Melissa And The Forgotten Library

Just a gal having an epic love affair with books.

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I just think we all deserve massive home libraries and a couple swords, as a treat

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𝔦𝔫 𝔮𝔲𝔦𝔢𝔱 𝔠𝔬𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔪𝔭𝔩𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫

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hey quick PSA but “reading before bed to wind down” only works if you’re normal about books btw. if you aren’t you are going to end up awake at 2:52am after finishing the whole book just trust me on this one

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ARC Review: The Swan's Daughter by Roshani Chokshi | ★★★☆☆

ABOUT THE BOOK:  Title: The Swan’s Daughter Author:  Roshani Chokshi Release Date: January 6th, 2026 Published By: Wednesday Books Formats: Hardcover, eBook, audiobook Pages: 400 pages  Synopsis: In this lush and romantic novel from New York Times bestselling author Roshani Chokshi, a prince is only as good as his beating heart and a maiden is only as good as her honest word. But when…

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ARC Review: The Forest of the Missing Girls by Nichelle Giraldes | DNF - ★☆☆☆☆

ABOUT THE BOOK:  Title: The Forest of Missing Girls Author:  Nichelle Giraldes Release Date: November 11, 2025 Published By: Poisoned Pen Press Formats: Hardcover, eBook, audiobook Pages: 384 pages  Synopsis: The forest is hungry, and her family’s secrets are tangled in the trees… Lia Gregg always hoped to outgrow her fear of the woods surrounding her childhood home. The dark, menacing…

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ARC Review: Break Wide the Sea by Sara Holland |★★★★★

ABOUT THE BOOK:  Title: Break Wide the Sea Author:  Sara Holland Release Date: November 11, 2025 Published By: Wednesday Books Formats: Hardcover, eBook, audiobook Pages: 284 pages  Synopsis: A young woman cursed with a fatal heartbreak-induced sickness must race against time to find a cure and protect her family legacy from the ancient finfolk that would destroy it, the fiancé that would…

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WWW Wednesday 11/05/2025

Hello, bookish lovelies! WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. Each week, you’re supposed to let your readers know what you’re currently reading, what you recently finished, and what you think you’ll read next. My reading this year isn’t going well, I have been struggling pretty hard to read. It is November and I’ve read 10 books this year. What are you…

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Goodreads Monday 07/21/2025

ABOUT THE BOOK:  Title: The Wolf Den Author:  Elodie Harper Release Date:  May 13th, 2021 Published by: Head of Zeus Pages: 464 pages *** SYNOPSIS: Sold by her mother. Enslaved in Pompeii’s brothel. Determined to survive. Her name is Amara. Welcome to the Wolf Den… Amara was once a beloved daughter, until her father’s death plunged her family into penury. Now she is a slave in Pompeii’s infamous…

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Book Series (and Duologies) I Need To Finish

  In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former…

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WWW Wednesday 07.16.2025

Hello, bookish lovelies! WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. Each week, you’re supposed to let your readers know what you’re currently reading, what you recently finished, and what you think you’ll read next. Let me know if you’ve read what I am reading, or if you want to read it! What are you currently reading? The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea…

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Goodreads Monday 07.14.2025

ABOUT THE BOOK:  Title: My Dark Vanessa Author:  Kate Elizabeth Russell Release Date:  March 10th, 2020 Published by: William Morrow Pages: 373 pages *** SYNOPSIS: Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet naïve teenage girl and her magnetic and manipulative teacher, a brilliant, all-consuming read that marks the explosive debut of an extraordinary…

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Reviewer of the Forgotten ARCs: Forgotten ARC #1

Forgotten ARC #1: The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart The emperor’s reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic powering the animal-like constructs that maintain law and order. But now his rule is failing, and revolution is sweeping across the Empire’s many islands. Lin is the emperor’s daughter and spends her days trapped in a palace of locked doors and dark secrets.…

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Reviewer of the Forgotten ARCs. (All 1,000+ of them)

Hey y’all. Welcome to a new series I’d like to call “Reviewer of the Forgotten ARCs.”  I have downloaded and/or requested a ton of arcs since 2019 mostly from Edelweiss, and a few from Netgalley. If you’ve been part of the book community for a while, you probably understand how exciting it is to receive an ARC. (Advanced Reader Copies) There’s just something about getting a book before it’s…

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Goodreads Monday 06/30/2025

  ABOUT THE BOOK:  Title: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Author:  Laini Taylor Release Date:  September 27th, 2011 Published by: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Pages: 418 pages *** SYNOPSIS: Around the world, black hand prints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human…

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Throwback Thursday: What was I reading 10 years ago?

Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers. As the treaty’s anniversary draws near, however, tensions are high.Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides. An…

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Goodreads Monday 06.23.2025

ABOUT THE BOOK:  Title: Essex Dogs Author:  Dan Jones Release Date:  September 15th, 2022 Published by: Viking Pages: 464 pages *** SYNOPSIS: The New York Times bestselling historian makes his historical fiction debut with an explosive novel set during the Hundred Years’ War.July 1346. Ten men land on the beaches of Normandy. They call themselves the Essex Dogs: an unruly platoon of…

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