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homerjacksons · 3 months

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Took a really pretty book photo today and wanted to share it with y’all even though I won’t be posting it on my bookstagram for a while.

#booklr #books #book aesthetic #bookedit #felix ever after #kacen callender #afterlove #tanya byrne #she gets the girl #alyson derrick #rachael lippincott #the bone season #samantha shannon #the nightingale #kristen hannah #my edit

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thepathetickind · 6 months

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if I could grow a new heart I'd try to love you again

by laurenmaerie, a second chance

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star-struck-withantlers · 8 months

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Timeless (Taylors Version) (From the Vault) is about James and Regulus but it's also about Nick and Charlie and Percy and Annabeth but also Darcy and Tara.

It's also about Evelyn and Celia and Alex and Henry. It's about Wolfstar and Pip and Ravi

But it's not about Drarry or Mateo and Rufus. It's not about Ash and Poppy or Daisy and Billy. Because they are "maybe in another life" romances.

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melanielocke · 1 year

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Book recommendations - Queer POC books

Some more book recommendations, this time I'm focusing on Queer PoC books, all by authors of color. All the books shown in the picture are UK editions. I generally like it when books have a UK paperback edition because they're a lot cheaper than US hardcovers, usually also cheaper than US paperbacks, and release the same week as the US hardcover. I don't think these editions are always available if you live in North America, but to those living in Europe, buying UK editions can save you a lot of money. Other parts of the world I honestly don't know which editions are easiest to come by. Only downside for UK editions is that sometimes there are some with a redesigned cover that is very ugly. Of the books shown here, only the Witchery has a different cover than the US edition but in this case I like both.

Starting with this Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron

This is a duology, the second and last book was released last June and so this is a complete series. It is inspired by Greek mythology, and specifically, the myth of Medea, and follows Briseis, who was adopted and inherits an estate from her aunt whom she never met. Briseis has always been able to make plants grow, and is immune to poisonous plants, and at the estate she discovers her birth family had these same gifts, and they keep a garden with some of the most poisonous plants in the world. This book has some great characters, and Briseis was adopted and raised by two sapphic Black mothers, who also play a big role in this series. This series has also served as inspiration for the Lightwood's magic garden in Flowers Bloom

Also by this author: Cinderella is Dead, which I'd also recommend, the Vanquishers, a MG which I did not read

Upcoming books: My Dear Henry, a Jekyll & Hide retelling (3-2023); You're not Supposed to Die Tonight, a slasher horror (6-2023)

Next up is Afterlove by Tanya Byrne

This is a sapphic love story with a MC of Indian decent. At New Years's Eve, just before midnight, Ash is hit by a car and dies instantly. She gets the offer to become a reaper, who guide the city's dead to their afterlife. But Ash can't forget Poppy, her girlfriend, and will do anything to get to see her again.

I haven't seen a lot of people talk about this book, but I really enjoyed it. The main focus is the romance here, and it's more romance with a fantasy aspect to it than fantasy.

Other books by this author: there are several other older books, none of which I've read

Upcoming books: The Mermaid of Black Rock (9-2023), a sapphic book about a girl with no memory found in the sea and a girl who falls in love with her

The Jasmine Throne is the only adult series I put in this list (the rest is YA), and is a fantasy trilogy set in an India inspired world. Book 1 and 2 are out now.

Malini is a princess who is imprisoned in an old temple by her dictator brother, an emperor obsessed with religious ideas revolving women gaining purity and immortality by being burnt alive. Malini refused to burn for his sake.

Priya is a maidservant who travels to the temple every night to clean Malini's chambers. Before her land was conquered by Malini's family, Priya was a temple child, and she had passed through the magical deathless waters once, but all the temple children were murdered except a few who survived and she has to hide her past.

Malini and Priya eventually start working together, with the goal of restoring the throne to Malini's other, oldest brother who'd abandoned the throne to become a priest.

