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A Phoenix First Must Burn

by Patrice Caldwell (Goodreads Author)

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Queen Demon (The Rising World, #2)

by Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)

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Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson

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The sooner we get started, the faster I can get back to tormenting widows and scandalizing the elderly with my nefarious black arts.”

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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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“The Calamitous Coven.” “No.” “Eve’s Army.” “No! It ought to be about, I don’t know, sisterhood or union—” “The Ladies Union of Giving the Bastards What’s Coming to Them.”
― 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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“The adults all agreed, without a word exchanged, that if Regan’s act of human heroism was to give comfort and friendship to one lonely centaur girl, they would consider her efforts to have been well spent.”
― Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields

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“You and I are not held to the same standards, Andrew. People will forgive a slip, a weakness, a minor personal folly — when it comes from a man. They may click their tongues at you, even gossip about your behavior…but at worst, it will only reflect on you.

“If I misstep, it goes far beyond me. Errors on my part are proof that women are unsuited to professional work.”
― Marie Brennan, In the Labyrinth of Drakes

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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 — 75 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! — 560 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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