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Books of 2024: THE DEATH I GAVE HIM by Em X. Liu.

Up next! Hamlet retelling but make it science + a locked-lab mystery (which is, of course, directly up my alley!). Horatio is the lab's resident AI, and I'm so excited to see how this goes.

#books #books of 2024 #the death i gave him #em x. liu #book photography #my photography #and yeah catch me transitioning out of THE WAY SPRING ARRIVES with this one lmao #one queer chinese spec fic book to another babeeey #i'm about to speedrun a hamlet kick and i'm having a good time #ALSO #i need the world to know how BLAZINGLY BRIGHT this book is!!!#holy shit it is SO green (my photo doesn't do the green justice sorry)#and the accents are SO HOT PINK #and then!! the back cover!! IS ALSO SO HOT PINK #THE END PAGES ARE EVEN BRIGHTER HOT PINK!!!!#i'm delighted by the colorful experience of this book XD #lowkey bummed that the boards are just black with silver text honestly #AND i have. reservations. about how sturdy the whole thing is (it doesn't feel especially well-put together)#but gotdamn if it isn't COLORFUL #also the blurbers on the back are a powerhouse as a collective #shelley parker-chan and cassandra khaw and grace d li #freya marske and sam j miller #(i don't actually know ren hutchings and cse cooney on sight but i feel like i should....)#anyway!! stoked!! love books made for meeee

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