Other books by this author: The Books of Ambha duology, adult fantasy, and What Souls are Made of, a YA Wuthering Heights retelling

Upcoming books: Book 3 of the series, scheduled for 2023, currently no release date known

The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas is one of my personal favorites of this year. It's the first book in a YA fantasy duology set in a world inspired by Mexican culture. In this world, the sunbearer trials are held every ten years to replenish the energy of the sol stones and keep the sun alive and evil gods at bay. Ten demigods (called semidioses) are chosen by Sol to compete in a set of trials. The winner becomes the Sunbearer and gets to replenish the sol stones. The loser becomes a human sacrifice that is necessary to replenish said stones.

Semidioses are divided in gold and jade categories, depending on if their parent is a gold or jade god. Gold gods are the most powerful gods, ruling over things like the earth, the seas, fire etc, while jade gods are considered less powerful and their children too. There haven't been any jade competitors in the Sunbearer trials in over a century, but that year, two are chosen.

Teo is the transgender son of Quetzal, the goddess of birds, and he never expected to be chosen for the trials. The other jade is Xio, the son of Mala Suerte, god of bad luck. The other 8 competitors are all gold semidioses, including Teo's best friend Niya, daughter of Tierra, god of the Earth and the twin children of the fire goddess, Aurelio and Auristela. Compared to many of the others, Teo does not have a lot of powers and will have to fight with everything he has to survive.

The fantasy world in this book is modern second world, so while everything is different from this world, there are equivalents of instagram and tiktok for example, and they have trading cards featuring different semidiose heroes.

Other books by the author: Cemetery Boys, Lost in the Never Woods, I've read both and they're very good

Upcoming books: book 2 of the sunbearer trials (expected in 2023), companion/sequel to Cemetery Boys (fall 2024), untitled book pitched as gay titanic in space (2024), Just Max (a contemporary set in college, 2024).

I don't think it's likely there'll be 3 books coming out in 2024 but that's the information I currently have

The last book in the picture is the Witchery by S. Isabelle

This book features four witches and two human boys. Logan only recently found out she's a witch and transferred to a school for witches, and so far she's no good at it. But she's taken under the wing by the Red Three, three Black witches and the most powerful witches at the school. Thalia, a greenwitch, Iris, a deathwitch and Jailah, the most powerful witch at school, want to end the curse that's plaguing their town, and want Logan's help to do it.

Every year, there's a Haunting Season during which wolves come out of the swamp and kill people. The witches can protect people, to some extent, but the Red Three want to end the Haunting Season once and for all.

This book has a total of 6 POV's, which can make it confusing but I think it worked well. All the characters were interesting, but there wasn't enough space to flesh them all out as much as I would have liked. Still, I think the story was great, and would recommend it. There's not much focus on romance, but Jailah is a lesbian which is why I included it on this list.

Other books by this author: The Witchery is her first book

Upcoming books: another book is expected to be released in 2023. I have no idea what this book is about

Let me know if there are specific recommendations you'd like me to cover next time, I think I'll make more posts like these because it's lots of fun. Also, if you've read any of the books I recommend and want to talk about it, let me know, because I don't have a lot of people to talk about my favorite books with

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#book recommendations #queer books #poc books #qpoc books #This Poison Heart #This Wicked Fate #Kalynn Bayron #The Jasmine Throne #the Oleander Sword #Tasha Suri #The Witchery #S Isabelle #the Sunbearer Trials #Aiden Thomas #Afterlove #Tanya Byrne

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shxpeshifterr · 7 months

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#booklover #booklr #books #booksbooksbooks #books and reading #book lover #current read #afterlove #Tanya Byrne

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kamylla74w · 2 months

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When you finish a book about death and the characters actually DIE!??!

