#chelsea pitcher

[nateisfatigued]

Jack for the soul.

[mx-perfectly-fine]

the dedication pages in books are so personal to me

heat wave by tj klune and lies like poison by chelsea pitcher

[doyelikehaggis]

RJ is Reading… (April)

Lies Like Poison by Chelsea Pitcher

One petal of poppy

One petal of lily

One petal of belladonna

A recipe for the perfect murder…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4.5/5 stars

“I started off having a hard time getting into the story, but it just gripped me as it progressed. The symbolism with each characters fairytale and the way that they rewrite and twist the tales of their own lives is just so interesting. I gasped at so many little details. I love that Beauty became the Beast, but my favourite tale was by far Jack’s. (Also, ADORE that they were all in queer relationships! 🏳️‍🌈)”

[smolandweirdwriter]

Why are people so obsessed with shitty books when we could be obsessed with Lies Like Poison by Chelsea Pitcher?

[nat-reviews-books]

Lies Like Poison by Chelsea Pitcher

I started the book because the mystery sounded interesting, however, I finished the book not because the mystery was interesting (it wasn't) but because I really enjoyed reading about the characters and their thoughts and motivations.

[elizabethreadz]

This lie will kill you by Chelsea Pitcher ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Rating: 3/5 stars

Description: One year ago, there was a party. At the party, someone died. Five teens each played a part and up until now, no one has told the truth. But tonight, the five survivors arrive at an isolated mansion in the hills, expecting to compete in a contest with a $50,000 grand prize.

Review: There was some unexpected plot twists and great writing. I did find it quite confusing at times and I think the characters could of been introduced better because it took my a while to figure out who was who. I did like the plot initially but thought it got a bit over complicated and too much was happening at once. Overall, I give the book 3/5 stars because I liked the idea of the plot and I liked the plot twists but it could have been executed better.

[photographix-sincerity]

I bought more books than I've even picked up this month but.. why not? 🥺idk what to pick up though 😭

[exhuastedpigeon]

WIP Wednesday

A little baseball AU for you. Work has been pretty hectic so I haven't had as much energy to write at night lately.

“What I remember is you getting all buddy-buddy with me first semester - we were  pretty fucking close Diaz or did you forget that part? And then you came back after Thanksgiving fucking married with a kid on the way without so much as a text,” Adam let out an angry breath. “I remember thinking we had something special, but - you know what? Never mind. I hope you and Shannon are happy man.” “We’re divorced,” Eddie felt a little like he had whiplash. “And this isn’t about any of that man, it’s about us being adults and playing together here.” “Sure,” Adam’s eyes darted to the door. “I’m only here for one year. No way in hell I’m coming back when my contract expires.” “It's a good team, a good group of guys,” Eddie feels wrong footed. He’d expected the passive aggressive attitude, but he didn’t expect Watts to bring up Shannon, to bring up anything outside of baseball honestly. “I’m sure you and your family will be happy here.” “Chelsea is over the fucking moon,” Watts still sounded frustrated but at least now it wasn’t directed as Eddie. “She’s trying to get the twins into some fancy fucking school - Dundurn?” “Durand?” “Yeah,” Watts looked at Eddie, gaze assessing. “That one.” “Chris goes there. I can call, put in a good word.” “You’d do that?” “It’s my job to take care of my pitchers. You’re on my team, so that includes you,” Eddie shrugged. Shannon had always said he forgave too quickly and maybe she was right, but Eddie needed this to work. “I’ll call tomorrow. I just need you to let me do my job without causing any shit.” “Yeah, sure,” Adam nodded and then shouldered passed Eddie in the doorway. He was halfway down the hallway when he turned around and gave Eddie a sharp smile. “You and Buckley seem close. Hope that works out for you this time.”

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[lunasbookshelf4]

My TBR for 2024 till now (goal is to read 30 books):

1. This lie will kill you - Chelsea Pitcher

2. Sense and sensibility - Jane Austen

3. The summer she went missing - Chelsea Ichaso

4. Little women (currently reading) - Louisa May Alcott

5. All the hunger games books - Suzanne Collins

6. We were liars - E. Lockhart

7. Five survive - Holly jackson

8. The picture of dorian gray - Oscar Wilde

9. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

10. This book kills - Ravena Guron

11. Catch your death - Ravena Guron

12. Emma - Jane Austen

13. How to find a missing girl - Victoria Wlosok

14. Once upon a broken heart - Stephanie Garber

15. The seven husbands of evelyn hugo - Taylor Jenkins reid

16. The silent patient - Alex Michaelides

17. The perks of being a wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

18. The secret history - Donna Tartt

Feel free to comment recommendations <3

[jackhues]

