#bookreccs

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Read TRANSLATION STATE by Ann Leckie if you love mysteries, multiple narrators, space stations, artificial intelligence, coffee, strained treaties, scary aliens, childhood trauma, breaking the laws of physics, dumplings, questioning what it means to be human, and exiled pirates.

•I received an advance copy for review through NetGalley

•expected publication date is 6/6/23

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🌺⚽️🎨 Review: Cruel King by Rina Kent

Where do I even start with this book? Buckle up y'all its gonna be a wild ride. I just love Rina Kent men (I should seek help).

Astrid is quiet & to herself and honestly just trying to make it out of RES unscathed. When Astrid meets Levi unexpectedly, any plans that she had for laying low and flying under the radar her senior year of RES just went out the window. Levi is intent on making sure that doesn't happen. He's set is sights on Astrid and he's determined to break her. Now she's got RES's Cruel King's attention and he's not going anywhere.

Levi is possessive, broody, alpha, and everything we love in our fictional bully boyfriends. Levi might be the KING but Astrid definitely showed him that she's the QUEEN. Whatever Levi threw her way she gave it back tenfold. She is such a powerful FMC and we love her for that.

Astrid's story really got me in my feels, I deff cried a couple times. She struggled through so much. Her life was plagued by stress, trauma, death, and lots of family issues. If I could square up with their stupid stepmom I WOULD. Levi has also been through some shit. His father is dead, he lives with his Uncle who he hates, he's got reason to be as cruel as he is. Levi is a complex character in the best way. The way Astrid and Levi are connected is so INSANE. The twist is so good you won't even see it coming. Levi was HOT. H.O.T HOT. The spice was spicing as usual in Rina's masterpieces.

Beautiful start to set up the rest of the Royal Elite Series🥀.

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Read SO LET THEM BURN by Kamilah Cole if you love ancestral magic, the bond between sisters, the story that happens after the war is over, young people stepping up to save the world, dragons, libraries, magic schools, anti-colonial frameworks, intense crushes, the grey areas & dancing all night.

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Read HER MAJESTY'S ROYAL COVEN by Juno Dawson if you love friend groups, trauma narratives, covens, intersectionality, multiple POVs, the infinite ways to be a witch, demons, disrupting systems of oppression, cups of tea, found family, nature, extreme reactions, and tiny villages.

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Books 73-78 read in 2023.

The last reading roundup of the year.

LOST IN THE MOMENT AND FOUND by Seanan McGuire

MISLAID IN PARTS HALF-KNOWN by Seanan McGuire

The great 2023 Reread of the ENTIRE Wayward Children series was so much fun. I see so much of myself & my loves in these books, which is, I think, the entire point.

THE DEEP SKY by Yume Kitasei

A Very Queer, Who Done It, Locked Room, in Deep Space. Delightful.

WALK AMONG US, a Vampire: The Masquerade anthology

I loved one of the novellas. I liked one a lot. And I'm undecided about the third, as I keep thinking about it, but it makes me frustrated, and yet sometimes that's the point of art.

WHAT FEASTS AT NIGHT by T. Kingfisher

Nonbinary. Spooky. Trauma. I loved it. T. Kingfisher is my current Have a Great Time Reading author.

NIGHT SIDE OF THE RIVER by Jeanette Winterson

Technically I'm still reading this, but End of the Year, blah blah blah. It's been a while since I've read a Jeanette Winterson book, and I'm as in love with her writing as I was back in college. Spooky, literary stories for Yuletide.

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Read EMERGENT PROPERTIES by Aimee Ogden if you love climate change, the moon, speculative fiction, sentient technology, messy breakups, strained family dynamics, investigative journalism, spiders, neo pronouns, space travel & connections.

I received an advance copy for review from the publisher, through NetGalley.

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Read UNDER THE WHISPERING DOOR by TJ Klune if you love houses in the middle of nowhere, death narratives, grief narratives, life narratives, endless cups of tea, doggos, finding your place, letting go, transitions, bandanas, ouija boards, lawyers, and pining.

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Read SLEEP NO MORE (October Daye book 17) by Seanan McGuire if you love overwriting history, family dynamics, fighting systems of oppression, fanfiction, amnesia, magic, lots of blood, old friends, what is & what was, questioning reality, running around, and sad kitty cats.

I was sent a copy for review, via NetGalley, from the publisher. The expected publication date is Sept. 5, 2023.