skylarkblue1
Hi I'm Sky! I'm a queer disabled British reviewer who loves fantasy, horror, mystery and more! I only post reviews & updates on here
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skylarkblue1 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Anyone else doing this challenge? Here's the link to the info! https://www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/12/29/the-2026-booktempters-tbr-challenge
1 Prompt for each month, with an extra stretch goal if you want to read more!
For Jan my books that fit would be Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle and I think for the stretch goal I'll try and read The Once and Future Witches.
For Feb I have She Gets the Girl and then Rebel Fire for the stretch goal because how have I not gotten around to that yet??
March and onwards I'll look at another time 😂 I'm only going to be focusing on my physical TBR - I don't want to buy books just for the challenge. Also the rules say no ARCs, but I'm so behind on some from last year thanks to my burn out, I'm allowed to add them just this once 🤭
What are you all reading for the prompts if you're joining in??
5skylarkblue1 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I thought I had asked about this before, but I can't find any post I made about this and I can't remember any response about this.
Tldr, it's kinda annoying that you have to be logged in to view just the book pages, it's meaning that I have to grab the goodreads links for books instead - which is not super motivating for friends signing up to here.
If the issue is not wanting discussions to be viewable while not logged in, that'd be pretty easy to hide. But the book information should really be publicly viewable. It's a lot easier to get people used to the site and more likely to sign up if you're able to share book information without the stipulation of being made to sign up first.
3Post from the Pagebound Club forum
Anyone else doing this challenge? Here's the link to the info! https://www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/12/29/the-2026-booktempters-tbr-challenge
1 Prompt for each month, with an extra stretch goal if you want to read more!
For Jan my books that fit would be Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle and I think for the stretch goal I'll try and read The Once and Future Witches.
For Feb I have She Gets the Girl and then Rebel Fire for the stretch goal because how have I not gotten around to that yet??
March and onwards I'll look at another time 😂 I'm only going to be focusing on my physical TBR - I don't want to buy books just for the challenge. Also the rules say no ARCs, but I'm so behind on some from last year thanks to my burn out, I'm allowed to add them just this once 🤭
What are you all reading for the prompts if you're joining in??
5Post from the Pagebound Club forum
I thought I had asked about this before, but I can't find any post I made about this and I can't remember any response about this.
Tldr, it's kinda annoying that you have to be logged in to view just the book pages, it's meaning that I have to grab the goodreads links for books instead - which is not super motivating for friends signing up to here.
If the issue is not wanting discussions to be viewable while not logged in, that'd be pretty easy to hide. But the book information should really be publicly viewable. It's a lot easier to get people used to the site and more likely to sign up if you're able to share book information without the stipulation of being made to sign up first.
3Post from the The Night of Baba Yaga forum
Damn I am flying through this book lmao - it's pretty brutal and has a couple odd moments, but as soon as I started reading it as if I was watching an action movie it kinda just all fits together a lot more nicely.
0skylarkblue1 is interested in reading...
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1skylarkblue1 TBR'd a book
A Better Paradise — Volume One: An Aftermath
Dan Houser
0skylarkblue1 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Hiii, just an idea but I would personally really like to be able to set a reading goal in pages rather than in books. Anyone else? If this is hard to automate in the app I wouldn't mind adding the number of pages read manually after marking a book finished. Just to prevent any hesitation regarding starting thick books. ✨️✨️✨️
6skylarkblue1 started reading...
The Night of Baba Yaga
Akira Otani
0skylarkblue1 finished reading and wrote a review...
Representations: https://trello.com/c/Pb1IASs2/140-the-luminous-dead-by-caitlin-starling
Fast-paced and tense all the way through, really really cool science and world building too. But fell a bit short at the end.
This book instantly hooked me because the second I had questions about the suit, it answered them instantly on page 2/3. It was really cool how decently well thought out the world was honestly?? People keep saying the first half is slow but I really didn't feel that. There was a ton of character moments, but exploring the cave and what gets found was really interesting. The mystery and the tension building up kept me pretty hooked.
Honestly even the second half was really fun, it was a lot more action-packed but the more it went on, the less questions got answered. It does kinda make sense, I won't dive into spoilers but Gyre's mental state certainly doesn't get better the further into the caves she goes. But at the same time there is a few core things just left completely unanswered, or just not that explored. I'd have loved a bit more, especially during that after part, where some of the ending things get explained or at least just some more information.
Idk, I just wanted a bit more from this, but the actual story and adventure was genuinely super damn fun and loved the world building. Wanting more from it, more than what we got, I think probably shows how interesting the world that was crafted is. I only realised once I was finished, through the "about the author" that this is their debut book, so I'll give some slack on this. I honestly can't wait to see what else they've written - I noticed I already have another of their books on my TBR without realising it's from them!
0skylarkblue1 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
My top rated comment is a comment on a spoiler tagged post, and my comment has uhh pretty big spoilers for the book. But it's just out, untagged. It's making it pretty hard to be able to share my wrapped page with others. I guess this is probably an oversight with not being able to spoiler tag comments?
3Post from the Pagebound Club forum
My top rated comment is a comment on a spoiler tagged post, and my comment has uhh pretty big spoilers for the book. But it's just out, untagged. It's making it pretty hard to be able to share my wrapped page with others. I guess this is probably an oversight with not being able to spoiler tag comments?
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