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[they-didnt-last]

anyone interested in talking about the iconic 2000's middle-grade-bordering-on-ya book series gallagher girls??

[annt-i]

Alex and Mrs. Jones at Ian's funeral.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Our Lady Of Mysterious Ailments & The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle

books 2 & 3 in the Edinburgh Nights series

paranormal mystery set in a climate-ravaged future Scotland, plagued by ghosts and magic

follows a 15yo Black girl who’s finally gotten an in to learn scientific magic properly - but it turns out to be an unpaid internship, so she has to take more jobs delivering ghost messages and investigating mysteries to take care of her gran and little sister

in book 2 she’s investigating a strange illness centred on a magic school for boys

and in book 3 she’s attending a global magician conference held in a creepy castle - when someone’s murdered, and they’re locked in until she figures out the culprit

Zimbabwean magic, friendship, disabled characters, no romance (so far)

[vrtualsin666]

weird girl books !! (all linked 2 read online !!)

i don't see people link books a lot on here, but I have a collection so im just trying to share to people who don't know where to find books they want!

these are mainly books that most people, well, WOULDN'T LIKE, the books linked are for a.. acquired taste.

I will also mention know some of the books linked contain heavy topics, such as

lots of violence

sexual situations

psychological distress

substance use

statutory rape

racism

sexual assault / abuse

kidnapping

pdfile

propaganda

torture

gaslighting

vomit

mutilation

body horror

misogyny

Now, what you came for, on with the books !

American Psycho

a satirical novel following the psychopathic, wealthy investment banker Patrick Bateman as he navigates the superficial world of 1980s New York City while indulging in violent fantasies and acts of brutality.

(the entirety of) Divergent

The Divergent series, a young adult dystopian trilogy that follows Tris Prior as she navigates a society divided into factions, discovers her "Divergent" nature, and uncovers a plot that threatens the established order, ultimately leading to conflict and personal growth. 

lapvona

a deformed 13-year-old boy named Marek, living in a corrupt medieval fiefdom with his cruel father, is thrust into noble life after an incident leads the lord to demand Marek as reparations. 

1984

a dystopian novel set in a totalitarian society, Oceania, where constant surveillance and manipulation by the Party and its leader, Big Brother, lead to a loss of individuality and freedom.

I have no mouth and I must scream

a sentient supercomputer named AM, created by humans, destroys humanity except for five individuals, whom it then tortures endlessly as revenge for its creation.

Alices Adventures in Wonderland

a young girl named Alice follows a talking White Rabbit down a rabbit hole into a bizarre, nonsensical world where she encounters peculiar creatures and experiences strange transformations.

Lolita

!! PLEASE READ !!

A thirty year old scholar and his rapidly growing obsession with a preteen. This book is built around the taboo thinking of pedophilia, whilst at the same time it manages to not romanticize or glamorize it. This is the only book that i would say do some research before you read it and take my warning seriously. It shows the process behind the thinking of a pedophile and doesn't sugar coat it, this book shows what makes them tick. It is not for the light hearted. Please read with a bit of caution and remember your trauma is valid.

That will be all that I will be sharing today! Let me know if the one person that reads this would like more and maybe a specific genre :D if you want more like this I love these types of books so I'll probably be posting more plus, I genuinely enjoyed putting this together! So if you liked these, follow my blog for silliness and more psychological horror/books to read because you're a sick person and like reading about other sick things! (me)

remember YOU'RE LOVED!!

[livingasaghost]

i am once again asking the chorus of dragons fandom to sTAND UP and make a guide that explains…what the fuck is going on and who everyone is

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: THE MESSAGE by K.A. Applegate, adapted by Chris Grine.

The original ANIMORPHS books were a hugely formative influence on....My Entire Life, Writerly and Otherwise, so I've been collecting the graphic novels as they come out, too!

[petpetpinixy]

i hate being a wimpy little baby who likes horror in concept i can't watch anything vaguely scary without becoming the epitome of this post

[random-chaos-and-stuff]

Silly Game Time: Who are the protagonists of two stories you really enjoy? (could be from any media: movies, shows, novels, games, comics, etc.) (yes, OCs count) AND which of them is better with animals?

You know what? I’m feeling particularly dragony today, so I’m going with Lady Trent from A Natural History of Dragons, and Princess Cimorene from the Enchanted Forest Chronicles. And though I love Cimorene a lot, and do think she’d be good with animals, Lady Trent wins, as she is a naturalist and has to actively care for and study the dragons she has, as well as the fact that she loved animals when she was younger too, and with all the time she puts into her work I feel like she would have to be good with animals. It’s shown in the books too that she’s overall pretty good with animals, especially the dragons she studies.

