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jessread-s · 7 months

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✩ 💜🐸Book Fanart:

📖: Trystan and Evie from “Assistant to the Villain” by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

This post is in collaboration with my sister @binjobo.0, who drew this lovely masterpiece as a birthday gift to me 🤩

Please click this link to show their art account some love.

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jessicaleesheppard · 19 hours

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Don't listen to those who say you can't. You can. I’m living proof.

#book tumblr #bookish #reading #authors #new adult fantasy #coming of age books #readers community #canadian author #motivation #motivational quotes #quoteoftheday

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djrusso-romance · 1 year

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Cover reveal time!

SCALES LIKE STARS will be available May 16th for Mermay! I feel like I've been working on this book forever. I'm really excited to get it out into the wild where it belongs while I work on Lyrica's Merfolk Book #2.

Pre-orders are available here! Paperbacks are coming a little later on but should be available for release day.

#mermaid #mermay #merman #monster romance #fantasy romance #indie books #writeblr #booklr #spicy romance #spicy romance books #new adult books #new adult fantasy #books #kindle unlimited #kindle unlimited books #scales like stars

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haileygonzales · 6 months

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Just got an ARC review back from my book Ancient Magic (Gray Stone Witches #2)!

#aromantic character #aro representation #canon aro #fantasy books #aro rep #ya urban fantasy #urban fantasy #NA urban fantasy #new adult fantasy #new adult #found family trope #dual pov

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andreai04 · 12 days

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Someday, I wouldn’t need to hoard Reid’s smiles, and someday, he wouldn’t need to ration them.

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penwrythe · 16 days

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Eightenate pose sheet complete!!!

Color flats, lineart, and sketches below!

#WorldofRelics #themundanerealm #character design #sketches #art #drawings #objectocs #objectoc #fantasy #new adult fantasy #new adult fiction #objectxenofiction #worldbuilding #mimics

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mauvefaeries · 1 year

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raihn and oraya have my whole heart

#raihn and oraya #raihn ashraj #the serpent and the wings of night #carissa broadbent #new adult fantasy #book quotes #booklr #bookish #book recommendations

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typewritersandtentacles · 1 year

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Images of last night kept replaying in my head, a movie stuck on repeat. Long bruises lashed the tops of my thighs, peeking out from under the hem of my shirt. I traced a finger along the mottled skin, pressing down until I felt an ache, and a spike of excitement shot through my gut like a jolt of electricity.

“Fuck,” I murmured and hastily put my shoes on.

Sex has been good before, but never that good. He knew every part of me. He’d moved in ways no man or woman ever had. His tentacles had flexed inside me, stretching and pressing against my inner walls, striking me from the inside. In the moment, I’d been delirious with pleasure, lost in the sensation of him fucking me.

I could still feel him, even now. A fullness that I’d never experienced before and could easily find myself growing addicted to.

Leuce help me, I wanted more.

Leon stirred but didn’t wake. I sat in the grass, the blades tickling the backs of my thighs, and watched him, trying to connect the face in front of me with the one from last night.

Light spilled over him, casting a golden halo across his sun kissed body, highlighting the swells of his biceps that peeked out from the blanket, and the hard definition of his chest.

Was Leon’s cock still monstrously large or did it change when he was in human form? I didn’t even take all of him last night. I’d only managed to take a little over a half, and I didn’t know if taking his full length was even humanly possible.

No man was that large.

#tentacle monster #tentacle romance #tentacle smut #monster romance #monster fucker #wattpad romance #wattpad smut #wattpad writing #wattpadwriting #writing #writing update #wattpad update #new adult #new adult fantasy #new adult romance

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riceball1759 · 1 year

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A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) Review

I did not plan on reading this book. Hype books don’t really work for me, but I’ve started listening to the podcast, Those Forking Fangirls, and they have this segment called ‘Chapter Chat’. They decided to reread ACOTAR and have a 20-ish minute talk about the next chapter near the end of each episode. So, I’m listening to this for a few episodes and thinking, “ok this sounds at least somewhat interesting”. ADHD dopamine kick started: let’s read a sample on Libby and see if it’s worth it. Because this book is so dang long (my opinion), I was able to reach midway through chapter 4. So, I became intrigued enough and got a physical copy from the library (Libby’s wait was stupid long). Read it in a few sittings. I went in expecting nothing. Why? Years later, the fandom-fueled hype is still going strong and I like to make up my own mind instead of expecting it to go one way or the other from the start. Well, I definitely formed my own opinions.

