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Reader, I Murdered Him by Betsy Cornwell
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Today's sapphic book of the day is Reader, I Murdered Him by Betsy Cornwell!
Summary: "In this daring tale of female agency and revenge from a New York Times bestselling author, a girl becomes a teenage vigilante who roams Victorian England using her privilege and power to punish her friends' abusive suitors and keep other young women safe.
Adele grew up in the shadows--first watching from backstage at her mother's Parisian dance halls, then wandering around the gloomy, haunted rooms of her father's manor. When she's finally sent away to boarding school in London, she's happy to enter the brightly lit world of society girls and their wealthy suitors.
Yet there are shadows there, too. Many of the men that try to charm Adele's new friends do so with dark intentions. After a violent assault, she turns to a roguish young con woman for help. Together, they become vigilantes meting out justice. But can Adele save herself from the same fate as those she protects?
With a queer romance at its heart, this lush historical thriller offers readers an irresistible mix of vengeance and empowerment."
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Most Anticipated Young Adult Releases of 2024
🦇 Good morning, bookish bats. This month, we've been reorganizing our shelves (well, not me, since my books are primarily digital), examining our TBRs, and planning the year ahead. If you've been here long enough, you know I:
💜 a) Am way too eager when grabbing ARCs, to the point that 90% of what I read is an upcoming release 💜 b) Love Young Adult Fiction, when a character's life is at a pivotal point of development
🦇 Whether you're 18, 80, or somewhere in between, YA books ARE for everyone. At this point in our lives, we've all had shared, collective experiences, making YA books easy to relate to, regardless of your age. So while you're planning your TBR for the year, keep some of these most anticipated YA releases in mind!
🦇 Which YA book are you most excited for this year?
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omoibloom · 3 months
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OMOIBLOOM'S WEBSITE AND INSTAGRAM ARE UP!
And look at all of these wonderful books lined up for 2024! Early 2024, in fact, with the first scheduled for January!
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SUPER EXCITED!
HAPPY (early) NEW YEARS EVERYONE!
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kwshahrazad · 4 months
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Looking for ARC Readers - Coming of Age Book - Christmas Eid
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Hello!
I am a newly published author looking for readers. My book is called Christmas Eid; Picture the movie Booksmart but festive with Christmas and Eid overlapping, featuring a fun, immigrant, muslim family.
If you're interested and you'd like to receive a free copy (with the idea that you'd give it an honest review), please contact me via message or fill the form below out directly.
Please like and share to help me spread the word. I'd really appreciate it!
Apply to be an ARC to receive a free copy: https://forms.gle/YBw24rbyXiFJheTt5
Click Here to Read Sample Chapter
Thank you so much!!
Love, Shahra
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circleofcavan · 27 days
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"what is a gallagher girl? she's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy."
(a first pass at some character-focused photoillustrations and graphics, with the majority of the images sourced from the library of congress's archives. a fun distraction from work!)
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kbkirtley · 2 months
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The Final Gambit - Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Every book just keeps getting better. I stayed up until 2am to finish this one the same day I started. I was tempted to start the next one immediately but knew I wouldn’t be able to sleep at all if I did that.
Quick thoughts (that are vaguely spoilery):
* Barnes continues to do a masterful job of making these characters feel completely distinct, consistent, and fully fleshed out. I keep wanting more time for certain characters but that’s because they feel so vivid in even just their limited time.
* The post-audio recording reactions from all the brothers but especially Grayson was an absolute gut punch. The feeling that someone you had always respected and trusted and looked to for guidance hadn’t been the person they had taught you to be can be so devastating for your identity. Grayson being raised as the heir to the family name made it hit him so much harder than it did the others when he was already struggling so much through the book. His vulnerability took this one to another level.
* After a year in the house, Avery has gone full Hawthorne. She was always a natural at the games but now she knows the strategies and is the most well rounded of them all. For Barnes to come up with these games and riddles and then seamlessly show them being worked out and solved is nothing short of genius. I’m blown away by the skill it takes to write these particular stories as well as they are written.
