#jamison shea

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Fave Five: Queer Black YA Horror

I Feed Her to the Beast by Jamison Shea  Dead Girls Walking and Funerals Are for the Living by Sami Ellis The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron DOE by Rebecca Barrow Bonus: These are all novels, but you can find even more in All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology ed. by Circe Moskowitz

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Growing list of a category of books I’ve been lovingly calling “feminine rage”:

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao

Your Driver is Waiting by Priya Guns

I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me by Jamison Shea

I’ve yet to finish that last one but to me the primary characteristics of a feminine rage novel are:

Complex and messy woman or woman aligned main character

Focus on the injustices against women and especially marginalized women

A deep burning rage in the main character against these injustices

And most importantly, when I read these books I just want to watch the main character burn the world down

Please suggest me more feminine rage books I am enjoying them thoroughly

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Jamison Shea - I feed her to the Beast and the Beast is me

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Roar of the Lambs by Jamison Shea

If you knew the world was ending, who would you save? And would they let you?

Sixteen-year-old Winnie Bray is a liar. As the resident psychic at an oddities shop, Winnie truly can see the future. But her customers only want reassurance, and Winnie only wants their money. Favorable fortunes are a fast track to funding her way out of Buffalo, New York for good, after all.

But all of that changes when a vision sends her stalking in the remains her family home that burned down in a fire 10 years ago. Among the ash and rubble, Winnie finds a box made of bone, untouched by flames and…whispering. At the touch of her finger, the box shows her a vision of death, chaos, and apocalypse, with her and rich kids Apollo and Cyrus Rathbun at the center.

Apollo knows their cousin is up to no good, and with the Rathbun family scattered to the wind, they know Cyrus is aiming to present himself as the new patriarch. Despite an initial attraction, Apollo is reluctant to believe Winnie. But soon it becomes clear that their family histories are intertwined, with the whispering, hungry box at the very center, and more than their lives are on the line. Together, they must discover the origins of the box and stop unforeseen forces from fulfilling the apocalyptic prophecy, or die trying.

From the author of I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me comes a speculative thriller about the ties that bind us to places and people, perfect for fans of Andrew Joseph White and Tochi Onyebuchi.

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(New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (August 26th, 2025)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Releases:

My Perfect Family by Khadijah VanBrakle

Dream by the Shadows by Logan Karlie

Wish You Were Her by Elle McNicoll

Lady Dragon by A.M. Strickland

The Devil's in the Dancers by Catherine Yu

A Spell to Wake the Dead by Nicole Lesperance

Roar of the Lambs by Jamison Shea

The Good Vampire's Guide to Blood & Boyfriends by Jamie D'Amato

Legendary Fry Bread Drive In by Various

Empty Heave by Freddie Kölsch

A Bite of Pepper by Balazs Lorinczi

The Executioners Three by Susan Dennard

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Happy reading!

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Travel Destination: France Part II

All That Glitters by Gita Trelease

Paris is a labyrinth of twisted streets filled with beggars and thieves, revolutionaries and magicians. Camille Durbonne is one of them. She wishes she weren't...

When smallpox kills her parents, Camille must find a way to provide for her younger sister while managing her volatile brother. Relying on magic, Camille painstakingly transforms scraps of metal into money to buy food and medicine they need. But when the coins won't hold their shape and her brother disappears with the family's savings, Camille pursues a richer, more dangerous mark: the glittering court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea

Laure Mesny is a perfectionist. Despite being constantly overlooked in the elite and cutthroat world of the Parisian ballet, she will do anything to prove that a Black girl can take center stage. To level the playing field, Laure ventures deep into the depths of the Catacombs and strikes a deal with a pulsating river of blood.

The primordial power Laure gains promises influence and adoration, everything she’s dreamed of and worked toward. With retribution on her mind, she surpasses her bitter and privileged peers, leaving broken bodies behind her on her climb to stardom.

But even as undeniable as she is, Laure is not the only monster around. And her vicious desires make her a perfect target for slaughter. As she descends into madness and the mystifying underworld beneath her, she is faced with the ultimate choice: continue to break herself for scraps of validation or succumb to the darkness that wants her exactly as she is.

The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard

In the late 20th century Paris is left ruined in the wake of the The Great Magicians' War, but those that survived still retain their irrepressible appetite for novelty and distraction, and the great houses still vie for dominion over France's once-grand capital.

Once the most powerful and formidable, House Silverspires now lies in disarray. Its magic is ailing; its founder, Morningstar, has been missing for decades; and now something from the shadows stalks its people inside their very own walls.

Within the house, three very different people must come together: a naive but powerful fallen angel, an alchemist with a self-destructive addiction, and a resentful young man wielding spells of unknown origin. They may be Silverspires' salvation-or the architects of its last, irreversible fall. And if Silverspires falls, so may the city itself.

Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis

Paris, 1866. When Baroness Sylvie Devereux receives a house-call from Charlotte Mothe, the sister she disowned, she fears her shady past as a spirit medium has caught up with her. But with their father ill and Charlotte unable to pay his bills, Sylvie is persuaded into one last con.

Their marks are the de Jacquinots: dysfunctional aristocrats who believe they are haunted by their great aunt, brutally murdered during the French Revolution. Sylvie and Charlotte will need to deploy every trick to terrify the family out of their gold – until the sisters experience the inexplicable horrors themselves.

The Vine Witch by Luanne G. Smith

For centuries, the vineyards at Château Renard have depended on the talent of their vine witches, whose spells help create the world-renowned wine of the Chanceaux Valley. Then the skill of divining harvests fell into ruin when sorcière Elena Boureanu was blindsided by a curse. Now, after breaking the spell that confined her to the shallows of a marshland and weakened her magic, Elena is struggling to return to her former life. And the vineyard she was destined to inherit is now in the possession of a handsome stranger.

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I Feed Her To The Beast by Jamison Shea

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My second read for Black History Month this year is I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me by Jamison Shea. There is also a second book, titled I Am the Dark That Answers When You Call, that I've checked out (but I won't get around to for a bit).