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28 | Ace | She/Her | Unfortunately British | Fantasy & Sci-Fi girly getting into Classics (occasionally) 🖤🇵🇸🍉🖤 2026 🥇: Gardens of the Moon 🃏⛓️⚔️

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Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)

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A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1)

The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)

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books i haven’t read but on vibes? 5*

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Moodreader25

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Book talk (analysis?) Videos

recently, I've been watching videos on YouTube by frankies shelf. If anyone has seen his videos you will get what im trying to say in this post. Im so bad at explaining but I'll do my best.

So, i have been watching frankies video about 13 reasons why and the housemaid is watching. And i was wondering, does anyone have booktubers who do video's like this? Where they talk about ONE book instead of multiple books? And what is that called? Is it analysing Even tho they're just....talking about what happens in the book?

I hope this is An appropriate place to post this and sorry if it not.

And in advance, thank you for awnsering this!<3

EDIT: i think they're called video essays! Not sure tho so I'd appreciate it if anyone could confirm.

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cheersforLatte

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Where do you "rescue" your books? 🤔😅

I like to say I rescue books rather than by them so that I don't feel bad adding to my physical TBR. 😅😉

So, where do you guys like to get your books? Do you get it from a big flagship store or small bookshop? Do you thrift or browse the local library? Online?

Please share your experience even the name of the shop. It's nice to imagine online friends browsing through their own piece of haven. 😁

I am in Australia and I have found that Big W (kinda like Target) is great for popular titles but 10% usually off market price. I get all my Japanese translated books from them. Kmart is a good place to get books as well, often same price as Big W. ✨️ Great value for boxed set if they have it!

If I can't find the other titles I go to Dymocks or Readings which are big flagships here. Or Amazon if there's a sale.

As always, happy reading! ✨️✨️

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ruthie_readswithtea

Feb 26, 2026

3.0

Enjoyment: 2.5Quality: 2.5Characters: 2.5Plot: 3.0

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TW (non-exhaustive list): graphic sex, graphic violence, violent consensual sex, brief non-consensual voyeurism, consensual voyeurism, exhibitionism, blood, degradation, mention of pregnancy, mental torture, sexual relations with a sentient plant (?), mind control & ‘womb-fucking’…

this one lacked something the first one had.

the plot line was very straight forward and nothing really happened other than some vigorous sex and another cliffhanger ending…if these were any longer I wouldn’t be as interested in finishing the series because this one was mid.

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The Dark One (Vicious Lost Boys, #2)

Nikki St. Crowe

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The Dark One (Vicious Lost Boys, #2)

Nikki St. Crowe

I spent most of my life feeling dead inside -- until I met Peter Pan and the Lost Boys. It wasn't until Pan and Neverland that I finally felt alive. But things are not all full of magic and sunlight on the island. There's something darker and more sinister haunting the forest. And worse, the fae queen and Captain Hook are ready to fight for control of Neverland and they will stop at nothing to get what they want. Including using the one thing Pan never thought he wanted or needed -- me. I'm a descendant of the Darling family and now I belong to him and the Lost Boys. War is brewing -- can the Never King get his shadow back and assume his rightful throne? And if he does, where will I fit? Or will all of Neverland be in jeopardy right along with my dark, twisted heart? NOTE: The Dark One is book two in the Vicious Lost Boys series. It is a dark reimagining of Peter and Wendy. If you like your enemies to lovers romance with hot, ruthless, morally gray love interests, you’ll enjoy The Dark One and the Lost Boys. You can expect hate kissing, fighting, bickering, and ‘touch her and I’ll unalive you’ vibes. Please check the author's website for CWs.

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The Rest is History: History's Most Curious Questions Answered

ruthie_readswithtea

Feb 26, 2026

3.5

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 3.5Characters: Plot:

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As much as I enjoy the podcast, this was a pop-history amalgamation- a good jumping point for looking into things further but in my opinion too droll to be a serious collection of facts. Maybe its the history graduate in me but I like history to be serious with lots of footnotes and sources. Still, enjoyable.

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The Rest is History: History's Most Curious Questions Answered

Tom Holland

Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys... there's a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past - from Alexander the Great to Tolkein, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation's favourite historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook take on the most curious moments in history, answering the questions we didn't even think to ask: - Did the Trojan War actually happen? - What was the most disastrous party in history? - Was Richard Nixon more like Caligula or Claudius? - How did a hair appointment almost blow Churchill's cover? - Why did the Nazis believe they were descended from Atlantis? Whether it is sending historical figures to Casa Amor in a series of Love Island, ranking history's most famous eunuchs and pigeons (including Winky, the unsung hero of the Second World War), or debating the meaning of greatness, there is nothing too big or too small for Tom and Dominic to unpick. So run your Egyptian milk bath, strap up your best Spartan sandals, and prepare for a journey down the highways and byways of the human past...

