8, 44, 54 for the book recs ask meme :)
@robinade you really are the best, tysm! I took a while to get to this because I have packed all my books in moving boxes so it's been hard to jog my memory... which I should have considered before I reblogged this ask game... (⊙_⊙;)
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8. a book you finished in one sitting
I don't actually remember the last time this happened. It had to have been when I was in high school still. Looking through my book apps though, looks like the shortest complete time I have is for The Beast's Heart by Leife Shallcross that I finished in two days.
A luxuriously magical retelling of Beauty and the Beast set in seventeenth-century France—and told from the point of view of the Beast himself.
44. your favourite fantasy novel
Exile's Honor by Mercedes Lackey and it's follow up Exile's Valor. I just... I love big gruff guys who understand faith and kindness, and show it with a lil tough love.
The Heralds of Valdemar series will always have a place in my heart, but the Exile's Duology is the only set I can re-read these days.
54. a book with the best opening line
fffff. Honestly can't answer this one without going through all my packed away books. Let me just promote a book I read from my Libby app. The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis
Aster's hand itched for a knife, but she settled for forming a fist instead.
Right off we have our main character ready to throw down and honestly I think that's pretty sexy of her! However, it's a book about fantasy sex workers (slaves, I think is the more accurate word) in a western-like setting, so reader beware! It's about escaping their situation to find something better and it has a moral to the story as well, about paying things forward.
