too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her father’s book. But she also doesn’t believe a word of it. Ghosts, after all, don’t exist. When Maggie inherits Baneberry Hall after her father’s death, she returns to renovate the place to prepare it for sale. But her homecoming is anything but warm. People from the past, chronicled in House of Horrors, lurk in the shadows. And locals aren’t thrilled that their small town has been made infamous thanks to Maggie’s father. Even more unnerving is Baneberry Hall itself—a place filled with relics from another era that hint at a history of dark deeds. As Maggie experiences strange occurrences straight out of her father’s book, she starts to believe that what he wrote was more fact than fiction. In the latest thriller from New York Times bestseller Riley Sager, a woman returns to the house made famous by her father’s bestselling horror memoir. Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are there more earthbound—and dangerous—secrets hidden within its walls?

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