my fav comms moments from this game in no particular order (phillies vs. mets - london series):

as someone who is not biased towards either team

they wished the net was positioned differently so maybe they could catch a foul ball (their box in london is much lower than the other ballparks)

having a whole conversation with the mets cf and him being mic'd up while screaming for the ball

and that one announcer who was just praising the cfer while they were interviewing him mic'd up

bryce harper's soccer celly after hitting a hr and the comms bringing it up multiple times

plotting how to get bryce harper to hit the cycle and calling it a 'london cycle' (it didn't happen)

going off topic and talking about whoever the camera would show in the crowd

saying 'across the pond' as they referred to playing in london. at least once/twice an inning

going off topic and talking about the dirt. saying it came from america

laughing at the mascot/costumes with a giant head (???) race - the last few seconds were televised before the bottom of the seventh

feeling bad for the mets pitcher when he was taken out of the fourth

when the top of the fourth finally finished and a player who's name i can't remember was the third out: "he was two of the three outs. they went through the order, and he accounted for two of the three outs"

pronouncing chelsea as kelsey, and the other guy correcting him immediately

getting a fish and chips delivery in the bottom of the 7th by the phillies mascot and absolutely losing their minds (probably one of my favourite parts)

one of the guys saying his fav part was being visited by the fanatic (phillies mascot)

THE GUY SAYING "CASTELLANOS DEEP DRIVE TO LEFT CENTER FIELD... IN LONDON" and then the mics going silent for like ten seconds lmaooo - (idk if this was on purpose or if i'm just reaching)

montreal expos mention

[moonlightreal]

The giant Fairy YA books post

There are so many fairy YA books. So. Many. I’m just going to drop a list with short comments on the ones that might be more obscure, or that I can think of something to say about, in no particular order.

The Last Changeling by Chelsea Pitcher

Fairy princess Elora must find a noble and good hearted human boy to sacrifice to conquer her tyrannical mother. She goes to a human high school to find him, and promptly falls in love.

I’ve tried to read this one a few times- the plot is solid and the reviews are great- but I just cannot get into it. The moment that boy meets girl they fall in love instantly and then the writing becomes about their growing feelings for each other not about fairy politics and adventure. From the reviews I know there’s good plot… but I just can’t. Maybe you can!

A Court of Thorns and Roses

I quite liked these, in spite of some annoying aspects. I always get grumpy when books have onscreen sex, because book one will be 100% plot and then they start having sex and book two will be 90% plot and 10% sex and then by book four it’ll be 60% plot and 40% sex and well, I don’t mind sex in books but I do mind how the plot gets progressively diluted by more and more steamy scenes.

These books are SJM’s love letter to the Black Jewels Trilogy, and while SJM is not my cup of tea I do love the Black Jewels books and recommend jumping to them for any Court Of fans. With the caveat that they are also weird about sex. In a totally different way than Court Of is weird about sex; Court Of just has large quantities of sex but Black Jewels is weird and makes you wonder what Ann Bishop really thinks about people.

An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson

This book shines in its worldbuilding. The fair folk are immortal but unable to do anything remotely creative. Our heroine is a painter who loves her craft and uses it to paint the beautiful fae folk. She meets a fae prince who is of course the only fae who has any empathy and humanity and feels strangely drawn to her, because of course he does. The story is predictable but the world and the way the writer does her fae folk make this a book well worth reading.

Rogerson’s other books are also good. Sorcery of Thorns didn’t grab me but Vespertine is just brilliant and with the upward trend in amazingness I can’t wait to see what her next book will be.

Poison by Chris Wooding

Wooding’s strength as a writer is thinking up wonderfully spooky set pieces and imagery, which he does masterfully. In this book he follows the plot of a girl who sets out to rescue a sister kidnapped by the fae. The girl named herself Poison because she’s kinda grumpy and misanthropic and she travels through several creepy places to find… well, the ending is odd. But the journey is worth reading. I like the author’s Haunting of Alaizabel Cray better but Poison is worth getting from the library.

Spell Hunter aka Knife by RJ Anderson

A dwindling civilization of tiny fairies lives in an oak tree, trying to find food and escape the crows and foxes that prey on them. One young fairy who names herself Knife starts spying on the giant humans in a nearby house, especially their son who has recently lost the use of his legs in an accident. Things go from there about as you’d expect. This isn’t a terribly unique plot but it’s a unique setting and setup. It does play with the idea that fairy civilization isn’t able to thrive without human contact, which is cool. There are two sequel books.

