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The Shadow of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #1)

by John Gwynne (Goodreads Author)

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The Incandescent

by Emily Tesh (Goodreads Author)

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Miranda in Milan by Katharine Duckett

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and oh, she thought she had discovered marvels when first she looked upon the faces of new men. But women: women were another wonder entirely.

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“But all the caring was beaten and burned out of her, and now she's just hate with a heartbeat.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

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“Witching and women's rights. Suffrage and spells. They're both..." She gestures in midair again. "They're both a kind of power, aren't they? The kind we aren't allowed to have.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

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“Such is the dichotomy of forests. Even the smallest remembers what it was to cover nations, and the shadows they contain will whisper the knowledge to anyone who listens.”
― Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields

tags: forests, nature

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“The problem with saving someone, Bella thinks, is that they so often refuse to remain saved. They careen back out into the perilous world, inviting every danger and calamity, quite careless of the labor it took to rescue them in the first place.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

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“Or perhaps for all of them: for the little girls thrown in cellars and the grown women sent to workhouses, the mothers who shouldn’t have died and the witches who shouldn’t have burned. For all the women punished merely for wanting what they shouldn’t”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

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BooktubeSFF Awards — 1683 members — last activity Jun 01, 2021 12:01PM
A group for discussing the BooktubeSFF Awards and associated readalongs. To learn more about the awards have a look at the website: http://booktubesff ...more

2020 Retellings Reading Challenge — 77 members — last activity Dec 19, 2020 08:09PM
This is the Goodreads group for the 2020 Retellings Reading Challenge, hosted at Cornerfolds.com! Join the challenge HERE!

The Under-Hyped Readathon! — 561 members — last activity Sep 06, 2016 07:12PM
Basically, there has been a lot of talk on Booktube, and the internet in general, about the shifting community and the difference between hyping books ...more

The Count of Monte Cristo Read-a-Long! — 4 members — last activity Nov 01, 2014 04:32AM
Hello and welcome to The Count of Monte Cristo Read-a-Long Goodreads Group! Throughout November this year I'm going to be dragging unsuspecting vict ...more

Cardiff Speculative Fiction Book Club — 34 members — last activity Aug 28, 2017 07:31AM
A reading group focusing on science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, alternate realities and other fiction set in different worlds from ours.

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