Here we go! This was extremely easy to read (this is NOT a negative criticism). I’d been mulling over this for over a week since finishing so I could explain this as best I can. Maas -at least in this instance- writes in a style similar to James Patterson. DON’T GO IN AN UPROAR! Hear me out:

the language isn’t a complex prose that is what I consider “typical fantasy verbiage”;

she writes in first person POV (Feyre is talking to you as her best friend);

it’s plot-driven: no multitude of literary devices, timelines, and backstories to distract you from what’s really important;

the chapters are easy to read through (not too long, not too short) and end in a way that encourages you to keep going;

plenty of conflict and dialogue, but nothing over-the-top or unnecessary; and finally,

Maas definitely did her research when creating a world based on Anglo-Irish folk religion and she seamlessly created an easy-to-digest world that she owns.

If you don’t believe me, just google “James Patterson writing style”. I’m sure I can’t be the first reader to experience this, but I might be the first to quasi rabbit-hole like this. It makes so much sense, though! I was only 5 chapters in when I realized that I wasn’t having my typical waning interest (as I’m wont to have when I read high fantasy) and was actually engaged in the story. AND I was BLASTING through like a hurricane! This never happens when I read higher-than-middle-grade-level fantasy. Generally: I pause, take a break, pick it up later…or never. Fantasy and SciFi require a lot of active reading from me (looking for plot devices, etc.), but ACOTAR didn’t. It’s easily digestible in that it doesn’t require any more from me than to just sit back and enjoy the show. If that doesn’t fit your bill, then this book is not for you.

Continuing the review: I love me a good fairy tale retelling and ACOTAR is an interesting take on ‘Beauty and the Beast’ without it being too obvious at first look. Here are the elements (I’m going to try to keep my snark from taking over): girl gets taken ‘prisoner’ by beast, she gets the awkward “welcome to your new home” speech, she learns about a curse affecting the land and told not to ask too many questions, she finds out that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” and falls in love because you know why, he sends her back to keep her safe, she can’t stay away because she knows something’s wrong and returns to find him in danger. I think you know where I’m going with this. ANYWAY, that’s the skeleton outline. Everything else is completely made up by Maas and is brilliantly done. Do I want to get into more detail about the characters and other literary devices? Not really. There’s so much of that in other reviews that I think I’d be repetitive. In brief, I really liked the characters’ personalities and can see how they’ve endeared themselves to the ACOTAR fans. All the beauty/beast elements were woven into a unique story that I genuinely enjoyed. Will I read the next one? Most likely.

SIDE NOTE: this is technically New Adult: it features characters over 18 (consenting adults) and is considered a YA-Adult crossover. I’m not pro-censorship, but I do like giving honest feedback on what I think the true ‘age-audience’ is for books that have high crossover appeal. “Guided reading levels” just make for difficult and awkward conversations (remember, I’m a Teen Librarian). I prefer general age ratings similar to manga and video games: this would be 16+ (Older Teens).

Thank you for reading^_^ Have a good one!

#booklr #book blog #book review #acotar #a court of thorns and roses #sarah j maas #ya fantasy #fairy tale retelling #fairy tale inspired #new adult fantasy

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maepolzine · 8 months

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My Thoughts on Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Sharing my thoughts on Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

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#assistant to the villain #book #book review #fantasy #hannah nicole maehrer #humorous fantasy #new adult #new adult fantasy #Review

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at-thezenith · 9 months

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six (seven) sentence sunday

queuing this because i'm off on my travels today!! (saturday)

from the faery children, chapter 8:

Afsara stopped to light a few candles, then came to join him. She gently scratched a nail along his cheek as she passed by.

‘You need a shave.’

