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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So I just found out that someone called Andrew Hungerford has made and is running a stage production of this book??? The kickstarter just ended a few hours ago, but basically it was just to help cover the remaining budget. Show is set to run next month in Baltimore (America) - at The Voxel.
The kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewhungerford/the-luminous-dead-a-stage-adaptation/description
The show page: https://voxel.org/events/luminous-dead/
Looking at Andrew's bsky account he's been posting so many cool things about the show. I kinda really want to try and get hold of the recording when it's available because I'm just so curious to see how it works on stage?? I'm not fully convinced it will work, but Andrew seems to have a ton of credits under his belt so he might know how to make it at least mostly work.
If you're in Baltimore and end up going to see this, please let us know how it is!!!
4skylarkblue1 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
What's one book in your PB library that no one you follow has in theirs? I find it's so rare for me to find a book on here that isn't already in the tbr or interested shelf of at least one other person I'm following, unless it's a non-fiction. So, I'm curious about everyone else. Do you have any books like this? Something that feels almost completely undiscovered?
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Mischief Girls
Aashna Avachat
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The Desert Island Game
Cat Voleur
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I’m sorry. I cannot read any more of this. I’ll leave it and come back to it probably in 6 months as usual. I don’t get why everyone praises Suzanne Collins so much. Her writing is just normal. The trilogy didn’t blow me away or change my view permanently on books, it was just another series to me. It was painful to get through her books but I’m so glad it’s over. I cannot get through this one, even more than 20% in. This is a temporary DNF. I cannot bear her writing, I need a refresh.
Edit: !! Wow !! So many dislikes I’m proud of myself 🩵🩵🩵 no but seriously to answer a big question: “why did you read the next book if you didn’t like the previous ones?” I thought that if I read her writing from a new PoV it would be somewhat more bearable and interesting. It just isn’t. That book was the final push I needed to realise I didn’t like her writing !! :)))
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Where has all this around exit 8 come from? it's a kinda asset flip game with no story 😭 This seems to be a novelisation of the movie? But the movie was kinda eh tbh. I wonder how much of a cut the original developer is getting after all this...
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The Tattoo Murder
Akimitsu Takagi
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Wishwild
Clemency Brown
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Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid
Ngozi Ukazu
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Celtic Weird: Tales of Wicked Folklore and Dark Mythology
Johnny Mains
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Tilt
Emma Pattee
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Representations: https://trello.com/c/kEopMhjU
Surprisingly dark, but a good story about just how screwed up it can get if only some people are magic.
I'm really loving this era of books that seem to be exploring the fact that people would be utter assholes if only some people were magical. This book is kinda about children being forced to be slaves, kidnapped from their families and sold as products. But as a children's book haha.
The BSL rep was also awesome but I wish a little bit more was done with it. It was quite hard to work out what was being signed, and what was being said. However, I absolutely love how the magical cure trope is done here, that's how the trope should be done! My anxiety went through the roof in that chapter lmao but it played out so damn well.
Leonie and Cress are fantastic characters though. Their growth throughout the book and how their characters change through the events is really well written. I especially love how Cress grew into, and above, her role as a match and how the dynamic between the 2 very subtly changes over the book. Leonie is one of the strongest female MCs I've read in a while - dealt a shit hand at life but determined and strong. She knows what she wants, but is too young and sheltered to fully know consequence or what her actions actually mean. The side characters are pretty good, but some of them certainly got a bit jumbled around in my head and I forgot who some people were, just because the side characters for the most part have such small and/or fleeting roles.
Plot-wise the book is mainly an adventure/escape. It's mostly linear, and a little predictable - but that doesn't detract from the story at all honestly. I really loved the magic system and how it all works, and I love how Leonie handles her magic.
Overall, yeah this is a fantastic book. It is pretty dark, but I know kid me would have loved this just as much as adult me does. Honestly could see this easily being a film or TV show, and it would work pretty well.
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Our Share of Night
Mariana Enríquez
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Goddess of Filth
V. Castro
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Harbour of Hungry Ghosts
Eliza Chan
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