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The Book That Wouldn’t Burn (The Library Trilogy, #1)

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House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City, #1)

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Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea, #1)

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Loveless

Alice Oseman

For fans of Love, Simon and I Wish You All the Best, a funny, honest, messy, completely relatable story of a girl who realizes that love can be found in many ways that don't involve sex or romance. From the marvelous author of Heartstopper comes an exceptional YA novel about discovering that it's okay if you don't have sexual or romantic feelings for anyone . . . since there are plenty of other ways to find love and connection. This is the funny, honest, messy, completely relatable story of Georgia, who doesn't understand why she can't crush and kiss and make out like her friends do. She's surrounded by the narrative that dating + sex = love. It's not until she gets to college that she discovers the A range of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum -- coming to understand herself as asexual/aromantic. Disrupting the narrative that she's been told since birth isn't easy -- there are many mistakes along the way to inviting people into a newly found articulation of an always-known part of your identity. But Georgia's determined to get her life right, with the help of (and despite the major drama of) her friends.

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Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea, #1)

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 3.0

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Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea, #1)

Rebecca Thorne

All Reyna and Kianthe want is to open a bookshop that serves tea. Worn wooden floors, plants on every table, firelight drifting between the rafters… all complemented by love and good company. Thing is, Reyna works as one of the Queen’s private guards, and Kianthe is the most powerful mage in existence. Leaving their lives isn’t so easy. But after an assassin takes Reyna hostage, she decides she’s thoroughly done risking her life for a self-centered queen. Meanwhile, Kianthe has been waiting for a chance to flee responsibility–all the better that her girlfriend is on board. Together, they settle in Tawney, a town that boasts more dragons than people, and open the shop of their dreams. What follows is a cozy tale of mishaps, mysteries, and a murderous queen throwing the realm’s biggest temper tantrum. In a story brimming with hurt/comfort and quiet fireside conversations, these two women will discover just what they mean to each other… and the world.

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Rebecca Thorne

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Anatomy: A Love Story (The Anatomy Duology, #1)

3.5

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 3.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 3.5

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Sometimes some books have so much potential but the execution is dissapointing. And i fell like, to an extent, this works for this book as well, sadly. I liked the main characters and hated some of the others (ehem... Bernard..... ehem), the action was quite interesting, but at the same time the author wasn't able, in my opinion, to give a certain depth to the story. I would continue the series, mainly for the main characters and their love story that is so cute, so depressing, and, again, felt a bit hurried in this book.

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The Moonlight Palace

Liz Rosenberg

Agnes Hussein, descendant of the last sultan of Singapore and the last surviving member of her immediate family, has grown up among her eccentric relatives in the crumbling Kampong Glam palace, a once-opulent relic given to her family in exchange for handing over Singapore to the British.Now Agnes is seventeen and her family has fallen into genteel poverty, surviving on her grandfather’s pension and the meager income they receive from a varied cast of boarders. As outside forces conspire to steal the palace out from under them, Agnes struggles to save her family and finds bravery, love, and loyalty in the most unexpected places. The Moonlight Palace is a coming-of-age tale rich with historical detail and unforgettable characters set against the backdrop of dazzling 1920s Singapore.

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The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

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Anyone else completely forgot Cardan has a tail? LMAO

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Thoughts from 6% (page 19)

"What kind of person could she become? It was intimidating to decide."

I feel like we oftentimes forget, that we can be whoever we want to be. Which is actually kind of sad, I think. Imagine who we could be, If we believed more in ourselves and the person we could become. Because we can. We just have to decide to be her.

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"This is perfect!" "This is a health hazard, love" "No, your last career was a health hazard. This is raw potential"

I love their banter

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"What kind of person could she become? It was intimidating to decide."

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OwlCrate Author Letter for your perusal!

I got The Cruel Prince in an Owlcrate box back in 2018, and it came with an author letter from Holly Black. I thought it could be fun to post it here!

Dear lovely Owlcrate readers, I love changeling stories. In Cruel Prince, Jude, a human being raised in Faerie by the guy who murdered her parents, is kind of a reverse changeling. She's not bound by the same rules as the faeries all around her, she's not a magical being who will live forever, she doesn't smell like crushed verbena, and she doesn't really have a post in the Court of the High King of Elfhame. What she does have is two sisters, a bad attitude, and a simmering hatred for the young prince of Faerie. Cruel Prince is kind of about moving & the trauma of new schools, it's kind of about dads and daughters, and about what becoming what we're most afraid of. It's about what makes a family, how we define ourselves, how we survive. And it's also a story about princes and plots and court intrigue and strategizing and sword fighting. I think it's my favorite thing I've ever written and I am so excited to share it with you. xoxo

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