vneusc

💌 xxi. she/her. aus. 🖇️ healthcare girly reminiscing her english-lit days 📌 will make everything about sex, and post colonialism 📮 classics, fantasy, historical fiction, non-fiction

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The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)

Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

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Apr 01, 2026

4.5

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0

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an overdue review!

an exceptional follow up to an already amazing beginning to the series. very much enjoyed how we’re slowly expanding the universe and gaining more insights from each character that we weren’t privy to with the young fitz. at times, a difficult read because of the horny teenage angst and weakly written relationship with the girlfriend but not enough for me to stop powering through. yet again, fitz faces more trauma to scar him for life, i only hope he has happiness in his future 😔

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Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)

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Her Sweetbitter Song: A Novel

Rosie Hewlett

Sweetbitter Song is a story of two women on the shores of Ithaca, in the shadows of a legendary war, who must face their own battle – one of sisterhood, survival, and a forbidden love that could destroy them both. One summer night, within the palace of Sparta, a young slave girl stumbles across a grey-eyed princess. Despite living worlds apart, Melantho and Penelope are instantly drawn to one another, and a powerful friendship blossoms. But the Spartan royals do not approve of this bond, and soon Melantho and Penelope find themselves viciously torn apart, their trust irreparably shattered. Years later, their paths cross once again upon the rocky shores of Ithaca, where Melantho is sent to serve Princess Penelope and her new husband, Prince Odysseus. Embittered by life as a slave, Melantho is determined to keep her distance. But, once again, the two women find themselves drawn to one other, pulled by the echo of their friendship, and something far stronger they are too afraid to name. When war blazes across Greece, Odysseus and the men of Ithaca are driven to foreign lands. In their absence, Melantho finds a new world opening up before her – one where women rule, where family can be found, and where a forbidden love is finally given the space to bloom. A profound tale of love, identity and defiance, Sweetbitter Song tells a story forgotten by history. One of bravery and hope, celebrating two women who fought to protect their love from a world that tried to deny its very existence.

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Gabe Cole Novoa

A trans boy searches for a future―and a romance―in which he can live and love openly as himself in this heartrending young-adult reimagining of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, part of the Remixed Classics series. London, 1812 . Oliver Bennet feels trapped—not just by the endless corsets, petticoats, and skirts he's forced to wear on a daily basis, but also by society's expectations. The world, and the vast majority of his family and friends, think Oliver is a girl named Elizabeth. He is therefore expected to mingle at balls wearing a pretty dress, entertain suitors regardless of his interest in them, and ultimately become someone's wife. But Oliver can't bear the thought of such a fate. He finds solace in the few times he can sneak out of his family's home and explore the city rightfully dressed as a young gentleman. It's during one such excursion when Oliver becomes acquainted with Darcy, a sulky young man who had been rude to "Elizabeth" at a recent social function. But in the comfort of being out of the public eye, Oliver comes to find that Darcy is actually a sweet, intelligent boy with a warm heart, not to mention attractive. As Oliver spends more time as his true self, often with Darcy, part of him dares to hope that his dream of love and life as a man can be possible. But suitors are growing bolder―and even threatening―and his mother is growing more desperate to see him settled into an engagement. Oliver will have to choose: settle for safety, security, and a life of pretending to be something he's not, or risk it all for a slim chance at freedom, love, and a life that can be truly his own.

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Advice for Starting a Bookclub / Buddy Read?

Has anyone been involved in a successful bookclub/buddy read before that can offer any advice? I've started a dark academia book club way back when but it sorta fell apart because of lack of engagement. I love the laidback and perpetual book club vibe that PB forums offer but I wouldn't mind finding friends to get to know, dig in a book together, do casual literary analysis and other nerdy things.

If anyone is interested I'm thinking of any of the following for a buddy read: The Count of Monte Cristo Anna Karenina The Master and Margarita Middlesex but I'm up for discussion for anything! 📖

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Uprooted

Naomi Novik

“Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.” Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life. Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood. The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka is afraid. She knows—everyone knows—that the Dragon will take Kasia: beautiful, graceful, brave Kasia, all the things Agnieszka isn’t, and her dearest friend in the world. And there is no way to save her. But Agnieszka fears the wrong things. For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose.

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The Field Guide (The Spiderwick Chronicles, #1)

Tony DiTerlizzi

After finding a mysterious, handmade field guide in the attic of the ramshackle old mansion they’ve just moved into, Jared; his twin brother, Simon; and their older sister, Mallory, discover that there’s a magical and maybe dangerous world existing parallel to our own—the world of faerie. The Grace children want to share their story, but the faeries will do everything possible to stop them...

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2026 Reading Challenge

I really didn’t think the challenges or the badges or streaks would make me WANT to read but it really pushes me!!

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it’s 1am and I just finished the book

I was aiming to finish this before the end of the day, but I’m one hour off unfortunately.

I am so floored by this book. The yearning? Slow burn? Character development? Chefs kiss, all of it. I’m sure I’ll have more to say after I sleep, but the amount of times I had to stop because of Mr. Darcy being so so down bad for Lizzy and loving her with the UTMOST respect, I cannot fathom a man being this way, but it was perfect and I now understand the hype of Mr. Darcy. I have been successfully converted 😭

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Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)

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Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)

Laini Taylor

The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around—and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he’s been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in search of it. Then a stunning opportunity presents itself, in the person of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he has to seize his chance or lose his dream forever. What happened in Weep two hundred years ago to cut it off from the rest of the world? What exactly did the Godslayer slay that went by the name of god? And what is the mysterious problem he now seeks help in solving? The answers await in Weep, but so do more mysteries—including the blue-skinned goddess who appears in Lazlo’s dreams. How did he dream her before he knew she existed? And if all the gods are dead, why does she seem so real? Welcome to Weep.

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Favorite books on queer theory!

I decided to study more queer theory through books but there are A LOT of books about that and I am not sure which ones to go with

Any reccomendations?

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The Everlasting

Alix E. Harrow

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Starling House, Alix E. Harrow, comes a moving and genre-defying adventure through time – as a reluctant lady knight and a not-so-heroic-historian will fight through time and space to rewrite their tragic fates . . . and finally reveal the truths hidden beneath the greatest legend ever told. It begins where it ends: beneath the yew tree – a girl not yet a knight, and a boy without a story. It is where she pulls a sword from the heartwood and becomes a legend. And it is where, more than a thousand years later, he will find her – and lose her – and find her – and lose her again. It is where a new story will be written – but whose will it be?

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Summoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ‘80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn’s story nears its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways.

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Advice for Starting a Bookclub / Buddy Read?

If anyone is interested I'm thinking of any of the following for a buddy read: The Count of Monte Cristo Anna Karenina The Master and Margarita Middlesex but I'm up for discussion for anything! 📖

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