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the_bookishbestie

embracing my life as a mood reader for 2026

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SciFi Starter Pack Vol I
Made for the Movies
My Taste
Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6)
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)
The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)
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Chain-Gang All-Stars
35%
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
4%
City of Gods and Monsters (House of Devils, #1)
13%
Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love
0%
Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1)
25%
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 8
0%
This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #7)
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  • This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #7)
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    Copper Skin, Oaken Lungs (Copper & Ash, #1)

    Copper Skin, Oaken Lungs (Copper & Ash, #1)

    Adam Bassett

    For a thousand years, The Old Town has stood as humanity’s last bastion against the maalkonis, malignant black mists that reduced the rest of the world to ash. They are kept at bay by rusty machines on the town’s walls. In order to survive, the dwindling population depends on one another. Since a young age, Justīne has embraced the harsh responsibilities that accompanied her apprenticeship on the last farm in existence. Her younger sister, Anna, is beginning her own apprenticeship as well. Learning engineering was not Anna's first choice, but the town's last mage fell to the maalkonis years prior, leaving nothing behind but confusing books and strange runes. When food runs low during a particularly harsh winter, distrust spreads like a plague, and Justīne is blamed for it. As hunger leads to violence, she and her siblings are forced to flee The Old Town, embarking on a perilous journey into the very mists that had formed their cage. Their fight to survive in the dark develops into a hopeful mystery as they follow the breadcrumbs of a mage’s efforts to save the world. Meanwhile something pursues them through the maalkonis…

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    Home Before Dark

    Home Before Dark

    Riley Sager

    What was it like? Living in that house. Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity—and skepticism. Today, Maggie is a restorer of old homes and too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her father’s book. But she also doesn’t believe a word of it. Ghosts, after all, don’t exist. When Maggie inherits Baneberry Hall after her father’s death, she returns to renovate the place to prepare it for sale. But her homecoming is anything but warm. People from the past, chronicled in House of Horrors, lurk in the shadows. And locals aren’t thrilled that their small town has been made infamous thanks to Maggie’s father. Even more unnerving is Baneberry Hall itself—a place filled with relics from another era that hint at a history of dark deeds. As Maggie experiences strange occurrences straight out of her father’s book, she starts to believe that what he wrote was more fact than fiction. In the latest thriller from New York Times bestseller Riley Sager, a woman returns to the house made famous by her father’s bestselling horror memoir. Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are there more earthbound—and dangerous—secrets hidden within its walls?

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  • The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #6)
    the_bookishbestie
    Feb 21, 2026
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    Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.5Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.0
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    This book took me so much longer to finish than #5. After the perfection of the Butcher's masquerade this one felt like more of a slog and had a lot of parts I feel confused on or am hoping to get some clarity at least with the next book. The card battle style was definitely different. I had mixed feelings in the beginning but I am glad that they had to try a different fighting style. I think this book will probably definitely need a reread to catch everything

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    The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #6)

    The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #6)

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  • Circe
    the_bookishbestie
    Feb 17, 2026
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    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0
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    I listened to this as an audiobook and absolutely loved the narration. I really don't know very much about Greek mythology so I have no way of knowing how accurately this sticks to things, but I really liked getting a closer look at a goddess who seems so different then others that I have heard of

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    The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)

    The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)

    J.R.R. Tolkien

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    Blood Over Bright Haven

    Blood Over Bright Haven

    M.L. Wang

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    Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1)

    Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1)

    Fonda Lee

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