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She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

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Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)

Micaiah Johnson

Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a series of sudden and inexplicable deaths in a searing sci-fi thriller from the Compton Crook Award–winning author of The Space Between Worlds. Scales is the best at what she does. She is an enforcer who keeps the peace in Ashtown; a rough, climate-ravaged desert town. But that fragile peace is fractured when a woman is mangled and killed within Ash's borders, right in front of Scales's eyes. Even more incomprehensible is that there was seemingly no murderer. When more mutilated bodies start to turn up, both in Ashtown and in the wealthier, walled-off Wiley City, Scales is tasked with finding the cause—and putting an end to it. She teams up with a frustratingly by-the-books partner and a brusque-but-brilliant scientist in order to uncover the truth, delving into both worlds to track down the invisible killer. But what they find points to something bigger and more corrupt than they could've ever foreseen—and it could spell doom for the entire world.

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I find very relatable the narrator's awkwardness about not knowing if he's supposed to participate in the prayer or "bow your head in the back from a distance" when someone assumes you believe in Jesus. This has happened to me multiple times, with multiple religions 😅

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Free Book by M.L. Wang - Destiny's Edge

For those interested in a free e-book by M.L. Wang, you can download their new book Destiny's Edge for free by subscribing to Wang's newsletter! The only personal information it asked for was my email (first to subscribe, then again when I used the download link). The book is a sapphic romance and martial arts fantasy.

First part of the book's description: The most powerful warlord in the steppe sends a convoy consisting of his ten best men and his fourth wife, Chi, to escort his newest bride home—an easy journey. At least, it was supposed to be.

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In celebration of ✨more stats✨, I’m curious if there’s anything in the new details that had any of you like

For me, it was the Superlatives for March. According to Most Anticipated, I had apparently had Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado in my library for 1400 days, aka almost 4 years, which yea, sounds about right. Worst is, the stats are still inaccurate (no fault to PB, just too new for my failures), cause The Night Circus, which I read same month, had def been waiting longer 💀

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Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:

I'm not star rating this because I'm very conflicted in a new weird way.

I made the mistake of listening to the audio book, and I think that ruined this for me. Normally I adore when an author narrates their own book, but that didn't work here for me at all. I'm not overly familiar with Bob the Drag Queen, but I have seen him do stand up on Drop Out, and that was enough for me to entirely lose the distinction between Bob and Darnell. The way the book is narrated is exactly like the way Bob talks, and as such I totally got lost in the sauce and was basically always pulled out of the narrative.

Voice/narrative confusions aside, I do like the premise of historical figures coming back to life, and not spending much time exploring the how why or when. I did sometimes wonder who the audience for this book is, though, as we learn super rote and basic facts about Harriet Tubman and various resistance efforts and kind of inconsistently bounce between Tubman and Darnell, and particularly Darnell's current and past. I also found the writing style to be kind of lackluster. Like, it really does just feel like his stand up instead of a written novel. That isn't necessarily a bad thing? But it wasn't for me.

This just didn't congeal into something all that appealing to me personally, but I get the hype.

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New Feature: Generate Monthly Wrapups

Stumbled over to the Stats section this morning to see that there's a new feature called "Generate Wrapups". I'm such a nerd for stats, so I was blown away to see everything J+L included in these wrapups. Also, any time a new feature drops, I feel like a kid who forgot it was a holiday and is unexpectedly receiving gifts!!

Does anyone have any favorite stats they now have access too?? I'm a big fan of seeing who I interact most with each month and my top post of the month 🙂

(Sorry J+L if I blew the surprise, I was just too excited to not share this with others!!! It's really comprehensive and great and I'm seriously blown away at how thorough it is!!!!)

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Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert

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From RuPaul’s Drag Race winner and host of HBO’s We’re Here comes an inventive, wondrous novel about American hero Harriet Tubman that remixes history into a fresh, dynamic novel about love, freedom, salvation, and music. In an age of miracles where our greatest heroes from history have magically, unexplainably returned to shake us out of our confusion and hate, Harriet Tubman is back, and she has a lot to say. Harriet Tubman and four of the enslaved persons she led to freedom want to tell their story in a unique way—by following in the footsteps of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton. Harriet wants to put on a show about her life, and she needs a songwriter to help her. She calls upon Darnell Williams, a once successful hip-hop producer who was topping the charts before being outed by a rival at the BET Awards. Darnell has no idea what to expect when he steps into the studio with Harriet, only that they have one week to write a Broadway caliber musical she can take on the road. Over the course of their time together, they not only mount a show that will take the country by storm, but confront the horrors of both their pasts, and learn to find a way to a better future. Original, evocative, and historic, Harriet Live in Concert is a landmark achievement that will burrow deep into our hearts (and ears).

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