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Insatiable (The Edge of Darkness, #1)

by Leigh Rivers (Goodreads Author)

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Katabasis

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Ruin (The Faithful and the Fallen, #3)

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“I’ve never met someone who is so perfectly my favorite person.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

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“I love humanity but I hate humans. —Albert Einstein”
― S.T. Abby, The Risk

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“This is why fairy tales are dangerous: their words sneak into your veins and travel into the chambers of your heart, where they whisper of your exceptionalism. They say: Ah, but remember the boy who walked into the woods and came out a king? Oh, but what of the girl who was kicked and slept in ashes? Remember the man who was only kind and so life bent around the shape of his smile? But we are not exceptional.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

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“They weren’t bad books,” Phin countered patiently. “They were books that you didn’t enjoy. It’s not the same thing at all. The only bad books are books that are so badly written that no one will publish them. Any book that has been published is going to be a ‘good book’ for someone.”
― Lisa Jewell, The Family Upstairs

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