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read in September 2025
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✰✰✰✰✰ / 5My lord this was PHENOMENAL. From the writing to the characters to the emotional stakes, this was everything I wanted and more.
Eleanore is a herbalist and healer who’s taken under the wing of the pope’s physician in 1347. As she learns to t ...more "
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"this is just SUCH a fascinating read to see the bubonic plague from a healers (fictional) perspective. and the way she writes how the pope operates and europe is intertwined?? ugh i love so bad as a medievalist!!" — Sep 27, 2025 09:32PM
"this is just SUCH a fascinating read to see the bubonic plague from a healers (fictional) perspective. and the way she writes how the pope operates and europe is intertwined?? ugh i love so bad as a medievalist!!" — Sep 27, 2025 09:32PM
Gwen :)
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"this book continually turned sexual moments weird and uncomfortable. First they’re attacked as an mc is masturbating, then an mc cries out another persons name when they’re together, then a man mentioned he sat and watched the shadows of their hookup the whole night without their consent. like wtf" — Aug 10, 2026 09:03PM
"this book continually turned sexual moments weird and uncomfortable. First they’re attacked as an mc is masturbating, then an mc cries out another persons name when they’re together, then a man mentioned he sat and watched the shadows of their hookup the whole night without their consent. like wtf" — Aug 10, 2026 09:03PM
“Sharing a room with the person you want most is like sharing a room with an open fire.
He's constantly drawing you in. And you're constantly stepping too close. And you know it's not good--that there is no good--that there's absolutely nothing that can ever come of it.
But you do it anyway.
And then...
Well. Then you burn.”
― Carry On
He's constantly drawing you in. And you're constantly stepping too close. And you know it's not good--that there is no good--that there's absolutely nothing that can ever come of it.
But you do it anyway.
And then...
Well. Then you burn.”
― Carry On
“Straight people, he thinks, probably don't spend this much time convincing themselves that they're straight.”
― Red, White & Royal Blue
― Red, White & Royal Blue
“I am going to die kissing Simon Snow. Aleister Crowley, I'm living a charmed life.”
― Carry On
― Carry On
“He's not a monster. He's just a villain. He's not a villain. He's just a boy. I'm kissing a boy. I'm kissing Baz.”
― Carry On
― Carry On
“That's the choice. I love him, with all that, because of all that. On purpose. I love him on purpose.”
― Red, White & Royal Blue
― Red, White & Royal Blue
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