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A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1)

Sarah J. Maas

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A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1)

Sarah J. Maas

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Feb 24, 2026

3.5

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

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(non-exclusive list) TW: graphic sexual content, mentions of past torture, degradation, harmful stereotypes of sex workers, mental illness, body shaming, murder, misogyny, kidnapping & confinement (i may have missed some - not complete list!)

this kind of ate? like low-key?

i read this after watching a rant review by weirdo bookclub and even though i knew the plot and the issues with it, i wanted to give it a try anyway. multiple narrators was a nice touch and gave some more depth to the characters than i assume reading it on the page would have given.

ngl i enjoyed it enough to consider the rest of the series - just hopefully the lost boys learn how to properly smoke cigarettes and dont call it ‘taking a hit’…like who are you, the cops?!?

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The Fisherman

John Langan

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other's company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumors of the Creek, and what might be found there, the remedy to both their losses, they dismiss it as just another fish story. Soon, though, the men find themselves drawn into a tale as deep and old as the Reservoir. It's a tale of dark pacts, of long-buried secrets, and of a mysterious figure known as Der Fisher: the Fisherman. It will bring Abe and Dan face to face with all that they have lost, and with the price they must pay to regain it.

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Hell's Heart

Alexis Hall

Gideon the Ninth meets Moby Dick in USA Today bestselling author Alexis Hall's science fiction debut, Hell's Heart!Earth is a ruin, and the scattered remnants of humanity scavenge what they can from the stars under the watchful auspices of a grab-bag of collectives, corporations, and churches which are all that remains of what we once called society. Having long exhausted any conventional sources of energy, life in the solar system is now sustained by a volatile, hallucinogenic substance called spermaceti, which is harvested from the brains of vast cetacean-like Leviathans that swim the atmospheric currents of Jupiter.Finding herself with no money and little to occupy her groundside, the narrator (“I”) takes a commission aboard the hunter-barque Pequod as it sets out in pursuit of precious spermaceti. Once aboard, however, she finds herself pulled inexorably into the orbit of the barque’s captain, a charismatic but fanatically driven woman who the narrator names only as “A”. As the Pequod plunges ever deeper into the turbulent, monster-haunted atmosphere of the gas giant, the narrator begins to lose herself in the eerie word of Leviathan-hunting and the captain’s increasingly insistent delusions; the only thing that might keep her grounded is the bond she develops with Q, a woman from the wreck of Old Earth whose skin is marked with holographic light and who remembers things otherwise lost.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Agatha Christie recommendation

Hello Everyone, I just arrived on Pagebound and the community seems really nice so I'd like to ask you for some recommendations. ✨

I'm looking to read different genres this year and I really want to try one of Agatha Christie's books, but I don't know where to start. I already seen Crime on the Orient Express, And then there were none and Death on the Nil.

If you have some recommendations other than those 3 I would deeply appreciate it! I love a good plot twist and mysteries behind closed doors🫣. And if maybe some of you want to read it together to share thoughts I'm down!

Have a nice day ! 😄

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Daggermouth

H.M. Wolfe

He Is Her Ruin. She Is His Rebellion. The first thing you’ll learn in New Found Haven is mercy no longer exists. Showing mercy is a weakness, and weakness will get you killed. The second thing is this—the Veyra are always watching. From the highest glass atrium in the Heart to the windowless slum dens of the Boundary, no movement goes unseen. The last lesson is the hardest, but you must remember it. Love outside of your ring was a death sentence. The city is carved into rings of privilege and poverty, ruled by the masked elite who will do whatever it takes to hold onto power. Obedience is demanded. Rebellion is crushed. Greyson Serel has spent his life caught between two worlds. Publicly, he’s the flawless heir to the presidency. Privately, he’s entangled in secrets that could topple the regime. But when he’s forced into a political marriage meant to bind him tighter to the governments brutal laws, he finds himself shackled to a bride who is as lethal as she is unwilling. Shadera is a mercenary raised to kill, not to wed. Yet when her bullet misses its mark, survival leaves her bound to the very man she was sent to eliminate. Trapped inside the corrupt heart of the city, she becomes both prisoner and wife, her every step watched, her every move tested. Their union is no love story—It’s a battlefield. As secrets come to light and betrayals fester within the walls of power, Greyson and Shadera must decide between annihilating one another or burning the city to the ground together. In a world where passion sparks rebellion and loyalty is paid for in blood, their forced bond may be the spark that ignites a revolution. Or the fire that consumes them both. DAGGERMOUTH is a dark dystopian romance perfect for readers who love true enemies to lovers, The Hunger Game, marriage of inconvenience, The Handmaid's Tale, rise of the oppressed, and political intrigue that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

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Dracula

Bram Stoker

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How do you deal with upsetting subject matters in books?

I have a few triggers that, when they appear unprompted in books, can cause me to spiral a bit into an anxious or depressive episode- naturally making reading unappealing because, what if the next book upsets me too?

I have found YA/New Adult Romantasy and silly smutty books can pull me out of that mood - but what do you do when a book upsets you and makes you scared to read again?

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