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Favorite (and least favorite) Books of 2024
Stand-alones:
#1 - Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D Jackson (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
YA Mystery - An absolute heartbreaking and tragic story that I cannot recommend enough (check trigger warnings though). A harrowing look at how life and society treats those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds - especially young black girls. Whenever harm comes to them, no one seems to care, and so the abuse continues.
#2 - Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins(⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
YA Dystopian Fantasy - Prequel to The Hunger Games and I know a lot of people have mixed feelings about this but I think it is a masterpiece of a character study. You take Snow who, at the start, is actually a kind of underdog hero in rich society that you want to root for until you remember what he becomes. Then you wonder -- how the hell does that this boy become that man? And worst of all? You find out. You see every step of his corruption and while you don't agree with him, you understand why he made the choices he did.
#3 - Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
Adult Literary fiction - An examination of the public response and perception of sensationalized serial killers. How society often weirdly idolizes violent men and sees them as some kind of tragic victim or unrealized genius instead of what they are - horrible people who violently slaughter because they just felt like it. I've been largely indifferent to "true crime" sensationalism so far in my life, but this book left me being wary of media perception of (white) violent criminals.
#4 - My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russel (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
Adult Literary Fiction - Indepth look at grooming/pedophilia through the eyes of a young teen victim. A horrifying and too real example of how things like this can and do happen. Shows the long lasting effects of groomed and how that can often lead to the victim throwing themselves into more and more toxic situations.
Annnnd my last one is much less serious/heavy lmao:
#5 - Bride by Ali Hazelwood (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
Adult Supernatural Romance (romantasy? Idk) - people say it's Omegaverse, but it's not, it's really just Vampires and Werewolves. But! Still very fun and has great, fun dialogue. It's a little unserious, but it knows and plays into it. Very very good pallet cleanser book.
Honorable mention:
Radio Silence - Alice Oseman (⭐⭐⭐⭐.5)
YA Contemporary fiction - I really liked all the characters and the reality that can come with doxxing a faceless creator online. Not five stars just cause it was missing that special spark but very good! (also demi rep in published fiction lets goooo)
Series:
Three Dark Crows Series by Kendare Blake (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
4-book YA Epic fantasy series - Three triplet sisters with different magical powers must fight to the death to become the queen. A little teen angsty at some point but I find teen angst incredibly amusing/entertaining so I had a good time. Is it the best writing? No. Was it very entertaining? Absolutely.
Goldstone Saga by Jocelynn Drake (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
6-book Adult Epic Fantasy Series - On Kindle unlimited. Very much Marauders fanfic vibes. I loved all the characters a lot. Not one of those where it's like "it's worth it once you get to the third book!", you'll know if you like it by the end of book one. I was rooting for every romance and the plot was fun to follow along with. Some serious topics weren't handled great imo, but altogether very enjoyable series.
Least Favorites:
Corrupt by Penelope Douglas (⭐⭐)
Adult Dark(?) Romance - I heard a clip from the audiobook and was like 'Damn that's hot', turns out the clip is from the fourth book in the series ^-^' This book however was awful to read. It got two stars instead of 1 cause it was so absurd at times it made me laugh
Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood (⭐⭐)
Adult Erotic Romance - Some parts felt vaguely aro-phobic, the Rue(FMC) was just meh over all, and Eli(MMC)is just awful. Only good point was that I think it handled reality of food insecurity pretty well, so also 2 stars
The Perfect Marriage by Jeneve Rose (⭐)
I'm sorry, but what was this book?? All of the characters were annoying. The "mystery" was just the MC leaving out crucial details so the reader wouldn't know just for fun. So many plot points were picked up and dropped (I assume they were supposed to be red herrings?).. Overall, it was a very poorly executed mystery.
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#dracula#dracula daily#jonathan harker#re: dracula#re dracula#comic#comics#webcomic#classic literature#classic lit#books and reading#vampire#vampires#artists on tumblr#dracula fanart
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Mina, writing to Lucy: I cannot wait to hear how Jonathan is doing on his travels! He must be having such a lovely time <3
Jonathan, in his diary: OH GOD OH FUCK HE CAN CLIMB WALLS LIKE A LIZARD NOW. I HAVE ONLY A CRUCIFIX FOR PROTECTION AND I AM GOING TO DIE TO A LIZARD MAN. THERE IS NO WAY OF ESCAPE SO I MAY AS WELL WRITE MY GOODBYES. FAREWELL MINA!!!
