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These are three of my favorites reads this year, and they all feel like they’re in conversation with each other. Each deals with fairytales in ways that go beyond mere retellings, and each one has stunning prose that really made me fall in love.
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birthday book haul!
which of these should I read first?
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There was something sick in me, something wrong. Even baby birds knew how to shriek, even kittens knew how to mewl, even puppies knew how to whine. Papa had told me I hadn’t even cried when he’d pulled me from between my mother’s thighs. I hadn’t protested when he dragged me through the streets of Oblya, hadn’t protested when Rose had chided me or when Undine had slapped me. My eldest sister was right; I would smile blithely if someone tried to saw off my leg. But no one had ever told me that I was allowed to scream.
- Juniper and thorn by Ava Reid
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Anyone else imagine men written by Ava Reid kneeling in front of the heroin just melting from reverence while " Marry on a Cross - Ghost " is playing in the background ??
Because Gáspár, Sevas and Preston all give that vibe
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her SISTER is FUCKIN THAT SATYR and her OTHER SISTER is a LESBIAN
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i also highly suggest juniper and thorn by ava reid
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Currently reading Juniper and Thorn by Ava Reid and I don't think that a book has ever hit me harder
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Sevas sketches from Junipers and Thorns, I loooooved this book, it´s dark but I liked the story. I did this as a warm-up, but I'm looking forward to doing a creepy illustration of the book
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Next up! I may also try to get to Ava Reid’s A Study in Drowning this fall as well. We will see.
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Found a fellow Juniper and Thorn fan out in the wild
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GOD IM SORRY I can’t stop talking about Sevas!! I love the twist on gender roles, and that the MMC is a dancer. But what I love more than that is that he is beautiful but he knows his beauty, and his career, is short lived. He knows he is there to be consumed, and that dance is somewhat exploitative. When Marlinchen sees his mangled feet and he says, “I would understand if you fell out of love” I lost my mind. She didn’t, of course, and so he didn’t fall out of love with her no matter what gruesome truth was revealed.
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But there’s hardly anything in life worth doing that doesn’t make somebody angry. They say they won’t bury you in one of our cemeteries, but why should I care what happens to my body after I die?
- Juniper and Thorn by Ava Reid
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