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"There!" Hippolyta tossed aside her glass of lemonade without looking (braining a red-tufted mousetwitter that happened to be pecking about in the undergrowth, thereby bringing an end to its species on the Continent and losing herself, had she but known it, several thousand pounds).

Is this supposed to be funny? Am I expected to laugh at the careless continental extinction of a species by this very unlikeable lady?

I went into this book with low expectations, but boy are we off to a bad start

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Thoughts from 2% (page 6)

"There!" Hippolyta tossed aside her glass of lemonade without looking (braining a red-tufted mousetwitter that happened to be pecking about in the undergrowth, thereby bringing an end to its species on the Continent and losing herself, had she but known it, several thousand pounds).

Is this supposed to be funny? Am I expected to laugh at the careless continental extinction of a species by this very unlikeable lady?

I went into this book with low expectations, but boy are we off to a bad start

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The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love

India Holton

Rival ornithologists hunt through England for a rare magical bird in this historical-fantasy rom-com reminiscent of Indiana Jones but with manners, tea, and helicopter parasols. Beth Pickering is on the verge of finally capturing the rare deathwhistler bird when Professor Devon Lockley swoops in, capturing both her bird and her imagination like a villain. Albeit a handsome and charming villain, but that's beside the point. As someone highly educated in the ruthless discipline of ornithology, Beth knows trouble when she sees it, and she is determined to keep her distance from Devon. For his part, Devon has never been more smitten than when he first set eyes on Professor Beth Pickering. She's so pretty, so polite, so capable of bringing down a fiery, deadly bird using only her wits. In other words, an angel. Devon understands he must not get close to her, however, since they're professional rivals. When a competition to become Birder of the Year by capturing an endangered caladrius bird is announced, Beth and Devon are forced to team up to have any chance of winning. Now keeping their distance becomes a question of one bed or two. But they must take the risk, because fowl play is afoot, and they can't trust anyone else—for all may be fair in love and war, but this is ornithology.

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India Holton

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Nnedi Okorafor

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mylesReads

What book is in the most quest?

I've been trying to earn more quest badges lately (badge-maxing?...idk) So I'm trying to find books that are in multiple quests. I'm currently reading A Deadly Education which is in 3 quests, Dark Academia, Iconic Series and Every Villain is a Hero in Their Own Eyes. Do you know any other books like this?

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absenthorrors

As Above

Has anyone read Above by Brea Lamb? I'm currently reading her second book, Below, but I need someone to scream about Above and that insane cliffhanger. 👀🫪

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gingerailet

About this fall's readalong (just a lightly personal critic)

Is anyone else here also a bit sad about this fall's readalong? Ofc taste is a very personal thing, but the books chosen dont really stand out to me. Does anyone also feels this way? Should I give any of them a shot?

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Witch’s Favor (The Favor Trilogy Book 1)

Victoria Szalay

Tropes & Themes: Dark Fantasy | WLW/Sapphic Subplot | Found Family | Morally Grey Characters | Body Horror | Invasive Blood Magic | Grimdark / Dark Fantasy Stakes | High Angst | Tragic No witch has ever escaped the Forge — a hijacked cruise ship where witches mutilate the dead into monsters and harvest what remains into weapons. The reward? To live long enough for their own magic to kill them. But death keeps passing Dylan by. Dylan has survived because her unique blood allows her to extend the lives of those she loves. The catch? The ritual binds them emotionally, forcing her to feel every private desire. Terrified her found family will reject her for the invasive bond, she keeps it a secret-even from Sarai, the girl she loves. When Dylan's best friend is sent to the one place her blood can't save him, Sarai plans a desperate heist with dying criminals to escape the ship. A heist that only Dylan can pull off. But in a pressure cooker of blood and betrayal, keeping her secrets hidden may prove impossible... and her truth may destroy them all. CONTENT WARNINGS: This novel is a dark fantasy that features graphic violence, body horror, gore, mutilation, abortion, blood magic/blood harvesting, and themes of trauma, death, and forced emotional manipulation.

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Witch’s Favor (The Favor Trilogy Book 1)

Victoria Szalay

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Death of the Author

Nnedi Okorafor

The future of storytelling is here. Life has thrown Zelu some curveballs over the years, but when she's suddenly dropped from her university job and her latest novel is rejected, all in the middle of her sister's wedding, her life is upended. Disabled, unemployed and from a nosy, high-achieving, judgmental family, she's not sure what comes next. In her hotel room that night, she takes the risk that will define her life - she decides to write a book VERY unlike her others. A science fiction drama about androids and AI after the extinction of humanity. And everything changes. What follows is a tale of love and loss, fame and infamy, of extraordinary events in one world, and another. And as Zelu's life evolves, the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur. Because sometimes a story really does have the power to reshape the world.

