Austin Petrini

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Austin is Currently Reading

Austin Petrini is currently reading

The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)

by Anne Rice

bookshelves: currently-reading

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(page 999 of 1216)
— 15 hours, 18 min ago

Feb 21, 2026 05:56PM

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Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

bookshelves: currently-reading

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— Feb 08, 2026 05:50PM

Feb 05, 2026 04:41PM

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True Love Bites (Hunger Pangs #1)

by Joy Demorra (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: fiction, fantasy, gaslamp-fantasy, vampires, werewolves, romance, queer, love, historical, victorian, currently-reading, fae, five-stars, lgbt, romantic-fantasy, winter

Reading for the 6th time

read in July 2023

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Austin Petrini said: " This book didn't hit as hard as it had all the other times, that being said I still love and adore it, but it feels more like a 4.75 instead of a 5 star read now. ...more "

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(page 11 of 518)
— Jan 02, 2026 10:34AM

Oct 11, 2025 11:25AM · see review

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Austin’s Quotes

“To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”
― Anne Rice

493 likes

“In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?”
― Anne Rice

tags: love-hell

434 likes

“The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

tags: akasha, blood, death, destroy, enkil, kill, lestat, life, maharet, marius, power, queen, queen-of-the-damned, vampires

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“People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

tags: bad, devil, god, good, religion

381 likes

“Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.”
― Anne Rice

tags: benediction, paraphrased

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