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kris is Currently Reading

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Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)

by Leigh Bardugo (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: dark-academia, scifi-fantasy-adult, urban-fantasy, physically-owned, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in January 2023

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kris said: " absolutely hands down five stars. i loved this book so much, more even than the first. "

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Jan 14, 2023 09:16AM · see review

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The Trial of Magdalena Overmorrow

by Caitríona Moran (Goodreads Author)

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Oct 11, 2026 12:28PM

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Velvet Was the Night

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author)

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Oct 10, 2026 02:48PM

kris’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for This Savage Song (Monsters of Verity, #1)

This Savage Song (Monsters of Verity, #1) by Victoria Schwab

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For one, dazzling, infinite moment, August felt like he was standing on a precipice, the end of one world and the beginning of another, a whisper and a bang.

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kris’s Quotes

“And he loved her. He loved her. He loved her. He loved her. He loved her so much he’d rewritten history.”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

686 likes

“I will serve you ’til the end of days.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

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“She was more beautiful than he remembered. No, that wasn’t true. It wasn’t that she had changed or that his vision had sharpened. He was just less afraid of her beauty now”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

tags: darlingstern

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“They watched each other in the quiet of the kitchen. They knew everything about each other. They knew nothing at all. He had a sense that they had entered into an uneasy truce, but he couldn’t quite name the war.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

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