#ARCS

[ashen-crest]

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✨ It's Cover Reveal Time! ✨

And it's not just a cover reveal! ARCs and pre-orders for The Spirit's Curse, the final book in the Lutesong trilogy, are now open!!

The spirits have awoken—and can never sleep again. After being roused to defend against a magical disaster, the nature spirits of Thalis have begun to leave their groves and mingle with humans. Eager to welcome their verdant new friends, Emry, Cal, and Aspen take center stage once more: they throw the country’s first spirit festival.  Music and merriment abound—but when an angry lynx attacks Aspen onstage, demanding to know how to go back to sleep in his grove, Emry realizes that not every spirit wants this new life…and he has no idea how to return them to their old one. The trio and their allies venture into an old-growth forest, seeking answers from Yarrow, the country’s oldest spirit. But Yarrow has grown treacherous—instead of helping them, it traps them in Raven’s Rest, a stubborn little village fighting for its place in the forest. As Yarrow’s malice grows and the spirits question their place in the world, Emry, Cal, and Aspen must join forces with the village to subdue Yarrow—even if it means destroying the very answers they seek.

Curious about the pre-order goodies? I've got a bookmark, sticker, and free short story for you!

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(And again, if you just want the book for free, Advanced Reader Copies are also now available!)

[ninja-muse]

Woo-ee, this was a ride! Grit and music and Americana and road trips and complicated families and joy and pain and the next big thing, wrapped in sheer blood-pumping prose. I'd half-forgotten how good a writer Rio is and it was great to finally read something new of hers. Her characters feel real and cinematic at the same time. She writes settings so you can smell the dust, feel the heat, hear the music. And the emotions. Oh god, the emotions. I know these characters intimately now and I felt every second.

I'm sure I'm missing as many musical references as I caught Shakespeare ones in If We Were Villains but that makes it no less of an experience. I want to flip back in time for the concerts. I want to take life by the throat and throw it to the wind. I want a cheeseburger. I wouldn't have it any other way.

[malice-and-macarons]

WARNING: FLASHING COLOURS AND LIGHTS!!

“...this isn’t real. You’re a corruption at most."

[daily-one-piece-stim]

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Arlong Park

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[scifrey]

I have finished assembling the ARCs and have set them up for distribution, so if you wanted to read a copy of the book FOR FREE in advance of it's release date (all you have to do in return is promise to post an honest review), then SIGN UP HERE.

[gcantread]

some August reads and planned reads | JOMP book photo challenge | 1 August 2024

[dvcky-duck]

WOAH ANIMATION?!?!? 0o HAHHGUSJJHS

[kishpancho]

GOODHOOD F.I.T.S ISSUE 47 Fall 2024

[gayofthefae]

"Will's season 5 arc will be coming to terms with Mike not reciprocating but also being accepted"

Bestie, that was literally his season 4 arc.

(his season 5 arc is being disproven)

[truepinkshape]

Arcs

[inazumaeleven-headcanon-space]

I wanna spark some discussion:)

so

SOME OF MY HOT TAKES (Thwy aren't realy hot :( .) STRICLY ABOUT THE FEMALE CHARACTERS IN INANZUMA ELEVEN.

1. Fuyuka should’ve been a player, not a manager.

She had trauma, depth, and a personal connection to the main character — and they stuck her on the sidelines to hold a clipboard and cry pretty. Imagine if she played instead. Quiet, graceful, but dangerous. Ice-cold strategist vibes. The kind of midfielder who doesn’t talk just moves — and everyone scrambles to keep up. Her healing arc could’ve been through soccer, not just "Oh my god!! Im so shy". Instead, she was reduced to a soft-spoken NPC and a plot pusher. Wasted potential. Give her a position and let her break ankles.

2. Urabe Rika is the only character who actually brought ENERGY to the team, and y’all slept on her.

She was loud, proud, unpredictable, and loyal as HELL — and what did the writers do? They made her comic relief. She was more than her accent, more than a crush, more than a “lovesick gyaru lol.” Rika had leadership qualities, she had guts, she had RANGE. Imagine a version of IE where Rika is something more than a stupid blonde archetype. Imagine the chaos. Imagine the POWER.

3. Fuyuka is not “boring,” she’s just a victim of misogynistic writing.

People clown on her like it’s her fault she has the personality of a damp tissue — but that’s because the writers gave her NOTHING. She’s soft, sad, and supportive, and that’s all she’s allowed to be. If she had even one episode focused on her own wants, dreams, or god forbid, rage, she’d be a fan fave. But instead she’s emotionally neutered and slapped on Endou’s trauma arc like a sticker.

4. Aliea Academy could’ve been run by girls, and the plot would’ve been 10x more iconic.

Imagine if the cold, tactical genius leading Genesis wasn’t some generic old fart, but a sophisticated older woman. A hyper-competent, sharp-dressed, emotionally damaged young girl (Yagami Reina) who was trained to believe soccer is war. THE PARALLELS. THE POTENTIAL. But nooo, we gotta give that to another glittery sad boy with god hair. Cowards.

5. Zaizen Touko was built to be iconic and then dropped like a side quest no one finished.

Like deadass i thought that she will be an important part of the story. A sword-wielding rich girl who joins the soccer team to save her father? A girl that likes Endou and is the only one that FUCKING ACTS ON IT LIKE A NORMAL PERSON? THAT is a story arc. That is cinema. But the show barely let her speak after the second season. She had brains, strategy, guilt, and growth — and they said “okay girl you can stand in the back now.” UNFORGIVABLE.

So yeah...LETS TAAALK!!

[vkelleyart]

Advance Reader Copies (ARCs) just dropped on NetGalley for WHEN THE TIDES HELD THE MOON!

The Erewhon Team and I put ourselves through the gauntlet to make sure these ARCs included finished illustrations (which is why I’ve been so sparse on Tumblr of late, though I promise I will catch up here soon!), and I cannot wait for readers to meet Benny, Río, and Morgan’s Menagerie! I am rooting for everyone who applies for an ARC to get one, and hope those who snag one will love this book as much as I loved writing it. 💙🧜🏼‍♂️🇵🇷🌊🎟️🗽🎡

NetGalley members can request an ARC as an early reviewer at the link below:

[readingrobin]

Y'all I went to my first title talk as a full time librarian and man am I SET.

Look at all this! They were also doing raffles the whole day and guess what?

I got MORE BOOKS.

Dang I have a good job.

[remusfinglupin]

Book haul from my town’s independent bookstore ☀️📖

[daily-one-piece-stim]

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Little Garden

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