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Grace Blackthorn 🌷

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[good-old-fashioned-faggotry]

I hate when I read a book too late. Because what do you MEAN this book is all I can think about for the past week and it's so good and gay and captures what's it like to be a stupid teenager like so well and everyone who's read it are in their 30s now because it came out in 2010?

[snowyydraws]

Baz Brysden from The Drowned Gods Trilogy by Pascale Lacelle.

The fandom for these books is insanely small, but I absolutely encourage everyone to go check these books out. I’ll do a bigger post on my main about everything I’ve loved about these books but—for now—take a Baz. He’s definitely one of my favorite characters. An extremely relatable guy and has some really funky time magic that I’m obsessed with. He’s able to pause time & turn the time back on objects (like being able to make a rusted can go back to when it was shiny). Really cool stuff.

Definitely going to draw more art for these books. (Hopefully my evil plan to make this fandom bigger will work 😈😈)

[reallifecyborg]

I saw some other people doing it so now I'm hopping on the train:

BOOKS THAT CHANGED YOUR BRAIN CHEMISTRY

This may be basic but Harry Potter shaped part of me. I had never really met anyone like me and then I read Harry potter at like 7 and Hermione is like a carbon copy of me.

Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl, and actually Ready Player One.

Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children was the book that got me back into reading after not having read a book in 5 years. NOT THE MOVIE IT WAS AWFUL

The next was Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. She's PHENOMENAL

But something that hugely shaped what I like now was Junji Ito. It was one of the first Manga and/ or horror things I read. Sweet Home was actually my first and I love manhwa and manga now!

I also LOVE School Bus Graveyard! I have a jacket with Ashlyn on the back!

A couple books I read in school that changed me forever were

The Alchemist, To Kill A Mockingbird, 1984, and The Glass Castle (which I HIGHLY RECOMMEND even if you don't like memoirs!)

The non fiction books I read in my bio ethics class also live rent free in my head.

Tuesdays with Morrie

The Last Lecture (I SOBBED during both of these. The Last Lecture especially. We also watched the lecture he gave at Carnegie Mellon, you can watch it on YouTube! I cried during the whole video)

The Children Act

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Comment or reblog with books that left an impression on you and changed your brain!

[bookishfreedom]

“Chronic pain, it’s like a tide. Goes in and out, in and out. Never know when it’s going to flare up again—just that it will. Exhausting. Absolutely exhausting.”

As a Seattleite myself, I was so excited to get an ARC of this book, and it did not disappoint. All of the local references really brought the story to life.

Climate of Chaos follows seventeen-year old Fox, who lives in a future dystopian Seattle, wracked by the effects of climate change and controlled by the medical company Aegis Corp. Only the privileged can afford to live inside their safe domes. When Fox’s sister is taken captive by Aegis, Fox has to go into the belly of the beast, enlisting in Aegis’s army of Storm Runners, to save her sister.

This is precisely the kind of story I would have eaten up as a teen. Badass female MC trying to survive in a fucked up world? Check. Brooding mysterious love interest? Check. Colorful cast of side characters providing heart and comedic relief? Check. Combat training? Check. Complicated family dynamics? Double check.

Climate of Chaos was a ton of fun while also being a depressing and all-too believable look into the future. It truly felt like a climate change Divergent.

The writing could get a bit repetitive at times, and the pacing was sometimes a little slow for such an action-packed premise. It seemed like Newbould was trying to do a little too much for a first book - there were a few too many subplots and side characters to keep track of, but I really enjoyed their unique dynamics so I didn’t mind too much.

Hopefully future books continue to develop the world and our FMC - both had promise but ultimately fell a bit flat.

[kumerish]

Oli at the beginning and at the end.