The Call by Peadar O’Guilin

The Sidhe have come back to take their revenge on the humans who stole Ireland from them. Every teenager will at some point vanish into the fae realm and must survive as the fae try to torture them to death. This ‘calling’ has shaped all of society with every resource bent towards helping the next generation survive. They mostly don’t. Nessa has weak legs after a bout with polio but is determined to survive when the call comes for her.

This book is verrrry dark, and it’s amazing. There is a sequel.

Cold Tom by Sally Prue

A book from the point of view of a truly inhuman fae encountering the human world. Tom’s people are cold and cold-hearted. They have no family ties, and see the family ties between humans as slavery.

Holly Black’s fairy books

Are reliably good, also reliably dark. She kills off the characters’ pets oftener than I like (oftener than never) and has marvelously creepy monsters. Her fae tend to live alongside the modern world as inhuman beings that prey on humanity. Tithe and its companion books are good, The Darkest Part of the Forest is standalone and it’s good. I haven’t read her other series yet but I’m going to assume they are similar and also good.

Bones of Faerie

A YA post-apocalyptic fairy story. The fae won the war and now nature is angry. A wonderfully vivid setting. Liza is just trying to survive in this destroyed world, and when she discovers she has supernatural powers herself she’s exiled from her village and off on a quest. I quite liked this one because it gives more to the worldbuilding and very little to boys boys boys.

The Various

An oddity. The trilogy is found in the children's section but the books are a good two inches thick each. They’re about girls who encounter the ‘various’ kinds of fae creatures, a bit like Spiderwick with a much higher wordcount. I was very excited to read these, but to my disappointment they didn’t grab me and I remember nothing much about them.

Treachery of Beautiful Things

A girl must save her brother who’s been kidnapped by the fairy queen for his musical ability, and along the way she meets a boy. A standard basic plot, but this book does it really well. The writing feels epic, there are lots of spooky fae creatures, the otherworld feels like an alien realm. The author is Irish so she knows the lore. Recommended!

All That Glows

Years ago the fae swore a pack with Britain’s royal family, and part of that pact means that each royal is invisibly guarded by a faery. Emrys is assigned to keep an eye on the teenage prince, who she feels a strange connection to. But there’s no time to wonder why she’s reacting like a Night World character who just met their soulmate; dire evils are threatening the realm! This book is heavier on the swoony romance than some, but it is a good read for all of that. The fae are appropriately inhuman, the prince is less boring than some love interests, and the setup with the heroine as a guardian rather than wandering into fairyland like most of the heroines on this list makes it unique.

These Hollow Vows

Our heroine goes to rescue her sister, becomes a spy in a fae court, and soon finds herself torn between feelings for a handsome fae prince and a handsome fae rebel who is also a prince. I rate this one too much love triangle not enough worldbuilding. Much to my disappointment because it looked really promising at first glance.

Kandide and the Secret of the Mists

Haughty and selfish fairy princess Kandide suffers an injury that leaves her with a deformed wing and is exiled like all other “imperfect” fae. Meeting her fellow imperfects helps her grow as a person.

This reads very self-published, like it’s written by someone who doesn’t really know how to write a book. The villain hates Kandide just because she’s always been a bully. Fae exile their disabled people just because they do. There’s instalove when Kandide meets her fella and lots of “as you well know” writing. Not a surprise since the author is a stage magician who wrote a book inspired by the art that appears on the cover. In fact she wrote three books! Which is ridiculously impressive but makes it unsurprising that the writing isn’t really up to standard.

Faerie Path

Anita’s handsome friend opens a portal into the fairy world, where she learns that she is really Talia, lost daughter of Oberon and Titania. Talia meets her six older sisters, discovers the fairy realm, has lots of romance with the love interest, and must help deal with a villain. The seven daughters as characters are the only point that make this series stand out.

Wondrous Strange

Kelley is acting in Midsummer Night’s Dream in a park that happens to hold the portals to the fairy realm. Soon she’s crossed paths with one of the changelings who guards the gates and starts falling for him. Oh, and she’s got a kelpie in her bathtub and may be the lost fairy princess. A perfectly standard fairy YA, first of a trilogy.

Iron King

On Meghan’s sixteenth birthday she starts seeing strange creatures. Then her brother is replaced by a changeling and she and her best friend Robbie Goodfell head into fairyland to the rescue. On the way she meets the handsome prince of the winter court.