#dracula is a comedy#or it would be if i wasn’t so worried about jonathan#i’ve read the book three times but i’m still concerned#dracula daily#re: dracula#dracula#jonathan harker#mina harker#lizard fashion
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#original comic#artists on tumblr#comic#indie comics#every heart a doorway#seanan mcguire#id in alt text#my comic#my art#i started re reading it as this was loading and realized i shouldve drawn nancy with streaks in her hair#oughhhg i love this book#beyond this the aesthetics are also just so on point for my interests#like the creepy/gory subjects and the literal murder to be solved lol#i think id have probably gone to a nonsense world that pretended to be high logic#the opposite of kade's fairyland#crap now i want to design a world eVEN THOUGH IM BUSY ENOUGH
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queen of diamonds, upright + reversed 💎
I've redone this like eighty times, I have to just be done with it now and stop staring at all my mistakes oh no 🫠
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 part 8 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 part 8 spoilers#coming in well after the fact but that's what happens when the art doesn't cooperate#and i just HAD to draw something for vil's ob (re-ob?) because i loved it so much#legit put my hand over my mouth and went “oh!” when i realized what was happening#i thought it was just going to be an idia thing because. y'know. closing out his character arc from episode 6 and all#so this was like. oh! oh we're going to get ALL the inky boys!!!!!#i wonder if this is why we got a malleus flashback so early...#not to mention everyone's dreams?!#i am braced for 90% of the dreams to be kind of jokey/inconsequential because we have SO many characters to get through#and most of the time will probably be spent on our lads (literally) dropkicking their emotional problems#but i am excited to see everyone regardless!#and also kind of terrified! what on EARTH will floyd be dreaming about. do i want to know.#i do but do i want to.#man. they're probably not going to get back to it but i do wonder what silver's dream was#what was he doing when he was like 'wait a minute' and noped right out of there#lilia: here silver i made dinner :)#silver: oh boy this looks great! ...YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD#ouuuagh i'm still deep in the blotsauce guys and i'm loving it#come make snowangels in the ink with me it's great
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Van Helsing & Mina: We're going to defeat Dracula with the power of friendship!
Quincey: And this gun I found!
#that’s it that's the whole book#dracula#dracula daily#re: dracula#dracula memes#bram stoker#mina harker#count dracula#abraham van helsing#dd September 30#September 30#30 September#quincey morris#quincey p morris
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#watercolour#art#tolkien#elf#feanor#or it was meant to be feanor but I was too lazy to google what hair colour he was supposed to have & I know some ppl care deeply about#those sorts of things#I need to re-read this book#just remember it being good tragedy#& the author cares about trees in a way I find strangely moving & sweet
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me, when Jonny Sims appears in any piece of media he's been part of: oh hey. what's Jonny Sims doing in this piece of media I started consuming solely because Jonny Sims was in it.
#jonny sims#slay the princess#the mechs#the mechanisms#the magnus protocol#tmagp#tma#the magnus archives#re dracula#dracula daily#re: dracula#dracula book#dracula#thirteen storeys#family business
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One thing I don’t think the Fourth Wing fandom seems to acknowledge or appreciate enough is just how quickly Sawyer is willing to kill anyone who slights Violet
Jack comes back? “We should kill him again”
Cat’s still being rude? “We could bury her and nobody would find her”
Rhiannon & Ridoc will shut their ass down verbally & physically, but Sawyer will jump straight to murder lmao and I love that for him
#one thing I love most about re-reading these books is paying more attention to Sawyer than I did the first time around#and realizing that he doesn’t get nearly enough credit for being just as chaotic as the rest of the Iron Squad#I love him#fourth wing#iron flame#the empyrean#sawyer henrick#violet sorrengail#rhiannon matthias#ridoc gamlyn
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the mortifying ordeal of being Jack Seward. God, can you imagine- you get rejected by a girl. Fine. You're a bit emo about it but you're holding up. She accepts a proposal from your close pal. Ok, that stings, but you do love Arthur and at least you have your work to focus on. You get cc'd on a message from your second close pal and it says you WILL be attending a celebratory dinner. Yeah, to celebrate your dream girl saying yes to Close Pal #1. Ok, whatever, you're a man of honor. You go. Girl falls ill. Close Pal #1 says hey man, please go medically examine my fiancee - yeah, the one that rejected you. I know it'll be weird but I insist. Please man, you're my Close Pal. Ok. Fine. This girl is still important to you. You do it. You're sitting by said Ill Girl's bedside, trying not to think about that embarrassing time when you sat on your hat, asked her out, and then got rejected, and then her MOTHER walks in and goes wow, dude, why don't you have a wife yet? You and the girl Do Not Look at Each Other Dear God Lucy Do Not Make Eye Contact With Me Right Now I Swear to God. Girl gets sicker. You phone a friend. Your friend comes and promptly breaks the ice with your Mortally Ill Dream Girl (who rejected you after watching you sit on your hat) by being like Well, You Know Jack. He Doesn't Know Anything about Women. Probably Why He Sat on His Hat and then You Rejected Him. Christ. Mortally Ill Dream Girl dies and you find yourself enmeshed in Horrors Beyond Your Comprehension and you think, well, ok, at least if I'm focused on the Horrors Beyond My Comprehension I won't be thinking about my tragic and thus far very embarrassing love story. Let me just focus on picking up this nice lady from the train station because she and her husband have some important information for us. And then the FIRST THING OUT OF THE NICE LADY'S MOUTH is Oh Yeah I Know You Lucy Told Me How You Sat on Your Hat and Then She Rejected You. Ohhhhhhh my god
#i just think that the difference between Quincey's experience of getting rejected by Lucy and Jack's is hysterical#Quincey is like damn ok best of luck ily!! godspeed!! have fun with Art!!#and he remains mostly unbothered by it for the rest of the book but Jack??#everyone in the book is conspiring to make the process of getting rejected by Lucy AS embarrassing as possible for jack#dracula#dracula daily#re dracula#jack seward
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Baru trying to hide Aminata from Tain Shir seeing her is so precious to me
from now on every woman around Baru should wear armor as strong as Aminata's
they are literally like that one meme of two people bending over each other to protect from a gunshot
I'm still not finished third book but if something happens with Aminata I'm gonna revolt
#hope designs look alright TдT I still not fully settled on them and could've missed some descriptions#honestly I have no idea what are they wearing half of the time I need to re read the books after finishing audiobooks to get more details#baru cormorant#masquerade series#the traitor baru cormorant#the traitor baru cormorant spoilers#the masquerade series#the masquerade series spoilers#the monster baru cormorant spoilers#the monster baru cormorant#the tyrant baru cormorant#the tyrant baru cormorant spoilers#aminata isisegu#art#the masquerade
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the way tv shows are ALLERGIC to create interesting and plot relevant ace/aro characters, my god.
