#our crooked hearts

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We didn’t wonder where the magic came from, or why it worked. We never asked ourselves, Is this ours to take? We were three damp ducklings, green as leaves, believing with all our crooked hearts that we were the ones writing this story. Even as a dead woman’s book paved the road beneath our feet.

our crooked hearts by melissa albert

#melissa albert #our crooked hearts #litedit #yalitedit #ourcrookedheartsedit #pic #dailylit #bookedit

[triplexdoublex]

Reading this book and trying to figure out if this is an MGK reference or not 🤯 🤣

#machine gun kelly #mgk #colson baker #Our Crooked Hearts

[theaologieslibrary]

Black and gold bookstack 🖤✨

#bookblr #addie larue #book of night #the Prince’s poisoned vow #our crooked hearts #crooked kingdom #six of crows #grishaverse #bookstack #book stack

[desdasiwrites]

– Melissa Albert, Our Crooked Hearts

#book quote of the day #melissa albert #our crooked hearts #ya #magic #magic and witches #modern witch #urban fantasy #witchcore #mystery books #young adults books #book quotes #booklr

[freckles-and-books]

Currently reading.

#books #our crooked hearts #melissa albert #currently reading #summer scares

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Title: Our Crooked Hearts

Author: Melissa Albert

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2022

Genres: fiction, fantasy, mystery, horror, paranormal, thriller

Blurb: In the suburbs right now, 17-year-old Ivy’s summer break kicks off with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a stranger whose appearance in the middle of the road, in the middle of the night, heralds a string of increasingly unsettling events. As the days pass, Ivy grapples with eerie offerings, corroded memories, and a secret she’s always known...that there’s more to her mother than meets the eye. In the city back then, Dana has always been perceptive. The summer she turns sixteen - with the help of her best friend and an ambitious older girl - her gifts bloom into a heady fling with the supernatural. As the trio’s aspirations darken, they find themselves speeding toward a violent breaking point. Years after it began, Ivy and Dana’s shared story will come down to a reckoning among a daughter, a mother, and the dark forces they never should’ve messed with.

#our crooked hearts #melissa albert #standalone #2022 #fiction #fantasy #mystery #horror #paranormal #thriller

[itachi86]

I shivered. Somewhere in the future, someone was walking over my grave. Or maybe I was remembering, just for a moment, that magic was a thing with teeth, and a history as old as the world.

Our Crooked Hearts

#book things #our crooked hearts #melissa albert #quotes #i kinda like this book so far #it's a little slow tho #but i like that quote

[shipwrexked]

Have you ever seen a book so pretty 😍!

Special edition of Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert from Bookish Box 📦 💖

#our crooked hearts #bookish box #special edition

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Our Crooked Hearts | Author: Melissa Albert | Publisher: Flatiron Books (2022)

#books #Our Crooked Hearts #Melissa Albert

[publishedtoday]

Our Crooked Hearts - Melissa Albert

THE SUBURBS, RIGHT NOW . . . Seventeen-year-old Ivy’s summer break kicks off with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a stranger whose appearance in the middle of the road, in the middle of the night, heralds a string of increasingly unsettling events. As the days pass, Ivy grapples with eerie offerings, corroded memories, and a secret she’s always known—that there’s more to her mother than meets the eye. THE CITY, BACK THEN . . . Dana has always been perceptive. And the summer she turns sixteen, with the help of her best friend and an ambitious older girl, her gifts bloom into a heady fling with the supernatural, set in a city of magical possibilities and secret mystics. As the trio’s aspirations darken, they find themselves speeding toward a violent breaking point. Years after it began, Ivy and Dana’s shared story will come down to a reckoning among a daughter, a mother, and the dark forces they never should’ve messed with.

tw: animal death/torture

#our crooked hearts #melissa albert #june 28 2022 #flatiron books #ya/na

[rebeccaheyman]

The word you're looking for is "atmospheric"

Review: Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert, aBook narr. Emma Galvin and Chloe Cannon (Macmillan Audio, 28 June 2022)

If you, like me, have a major crush on Melissa Albert's writing, get ready to send your heart into non-stop palpitations. Our Crooked Hearts is Albert at her best: lyrical, creepy, vivid, propulsive, powerful. (Does it still count as a review if I just list the first hundred adjectives that come to mind?) 

Three-sentence summary: In a present-day timeline, Ivy's summer begins with a car accident and a mysterious encounter with a young woman in the woods. Twentyish years in the past, Dana is pulled into a world of magic that turns unspeakably dark, altering the course of her life forever. As Ivy and Dana's stories intertwine, transgressions from the past threaten to destroy their lives -- unless the truth can save them.

The narrative portion of Our Crooked Hearts gets an easy 5 stars, so I hope you understand how much it pains me to reveal that the audiobook format has major problems. Emma Galvin does a phenomenal job voicing seventeen-year-old Ivy, but Chloe Cannon as Ivy’s mother is one of the most disastrous performances I’ve heard this year. Her cadence frequently tapers into a low part of her vocal register that’s nearly impossible to hear; I had to crank the volume up way high to catch every word, and even then, I was straining at the end of every sentence. Cannon’s delivery is belabored and overly stylized, which is a real shame, because her mid- to upper register is a pleasure to listen to. I genuinely don't know how much production happens after aBook ARCs go out, but unless the balance on the entire recording is rejiggered, I can't recommend this format.

