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She’s just trying to keep her sister safe, and suddenly she’s in a televised murder Olympics sponsored by fascism.

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I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman

‘For a very long time, the days went by, each just like the day before, then I began to think, and everything changed’ Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.

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hi!!! does anyone out there have any recommendations/experience with ereaders? i want to completely avoid kindle as i have personal beef with amazon. does anyone have/like the kobos? if so, how is the book selection on there? are the digital books any cheaper than physical copies? also for the kobos… do they have their own bookstore that you HAVE to use or can you buy digital books from different platforms? thanks yall

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The Crimson Moth (The Crimson Moth, #1)

Kristen Ciccarelli

Enemies-to-lovers doesn't get more high stakes than a witch and a witch hunter falling in love in bestselling author Kristen Ciccarelli's latest romantic fantasy. On the night Rune’s life changed forever, blood ran in the streets. Now, in the aftermath of a devastating revolution, witches have been diminished from powerful rulers to outcasts ruthlessly hunted due to their waning magic, and Rune must hide what she is. Spending her days pretending to be nothing more than a vapid young socialite, Rune spends her nights as the Crimson Moth, a witch vigilante who rescues her kind from being purged. When a rescue goes wrong, she decides to throw the witch hunters off her scent and gain the intel she desperately needs by courting the handsome Gideon Sharpe – a notorious and unforgiving witch hunter loyal to the revolution – who she can't help but find herself falling for. Gideon loathes the decadence and superficiality Rune represents, but when he learns the Crimson Moth has been using Rune’s merchant ships to smuggle renegade witches out of the republic, he inserts himself into her social circles by pretending to court her right back. He soon realizes that beneath her beauty and shallow façade, is someone fiercely intelligent and tender who feels like his perfect match. Except, what if she’s the very villain he’s been hunting? Kristen Ciccarelli’s The Crimson Moth is the thrilling start to a romantic fantasy duology where the only thing more treacherous than being a witch…is falling in love.

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Chlorine

Jade Song

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between a literary coming-of-age narrative and a dark unsettling horror tale, told from an adult perspective on the trials and tribulations of growing up in a society that puts pressure on young women and their bodies... a powerful, relevant novel of immigration, sapphic longing, and fierce, defiant becoming.Ren Yu is a swimmer. Her daily life starts and ends with the pool. Her teammates are her only friends. Her coach, her guiding light. If she swims well enough, she will be scouted, get a scholarship, go to a good school. Her parents will love her. Her coach will be kind to her. She will have a good life. But these are human concerns. These are the concerns of those confined to land, those with legs. Ren grew up on stories of creatures of the deep, of the oceans and the rivers. Ones that called sailors to their doom. Ones that dragged them down and drowned them. Ones that feasted on their flesh. Ones of the creature that she's always longed to become: mermaid. Ren aches to be in the water. She dreams of the scent of chlorine--the feel of it on her skin. And she will do anything she can to make a life for herself where she can be free. No matter the pain. No matter what anyone else thinks. No matter how much blood she has to spill.

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The writing style is so bad- I'm sorry. The constant redundancy. Here are some examples: "She scowled in confusion. She didn't understand what that meant." OH, thank you, I definitely needed that second sentence.

"She wasn't sure what game Phantasma was playing by forcing players into these groupings, but she was sure it wasn't in order to help them win- which meant trusting anyone here was not a strategic move." PLEASE let me have one thought on my own. I do not need to be baby-fed information.

And if that wasn't bad enough, she is now info-dumping instead of starting the first trail.

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Nov 12, 2025

3.5

Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 4.5Characters: Plot:

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Warning: may induce Obama-era nostalgia

Michelle’s memoir is not what I expected going in - we spend most of our time with her in her childhood and pre-presidential years, and this is a very conscious choice. She wants us to know who she is as a woman, not as the First Lady or Obama’s wife. I have a much greater appreciation for the Obama family and the journey they went on to make it to the whitehouse; Michelle humanizes all members of her family and lets us in on who they are as people.

In her efforts to make herself known, Michelle includes many stories and anecdotes, not all of them particularly relevant. It felt like work returning to this memoir at times, which did affect my enjoyment, but it was overall a worthwhile journey I’m happy I completed.

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I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman

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The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

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weirdest f****** book i’ve ever read. i want to take my brain out and scrub it. not even rating because this deserves negative stars omg. if you’re into this… godspeed. not for me though.

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Venomous Kiss

T.L. Smith

The night I catch my husband cheating is the night I stop pretending. I don’t cry. I don’t scream. I don’t get mad—I get even. So I bring home another man. A stranger with wicked eyes and a smile sharp enough to carve me open. I let him have me in the house I share with a liar. A moment of weakness? Maybe. A moment of revenge? Definitely. But he saw me—the darkness, the hunger, the parts my husband hated—and he wanted more. I ran before I could fall deeper into his abyss. A year later, I crash one of the city’s most forbidden parties… And land right back in the middle of his depraved world. Only this time, he’s promised to another. And he vows he’s not letting me go. *Standalone*

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Thoughts from 54% (page 202)

this book is freaking crazy 😭😭😭 like what the hell is this??? this was a random tiktok rec that sounded interesting but it’s so wild. the two main characters are off their rocker and obsessed w death. it’s like a train wreck i don’t want to watch but i can’t stop. send help. gonna power through the rest of it tonight and be done w it.

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