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🩷💜🩵 | she/her A bookish nerd with a bookish problem✨📚

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✨️Heat of the Everflame✨️

QOTD: If you could control any element what would it be?

I am fully on team fire + lightning 🔥 Maybe it's because I got a little pyro in me or always had crushed on fictional fire-wielders.

I recently recieved my copy of Heat of the Everflame by Penn Cole!! This artwork is absolutely incredible and the The Arcane Society did a phenomenal job 😍 She's also a certified chonk of a book 🤣

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✨️The Three Realms Duology✨️

QOTD: What is your preferred series length?

I feel like a lot of my favorite series tend to be duologies! It just can be just the perfect length for the story. One duology on my TBR is The Three Realms duology by Amélie Wen Zhao 🩵 I loved the Song of the Last Kingdom duology and so I've been very excited to read this new series!

I think @illumicrate did an absolutely phenomenal job on these editions 😍 The style of the character art was an instant purchase for me!

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✨️The Legend of the Nine-Tailed Fox✨️

QOTD: What has been a favorite Enemies to Lovers book you've read recently? Or what trope(s) have you read recentl

I absolutely love a TRUE Enemies to Lovers where the main characters do absolutely loathe each other. In The Legend of the Nine-Tailed Fox by Katrina Kwan this book does enemies so well! If it wasn't due to their circumstances these characters absolutely would rid the world of each other.

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✨️Pursuit of Jade Book Recs✨️

QOTD: Do you have any dramas you've watched recently that you've really enjoyed?

I have been (obviously) obsessed with Pursuit of Jade! After finishing the show I have been craving books that feel similar to fill the new hole in my soul.

I will also now forever be fan-casting Wenzhi as Zhang Linghe and Liewei as Ren Hao when I reread Daughter of the Moon Goddess. They just fit so well in my little brain 🫣

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✨️🏳️‍⚧️Happy Pride Month🏳️‍🌈✨️

QOTD: Can you name any of the books festured in this photo by their sprayed edge?

Happy Pride Month!!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

I always love putting together my rainbow stack for the year! Sapphic reads have my heart and soul so my stack does tend to skew that way, but that's okay because we always need more sapphic books 🥰

I am still working on my June TBR, but in case you needed some additional recommendations to read this month here's a few more!

🏳️‍🌈Remember to Read Queer All Year! 🏳️‍⚧️

📚Books Included:

❤️ The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart

🧡 She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

💛 Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

💚 A Treachery of Swans by A. B. Poranek

💙 Voidwalker by S. A. Maclean

💜 Emberclaw by L. R. Lam

🩷 Cursebound by Saara El-Arifi

💕 Girls of Fate and Fury by Natasha Ngan

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✨️Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter✨️

QOTD: Do you prefer cozy nights in or spending your evening out and about?

I love my cozy nights in, but I also really enjoy getting to hang out with my friends! My top preference is getting to do cozy activities like crafts or reading with friends 🩵 Best of both!

I am super excited to read Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett! I always love a cozy fantasy and a mystical cat shelter sounds just perfect 🐈 Even my cat was showing interest in this one 🤣

Thank you so much to Orbit UK for sending me this copy!

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✨️Wednesdays We Read Pink✨️

I absolutely need more fantasy books with bright colors! There is sooooo much black, blue, and red when I want epic fantasies in pastels 🫣

I've wanting to add this trend to my weekly rotation and I finally actually did it! The last time I did this sort of style photo it actually went really well so I am excited to keep this photo style around 🩷

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✨️Shelfie Sunday✨️

QOTD: What is a book series you wish you could read again for the first time?

For me it would 100% be the Celestial Kingdom duology by Sue Lynn Tan 🩵 I still remeber the feelings I had reading Heart of The Sun Warrior and I would give everything to read that book again for the first time!! I do want to do a reread and full annotation of this series soon!

I think I have 11 copies of DOTMG, 10 copies of HOTSW, 5 copies of Tales, and 7 copies of Immortal 🫣 (My Never Ever After copies will be living somewhere else right now)

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✨️Never Ever After by Sue Lynn Tan✨️

OMIGOSHHHHH I am still in shock by this book mail from Hodderscape!!! I am (obviously 🫣) a huge fan of Sue Lynn Tan and am so incredibly excited for this YA debut. I really enjoyed the Celestial Kingdom world and I have been so excited to enter this new world!

Never Ever After will be released on October 20th in the UK and October 28th in the US! I have just started reading it and its already been very hard to put down 🩵

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✨️Bride and Mate by Ali Hazelwood✨️

I am normally terrible actually reading new releases when they come out. I get so excited and pick it up the days its out but then it sits on my TBR for ages 🫣

HOWEVER, I did end up reading (and already finished) Mate by @alihazelwood pretty much right when it came out! I had just finished Bride before its release and I immediately wanted to dive into the sequel.

