skylarkblue1

Hi I'm Sky! I'm a queer disabled British (Welsh) reviewer who loves fantasy, horror, mystery and more! I mostly only post reviews & updates on here

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skylarkblue1 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

mermag13

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🏴‍☠️ debate

Is the pirating books debate all over anyone else’s social media?

I’m very against pirating books but there are more people defending it than I thought, and more of my irl friends do it that I thought… Am I being privileged by saying you shouldn’t?

Edit- I am not anti piracy, I’m pro piracy for most things, books have always been an exception for me! I also know there are exceptions within books as well, as with everything, but the vast majority of book piracy isn’t that.

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A note for anyone using Imgur in posts

Heyo non-Brits!

A lot of people are using imgur to host images and GIFs on here it seems, and while for 99.9% of the world that's fine, here in the UK Imgur is entirely blocked for like 9 months now 🥲 means whenever we come across any Imgur post online, all we see is this purple image of doom:

I know many people are still going to use it, but it would be nice to be able to be more involved with knowing context or whole messages on here! I know I'm far from being the only Brit on here too 😄

For alternatives, I've had a great time with imgbb! It's been my main image upload site now since Imgur pulled out and it's been solid.

skylarkblue1 made progress on...

Harbour of Hungry Ghosts

Eliza Chan

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Thoughts from 37% (page 140)

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skylarkblue1 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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nohara66

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Bad books

Lets all of us mention one book or more which we really dislike ( or hate) because it promotes something very toxic, lays out a very obviously wrong narrative. I am not talking about, 'this book was cringe and boring', I am talking about, 'the idea that was promoted in this book could be proved very dangerous if taken seriously.

A book that I genuinely dislike is Ugly love by collen hoover. This book has a male lead who has no sense of respect for the female lead, a female lead who has no sense of self respect and keeps on returning to that emotionally immature boy who cannot for the love of God get over his ex and handle his emotional baggage himself. I have read It ends with us and it starts with us. I disliked them both but my problem with them does not align with the topic of this post, they were not promoting abusive relationships (she does end up getting away from that abusive guy). Never read anything else by that author again, and never will.

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skylarkblue1 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

Divasauce

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New month alert ‼️ 🚨

It’s a new month yk what that meanssss

What are you planning to start/finish this month!? I’ll start!

Books: Dune Assasins apprentice The fellowship of the ring The two towers good girl bad blood The promised Neverland vol 2 bury our bones in the midnight soil ninth house

Games: Hollow knight Expedition 33 Deltarune Horizon zero dawn NieR: Automata

Tv/anime Frieren season 2 Witch hat atelier Attack on titan Umbrella academy Wednesday

Of course I may not finish all these things (most likely not) but I hope to start/finish the majority in July 😌✨🪷 (doomscrolling will not win)

skylarkblue1 made progress on...

Harbour of Hungry Ghosts

Eliza Chan

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skylarkblue1 is interested in reading...

Day by Day Armageddon (Day by Day Armageddon, #1)

J.L. Bourne

An ongoing journal depicting one man's personal struggle for survival, dealing with the trials of an undead world unfolding around him. An unknown plague sweeps the planet. The dead rise to claim the Earth as the new dominant species. Trapped in the midst of a global tragedy, he must make decisions...choices that that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse to walk as one of them.

skylarkblue1 TBR'd a book

The Starving Saints

Caitlin Starling

From the nationally bestselling author of The Luminous Dead and The Death of Jane Lawrence, a transfixing, intensely atmospheric fever dream of medieval horror. Aymar Castle has been under siege for six months. Food is running low and there has been no sign of rescue. But just as the survivors consider deliberately thinning their number, the castle stores are replenished. The sick are healed. And the divine figures of the Constant Lady and her Saints have arrived, despite the barricaded gates, offering succor in return for adoration. Soon, the entire castle is under the sway of their saviors, partaking in intoxicating feasts of terrible origin. The war hero Ser Voyne gives her allegiance to the Constant Lady. Phosyne, a disorganized, paranoid nun-turned-sorceress, races to unravel the mystery of these new visitors and exonerate her experiments as their source. And in the bowels of the castle, a serving girl, Treila, is torn between her thirst for a secret vengeance against Voyne and the desperate need to escape from the horrors that are unfolding within Aymar’s walls. As the castle descends into bacchanalian madness—forgetting the massed army beyond its walls in favor of hedonistic ecstasy—these three women are the only ones to still see their situation for what it is. But they are not immune from the temptations of the castle’s new masters… or each other; and their shifting alliances and entangled pasts bring violence to the surface. To save the castle, and themselves, will take a reimagining of who they are, and a reorganization of the very world itself.

skylarkblue1 TBR'd a book

Tipping the Velvet

Sarah Waters

Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages to visit all her shows and finally meet her heroine. Soon after, she becomes Kitty's dresser and the two head for the bright lights of Leicester Square where they begin a glittering career as music-hall stars in an all-singing and dancing double act. At the same time, behind closed doors, they admit their attraction to each other and their affair begins.

skylarkblue1 made progress on...

Harbour of Hungry Ghosts

Eliza Chan

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tonyreads

Thoughts from 57% (page 130)

Okay, at this point I’m flying through this and ideally will finish today. Now I want to read everything he’s ever written, where do I start?

skylarkblue1 commented on smallbug's review of Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen!

smallbug

Jul 03, 2026

Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen!

1.5

Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:

i appreciate what this book was trying to do but i was just so uncomfortable the entire time. the entire thing being emails between an adult man and an 11 year old girl made me feel so sick, especially when they were ‘arguing’ it all felt so manipulative (his end) and wrong.

and the fact that kids will read this and maybe try to do the same thing? no.

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