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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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Spring 2025 Readalong
Sapphic Across Genres
Level 6
My Taste
The Last Murder at the End of the World
Hell Followed With Us
Witchlings (Witchlings, #1)
Gwen & Art Are Not in Love
The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre
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The Taking of Jake Livingston
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  • Gwen & Art Are Not in Love
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    Wanting to get an e-reader, any recs? 👀

    LOVE paperbacks but travel a lot and want to bring my ✨ pretties ✨ with me in e-reader form - looking at KOBO at the moment, does anyone own one or recommend another e-reader?

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    Tiffany Chu giveaway

    The Constellation of Forgotten Things

    The Constellation of Forgotten Things

    Tiffany Chu

    When love transcends the boundaries of time, memory, and even death itself. In the world of Reveria, broken dreams rise as trails of light across the night sky. A blacksmith's boy vanishes into rebellion. Two cosmic beings—one of Memory, one of Void—discover their forbidden love might reshape reality. The Constellation of Forgotten Things weaves together interconnected tales of love that defies impossible distances: between life and death, earth and sky, remembering and forgetting. Each story illuminates a different facet of love's power to endure—and its cost. This collection is both an act of remembrance and a celebration of the stories we tell to keep our beloveds alive, proving that some bonds transcend even the veil between worlds. Perfect for readers who love the lyricism of Madeline Miller and Alix E. Harrow, the emotional storytelling of Studio Ghibli films, and the mythic beauty of Ursula K. Le Guin's work. If you read for gorgeous language and deep feeling rather than fast plots—these stories will captivate you. Love that would change the constellations and the reality of existence.

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  • Night of the Mannequins
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    Night of the Mannequins
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    Enjoyment: 2.0Quality: 0.5Characters: 0.5Plot: 1.0
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    I'm going to have to read another of this author's books since the writing in this is so chaotic and messy (in a bad way) that I don't know if it's just because we're in the main character's head, or if it's the author's writing style. The story is just so fragmented and jumpy, leaping around the place to different points constantly. Rambling on and on and on every page about something random. I get the unreliable narrator trope, but there's that and then there's just this jumbled mess.

    Some people might see this as a spoiler, but I've seen a ton of DNFs and "I wouldn't have picked this up if I'd have known" about this, so I think it's important to say that this isn't a book about a killer mannequin, it's about a teen that (suddenly, randomly?) gets a psychotic breakdown and goes on a murder spree. There's not really much rhyme or reason as to why? It's just oops, he's a killer now.

    The characters as a whole are really flat as well. There's a group of friends but you kinda just don't get to know any of them, and the main characters thoughts are so jumbled and messy that you don't even learn much about him either. I think the character you end up learning most about is the father and his traumatic background, which he has for... Some reason.

    Plot is just a bit too wild, while yeah it was kinda fun in a b-movie kinda way, it was also just all over the place, had little reasons, and just seemed to be gratuitous for the sake of it - even for a slasher! There are some elements that are just never explained, and other parts where the explanation is even more insane than a kid suddenly killing all his mates. Why miracle-gro?????? I am so entirely confused by the whole miracle-gro thing even after the ending.

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  • Ethics of ARC Reads

    Not sure if anyone’s asked this, but what are people’s thoughts about commenting on the forum when reading ARCs of the book? Because on one hand, I need to express my thoughts about the book and just want to fangirl (or hate). On the other hand, the book isn’t out yet, so I don’t know if it’s “right” to talk about a book that isn’t publically available yet.

    But if anyone else are ARC readers, I’d love to know your thoughts about this!

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  • AI in Video Games

    Hey everyone, I know we have lots of gamers in here so I wanted to share this resource I found with the community. It’s a list of video games that have used AI in development and to what extent. The list can be found linked 🔗here.

    As far as I’m aware, it’s still being updated regularly. I’m genuinely so heartbroken over a few of these and I’m so, so tired of AI being everywhere.

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    The Neverland Thieves: Fly back to Neverland in the unmissable new magical adventure!

    The Neverland Thieves: Fly back to Neverland in the unmissable new magical adventure!

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  • Letterboxd

    I hope nobody has done this already 👀

    I made a Letterboxd list with all of the movie adaptations of the books in this quest because I wanted to know how many I actually watched. Thought I‘d share in case anyone else here is, like me, about as insufferable about movies as they are about books 🎥

    Funnily enough, Letterboxd is telling me I watched 28 of the movies, which is exactly one less than I read books. A complete coincidence, considering I a) definitely don’t have every movie I ever watched logged and b) most of them aren’t even ones where I read the book. I‘ll still call this double platinum 🙂‍↕️

    My system for selecting movies was essentially copying the book title into Letterboxd and clicking on the first result. If there are any mistakes or the adaptation is not The One Everyone Has Watched, let me know!

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    The Neverland Thieves: Fly back to Neverland in the unmissable new magical adventure!

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