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The Poison Daughter
Sheila Masterson
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It’s a breath of fresh air to read about ethnically diverse elves and fae. It being sapphic just makes it even better. Very fun
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Faebound (Faebound, #1)
Saara El-Arifi
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The Favorites
Layne Fargo
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It’s interesting reading this again a second time and out loud to my sister. I think the first time was so soon after deconstructing that I yearned for anything sacreligious and my mind filled in what the words lacked. Now reading it again and aloud, I’m finding that the writing is actually quite clunky. Half of the book is introduction when a lot of time that could have been spent progressing the story as well as establishing the setting. It occurred to me that the “rising action/call to action” doesn’t happen until the end of part one. Thats a long time to wait caught in the glowing limbo of heaven. It makes it harder to recommend than it used to be.
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I won’t lie. This book was not meant for me. Not now. I’m 28 and it’s hard for me to relate with the main character in all the ways I should. Another person might love this story. It did feel me with a simmering sense of dread that my future is not so easily manipulated by time travel. Past that, the most emotional part of the book for me was the authors note. That almost made me cry. Yes time travel has been done before. Yes there were tropes and moments you could foresee. Yes the plot was simple. And yet there were these little bursts where you could see the author was just writing a letter of love to her sick father. I’m glad he could read it. More people should know how much we love them
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This Time Tomorrow
Emma Straub
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I’m exhausted yo. Like this was wayyy too wandering and long that I could not stay locked in. I had to back up the audiobook so many times. This was basically a Slavic Howl’s Stationary Castle, except the FMC isn’t cursed to be old and Howl is actually an asshole. He even blamed her almost getting assaulted on what she was wearing. Bruh. He was basically unlikable until they wove their magic together and got horny for each other. The ending had that irritating “we go find ourselves for several months before reuniting” type ending. 0% satisfying. I don’t know how this was shortlisted for a Hugo award