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unfortunately having to interrupt the trans rights readathon TBR for 👀reasons👀 and goddamn this book is wasting no time

is that…. a dora the explorer reference??????

“prefers fruit over seeds” as a euphemism for being a lesbian is WILD

TRICKSTER CHARACTERS ALERT!!!!! OH MY GOD I DIDNT EVEN KNOW I WAS YEARNING FOR THIS

first one of my most anticipated releases for 2026 and she’s starting out STRONG guys

bro you’re telling me that celia (using shakespeare’s names) falls in love with oliver because he saves her from being literally kidnapped and sold as a sex slave????? will my guy that’s a wild thing to leave out

Y’ALL!!! SOUND THE ALARMS!!!! RING THE BELLS!!! ITS GIVING T KINGFISHER MEETS TAMSYN MUIR!!!!!

okay i’m immediately obsessed with this!! I love books that are doing unique things

approaching the final 10%… based on the way everyone is talking about this book, these final pages better be a gut-puncher

autistic man and comphet lesbian…. I see you 👁️

I knew my yuri senses were tingling ☝️😌

this book is really making me want to rewatch kill your darlings

someone tell james the stuff you put on your eyelids is eyeshadow not mascara

we are finishing this book today 🫡

catherine is so work song coded (i’m cringing as I type this)

chapter 12 begins with a 12-lines-long sentence

this is suuuuch a classic gothic, why was no one yelling at me to read this sooner?

yeah so racism is immediately a major theme

yall know me… I always have to have an informed opinion (I also always could use an excuse to read more classics)

something so deeply annoying about me is that sometimes my brain will just like… decide it’s done with a book before i’ve finished it even if the book is very good. and it’s happening really bad with this one.

FOURTY ONE RATINGS???? CRIMINAL!!! yall get on this series right now!! (hot gay people fighting fascism in a dystopian-y ancient rome, what’s not to love????)

hildegard von bingen 💀💀💀

SHUT UP HAHAHAH I figured this was coming to some degree but this specific reveal is taking me OUT 💀💀💀

time to read my flatmate’s book 😈😈😈 (they’re scared but i’m gonna love it)

racemaking! racemaking! racemaking!

favorite trope!!! let’s go!!! ✊😌

I am genuinely really enjoying this on its own but unfortunately every time a book features a snarky butch (especially a snarky butch knight) I just miss my blorbo/wife about it (gideon my beloved)

the early modernist in me is geeking about the visards and the clearly elizabethan imagery used for the queen … the use of elizabeth’s brand of whiteness as a status symbol… the use of darkness to signify silence and intimidation… i’m bouncing off the walls

just remembered this was a horror book because I was just, indeed, horrified