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sweet and bitter magic by adrienne tooley

“when you’re near me, i smell lavender on your hair. when you smile, i catch a taste of honey. your skin is warm against mine, and when you touch me, i feel more than magic”

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books read in 2021: an enchantment of ravens by margaret rogerson

“You are empty,” I said, my throat working, “and cruel.” “Ah. Yes, now that is true. Would you like to know the greatest secret of fairykind?” When I didn’t answer he continued, “We prefer to pretend otherwise, but truly, we have never been the immortal ones. We may live long enough to see the world change, but we’re never the ones who changed it. When we finally reach the end, we are unloved and alone, and leave nothing behind, not even our name chiseled on a stone slab. And yet—mortals, through their works, their Craft, are remembered forever.” He turned us gracefully through the crowd without missing a step. “Oh, you cannot imagine the power your kind holds over us. How very much we envy you. There is more life in your littlest fingernail than in everyone in my court combined.”

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y’all will truly read ochre or golden brown skin and put a white boy in yr edits 😢

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una’s love was glimpses of vulnerability. it was raising her sword against anyone who dared threaten wren. it was a cup of chamomile tea, and it was lying to the queen. 

happy birthday, @wintersorbit 🤍 

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@storyseekers event 08 : favorite 2020 read — down comes the night by allison saft

they had no time for whatever this was between them. not when their mission had only two possible outcomes. success meant preventing a war. it meant securing her position and finally knowing what happened to byres - and why. failure meant they might end up the fourth from each country to disappear. 

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Jessie Mei Li, Kit Young, Amita Suman, Ben Barnes, Archie Renaux, Sujaya Dasgupta, and Freddy Carter on the set of Shadow and Bone (2021). Photos by Freddy Carter.

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Hearts are power, and if there’s one thing my kind craves more than the ocean, it’s power.

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BOOKS READ IN 2019: To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo

I’m still not quite cold enough for the ocean that birthed me.

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YA LIT MEME: 2/10 Books - To Kill a Kingdom, Alexandra Christo

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WHY YOU SHOULD USE STORYGRAPH [SITE IN BETA]

do you hate amazon +/or goodreads? are you haunted the wasted potential of goodreads, how it could’ve updated itself or at least made the site a little bit more usable? ditch it for storygraph now.

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THE GRISHA TRILOGY

↳ @grishasnet event four — alternate covers

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2019 was such a busy year for all of us, so I'm sure you might have missed some releases...well have no fear, because I'm here to help! here's a list of 3 books PER MONTH of releases you might have missed in 2019✨📚

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crier’s war (2019) by nina varela

“There was no way she could actually marry Kinok. Especially not now – not after the kiss. Not after she knew the truth about herself. Tha she was capable of the most human feeling of all. That she loved Ayla.”

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@grishasworld​ mission 1: order pride — corporalki

corporalki, or the order of the living and the dead, are grisha whose power focuses on the human body. the order is divided into two primary types: heartrenders and healers. in the second army, they wear crimson kefta.

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Science fiction and fantasy isn’t just a white people thing! I’ve talked about some of these books before, but here’s a new slide show entirely for SFF authors of color. Also, I was only doing one book per author. Lots of these authors have multiple books. And like it says at the end, there’s even more SFF books by authors of color but fitting everything in one post would be an impossible task.

Also, could you please not rec white authors on this post? Even if they’ve written a book starring a person of color. I want this post to be focused around the work of authors of color. 

Links to more info about the books beneath the cut. 

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folx there is no way this isnt a fic that got published right

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POV: You’re the son of the President of the United States and you have been sleeping with a prince. Your mother meets with you and these are her powerpoint slides.