#AVA REID

[meiodrame]

A Study In Drowning by Ava Reid

[freckles-and-books]

“It began as all things did: a girl on the shore, terrified and desirous.”

[deathsweetblossoms]

You don’t have to take up a sword. Survival is bravery too.

A Study In Drowning by @avasreid

(2023 favorite reads)

[ekbelsher]

When I do art for other people, I usually send two or three pose options before I draw the whole scene, and they never pick my favourite, ain't it the way

[inspiredbyabook]

a study in drowning by ava reid

What is a mermaid but a woman half-drowned, What a selkie but an unwilling wife, What a tale but a sea-net, snatching up both From the gentle tumult of dark waves?

[aliteraryprincess]

What defines a romance? All scholars seem to converge on a single point: it is a story that must have a happy ending. And why is that? I say, it is because a romance is a belief in the impossible: that anything ends happily. For the only true end is death--and in this way, is romance not a rebuke of morality? When love is here, I am not. When love is not, I am gone. Perhaps a romance is a story with no end at all; where the end is but a wardrobe with a false back, leading to stranger and more merciful worlds.

Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

[belle-keys]

Gothic Fantasy/Folk Horror Books: 10 Recommendations

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Juniper & Thorn by Ava Reid

The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid

A Far Wilder Magic by Allison Saft

Down Comes the Night by Allison Saft

Not Good For Maidens by Tori Bovalino

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror by Tori Bovalino and others

[shxpeshifterr]

[4rcanist]

- an acquaintance of drowning. -

[themelodyofspring]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge

July 19 - By The Sea 🌊

[normalfaerie]

There was something sick in me, something wrong. Even baby birds knew how to shriek, even kittens knew how to mewl, even puppies knew how to whine. Papa had told me I hadn’t even cried when he’d pulled me from between my mother’s thighs. I hadn’t protested when he dragged me through the streets of Oblya, hadn’t protested when Rose had chided me or when Undine had slapped me. My eldest sister was right; I would smile blithely if someone tried to saw off my leg. But no one had ever told me that I was allowed to scream.

- Juniper and thorn by Ava Reid

[angelaanimates]

“I was a girl when he came for me, beautiful and treacherous, and I was a crown of pale gold in his black hair.

And then, behind the tree line, a flash of white. Wet black hair. Even a sliver of face, pale as moonlight.”

This is me recommending A Study in Drowning by @avasreid I LOVED this book so much. Ava you did it again!!!

[freckles-and-books]

These are three of my favorites reads this year, and they all feel like they’re in conversation with each other. Each deals with fairytales in ways that go beyond mere retellings, and each one has stunning prose that really made me fall in love.

[gcantread]

Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid Endpaper illustrations by Mary Metzger

pretty endpapers 1/?

[mothumn]

You don’t have to take up a sword. Survival is bravery, too.

Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

[thirtythirdhalfbirthday]

"Your love cannot make me less of a monster."

Sevas lets out a breath. "I wouldn't presume my love could do such a thing. I would have you as you are, nothing less."

-Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn (2022)

"So you are no mortal man. I have seen what mortal men can do. I prefer a monster that shows itself openly."

-Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth (2024)