#they both die at the end #tbdate #afterlove #xjwjbdnwbdjbd #why? stop that #they shouldn't have DIED

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missbudak · 6 months

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Esen after Poppy sees them in the graveyard and starts yelling at Ash

#afterlove #lgbtq books #esen budak #ashana persaud #poppy morgan #tanya byrne #bookblr

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cassmouse · 7 months

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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Afterlove - Tanya Byrne Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Poppy Morgan/Ashana Persaud, Esen and Dev Characters: Esen Budak, Isla Devlin, Ashana Persaud, Poppy Morgan, Deborah Archer Additional Tags: Sixth Form, AU, Fluff, sort of oneshots?, basically this is my random scenarios for the gang, this is an AU where they are ALIVE yay, Esen is my favourite book character ever in the world, also there's basically no fanfics in this fandom yet so here I am, I adore the original book, it is my life, tanya byrne Summary:

What I call a 'Beforelove' Afterlove AU, where absolutely no one has died, and everyone meets under completely normal circumstances at school.

AKA...

Ash and Poppy have finally started their A levels at a school they can attend together. In their tutor group, they meet some... Interesting other girls, and the four form an unlikely bond.

AKA character absolute shenanigans for a book I absolutely adore

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SO GUYS I DID IT

I FINALLY GOT ROUND TO CONTRIBUTING FANFIC FOR THIS VERY QUIET MOSTLY NONEXISTENT FANDOM YAY

Essentially, as the summary says, it's my AU where the Reaper Gang And Poppy™️ all meet at sixth form instead of... Being dead or being close to dead, and I hope this becomes a running series of all my short almost oneshots of this squad's shenanigans

Their dynamic is gorgeous I adore it

Esen is my favourite character I warn you of possible Esen favouritism lmao

Anyway I'm super excited about this I absolutely ADORE this book and it's characters and it's author and story and everything so this is my homage to the great characters

Any support is much much greatly appreciated!

#afterlove #Tanya Byrne #fanfic #fanfiction #young adult #ao3 #archive of our own #poppy morgan #Ashana Persaud #esen budak #isla devlin

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omgwhatchloe · 5 months

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“I am the first and last and nothing inbetween. The mad one. The wild one. The one who sees things that aren’t there. I am the one they experiment with. The one they can let go with because I’ll never tell. I am the one they have saved in their phone as Alfie or Harry or Luke. The keeper of secrets and soother of guilt. But I am never the one.”

-Ashana, Afterlove by Tanya Bryne.

#quote #book quotes #wlw #books #i adore this book #so sad #afterlove #lesbians #wlw books

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longlivetv · 8 months

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You didn’t fix me, only I can do that, but you made me care about stuff again, you know?

#quotes from my book #afterlove

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alliesblues · 2 years

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afterlove quotes that changed me as a person

#afterlove #wlw #book quotes #lesbian

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umierani-e · 6 months

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Niektórzy biorą więcej, niż dają. Zabierają i nigdy nie oddają, nieważne, jak mocno Cię obejmują i jak często Cię całują, nigdy nie będzie dość, by zrównoważyć to, co zabrali

#cytat #afterlove #ksiazka #books

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thepathetickind · 3 months

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by laurenmaerie, other roads

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expensivegems · 1 year

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if you haven't read the book afterlove, go. now.

canon divergence fic for my girls bc im kickstarting this fandom.

#afterlove #bookblr #books #ao3 #ao3 fanfic #fanfiction #ash persaud #poppy morgan #pash?#ashy?#give them a worthy ship name #popash?#morsaud???#anyway

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vanillamintlipgloss · 2 years

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“You’ll find her,’ she whispers, tucking the words between the strands of my hair. ‘You found each other in life and you found each other in death and you’ll find each other in whatever’s beyond the sea.”

Afterlove Tanya Byrne

#currently reading #books #book quotes #reading #sapphic #books & libraries #book recommendations #afterlove #what if i cried so hard i threw up

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nataliekabra · 1 year

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this is the gayest my cr has been in my whole life courtesy of me wanting to read romance but getting bored the minute they get together at the 60-ish per cent mark like clockwork 💀

#never ever getting back together #girlfriend material #if you still recognise me #endgame #afterlove

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