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༘˚✧ Kayla She/Her ✧˚ ༘ 🇦🇺 26 ✩₊˚.⋆☾𓃦☽⋆⁺₊✧ Fantasy / Fantasy Romance ⋆༺𓆩☠︎︎𓆪༻⋆ Gothic / Moody / Dark 🀢🀣🀦🀤 Comics / Manga / Manhwa (Pls ask me about my reading spreadsheet)

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The Curse of Ophelia (The Curse of Ophelia, #1)

Empire of the Vampire (Empire of the Vampire, #1)

Servant of Earth (The Shards of Magic, #1)

Rain of Shadows and Endings (Legacy, #1)

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Weekend TBR Picks 👾🗳️

Happy Friday, Boundlings!

Anyone looking to start a new book this weekend but you’re unsure which to choose? We’ve got you fam!

Comment with three books from your TBR - yes only three, I don’t choose the rules. Oh wait, yes I do 🤭
Others reply to your comment by voting for which book they think you should read. The book with the most votes is your book to start this weekend!
For those voting for a book - get creative! You can give a long winded explanation for why you think that person should read the book you’re voting for, or you can simply leave an emoji or GIF. It’s up to you!

I hope everyone gets some help choosing a new book to start, and gets plenty of time to read this weekend!

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Immortal Dark

Tigest Girma

The Cruel Prince meets Ninth House in this dangerously romantic dark academia fantasy, where a lost heiress must infiltrate an arcane society and live with the vampire she suspects killed her family and kidnapped her sister. It began long before my time, but something has always hunted our family. Orphaned heiress Kidan Adane grew up far from the arcane society she was born into, where human bloodlines gain power through vampire companionship. When her sister, June, disappears, Kidan is convinced a vampire stole her—the very vampire bound to their family, the cruel yet captivating Susenyos Sagad. To find June, Kidan must infiltrate the elite Uxlay University—where students study to ensure peaceful coexistence between humans and vampires and inherit their family legacies. Kidan must survive living with Susenyos—even as he does everything he can to drive her away. It doesn’t matter that Susenyos’s wickedness speaks to Kidan’s own violent nature and tempts her to surrender to a life of darkness. She must find her sister and kill Susenyos at all costs. When a murder mirroring June’s disappearance shakes Uxlay, Kidan sinks further into the ruthless underworld of vampires, risking her very soul. There she discovers a centuries-old threat—and June could be at the center of it. To save her sister, Kidan must bring Uxlay to its knees and either break free from the horrors of her own actions or embrace the dark entanglements of love—and the blood it requires.

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kazzajozzy

Mar 14, 2026

2.5

Enjoyment: 1.0Quality: 3.0Characters: 1.5Plot: 1.0

I really loved this on a conceptual level, but it just wasn’t working for me.

I loved the themes and world building, but the writing was quite bloated and there were severe pacing issues. The characters were interesting but I really struggled to connect with them and buy in.

I’m tentatively thinking about giving this another go in a year or so, as I wonder whether it’s a me issue as this should have been right up my alley!

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The Isle in the Silver Sea

Tasha Suri

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Tasha Suri comes The Isle in the Silver Sea, a heart-shattering standalone romantasy of sapphic longing, medieval folklore and a love that spans the centuries. In an England fuelled by stories, the knight and the witch are fated to fall in love and doom each other over and over, the same tale retold over hundreds of lifetimes. Simran is a witch of the woods. Vina is a knight of the Queen’s court. When the two women begin to fall for each other, how can they surrender to their desires, when to give in is to destroy each other? As they seek a way to break the cycle, a mysterious assassin begins targeting tales like theirs. To survive, the two will need to write a story stronger than the one that fate has given to them.But what tale is stronger than The Knight and the Witch?

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Bronze: Finished 5 Main Quest books.

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Book Critics

I was wondering (aside from book influencers and other folks on pagebound) do you guys have any favorite book reviewers/critics that you follow or particularly enjoy reading the reviews of? I am looking for recommendations especially since I enjoy critics who blend in personal essay with book reviews.

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YouTuber Recommendations

Hey guys!

I am currently trying to find some youtubers to watch but most that I come across promote authors such as Sarah J Maas, J.k Rowling, Rebecca Yarros, and Chloe Walsh to name a few. I am very active in politics and don't want to support those authors or those who platform them. I am very much a reading is political person and get extremely frustrated what people try to say that it isn't.

And before anyone tries to tell me that some of them bought the books before knowing how problematic the authors are, I totally understand that but when they have a platform and record in front of the books they don't need them on display. Especially those ugly neon coloured books (on a complete side note even if the author wasn't horrible those covers are awful)

OH and another side note if anyone if looking for a new search engine that isn't google chrome I highly recommend Ecosia, they even plant trees if you use their search engine!! :)

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kazzajozzy

Mar 13, 2026

1.5

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The prologue had me feeling so creeped out, I was ready for a layered and rich gothic romance. Sadly the prologue continued to be the best the book ever got in terms of craft and story.

The writing was very janky, lots of stage directions (telling not showing) and weird sentences and structure.

I’ve realised I hate reading about embarrassing, incompetent main characters. Lilia just couldn’t do anything?? She constantly embarrassed herself or said/thought the most cringe thing to exist. She was also very inconsistent in her goals and drive - she would say something is her priority but then never actually prioritised it?? Like her sister’s intuition ☠️ stop dropping your phone too. I can’t get over ”what is it protected by dragons?” and ”he was a creep sundae with a rotten, moldy cherry” girl stfu. And maybe learn how to read??? Do math??? How on earth does she work in this field but can’t even do 2 + 2

Devryck was a lifeless imitation of a dark, morally grey MMC. Lake tried way too hard to make him edgy. The pacing of the romance was so jilted.

Too many characters with not enough depth.

It’s ambitious to even call it foreshadowing, but the foreshadowing was very heavy handed and the ending was so underwhelming. Like that’s it?? 😪

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Nocticadia

Keri Lake

A dark, atmospheric tale of deadly secrets and forbidden love.Mortui vivos docent.The dead teach the living.After watching my mother succumb to a mysterious illness, I promised myself two things. I’d find the cure for what ravaged her. And leave the godforsaken city where she abandoned me.Four years later, I receive an acceptance letter from Dracadia University, one of the oldest, most prestigious schools in the country. Nestled on a secluded island off the coast of Maine, it’s rumored to be haunted by the souls of the mental patients exiled there centuries before. Those whose bones are said to make up the island’s white sandy shores.And restless ghosts aren’t even its most daunting peculiarity.Devryck Bramwell, known on campus as Doctor Death, is a brilliant pathologist in charge of the midnight lab. He’s also my devastatingly handsome professor, who seems to loathe tenacious first-years, like me. Except, his dark and enigmatic gaze tells me all the ways he’d devour me if given the chance, and his stolen kisses burn my lips with forbidden jealousy.I crave his authority.He aches for redemption.Together, we’re toxic. Delicious fodder for the prying eyes hellbent on exhuming the rotted skeletons of our pasts.For the dead have much to teach, and it’s only a matter of time before Dracadia’s most depraved secret is resurrected.Nocticadia is a standalone dark academia gothic romance.

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