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Elle Backenstoe

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Romance, Fantasy, Young Adult

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Average rating: 3.8 · 755 ratings · 302 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Sacrifice and the Spare (Bound By Blood #1) 3.52 avg rating — 322 ratings — 2 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
	Of Curses & Beauty 3.89 avg rating — 269 ratings — 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
	A Vow of Shadows (A Year with the Ferrier, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 147 ratings — 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
	As The Last Petal Falls: A Curses and Beauty Prequel Story 4.07 avg rating — 15 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
	A Vow of Shadows: A Year with the Ferrier, Book 1 by Elle Backenstoe (Goodreads Author), Ava Monroe (Narrator) 4.50 avg rating — 2 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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Fury Bound (The Wolves of Ruin, #2)

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“No reason to dwell on what-ifs when the what-is can't become the what-isn't”
― Elle Backenstoe, The Sacrifice and the Spare

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“But Kell knew he couldn’t break Holland.
Holland was already broken. It showed, not in the scars, but in the way he spoke, the way he held himself in the face of pain, too well acquainted with its shape and scale. He was a man hollowed out long before Osaron, a man with no fear and no hope and nothing to lose.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

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