requiem

used to be @ghostmums! quynh (rhymes with win) · 27 she/her 🇻🇳🏳️‍🌈 · fantasy, historical+sad girl lit fic, & love triangle trope enjoyer

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Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)

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Prince's Gambit (Captive Prince, #2)

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reviews of your fav books <3

does anyone else sometimes go scrolling through 4/5 star reviews of your favourite books just to gush over people loving something you also love? 🥹 i do that often and it makes me sooo happy to see people mentioning things they liked about the book !! it's one of the many (maaany) things that make PB feel like a community to me <3 on the other hand, it makes me so sad to see bad reviews about my faves that i often avoid reading them, ngl 😂 is this something you also experience? do you look up good reviews of your fav books for the sake of it or is it just a me thing? :')

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Authors you couldn't bear losing to bad behaviour

Who are the authors for whom news that they became/were problematic would be the most devastating to you? For me it would probably be Maggie O'Farrell and R.F. Kuang. I just couldn't take it, their backlist is too important for me and everything they release are insta-reads.

Edit: just to be clear this has nothing to do with my personal views on author cancellation. It's three sentences. I have nuanced takes, but just wanted to generate some fun readerly chat about favourite authors.

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🥳 Birthday Recs 🥳

Hey PageBound fam! Today's my bday, and I want you to send me your highest ranked book (or..books? I'm not picky on how many you send me 😜) in the past year! Because you can never have too many books on your TBR, right??! Thank you in advance, and I hope you all have a wonderful Tuesday! 🩷🌼🥰

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Describe yourself in 3 emojis!

We’ve described our books in 3 emojis.

Now, sum yourself up in three emojis! (And feel free to explain your choices if you want, this doubles as a great “get to know you” method too!)

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The Sun and the Starmaker

Rachel Griffin

There once was a village so far north that most considered it the top of the world... and in that village, the Sun fell in love with her Starmaker. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Nature of Witches comes a whimsical and sweeping romantic fantasy. Nestled deep in the snowy mountains of the Lost Range, the small village of Reverie endures on a miracle. Beyond the reach of the Sun, Reverie is dependent upon the magic of the mysterious Starmaker: every morning, he trudges across a vast glacier and pulls in sunlight over the peaks, providing the village with the light it needs to survive. Aurora Finch grew up on tales of the Starmaker’s magic, never imagining she’d one day meet him. But on the morning of her wedding, a fateful encounter in the frostbitten woods changes everything. The Starmaker senses a powerful magic within her and demands she come study under his guidance. With her newfound abilities tied to the survival of the village, Aurora is swept away to his ice-covered castle at the mountain’s peak. The Starmaker is as cold and distant as the dark woods, leaving Aurora to explore his enchanted castle with only an immortal rabbit for company. Yet the more she discovers about the sorcerer, the stronger their ruinous attraction grows, pulling her closer to the secrets he refuses to share. A deadly frost approaches, and Aurora must uncover what the Starmaker is hiding before she is left in an endless winter that even the Sun cannot touch.

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The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece. An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its language has become part of the common Russian speech. One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, a work whose nuances emerge for the first time in Diana Burgin's and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's splendid English version.

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Recommendations?? Step right up!!

Have a recommendation for this quest?? I wanna hear them all!! But please read this first!

As I mentioned in the Welcome & Introductions post - I'm keeping the specific criteria for this quest close to my chest until other similar quests drop and I don't want to potentially ruin the surprise! However, I will say this quest is multi-genre, so don't worry about trying to stay in a specific niche. If it feels like a fever dream (surreal, absurd, dreamlike), I would to know about it so I can consider it! Please be patient with me as I make my way through the recommendations!

You can suggest as many books as you like, but please submit one book per comment so other Boundlings can upvote the books they'd love to see on this quest tooo! Your comment should include the book title, author, and a link (or just the url) to the book's page on Pagebound so I know exactly which book to check out!

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Rouge

Mona Awad

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her mother’s fate—and find a connection that is more than skin deep? For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother’s considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother’s demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Méduse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother’s) obsession with the mirror—and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass. Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry—as well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath.

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Embracing the body and reclaiming otherness, these books use horror to redefine notions of womanhood and monstrosity.

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Reality is overrated! These surreal and absurd fiction books remove logic to reveal their truths. Here the impossible is inevitable, the strange is necessary, and Kafkaesque is only the beginning.

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