I absolutely LOVED the dynamics between Serena and Koen 🩵 I was absolutely hooked and these books were perfect October reads if you're looking for some paranormal romances!

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✨️The Field Guide to Floral Dragons✨️

I love just about anything and everything Dragon related! I essentially now have a whole Bookcase in my library that has become just for my Dragon books

When I saw the Kickstarter for The Field Guide to Floral Dragons from Hit Point Press and @kintheartist it was a pretty instant sell because I always need more Dragons in D&D 🫣

I absolutely cannot wait to use this book as the dragons are absolutely stunning and I love that we get a ton of great info about each of them and a stat block!

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✨️Book Review - Cowboy Casual by Holly Renee✨️

QOTD: Would you consider yourself as more of a city person or a rural person?

I yearn to own ducks so I consider myself more a rural preferring person 🤣 I've mostly lived at least 20 minutes from a big city but a girl can dream!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Stars

*** Spoiler Free Review ***

I have actually not really picked up a cowboy/small town romance before this book. I am mostly a fantasy reader (obviously 🫣) but when the news came out that Holly Renee was stepping into the genre I knew this could change me.

I had such a hard time putting this book down after I started it! I absolutely loved all the characters in this book (*cough* except two *cough*) and I really enjoyed all the dynamics between each of them. The dynamics Ruby had with each character was probably my faborite element in this story because it was just so wholesome throughout.

I will also say that Holly Renee writes spice real well and this book brings it 🔥🌶 The books she writes are just addictive each time wether its men with daggers or men with mustaches.

I definitely cannot wait for the sequel!! I need to know what's gonna happen with one of my other favorite characters 👀

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“If you only ever look up at something, can you ever see it clearly?”

Sybil from The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig

Loved every second of it, this is just how I like my gothic fantasy 🦋⚔️✨

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Lord have Mercer what have we done

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✨️Locked Library: A Harvest of Hearts✨️

QOTD: What book do you recommend for someone who needs a little escape?

I'm always one to reach for a Cozy Fantasy when I need a little escape or to avoid a reading slump! I've been super excited to pick up and read A Harvest of Hearts by Andrea Eames (because who could not pick up a book with a cat on the cover 😍).

The Locked Library edition is absolutely stunning, and I am always needing more pink on my fantasy shelves 🩷

[theaguanzon]

I started watching Critical Role during the early days of the Vox Machina campaign. Back then, I was a fresh college graduate working in an office here in Manila, Philippines, and becoming an internationally published author was a dream so distant it wasn’t even a “Maybe someday” for me. I was already familiar with the concept of tabletop roleplaying games, but CritRole was *the* stream that inspired me to put a group together. No one wanted to be the Dungeon Master, so—because it was my idea in the first place—I had to buy the manuals and modules and study the mechanics like my life depended on it. I’ve been DM-ing ever since, although the real world got in the way for all of us and my players have been trapped inside the Tomb of Annihilation for six years (😎).

Gaming provided a much-needed creative outlet in a time when I had to spend every weekday battling traffic and desk work. It honed my storytelling, my imagination, my ear for dialogue, my ability to improvise on the fly if a narrative direction wasn’t going well. Because of tabletop, I became a better writer, and eventually my first romantasy trilogy sold at auction and even hit the bestseller lists. Office worker no more! I will always credit CritRole for introducing me to this hobby which, in tandem with fanfic, helped change the course of my life.

So… this photo is very surreal and it is very much a full circle moment for me. If you had told me back then—back when I was squeeing over every Percy/Vex interaction, or begrudgingly letting the bard roll dexterity to remove the barbarian’s loincloth as he plunges to his doom (instead of, y’know, saving him), or racing home because I wanted to catch the first Mighty Nein episode—if you had told me that I would one day write a book for Critical Role, I wouldn’t have believed you, of course.

But this is a real thing that has actually happened, and I’m grateful beyond words. Thank you to Dani Carr for choosing me. Thank you to Matt, Laura, Ashley, Travis, Liam, Taliesin, Marisha, and Sam for trusting me with… this (ESPECIALLY Laura 😂✌🏼). Thank you to Sarah Peed, my editor extraordinaire, and the rest of the team at Del Rey for getting this book over the finish line.

Last but definitely not least, thank you to the readers!!! From the Critters who have never read a romance before but gave it a shot because they love the show, to my romantasy girlies who have never rolled a D20 in their lives and were just happy to vibe—and every possible overlap and variant in between—the enthusiastic response to this saucy little union between a half-orc and a traveling merchant’s daughter (my third novel and first standalone) has been simply incredible. I am so, so happy that you guys are enjoying TUSK LOVE!!!