#Cate Tiernan

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There is beauty and darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life in death, thorns on the rose.

Cate Tiernan, Awakening

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// Currently rereading Cate Tiernan's Sweep series, and yet again resisting the temptation to make an AU where Damon is a blood witch from the Woodbane clan.

Did anyone else read this really soapy witch YA series that first came out in 2001 when they were in high school, or...?

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JOMP BPC - August 18th - Won't Read Again

as much as I loved the Sweep series by Cate Tiernan, I don't think I could read a 15-volume series again 😅 too intimidating!

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I read 14 books in January. How did I read 14 books in January?

I started listening to audiobooks at work, which is great because data entry can be a slog. I also cut into my crafting time because sometimes I just don't feel like pulling a project out.

My Goodreads goal is 48, which is 4 books a month. I can definitely do that! I can't say I'll keep January's energy up the whole year, though. I know we already have a busy February.

Still, a pretty good start.

[burrowkit]

Just want to do a shout out for a book series that always helps during the darkest of days (even in the middle of summer).

Immortal Beloved by Cate Tiernan is a beautiful book in which the main character starts off as a complete mess.

She's spent the better part of a several centuries just avoiding stuff. And now, she's finally ready to confront her past. Unfortunately, there happens to be a lot of unrest in the immortal world.

Each book has a main battle of Good vs Evil. The main character has to learn to trust herself, and to become stronger.

You will laugh. You will cry. You will get so frustrated with the characters.

And yet, it feels slightly relatable. Minus the bit where she has a horrible past with another character.

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2024 July Reading Wrap Up

**All links below are to the books’ respective StoryGraph pages for reference. I do not receive any compensation for clicking these links!! How is it already August? I feel like this year has flown by so far, and while I read a ton in July, I once again did not stick to my planned reading. I did read some of what I planned, but I let a few other books go in favor of deep diving into a young…

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Immortal Be-loved this series

Ok so after like 8 years I finally got my hands on the last book in the Immortal Beloved series by Cate Tiernan. I read the first two as a teenager, over and over again, so this book series is kinda special to me and it makes me insane that twighlight got the reception it did & noone's ever even heard of Immortal Beloved.

Anyway.

As a normal person does when having just finished the last book in a series that is now a decade old, I went looking for fanfic. AND THERE IS NONE. screaming, crying, throwing up, etc. So I went onto goodreads, bc I had to make sure I wasn't the only person who read and loved this series - thankfully I am not. There's a lot of praise for this series (and well deserved praise at that!) but the ones that caught me off guard were the bad reviews. Most of them were complaining about how they didn't like the main character, or the books are too slow, or the fact that for a grounded fantasy book it has shockingly little in terms of big fight scenes or crazy magic shenanigans... Which just tells me that they missed the point.

This book series isn't really about magic or fights or anything like that. It's about reconciling who you used to be with who you are now, learning to make better choices for yourself and the people around you, learning to forgive yourself and be better, just in and of yourself, among other things. It's about learning who you are, and that there's no expiry date on anything, there's always time to do better.

Does it have magic? Yes. Does it have fights? Yes. A compelling story and frankly a super-hot love interest? Yes. Are these what makes the books good? Well they help, sure, but the heart of the books doesn't come from them.

Quite a few of the positive reviews talk about having a warm & fuzzy feeling after finishing these books and I so relate to that. These are the people who got the points the books make, the importance of slowing down and stopping yourself from just diving head-long into yet another distraction. The books are slow, yes, but they're intentionally that way, and if that's not your cup of tea then so be it - I don't know why you'd critise a book for that though.

My only gripes are that the last book 1) has an entirely different cover art style to the first two? and 2) the ending does feel a little rushed. It would have been lovely to have a couple more chapters to resolve the romance plot line (we get so little of it in the first place T-T) and a few loose ends - as is it does feel a little "and-they-all-got-happy-endings-and-everything's-great-The-End". That being said, no book is perfect and the reasons I love this series WAY outweigh the couple pernickity bits I have... If Tiernan were to write a flash-forward novella though, I'd be a very very happy gal. (We're going to avoid the fact that that is HIGHLY unlikely to happen. The last book came out in 2013.)

TLDR? Read these books, please. I need someone to talk to about them! If not for that, then come for the dry humour, spikey but loveable main character and the sneaking suspicion that the books might be teaching you something...

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Cate Tiernan

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"Tak, to dlatego robiłam wszystko, żeby zagłuszyć emocje. Bo one bolą."

