Tess

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When They Burned the Butterfly

by Wen-yi Lee (Goodreads Author)

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— Dec 01, 2025 04:09AM

Nov 22, 2025 05:24AM

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The Second Death of Locke (The Hand and the Heart, #1)

by V.L. Bovalino (Goodreads Author)

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Aug 11, 2025 10:47PM

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The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)

by Tasha Suri (Goodreads Author)

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read in April 2021

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Tess said: " Thank you to The Jasmine Throne for once again showing me that I'm starting to love adult fantasy. Oh, and for ripping my heart out.

This has everything I could ask of an epic fantasy - a slowburn, sapphic romance between two morally gray lesbians tha ...more "

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— Apr 19, 2021 02:13AM

Jun 06, 2021 12:38AM · see review

Tess ’s Quotes

“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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“I love you. I love you. I love you. I'll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You'll never see, but you will know. I'll be all the poets, I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

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