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✨📚mood reader at heart, but I enjoy making TBR’s for the plot🤪✨ 🌹 romance • 🧝🏾‍♀️ fantasy • ✒️lit fic • ✊🏾black voices

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    Pennor Books giveaway

    Within These County Lines

    Within These County Lines

    Brian Zepka

    Eighteen-year-old Stetson Delancey never thought breaking up with his boyfriend would turn him invisible. In Penango County, Pennsylvania, high school couples carve their names into the legendary Ardor Tree, a rite of passage said to grant love that lasts. Stetson and his boyfriend were no exception. But a bitter breakup just before college splinters their future, and in a moment of anger, Stetson does the unthinkable: he hacks their names from the tree. That’s when everything in his rural hometown goes from boring to bizarre. Shadows flicker where they shouldn’t. Strangers pass by like he’s not even there. And some people stop seeing him altogether. With just two months left in Penango and his college dream slipping away, Stetson races to uncover the tree’s secrets before he vanishes for good. But when he meets a boy only he can see—a boy who may have secrets of his own—Stetson begins to wonder if breaking free from his hometown means letting go of everything or learning to hold on to what matters. WITHIN THESE COUNTY LINES is a queer coming-of-age novel about the unraveling of first love, hometown magic, and how sometimes we can’t uncover the truth about others without confronting the truth about ourselves.

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  • justshay commented on cultclassic's update

    cultclassic completed their yearly reading goal of 52 books!

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    cultclassic's 2026 Reading Challenge

    55 of 52 read
    Till Summer Do Us Part
    Emma of 83rd Street
    How I Live Now
    Story of My Life
    Detransition, Baby
    The Mercy Step
    Half His Age
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  • Keeper of Lost Children
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    Keeper of Lost Children
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    Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 2.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.5Audiobook: 5.0
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    Overall, this was a good book, and I really enjoyed the story itself. However, I found the characters difficult to like, and the writing sometimes lacked depth. At times, it felt surface-level in the way some YA novels can, with missed opportunities to explore the characters and themes more deeply. It wasn’t poorly written, but I wanted a little more from it. Even so, I would still recommend this book to others.

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    “White men want white women. Negro men want white women. Black women are left out here to navigate on our own.”

    Sad but true in modern times. It presents itself in different ways, often covert. But it’s still happening nonetheless… And don’t hit me with the statistics of most black men marrying black women cause what do those marriages actually look like? Is there overwhelming proof of genuine love, desire, respect, and appreciation for black women— for who and all that we are? Yeahhhh didn’t think so.

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