* Hawthorne Brother Power Ranking: will release my final trilogy rankings later this week due to caption limits. Will also be releasing a ranking of the other series character because this series requires my brain and that’s in part what this account is for, to talk about books that pull me in.
This series is quickly becoming an obsession and taking over my life and I’m not even remotely upset about it. If Jennifer Lynn Barnes writes fifty Inheritance Games books, I will simply read fifty Inheritance Games books.
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mad-rdr · 3 months
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These Violent Delights (Secret Shanghai Universe #1) - Chloe Gong
★ ★ ★/5
This book had so much potential, a Romeo & Juliet retelling in gang controlled Shanghai?? The set up sounds awesome, and while there were aspects that I enjoyed, I was mostly disappointed by the random bug monster thing that lives in a river. That whole plot line made little sense and I don’t think it was written out very well. That, and I think my tolerance for young adult fantasy in general is declining. There was so much going on without anything actually happening, you could probably cut out the first 300 pages and understand it perfectly fine. Anyways, it wasn’t awful… but it wasn’t good either. I’m still debating if I want to give the second book a try.
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I can't tell you how much I don't care about age gap discourse. I don't care that he's 700 years old and she's 17! if it's not something you could criticize in real life then I don't care! I. don't. care!
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yesireadforfun · 2 years
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It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.
The Scorpio Races
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alderwoodbooks · 6 months
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Currently reading House of Hollow!
About 30% of the way through it - I fell for a booktok review of it and also the COVER!! and i’ve got some issues with the way the story is being built and some plot points, but i’m not gonna lie, it’s captivating and i’m having a hard time putting it down- i’m curious to see what’s gonna happen!
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littlebitarue · 1 year
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I quite honestly haven’t binged a series in a week since I read Divergent in 2014. Highly recommend The Inheritance Games if you like puzzles, mystery, and enjoyed The Queens Gambit
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otakutemmiebooks · 8 months
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Currently reading, The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
Of course I want to be like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.
And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.
Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King.
To win a place at the Court, she must defy him–and face the consequences.
As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, she discovers her own capacity for trickery and bloodshed. But as betrayal threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.
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💋 That's SO Fetch!: What To Read After Watching Mean Girls
🩷 Good morning, bookish bats! I actually have a weird, complicated relationship with Mean Girls. After reading Queen Bees & Wannabes, my mother didn't let me watch the 2004 film, as if THAT would somehow protect me from the realities of middle and high school (WOW, feeling old writing this now).
👠 Yet somehow, I CONSTANTLY ended up around people obsessed with the movie (and we love Tina Fey, so, I can't blame a single person). Right before the mess of 2020, I even had the luck of seeing Renee Rapp perform as Regina on Broadway, and WOAH. It was everything (and my little, late-in-life bi heart has a whole new appreciation for it). Funnily enough, my parents and sister were with me, and my mom thought nothing of it. It's been a while since I've done one of these posts (namely because of the strike, though I have a few sitting in my queue), so I figured now was the perfect time. Here are a few books to consider reading if you love Mean Girls!
💋 Wren Martin Ruins It All - Amanda Dewitt 🩷 I Kissed Shara Wheeler - Casey McQuiston 👠 Queen Bee - Amalie Howard 💋 Royal Scandal - Aimée Carter 🩷 Diary of a Confused Feminist - Kate Weston 👠 The Revenge Game - Jordyn Taylor 💋 The Night in Question - Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson 🩷 The Way You Make Me Feel - Maurene Goo 👠 Rivals: American Royals III - Katharine McGee 💋 The Favorite Sister - Jessica Knoll 🩷 Fat Talk - Virginia Sole-Smith 👠 Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek - Jennifer Keishin Armstrong and Thea Glassman 💋 Queen Bees & Wannabes - Rosalind Wiseman 🩷 Gossip Girl - Cecily Von Ziegesar 👠 Pretty Things - Janelle Brown 💋 How Not to Be Popular - Jennifer Ziegler 🩷 Some Girls Are - Courtney Summers 👠 Pretty Little Liars - Sara Shepard 💋 Tiny Pretty Things - Dhonielle Clayton and Sona Charaipotra 🩷 One of Us is Lying - Karen M. McManus 👠 The List - Siobhan Vivian
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fastepp · 11 months
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i need YA to be better written and I need full grown adults to stop recommending me YA. these two things are related.