[pynkhues]

If you want to read TVA and B&G, you should also read Pandora! It's technically not a part of the "main" vampire chronicles - it's officially the first book in a spinoff series that had two books total - but imo Pandora, TVA and B&G make a neat little trilogy.

Ah, nice! Thank you for the recommendation, anon, I'll order it when I order Blood & Gold :-)

[thelastspeecher]

Made an impulse purchase last night of a book series beloved from my childhood

I went through the author's website to purchase directly so I could get the box set and there was an option to get a signature for free and I was like "well....why not"

So a book set signed by the author is headed my way and I am QUITE excited

[alexandria-theprettygood]

Look at me. Look At Me. You need to start trusting creatives again.

Listen, I get it, I was there for Surpernatural, for The Umbrella Academy, for Game of Thrones. It sucks when they go off the rails, it feels like a betrayal. But I promise you, 99% of creatives are not writing or directing or whatever Just to screw you, the audience, over. Trust that.

Sincerely,

Someone who's a little sick of how many people she sees complaining about character flaws or plot holes At The Beginning of a Story

[bayofwolves]

I’ve been obsessed, obsessed, obsessed with Raisha for a while now. I know you’ve said little things about her in the past and i want to know what’s up with her/Gerathon if you’d be willing to talk about it.

I really like Raisha as a character, too! We know so little about her, but in my opinion, she's one of the most fascinating characters in the series. Unfortunately, she meets a sad end in A Revised History of Erdas.

All we know about Raisha post-infection is that she was present at the final battle in The Burning Tide, still under Zerif's control and in pretty bad shape. She vanishes off the grid after that, never mentioned again, not even in the concluding montage of Great Beast summoners reuniting with their fallen spirit animals. My retelling offers some closure, but not the good kind.

In my version of events, Raisha is flanking Zerif when he emerges from the ship with his Great Beasts. Zerif, in an act of cruel irony, saw fit to keep Raisha by his side even in her mindless, infected state. Shane, up in the archers' keep with Abeke, hardly recognizes the girl who helped steal Halawir months earlier. Later, she reappears to restrain Abeke when Zerif brings the defeated Redcloak forces to the Wyrm. When the Wyrm is killed and the parasites lose their power, though, Raisha collapses to the ground and doesn't get back up. The Wyrm had pushed her finite body to an extent that it couldn't recover from. Many people and animals in Zerif's army are the same; their possession eventually killed them. The Wyrm was a child playing with toys, the mechanics of which it couldn't possibly understand. Thankfully for it, its parasites could go on controlling a body in the event of an untimely death. Indeed, Stead raises the possibility that Raisha had been dead for some time, and the parasite was only animating a corpse.

Like I've said before, I didn't do this out of dislike for Raisha or anything like that. She was ultimately another victim of Zerif -- a young, lonely, impressionable girl he took advantage of -- and didn't deserve anything that happened to her. I'll always support AUs where she is alive and well. In my eyes, though, her story was always meant to end in tragedy. By the time she realized her mistake and reached for the light, it was too late.

Gerathon, after reemerging in southern Zhong and feeling the loss of her human partner, disappeared into the brush and is currently at large. She is only an adolescent cobra at the moment, hardly a threat... but the Great Beasts are growing, and Gerathon's time will inevitably come again. (I like the idea of her becoming a maneater as she slowly regains her former size and power, terrorizing the locals and gaining a place in their legends.) Who knows how she feels about losing Raisha. I expect, under the excruciating pain that may one day drive her to madness, there is a sweet sense of relief.

[your-fave-isdoomedbythenarrative]

okay how about the actual triplets (i wanna say quagmire?) from a series of unfortunate events cause. it’s funny i dunno

The Quagmire Triplets from A Series Of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket are doomed by the narrative and can't escape.

[monarcksewrrat]

If miraculous got cancelled or ended seasons ago, I hope that Zagtoons will bring their cancelled projects back to life, ESPECIALLY ARTHUR AND THE BOOK OF LIFE

[aerticent]

no Maven was actually crazy for getting in Cal’s face screaming shit about “You killed the king you killed our father!” after Elara just forced him to while he was begging her to stop like truly one of his more batshit moments if i do say so

[thatoneluckybee]

....do i risk getting deeper in an argument or wait months for someone to pirate the fourth book