- Cate Tiernan, Ukochany nieśmiertelny

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☆ Wednesdays child is full of woe ☆

Tomorrow is the first day of classes & for the last 24 hours, I've been dealing with the worst craniofacial pain I've ever felt thanks to my EDS. After lots of meds, ice, and a trip to the PT for taping and massage, I'm somewhat feeling better & just hoping I can make it through the rest of the week 🫠

Tomorrow is archaeology core, then to the genetics lab to finish working on manuscript revisions. We have to submit those by next week, but we're almost finished, so I'm hoping to submit it by Friday. Then, we can celebrate getting our first paper published!

Listening to: Fiona Apple - extraordinary machine 🎧

Reading: Spellbound by Cate Tiernan 🍁 (an old favorite that I like to re-read every fall)

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// If I had a nickel for every teenage male witch that's appeared in a witchy book/TV film series named Cal who turns out to be evil + is a love interest for the brunette witch heroine, and said media was first released in 2001, I'd have two nickels.

Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice (Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge and Cate Tiernan's SWEEP series).

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I remember these books! Me and some of my (online) witch-y friends read them back when I was a teenager in the early 2000s. I haven't thought about them in years but I remember them being really cozy and charming for the most part. Morgan was a great character, and I wonder what it would've been like as a television series.

I know the series plays fast and loose with terms and history (to put it mildly), as was common in the late 1990s, but a lot of young witches from back then remember this fondly. The same author wrote a similar series called Balefire several years later, but I haven't read it.

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JOMP BPC - Jan 21 - Old Author

Cate Tiernan was the first YA author I think I ever read 👀 and I’m glad I found her when I did because the idea of reading a 15-book series scares the crap outta me now 😅

[shesamreads]

Oops, immediately starting another book. And another that would fit the PopSugar prompt "A Book You Read More Than 10 Years Ago."

[burrowkit]

Comfort Book

Anyone else have that comfort book / series that just... makes the world feel less awful for a few weeks after reading / re reading it, that you only read it when life isn't going your way?

Mine is the Immortal Beloved series by Cate Tiernan. Each book has an escalated Good vs Evil battle where the MC slowly learns who she is after being in hiding for almost 450 years or so.

In it, she starts off with little/no self esteem, she's messed up on her life. There's a nice conversation about "well, if you aren't grown up after..." "like 450 years" "450? okay... if you aren't a grown up after 450 years, no one can make you do anything, no one can make you 'feel better'. You have to do the work" and idk, somehow seeing someone completely mess up with life for several centuries is nice

River is super understanding about everything. When Nastasya (I think that's how you spell it) doesn't know about anything about the Immortal world, she's like "well, not everyone studies this, and not everyone is exposed to all this". Which, most people in this world know the importance of the Big Dipper to the Immortals (the fountain of magick)

The ending of the series is kinda sad, because ultimately, a war between good and evil does have casualties. But at the end of the day, Nasty (her chosen nickname) is better

She has so many funny lines, too.

"Oh yeah, this guy tried to bribe me to leave, but he was offering me less than several billion dollars, so it wasn't worth it". (tbf, if you live that long without money, it is mentioned that you aren't doing things right).

Or...

"Oh yeah, I noticed that someone deposited money into my bank account by the name of Some Evil Bad Guy Wanting Us All Dead, and I used that money to buy these buildings. Is that wrong?" Obviously, that's not how she came into the money.

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cant listen to the oh hellos bc my brain processing is too slow so all songs sound like 115% too fast. cant listen to maneskin bc if a song is the tiniest bit too repetitive i will do violence. finished atla and pantheon rewatches so Now What..... nothing interesting on youtube. no executive function for new experiences or productive tasks. its going to take too long for me to find a 70k ao3 bookmark that i will absolutely definitely not get frustrated with for a tiny inconsequential typo OR thats too complex.... so theres only one thing left

save me books on my bookshelf that ive already read 30 times since i was 12.......

worst sleep quality in Months i cant believe i lived like this for 24 yrs wtf

constantly on the verge of throwing shit, hitting shit, crying OR panicking. or several at once ig. if i see that stupid ad with the cow again ill bite my phone in half. have a pop song stuck in my head which wouldn't be a problem the past few months but today it makes me feel like im in one of those hydraulic press tiktoks. adhd symptoms are back at like half strength? also i have a headache AND some kinda psychosomatic stomachache