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🇸🇬 29 (she/her) Learning how to fall back in love with reading

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Dia de los Muertos 2025
Winter 2026 Readalong
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My Taste
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
Vampires of El Norte
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)
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Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)

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    RY does SUCH a good job of giving us context without it feeling like an info dump

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  • A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1)
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    Should I continue til book two? bcs i've stopped reading this book twice... pls tell me it's worth my time

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  • Alchemised
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    Dec 26, 2025
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    Before starting this book, I think its helpful to keep in mind a few things: (1) Try not to draw parallels with the HP world (keyword is try, I struggled with this too in the beginning). (2) Do not mistake this for a light-hearted romance. The war setting is brutal and there are some very graphic scenes as well. (3) Yes, there should have been a glossary. Here is one specifically about the magic systems that I found useful

    HP had very clear lines between good vs evil. I liked that the war in this book isn't framed in terms of good vs evil but rather, survival. Once I realised that both sides have skeletons in their closet, I wasn't rooting for any side to win the war. Instead I found myself rooting for the impossible romance that grows with the war as its backdrop.

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  • The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
    Premiere day!!!

    Happy season 2 premiere day to all who celebrate!!! I made blue cupcakes for when I watch the new episodes after work 🤩

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  • Alchemised
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    Soooo this may be the last book of the year and I am very much excited to see what it brings to this last straw, however, I find myself trying to judge it from every angle, every word just cause I have heard SO MANY negative comments about it I am entering the book with those thoughts!

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