I quite like these. There's a trilogy about Meghan and a sequel trilogy about her brother, who grows up able to see fairies after being kidnapped as a child. There’s certainly some boys boys boys stuff but Prince Ash is barely on screen for most of the first book, leaving hundreds of pages free for nothing but adventure and spooky fae encounters. I feel like this series is the platonic ideal of the YA fairy novel.

Dust Girl

A trilogy unique in that it takes place in America in the 1920s and stars a girl who is mixed race in both the ethnicity and species senses. Callie leaves home after the dust bowl has destroyed the town and her mother has disappeared, in company with a handsome hobo she searches for her parents and encounters the fae courts.

Wicked Lovely

Aislinn has always been able to see the fae, and tried to stay under the radar. But suddenly the leaders of the summer and winter courts are both taking an interest in her. Only one is a handsome boy, but Aislinn also has a human boyfriend she’s not interested in exchanging for the lord of summer. Marissa Marr has a whole slew of fairy YA books, 5 set in this world and a few others in an alternate fae world with different courts.

The Faerie Ring

Tiki and her found family of orphans survive as pickpockets in Victorian London, until Tiki steals a ring (like, a jewelry ring not a ring of mushrooms) that is the symbol of the peace between humans and fairies. Hopefully the handsome thief Riecker can help her protect her family from sudden fae attention!

Magic Under Glass

Performer Nimira discovers that her employers hunt fairies as trophies, and then meets an unusually human automaton which turns out to hold the spirit of a fae prince.

Wings by Aprilynne Pike

Laurel discovers she’s a fairy, and that fairies are plants. Actual plant people, their wings are their petals. Which is a unique take! But when the handsome fae boy turns up her tells Laurel about the courts and a battle against trolls, some normal stuff along with being a plant. Unfortunately, I did not love this book or read the sequels. The plant people idea is neat though, and could have gone some interesting places in a different story.

Wings by ED Baker

Tamisin suddenly sprouts wings. Her adoptive parents can’t help her figure it out, but maybe the strangely handsome one out of the ugly goblins coming after her can.

Glimmerglass

Dana runs away from home, a sensible thing to do when your mother drinks too much, but her father lives on the border of Faerie and that's a problem. Because Dana turns out to be one of the few people who can cross between the worlds, bringing magic or technology back and forth. This makes her a valuable pawn for politicians on both worlds, one of whom is Dana’s father. And another of whom is the father of the hot fae guy Dana can’t stop thinking about. First of a trilogy. Not amazing.

Tree Shepherd’s Daughter

Keelie goes to live with her father, who works Renaissance Faires. Some of the faire actors are very committed to their roles. Almost as if they might be acting their ordinary lives. Soon our heroine is having conversations with trees and learning new things about herself. First of a trilogy.

Lament

Deirdre is a talented musician, and she can see fairies. Particularly two very handsome fairies, who are both looking to kill Deirdre before the power of her music makes trouble for the queen’s court. I read this book but remember almost nothing about it, making me think that as Maggie Stiefvater’s first YA book it may suffer from early-work clumsiness. It afflicts us all.

Falconer

Aileana should be concentrating on her debut and finding a husband, but she keeps sneaking away to slay faeries nobody else can see trying to get to the one who killed her mother. Aileana is a strong female lead and the book is good steampunk fun. Except it ends in the middle of the climactic battle. Not after the climactic battle, literally in the middle of it. So make sure you have the whole trilogy on hand before you start.

Fairies of Dreamdark

Laini Taylor is a really good writer, in a way that not all YA authors are. This is a book about a tiny-fairy with wings, friends with crows, who hunts evil demons and traps them in bottles. The characters are good, the worldbuilding is great, well worth reading.

[midnightisday2]

U want some novels to read cuz ur bored?here's some i reccomend

1. Heartless by Marrisa Meyers(its basicaly the backstory of the queen of hearts)(there is fiction/action/fantasy/and a little romance).

2.the renegades series by Marrisa Meyers (omg its basically heroes and villains kind of story)(there is fiction/action/sci-fi/and a little romance) there is three books the first is THE RENEGADES the second is ARCHENEMIES and the third is SUPERNOVA

3.This Lie Will Kill You by Chelsea Pitcher(there was a party and someone died last year.5 teens each played a part of not telling the truth up until now.But tonight the 5 survivors are invited to a murder party dinner at a mansion competing in a contest to get a 50k grand prize)(its a mystery murder)(its a thriller/mystery/fiction)

4.Lies Like Poison by Chelsea Pitcher(3 friends,Belladonna,Poppy,Lilly promised each other when they were kids to poison their friend Raven's step-mom who has been hurting him.they had planned to plant poisonous flower petals based on their names into his step-mother's tea.That way no one can tell who poisoned her.They written the plan on a piece of paper and hid it,Swearing they would do it when they got older.One night the police showed up at Belladonna's house to arrest her saying Raven's step-mother is dead and there had been beladonna petals in her tea cup.But Beladonna hadn't done it.Who did?......(fiction/thriller/mystery).