Cosmos batted her hand away, placing a hand on his jaw protectively. ‘No. It took me too long to grow these three hairs.’ The hair on his jaw was faint, mostly concentrated around his sideburns and upper lip, but Afsara was secretly overjoyed for her brother. Though, as she was his older sister, she could not help but laugh at his stubborn reluctance to remove the hair.

the faery children taglist: @mel-writes-with-her-dragons @hydrancheas @charlesjosephwrites @kosmic-kore @outpost51 ask to be +/-

#the faery children #tfc snippet #tfc #wip #six sentence sunday #fantasy #new adult fantasy #my writing

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jessread-s · 1 year

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✩🩸🗡Review:

Elise Kova’s latest book in the Married to Magic series is fang-tastic!

“A Duel with the Vampire Lord” centers around Floriane, a forge maiden who is kidnapped by her worst enemy—the vampire lord Ruvan. In order to survive, she becomes his blood sworn. But the longer Floriane stays at Castle Tempost, the more she realizes that the vampires are not the monsters she thought they were.

Floriane is a strong female protagonist and compelling character. She finds great joy working beside her mother as a blacksmith. As someone who is not familiar with this line of work, I loved learning about how metal is forged into weapons and how much strain the body goes through during this process. To accurately portray smithing, Kova worked with an iron artist to make her own dagger, which makes this book extra special!

Due to the long hours Floriane spends in the smithy, she has an “untraditional” figure—one that is curvy and stout. The way she is described made me love her all the more because Floriane provides representation of women of different body types to readers.

Though she is self-conscious about her appearance at the beginning of the novel, comparing herself to other women in the town, those feelings go away the moment she realizes that Ruvan burns for her. Of the three books in the series, “A Duel with the Vampire Lord” has the best relationship development. Ruvan and Floriane naturally start off as enemies, but they are forced to put their differences aside in order to break the curse plaguing Ruvan’s people. Their attraction for each other heightens the more time they spend with each other until it reaches a fever pitch (arguably Kova’s spiciest scene to date). I absolutely love Ruvan and Floriane’s chemistry and the sacrifices that they made each other towards the end of the novel truly made me feel things.

Another aspect of the novel I appreciated is how Kova was able to create something new about vampires. In her world, blood is used to enhance magic rather than quench thirst. Their blood based magic system is both complex and unique, informing the reader of the vampire’s customs and abilities.

In past books, a majority of the time is spent in Midscape (Kova’s magical land). Kova switches it up in this novel, dividing the protagonist’s time between Midscape and Hunter’s Hamlet, Floriane’s home in the Natural World. I enjoyed getting the opportunity to learn about the social structure of Hunter’s Hamlet (complete with a Master Hunter, Hunters, a Forge Maiden, and farmers) while still being able to venture into the Vampir mountains.

I cannot wait to continue on in the Married to Magic series with “A Duet with the Siren Duke” next year! Fingers crossed that Ruvan and Floriane make a cameo!

➤ 4.25 stars

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@elisekova

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fayeschuman · 2 years

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#new adult romance #new adult fantasy #literotica #adult fantasy #errotica archives

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deviousthing · 10 months

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i haven’t finished the second book yet but the way i am eating up this series! the world building is amazing, the twists and turns fantastic, the magic system beautiful, the found family trope so fucking heart warming. there’s a non binary character ahhhhhh we love i love this series so far love love love love love it.

forewarning if you’re a big smut fan the first book has none (i’ll update when i finish the second) i did not care at all though the tension is my favourite and this book has it. i’m seriously obsessed!

#rise of the dawnbringer #a prophecy of undone #the bornbane series #ia takerian #cyfrin lightcleaver #dawnbringer #new adult fantasy #romantacy #bookblr #fantasy romance #book review #mara dawnbringer

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catandherwips · 2 years

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My beloved Potioner from A Turn of the Wheel - the chemistry & yearning I wrote for the characters of this book is some of my best work. If you want steamy summer vibes & magic orchard shenanigans, you will most likely enjoy reading about him. 💚

Art by @ilik-art 💚

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#A turn of the wheel #fantasy authors #fantasy writer #new adult fantasy #cottagecore #cottagecore books #cozy fantasy #Tales from Lyrassan #catherine labadie

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andreai04 · 26 days

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Bruises from those who should love you sting more than others. Deep and lasting, they bleed into your spirit, no matter how common they become. Something shatters with each strike, and it isn’t always bone.

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