#Faebound

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Books Read in 2025

Faebound by Saara El-Arifi

And for a time, all was well. But no matter how much the gods wished for peace, they had given their children the one thing that would never ensure it. Free Will.

[bigdreamsandwildthings]

Books and tea forever 📖☕️

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JOMP day 2

Currently reading

Starting off kinda slow this month 😅 but also starting with back to back buddy reads

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Do you love reading books from authors you've never heard of or do you prefer to read your favourite authors?

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✨ BOOK REVIEW ✨

Cursebound by Saara El-Arifi

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

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Thank you Random House and Netgalley for providing me with an e-copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This was SUCH a great sequel. Even better than the first and I am so excited to see what happens in the third and final book after the events of this one.

The continuation of our main characters stories had me gripped. The threat against Lettle’s life and uncovering who was behind the plot to kill her was absolutely fascinating. I managed to work out who was behind it a while before the reveal but that’s never something that lets me down when reading.

The ongoing political tension with the fae but also with the elves continued to ramp up during this one and I really do love politics and war in fantasy stories.

But the thing that really elevated this one was the addition of Alder. He was just so utterly loveable and wholesome. And his relationship with Golan caught me entirely by surprise and they’ve ended up my favourite ship in this series. They were just so dang precious.

Alder and all the secrets his plot uncovers was incredibly exciting and I can’t wait to see where it all leads.

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Furi

Nerad

Lettle

Yeeran

Faebound

“What’s it like, having a sister? I never had any siblings.” Lettle looked at Yeeran ahead of them and barked out a laugh. “It’s terrible!” This drew a small smile from Rayan, but it wasn’t enough. “But it’s also like…” she searched for a metaphor he’d understand, “it’s like wearing a shield. It’s heavy to carry, but it protects the most precious parts of you. I love Yeeran more than anything.” ― Saara El-Arifi, Faebound

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Bookstore trip to the @novelneighblr

The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei

A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos

Faebound by Saara El-Arifi

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“Love and hate are oil and water, separate but similar, and sometimes they swirl together, making it difficult to tell one from the other.”

—Faebound by Saara El-Arifi

[car0l-avenger-danvers]

Still only in the first chapters of the book but... god, i'm sorry but i'm not connecting, enjoying, or... anything with the Lettle chapters, at the moment she just bothers me a lot, her attitude already nagged at me in the first book, but i don't know if i'm not giving her a chance or i just personally really don't like her character, and now she's acting all superior all the time and hating everyone around her, which i GET! really, but it's really annoying, and her chapters are starting to be a chore to read, and i hate it, because i want to read it but it's just... ugh.

And it's not just her, it's her and Rayan that bother me the most tbh, and although everyone is making... questionable decisions, these two are the ones bothering me more... i guess it can also be my bias is showing.

[melanielocke]

Most anticipated 2024 books!

I am anticipating a lot of books. To keep track of them, I made a 2024 tbr shelf. It has 123 books. I certainly won't be reading all 123, but since I can sort the list by release date it helps me keep track of new releases. Unfortunately, 123 is so many that half of them I don't even remember adding them or what they're about, so I decided to boil it down to 10 most anticipated new books and 10 sequels.

New

Faebound - Saara El-Arifi - Jan 18

Voyage of the Damned - Frances White - Jan 18

Fathomfolk - Eliza Chan - Feb 27

A Botanical Daughter - Noah Medlock - Mar 19

Otherwordly - FT Lukens - Apr 2

The Sins on their Bones - Laura R. Samotin - May 7

Not for the Faint of Heart - Lex Croucher - May 7

The Honey Witch - Sydney J. Shields - May 14

Running Close to the Wind - Alexandra Rowland - Jun 11

Swordcrossed - Freya Marske - Oct 10

Sequels

The Cursed Rose - Leslie Vedder (book 3 of the Bone Spindle, final book) - Feb 6

The Eternal Ones - Namina Forna (book 3 of Deathless trilogy) - Feb 13

Merciless Saviors - H.E. Edgmon (sequel to Godly Heathens, final book) - Apr 16

Heavenly Tyrant - Xiran Jay Zhao (sequel to Iron Widow, final book) - Apr 30

Mirrored Heavens - Rebecca Roanhorse (book 3 of Between Earth and Sky trilogy) - Jun 4

Hearts that Cut - Kika Hatzopoulou (sequel to Threads that Bind) - Jun 4

The Unrelenting Earth - Kritika H. Rao (Book 2 in the Rages trilogy) - Jun 18

The Lotus Empire - Tasha Suri (book 3 in the Burning Kingdoms trilogy) - Jul 18

Celestial Monsters - Aiden Thomas (sequel to the Sunbearer Trials, final book) - Sept 3

Alecto the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir (book 4 in the Locked Tomb series) - release dat unknown, likely late 2024

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Potato has been given a new book…

Potato now must read!

It’s soooo pretty 🥹

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Recent + current reads ✨

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Propaganda Under Cut:

Lettle (Younger Sister of Yeeran): After her sister is exiled from Elven lands Lettle immediately goes to her even if it means that she will live in exile too.

Sophie Hatter (Older Sister of Lettie + Martha): Submitted by Anonymous x2. In the book she raises her 2 younger sisters well, makes their clothes, stops them fighting and looks out for them even when they're all doing their own thing after their schooling. She only wants the best for them and is never jealous of their talents and beauty and fortunes as young sisters which is bound to be better than hers as is the belief of their land.

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My to read pile 🤣

[lovelysakuryay]

y’all i just got called chronically online (which i am, but idc) for calling Faebound a wlw and a sapphic book…

am i being crazy or are these just normal terms to describe a woman loving another woman in a book???