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Witch Season: A Coven, a Murder, and a Man With Red Flags for Days (opens the original)
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Here’s the shape of it. Katherine Barnes is the enforcer for Aestas, the Los Angeles coven that takes in “unsettled” witches, kids whose magic erupts out of families that never had any. Every other coven shuns them or kills them. Aestas gives them a home, and Katherine owes her life to Sylvia, the woman who built it. Then Silas Khatri arrives, heir to Noctis, the coven that governs all the others, here to audit the one place that broke the rules on purpose. An unsettled witch turns up dead, a st
The Knave and the Moon: A Duology Closer That Let Me Exhale (opens the original)
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I waited for this book with bated breath. The Knight and the Moth ended by tearing our lovers apart and handing the kingdom to a boy king I hated with my whole chest, and I have been pacing ever since. So let me put the verdict up top, because I’m not going to make you work for it: it didn’t disappoint<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!H28h!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%
Prince of the Sun: The Book Boyfriend Who Feeds You (opens the original)
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The Cannibal Ruined Me and I Sent Thank You Notes (opens the original)
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In December I wrote that The Poisoner tested me, and I meant it as a complaint. I spent the first hundred pages of that book negotiating with myself about whether I was going to keep reading a cat-and-mouse romance when predatory pursuit makes my whole nervous system revolt.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KiOL!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fedfb1265-10d6-4f4
Broken Dove: Two men, one rebel base, and a woman who cannot see what she is (opens the original)
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No real spoilers until the clearly marked zone at the bottom, because the last fifty pages of this book do things I refuse to take from you. I did this one in both audio and ebook, which means my annotations are a strange hybrid this time, some highlighted in bed and some shouted at my kitchen while my hands were busy… not that kind of busy you little perverts<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4OEq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/h
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