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Genoveva Dimova

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Varna, Bulgaria

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Genoveva Dimova is a Bulgarian fantasy author and archaeologist based in Scotland. Her debut novel inspired by Bulgarian folklore, Foul Days, came out in June 2024, and the sequel, Monstrous Nights followed in October 2024. When she’s not writing, she likes to explore old ruins, climb even older hills, and listen to practically ancient rock music.

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Average rating: 3.9 · 5,678 ratings · 1,485 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Foul Days (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 4,158 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Monstrous Nights (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #2) 4.02 avg rating — 1,319 ratings — published 2024 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ace Up Her Sleeve (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #1.5) 3.79 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 2024	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Some of the Best from Reactor: 2024 Edition by Kemi Ashing-Giwa (Goodreads Author), Renan Bernardo (Goodreads Author), Genoveva Dimova (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2024	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reactor Magazine Short Fiction July/Aug 2024 by John Wiswell (Goodreads Author), Mary Robinette Kowal (Goodreads Author), Martin Cahill (Goodreads Author) 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I recently got some happy news: in addition to English and Bulgarian, my book, FOUL DAYS, is also going to be available in Polish, Spanish and German. This is enormously exciting for me. Growing up, I had to rely on translations as English-language books were hard to find. This meant that the only books I had access to were the ones Bulgarian publishers had decided to buy and translate: those were

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Genoveva Dimova wants to read Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Genoveva Dimova has read The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2) by Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Sharp, visceral, and atmospheric. I've been looking forward to this book - a tale of a con artist pretending to be a vampire hunter in a small Bulgarian village - ever since it was first announced, and I'm thrilled that it met my high expectations. I ...more
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Genoveva Dimova rated a book it was amazing The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
It was funny, reading this book so soon after The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri, because the two felt like they were in conversation with each other. Both are books about lady knights, and both revolve around the power of stories and how histo ...more
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“Every self-respecting witch had a few battle scars.”
― Genoveva Dimova, Foul Days

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“He had the spine of a snake and the moral compass of a vulture.”
― Genoveva Dimova, Foul Days

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“Why would such a powerful being from another dimension put so much effort into bringing you down if you were weak and useless?”
― Genoveva Dimova, Foul Days

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Genoveva’s Quotes

“I'm not fucking dead," I said, which wasn't even true, and I was choking up; everything I'd ever done, everything I'd ever been through, and I was choking up.
As the Emperor of the Nine Houses, the Necrolord Prime, stood from his chair to look at you-- at me; looked at your face, looked at my eyes in your face. It took, maybe, a million myriads. The static in your ears resolved into wordless screaming his expression was just--gently quizzical; mildly awed.
"Hi, Not Fucking Dead," he said. "I'm Dad.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

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