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The Devils

Joe Abercrombie

Holy work sometimes requires unholy deeds. Brother Diaz has been summoned to the Sacred City, where he is certain a commendation and grand holy assignment awaits him. But his new flock is made up of unrepentant murderers, practitioners of ghastly magic, and outright monsters, and the mission he is tasked with will require bloody measures from them all in order to achieve its righteous ends. Elves lurk at our borders and hunger for our flesh, while greedy princes care for nothing but their own ambitions and comfort. With a hellish journey before him, it's a good thing Brother Diaz has the devils on his side.

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Katabasis

R.F. Kuang

Two graduate students must set aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul, perhaps at the cost of their own. Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality—her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world—that is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault. Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands, and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams. Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the same conclusion.

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Plain Bad Heroines

Emily M. Danforth

Our story begins in 1902, at The Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it The Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard, the setting of their wildest happiness and, ultimately, of their macabre deaths. This is where their bodies are later discovered with a copy of Mary’s book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. Less than five years later, The Brookhants School for Girls closes its doors forever—but not before three more people mysteriously die on the property, each in a most troubling way. Over a century later, the now abandoned and crumbling Brookhants is back in the news when wunderkind writer, Merritt Emmons, publishes a breakout book celebrating the queer, feminist history surrounding the “haunted and cursed” Gilded-Age institution. Her bestselling book inspires a controversial horror film adaptation starring celebrity actor and lesbian it girl Harper Harper playing the ill-fated heroine Flo, opposite B-list actress and former child star Audrey Wells as Clara. But as Brookhants opens its gates once again, and our three modern heroines arrive on set to begin filming, past and present become grimly entangled—or perhaps just grimly exploited—and soon it’s impossible to tell where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins. A story within a story within a story and featuring black-and-white period illustrations.

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In a slump rn so I don't know if I'm actually not vibing or if I need to stop overthinking. All of the characters are distinct, but their voices (excluding Brother Diaz) sound the same because of the potty/dry humor and the third person narrative. While it's definitely serving to set the tone of the book it feels kinda repetitive.

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confession time... i spoil things for myself

When I was younger I would always read the very last page of a book because I wanted to know if I'd like the ending to save myself from both heartbreak and wasting money. I don't do that anymore, but whenever I know with absolute certainty an iconic scene will happen in a book, I skip around until I get to that part. So while searching, I'm spoiling things and when I get to the scene I read the whole thing before going back to where I actually am in the book. Sometimes it's not intentional though, the worst is when I look up a question online and it spoils something not even pertaining to the question! I have spoiled both the Caraval and OUABH series, the Poppy War Trilogy, AGGGTM: As Good As Dead, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home, Beartown, and Long Live Evil (to name a few). I do have regrets because I always wonder what it would've felt like to be blindsided (which is the best), but sometimes I literally cannot continue reading unless I know what will happen because it stresses me out so much. Is this a me problem or does anyone else spoil things for themselves even a little bit?

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