Star ratings are a vague, deeply flawed metric. While the disastrous audio should bring the score on this down to three-star range, I absolutely can't justify anything lower than a 4 for such a fantastic narrative. But you've been warned, folks! Just read it.

Thank you to Macmillan Audio and NG for the advance copy.

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[no-1-rosalind-lang-apologist]

I love it so much when people say they hate the miscommunication trope then ship kanej, wesper, helnik, romajuliette, benmars, rosorion, and jurdan.

Because. Guess what.

#miscommunication trope #fandom #six of crows #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #kanej #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #wesper #matthias helvar #nina zenik #helnik #these violent delights #our violent ends #chloe gong #crooked kingdom #secret shanghai #leigh bargudo #foul lady fortune #foul heart huntsman #last violent call #juliette cai #roma montagov #romajuliette #benedikt montagov #marshall seo #benmars #rosalind lang #orion hong #rosorion

[starzwithapen]

OUR HCS FOR THESE GOOBERS USING TEMPLATES FROM @koppaitepaladin !! Plus bonus creek because I'm uhhh normal about him . They're All autistic 2 me but Branch and Poppy r most important to me <33

#butch lesbian JD ... save me .... save me butch lesbian JD ..... #Viva is a system to me this is canon . 2 me #ALSO BONUS SHIT DOWN HERE #poppy has crooked teeth #JD wears a back brace . CLAY TOO . ok like JD doesnt wear his but HE SHOULD HE HAS ONE #bruce has hyperpigmentation around his face he used to cover w makeup but has stopped doing so now ^w^ #JD has ocd . to me #branch picks at his skin a lot #VIVA DYES HER HAIR !!!!!!!! LITERALLY CANON TO ME uer eyebrows r pink . guys #i hc her hair went gray/way less saturated so she dyes it #bruce is trans also . has top scars #me vs putting my shit in main tags I GET NERVOUS AAORUHHHCJ #trolls band together #starztalks #trolls headcanons #thats . enough tags 4 today heart emoji #Ok we switch around our headcanons a LOT but like these r . our faves or ones we operate on most

[romajuliettemai]

Got some more prints for the prints wall! :D

#chloe gong #foul heart huntsman #foul lady fortune #secret shanghai #our violent ends #last violent call #these violent delights #secret shanghai finale #secret shanghai series #leigh bardugo #six of crows #crooked kingdom #soc #ck #jude duarte #how the king of elfhame learned to hate stories #high queen of elfhame #the cruel prince #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #holly black

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

so there was this pub, the crooked house or the siden house, where im from that was kinda famous for being the "wonkiest pub in britain". its been there since 1765 (it was originally a farmhouse) and let me tell you, the inside was some of the coolest shit ive seen. it was fucking bostin.

but four days ago, it burnt down. now its nothing but rubble, and its being treated as an arson for the investigation.

and just,,, im so gutted. i have that kind of sadness where you feel empty inside because this was our pub. we're an impoverished area and a lot of our country laughs at us for the way we speak, but we're proud of our local culture and history.

honestly the siden house represented us; we're a little wonky bunch with our dialect the most close to old english and banding together like misfits in a movie.

but now its just gone. its one of the few tranklements of our history we get to hold and its just fucking gone, at someones hand. it was probably new developer who just bought it because its the cheapest way to clear a lot.

and i ay even angry at whoever it was, im just sad. as a brit, i hold no pride for my country and the history of it. but i am a proud yam yam, and right now, it just hurts.

#kai rambles #personal #delete later #probably #i just need to vent #because just #i day feel good rn #like ive been to the crooked house and it was so cool and i fucking loved it so much #and it was so unique and it was ours #it just feels like someones took part of my heart away #like i can be proud of my local history because it was the yam yams who dug the canals and mined the coal and built the factories #and transported the coal via canal and built the railroad tracks and built up all our little towns #and obviously there was exploitation happening and you know weve always been a working class area #we got our name the black country from how much dust and coal and steam was in the air round here #theres an entire story where apparently victoria came round in a carriage to visit an area very essential to industrialisation and she #refused to open the curtain on her carriage window because she was so disgusted with us #it was all local folks making the steel and the cars and the chains and the trains and all the rest #obviously we benefited from colonisation like any area of britain but we were also being oppressed and exploited by rich brits ourselves #but so much of our local architecture was built by us and the culture was built by us and the dialect came from us #and the siden house was part of that #and now its simply gone most likely because some fucking clarnet developer decided oh ill do some light arson to cut corners #who cares about our local culture or history? instead you can just laugh at our accents and our dialect and rewatch benefit street! #because weem all backerds roun' here day yow think? eatin faggots and fittle wommucking it down an' gooin to the foot of our stairs? #ar weem right gawbys in yo eyes. goo on gawp at us tek notes if yo want. just doe dither abou' it an' weem haven no more cotter with yow #ye im probably gonna delete this later #i fully just went yam yam slang there #im just upset and a little bit maddened

[itachi86]

Magic to [Ivy] was a living book, full of stories and secrets and maddening contradictions

Our Crooked Hearts

#book things #our crooked hearts #quotes #that's a good line #the part it came from tho #i don't like that they're just doing the flashbacks from two diff povs now #instead of back and forth between past and present