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Thoughts from 3% (page 13)

Maybe random, but the degree to which location services on everything fucks up my reading is frustrating as hell. The amount of edits and workarounds I had to do to google wth a ‘vig’ was, because in Denmark, Vig is a town. A town that, despite its population of only 1,500 people, has way too much going on for google to believe I could be looking for anything else, apparently 🙄

‘vig’ is gambling debt you’d owe a bookie. In case google tries to convince anyone else to go to Vig Festival instead of being helpful

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Sep 02, 2026

Destiny's Edge

3.5

Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 3.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0

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This was good, and way longer and more detailed than I’d expect from a free book. However, I could also clearly tell that this was not an entirely finished product. While it feels rude to complain of the lack of polish on a book I, and so many others, literally was just given for free, facts are also just facts. I do think that with just that bit more polish, this could be a published book on its own, even if only smaller companion story to the full book Wang says she wants to release in this universe.

Just, please… find some more varied terms for the gem-stuff before that book goes to print, I beg of you.

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Destiny's Edge

M.L. Wang

The most powerful warlord in the steppe sends a convoy consisting of his ten best men and his fourth wife, Chi, to escort his newest bride home—an easy journey. At least, it was supposed to be. Since losing her family and her right eye to cursed fire, Chi has been adrift, struggling to find her place within the Champion’s household. Unable to bear children due to her family’s blood curse, she has spent most of her married years training the Champion’s sons in the sword techniques she inherited from her father. When an undead monster attacks the bride’s party, killing all ten of the Champion’s men, Chi’s sword skills barely keep her alive, leaving her as the last line of defense for the young bride, Sangya. After a lifetime cloistered in a remote temple, Sangya is maddeningly inquisitive about everything around her, including Chi. While Chi scrambles to guide the chirpy nun through the wilderness, Sangya slowly pries her way through the walls Chi has built around her soul and wakes something forbidden. With enemies closing in, Chi realizes that the thing she wants most from life might be the one thing she can’t have. And in the dark of foreign woods, she decides that the best thing she can do for the world is die protecting the Champion’s bride. Better that than face a desire so dangerous.

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No One Is Talking About This

Patricia Lockwood

A book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast chorus of voices is now dictating her thoughts. When existential threats—from climate change and economic precariousness to the rise of an unnamed dictator and an epidemic of loneliness—begin to loom, she posts her way deeper into the portal's void. An avalanche of images, details, and references accumulate to form a landscape that is post-sense, post-irony, post-everything. "Are we in hell?" the people of the portal ask themselves. "Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die?" Suddenly, two texts from her mother pierce the fray: "Something has gone wrong," and "How soon can you get here?" As real life and its stakes collide with the increasingly absurd antics of the portal, the woman confronts a world that seems to contain both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary. Fragmentary and omniscient, incisive and sincere, No One Is Talking About This is at once a love letter to the endless scroll and a profound, modern meditation on love, language, and human connection from a singular voice in American literature.

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MilkT

Trip to Antwerp!

Heya!

Me and my friends will be in Antwerp mid november. Any bookish/nerdy/cool things we need to see? And maybe some cafè recomandations? :3

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Blood of the Gods (The Divine Archive #1)

Wren L. Rivers

Falling. Frigid steel. Sharp, acidic pain. A mounting desperation to escape, even if it means diving into the ocean’s unforgiving depths. This is all Stranger can remember. When the crew of the Vengeance rescues them from certain death at the hands of Midir’s endless ocean, the gruff and obstinate Captain Jonah Morgan is quick to interrogate. Who are they? Where did they come from? Why was somebody drawing their blood? But Stranger has no answers—not even a name to call their own. The only information they can offer is a description of the man who had tortured them. Slowly, they realize their missing memories play not only a pivotal role in their own personal identity, but also in the grander entanglement of mortality and the divine. The God King Einari’s cataclysmic Great Flood had ravaged Midir one thousand years ago—an act of divine rage that had drowned continents and killed billions. But even now, the prospect of human extinction looms beneath the endless waves. Somewhere, locked away in Stranger’s missing memories, is the key to human salvation.

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