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ashereadsstuff · 1 year
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'Ander & Santi Were Here' By: Jonny Garza Villa
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I received an ARC from Wednesday Books through NetGalley in exchange for a honest review.
Rating out of 5:⭐⭐⭐.5
Release Date: April 25, 2023
Content Warnings: Racism, Deportation, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Sexual Content, Violence, Trafficking
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SYNOPSIS:
Finding home. Falling in love. Fighting to belong.
The Santos Vista neighborhood of San Antonio, Texas, is all Ander Lopez has ever known. The smell of pan dulce. The mixture of Spanish and English filling the streets. And, especially their job at their family's taquería. It's the place that has inspired Ander as a muralist, and, as they get ready to leave for art school, it's all of these things that give them hesitancy. That give them the thought, are they ready to leave it all behind?
To keep Ander from becoming complacent during their gap year, their family "fires" them so they can transition from restaurant life to focusing on their murals and prepare for college. That is, until they meet Santiago Garcia, the hot new waiter. Falling for each other becomes as natural as breathing. Through Santi's eyes, Ander starts to understand who they are and want to be as an artist, and Ander becomes Santi's first steps toward making Santos Vista and the United States feel like home.
Until ICE agents come for Santi, and Ander realizes how fragile that sense of home is. How love can only hold on so long when the whole world is against them. And when, eventually, the world starts to win.
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MY REVIEW:
I received an electronic ARC on NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. 
This book was...Something
Even though the book was a little slow for my taste and I have a short attention span (take that as you will), I did like the book, and the amount of diversity was fucking great and made every character fun and interesting to read about. But there were times where the dialogue annoyed me or sounded like something a person wouldn’t say in real life; it was sometimes written like how an alien thinks 20-ish-year-old humans talk. There were also many pop culture references that were amusing at first but quickly became annoying and cringey. I thought that the Spanish incorporated into the book was nice, but there is no translation for the Spanish. It would be nice to include the translations in footnotes or in parentheses. As someone who is bilingual, I understand that sometimes English can not really emphasize the urgency of some words and phrases, and being a minority is very important for the characters and the plot, but people still need to understand what the characters are saying. Given the subject matter of this book, some of the conflicts seemed to be resolved far too quickly. And this book definitely didn’t feel like a YA book considering how many times it references sex and that the main characters are literally adults as well.
At first, I thought everyone should read this book because of the political and cultural topics that are being discussed and challenged, but my view changed dramatically after chapter 40. It’s incredibly slow. I somehow finished the book, but it took me a long time to get there because I had to take breaks. To give you an idea of how long it took, I started this book on January 25th, and this book is only 336 pages. Normally I finish books like that within 1-2 weeks, depending on my personal life. But I do like the ending; I saw it as very fitting considering the trajectory of the book.
I would not read this book again, and I would only recommend it to people who like cheesy, romantic movies. I don’t even know if I like the book.
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chaoslynx · 2 years
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Hey everyone! I'm hoping to be able to do a giveaway for a signed copy of I Don't Like Blue on Goodreads once I hit 1000 followers on my author TikTok! Unfortunately, listing a giveaway on Goodreads costs a ridiculous amount of money for authors, so I'm also hoping to get some more sales in first to help cover the costs.
Never feel pressured, but if you want to contribute, here are some things that help me a LOT right now:
REVIEWS. This is honestly the biggest one. Once you finish the book, please review on Amazon or Goodreads!
Spreading the word to friends! Word of mouth is HUGE in self publishing, via social media posts, DMs, or in person.
Buying the paperback or preordering the ebook on Amazon
Clicking my author website and spending some time on the site
Sharing any posts with my links, and posting my links yourself as well! (Not only helps get the word out, but helps maximize my search engine optimization.)
Following me on any of my author accounts! (Amazon, Goodreads, TikTok, Twitter!)
Thank you so much to everyone who's been a part of this journey, whether through the book itself or just supporting my art and fanfiction. I love you all so much!
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