Hope these help! And don't worry!these are all young adult reads.and there isnt any spice in them so totally safe to read but uh...lies of poison has the couples in bed if you mind that part.i really like reading sci-fi so the romance isnt too much nor too little.HAPPY READING

[doyelikehaggis]

Paper Ships: Belladonna Drake x Lily Holloway (Lies Like Poison by Chelsea Pitcher)

"There's only one way to break the spell," Lily said. Miraculously, her hand was no longer caressing the rose, but rather had come to rest on Belle's.

That time she felt more than a pulsing inside her chest. She felt a thud. "How?" she asked, turning her hand over so they could lace their fingers together.

"You have to kiss someone." Lily looked up, a slight quirk in her lips. "Someone you love. Do you think you can do it?"

Belle sucked in a breath, forcing herself to look Lily in the eyes.

"I can try," she whispered, and though nothing happened between them that night, the possibilities unfolded inside her like pathways twisting in a forest. They could have adventures together, and maybe someday her heart would be healed enough to let Lily in.

[smolandweirdwriter]

something about raven not wanting to kiss jack until he came out, until he was fully and truly himself is making me FEEL THINGS

[nat-reviews-books]

Currently Reading: Lies Like Poison by Chelsea Pitcher

This definitely has me interested, I don't read a lot of mysteries, but I definitely enjoy them when I do.

[heartofhubris-a]

Just thinking about what would happen if Hardings partner was admitted to Chelsea and he felt that they weren’t treated to a good enough medical standard.

The poor person that would have to sit thru that 311 oml.

(Thinking about Harding obsessively lately 😩)

Oh my god could you imagine?

Imagine; Just something as simple as a hit in run, maybe there's a brain bleed or something that'd require... let's say Ty and Tina to be pulled up to the front, Harding sitting at the front all serious as he'd be, not even a hint of humor in his voice as he asks Ty to start to innumerate just how this case went, Tina deferring to Ty as he was the surgeon on record, Gato was the one that had pushed Ty and Tina onto the case, to their confusion.

Ty tries to pull his usual bravado, Tina's all calm and gathering information, and the only person who realizes that Harding keeps touching the ring on his finger is Gato.

In the rush of surgery, it would be possible that Ty wouldn't even notice the last name of the patient, only the test results and the injuries, that Tina would have just been focused on the aide she would need to be offering Ty, that only Gato would realize just who it was.

Until the moment that Harding's hands clasp and they rest on the edge of that dark desk, and his normal routine changes. The pitcher of water sits untouched, small bubbles of dissolved air collecting on the inside, making the clear liquid fuzzy. His deep voice would echo into the audience, the collection of surgeons.

"And tell me, Dr Wilson, Dr Ridgeway, how does courting someone in the round facilitate your success rates?"

Just for them both to be supremely confused, and Harding to continue.

"Oh? Is there a confusion between you two?" A wave of his hand at them, and "I may not be the surgeon with the most recent blade in my hand, but I do recall how important professionalism remains in the theater; including comments made in regards to patients." And he ends up detailing every single numb complaint you'd offered Harding, after Ty and Tina had joked about your injuries, seemingly small at first glance, but worse on the inside, slowing managing to make them both cow down, unable to make eye contact.

Harding wouldn't end until they were both well cowed down, only to look at Ty and,

"Dr, would you mind delivering this page to the doctors?" and someone walks the page up, and Ty finally realizes just who you are to Harding, and why he's gotten such an intense, public lashing in front of everyone.

Just for Harding to return after the 311 to your hospital room, and take your hand as he had for the last few nights, sleeping in the chair next to your bed with his hand laced with yours, waking whenever it was a nurse would walk in to check in on you. He'd understand everything they said too intimately, but he would absolutely refuse to offer any form of advise to any nurse or doctors in your care, knowing just how entwined he was, and the fact his role right now was as a husband, not a doctor.

Only for him to turn around and request certain doctors to look over your case whenever possible; Sung, Arvin, whoever was around to look.