#dan wells

[queenrikki]

It's funny how neither of them realize how much their father really sucks. Well, where there's life there's hope (sorry Elhokar).

[novelmonger]

Tagged by @rainintheevening. I decided to pick one from each of my shelves :D

Take a book from my room

The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb

Gifts by Ursula K. Le Guin

Sabriel by Garth Nix

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

I Am Not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells

Voting ended onOct 7, 2025

Tagging @sailforvalinor, @dairogo, @authortobenamedlater, @x-i-l-verify, and @thetreasurechest because I wanna peek through your windows at your bookshelves XD

[bestbookcover]

round 1, poll 504

click for better quality & to see the full image. sometimes they get cut off weirdly!

which cover do you like best?

Momo by Michael Ende

i am not a serial killer by dan wells

Voting ended onFeb 5

remember, you're voting for the cover, not the author or the book!

[degradingnostalgia]

this is just so unbelievably unhinged

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read Partials by Dan Wells (2012)?

yes

no

I didn't finish it

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onOct 18, 2025

[soyouthinkyoulike]

john wayne cleaver, i am not a serial killer

[valerieofavonlea]

Dan Wells is working on three cosmere projects: one that is bizarrely weird that no one will guess, one with Isaac Stewart that will cover a gap of time we all want to know about, and one that happens concurrently with Words of Radiance (same time in the cosmere, unclear if it's a stormlight project)

Commence speculating

[sarascamander]

The more that I think about it the more that I realize that Brooke Watson has the potential to be such a nuanced and great character (already more than she is) if the author had only kept her until the final book. I always feel like he didn't know what to do with her character that's why he left her off which is sad 😭.

Brooke literally has hundreds of souls inside her and she feels every of their pain like it's her own. Try to imagine a world where she got to control all those women in her until they were nothing but whispers at the back of her head? That she got to control her own body and thought. It won't fix her and she would certainly have a lot of mental health problems even after controlling Nobody but that's a journey that would be so good to read! It's her gaining herself back but also dealing with all the pain and thought thrust on her.

I always imagine that she would somehow become friendly with all the women and even Nobody, cause she felt what they felt and she empathized and understood them more than anyone and eventually she used them to learn from life instead of internalizing it. And all the other girls would maybe feel something other than insecurities as they watch Brooke getting through her life this way. Maybe they'd be happy that Brooke got to be something they don't get to be.

Maybe she and Nobody still have a very complex relationship. Brooke will always hate Nobody and I think Nobody will always be the way she is, picking on her own insecurities and everything. Driving Brooke to suicide. But at the same time they're stuck together. Maybe Nobody learn to take the backseat and let Brooke live her life for once. Who fucking know. I just want Brooke to be okay. It'll take a ton shit of therapy and Brooke will probably never be the same again but she'll be okay.

Something I write about Brooke

Scars would fade and wound would heal but the pain of these women would live in Brooke for the rest of her life, as haunting and familiar as the echoes of her heartbeat.

Bottom line: Brooke Watson deserves better