luna_tic

Sapphic Romances 💜 | Cozy Fantasy 🌻| Occaisonal deep Feminist critique or simple feminin rage fantasies 🗡️ | sucker for a pretty Cover illustration 🏞️🖌️

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Rereading this for the first time in like 10+ years and oh my gosh there’s so much I didn’t realize I’d forgotten

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All Woven With Ivy

Thea Hawthorne

He's as glittering and enchanting as the ballrooms he commands. She is as shadowed and quiet as the catacombs she studies. And yet his gaze finds her through every crowd. Historian Zanthi Ilyston has never been likeable. She is too quiet, too plain and her strange eyes, while they allow her to see the unseen, unnerve others. All she wants is to disappear into a quiet life of research. Madoc Casca, heir to the famed healing Gardens, and Esk’s most notorious socialite, has other plans. He needs her help. The healing waters of the Gardens are failing, and the secret to saving them is hidden in an ancient myth that refuses to be remembered. As she delves deeper into the dark waters of the past, her quiet life becomes as impossible to reclaim as Madoc is to ignore. He is everything she has never let herself want, but if she can't untangle the secrets of a forgotten history, she might lose him forever. Because there is very little Madoc won’t sacrifice for his Gardens, and if the healing waters vanish into darkness, Madoc will too. All Woven With Ivy is a bi MF fantasy romance with light academia, medium stakes, darkly cosy vibes, Orpheus & Eurydice undertones, and a glittering queernormative society steeped with the creeping unease of underworld myth. It is the first book in the interconnected and overlapping Riversent series. Each book follows a different couple and has a HEA.

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together to show that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings are we capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learning to give our own gifts in return.

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Fantasy books recommendations without romance!

I need fantasy trilogy (or more) books recommendations without romance or the romance is in the background and didn’t bother! I like the poppy war trilogy by R. F Kuang, the bloodsworn saga by J. Gwynne, the empyrean (first book) by R. Yarros. Thank you! 😇

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What makes a Book pregnancy "The Pregnancy Trope"?

I've Just come across a Forum Post with people complaining about "The Pregnancy Trope" ruining the Book and nearly making them dnf it. I know that the History of pregancies in Books is rough... With Twighlight and all. Also many people don't Like it when a female MC becomes pregnanty because she will inevitably become Something different... Like... Mothers are Side characters in theire childrens Stories... Often... And the hole mind Shift is also real... But can be quite annoying in a Book. When your rough and tough fantasy baddie suddenly gets super anxious and Starts Baby proofing the world... Sooo yeah... Are Book people aloud to have children? On Page? Is every Pregnancy in a Book "The Pregnancy Trope"?What would make an enjoyable experience Reading about people that multiply themselves?

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The Strawberry Patch Pancake House (Dream Harbor, #4)

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What makes a Book pregnancy "The Pregnancy Trope"?

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Normal People

Sally Rooney

At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers - one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.

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Bloodmarked (Legendborn, #2)

Tracy Deonn

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What books would you want turned into a TV show?

Inspired by some posts I've seen on here over the past few days- what books (or series) do you think should be made into a TV show? Specifically TV show instead of a movie because I feel like some would work better in the TV format vs movie format. Animated or live action?

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Bloodmarked (Legendborn, #2)

Tracy Deonn

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I am struggling to finish this guys 😩 It’s time to wrap it up it’s gone on long enough

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Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)

Lauren Roberts

She is the very thing he’s spent his whole life hunting. He is the very thing she’s spent her whole life pretending to be. Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya—the exceptional, the empowered, the Elites. The powers these Elites have possessed for decades were graciously gifted to them by the Plague, though not all were fortunate enough to both survive the sickness and reap the reward. Those born Ordinary are just that—ordinary. And when the king decreed that all Ordinaries be banished in order to preserve his Elite society, lacking an ability suddenly became a crime—making Paedyn Gray a felon by fate and a thief by necessity. Surviving in the slums as an Ordinary is no simple task, and Paedyn knows this better than most. Having been trained by her father to be overly observant since she was a child, Paedyn poses as a Psychic in the crowded city, blending in with the Elites as best she can in order to stay alive and out of trouble. Easier said than done. When Paeydn unsuspectingly saves one of Ilyas princes, she finds herself thrown into the Purging Trials. The brutal competition exists to showcase the Elites’ powers—the very thing Paedyn lacks. If the Trials and the opponents within them don’t kill her, the prince she’s fighting feelings for certainly will if he discovers what she is—completely Ordinary.

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I can't get over the fact that Like... ...one of brees ancestors could have died childless... As I understood it, they can only have one daughter each? Like, there are No siblings, there's only one Shot at passing on the Power... So... Wouldn't have Arthur died with them? Or would He have flown down another Line? How confused they would have been, If Nick was called by Lancelot and Nobody would have athurt... Would they have doubted the hole Mythologie? Would they even have noticed? Without the hole medium/Possession Thingy? Yeah... That won't let me Go 😅

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Bloodmarked (Legendborn, #2)

Tracy Deonn

The shadows have risen, and the line is law. All Bree wanted was to uncover the truth behind her mother’s death. So she infiltrated the Legendborn Order, a secret society descended from King Arthur’s knights—only to discover her own ancestral power. Now, Bree has become someone new: A Medium. A Bloodcrafter. A Scion. But the ancient war between demons and the Order is rising to a deadly peak. And Nick, the Legendborn boy Bree fell in love with, has been kidnapped. Bree wants to fight, but the Regents who rule the Order won’t let her. To them, she is an unknown girl with unheard-of power, and as the living anchor for the spell that preserves the Legendborn cycle, she must be protected. When the Regents reveal they will do whatever it takes to hide the war, Bree and her friends must go on the run to rescue Nick themselves. But enemies are everywhere, Bree’s powers are unpredictable and dangerous, and she can’t escape her growing attraction to Selwyn, the mage sworn to protect Nick until death. If Bree has any hope of saving herself and the people she loves, she must learn to control her powers from the ancestors who wielded them first—without losing herself in the process.

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