Yes, im looking at you sex education and Heartstopper. There is a bunch of tv shows and movies that i can also name, but those two are just big disappointments since they should actually uplift different sexualities… I guess we are not fun, guys.
#ace#aro#asexual#“Were gonna use this character to shush those nasty accusations that we´re acephobic but we aren't actually gonna do something with her”#“bc she is not fun at al”l#“Oh and those two characters? Yeah they are gonna be REALLY WEIRD and introverts and they are gonna just read books all day”#bc... yeah#aromantic
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#lizard fashion#dracula#dracula daily#jonathan harker#re: dracula#re dracula#comic#comics#webcomic#classic literature#classic lit#books and reading#artists on tumblr#dracula fanart#vampire#vampires
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I really do think dracula daily/re: dracula is the best way to experience dracula the book, because it adds an entirely new level of horror and dread that a book can never truly achieve.
Because, instead of simply reading through the book in one go, you have to wait along with it. You get to see Jonathan express his terror in real time, and experience the dread of days going by with no news from him, wondering what could possibly be going on in the time you hear nothing.
Like it’s a level of horror of the unknown storytelling that Bram Stoker never could have imagined and it adds an entirely new experience to the story and i just think it’s neat
#also it’s like one big book club and we get to make memes about it#i just really love the whole concept#dracula#dracula daily#re dracula
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#Or the 100th time if you re read the books numerous times#The fact that I'm older now and the actor looks like A BABY#I want to burn the world down#percy jackson and the olympians#percy jackson#Pjo#luke castellan#percy jackson disney+#I filled with rage I too would fight the gods
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Been thinking about how Bill legitimately had a horrifying reason (the literal progressive disintegration of the nightmare realm that erases whatever it disintegrates from existence completely) to move himself and his crew into a new dimension. Like that's terrifying. And yet he never utilizes this to his favour. He could have been honest about this with Ford, and you KNOW as long as Bill didn't mention plans of overtaking the earth, Ford would've made the portal for him, both out of Ford's own interest and because Ford when faced with these big moral questions will pull through. But this is a card Bill NEVER plays because although he needs to leave the dimension, he cannot lose face. He can't put aside his pride and admit to the humility that he needs to flee from his dimension, that he's not actually all powerful. And so instead he pretends to be a muse and when Ford figures out something else is going on, instead of being open and humble and saying that his dimension is unravelling, Bill focuses on that he's going to over take earth, that he's actually been a monster all along, surprise Ford!
And part of it is definitely because Bill's built himself up on power and violence and to grovel and earnestly ask for help, to admit that he cannot stop the unraveling of his dimension completely invalidates that; showing vulnerability? Can't do that, even under the guise of lying to get his way. And part of it makes you wonder if it's also a form of self-sabotage, because underneath his deep denial Bill is guilty over what he occurred; he sees himself as a monster and so he'll be that monster, and having people recognize that feels good in the same way that pressing a bruise feels good. But it makes you wonder what would've happened if Bill even just was open about his dimension unravelling and had lied about overtaking the earth.
It's also interesting because although Bill has SOME charisma and can manipulate people decently well (as evidenced by his cult, and pandering to people's desires with Ford, Mabel and Blendin), he refuses to be vulnerable, refuses to not be true to his off-putting self, even when if he was just vulnerable of pretended to not be himself, to put aside the (false) pride he has in himself he would've gotten a portal by now. and part of me wonders if it's because it's this false pride that built on insecurity and denial on who he is he cannot drop that mask.
Further thoughts on this!
#hugin rambles#hugin rambles gf#uhhhh yeah anyways Bills a delightfully complex character#and I think thats why also Bill fell hard for Ford is because Ford was vulnerable with Bill and actually CARED for Bill and got to peer#into the vulnerable bits of Bill and cared for him#but yeah fascinating. rotating him in my head whooo#bill cipher#billford#the book of bill#TBOB#gravity falls#but seriously the idea of Bill becoming honest with Ford instead of being like HAHA I TRICKED YOU bounces around the ol noodle with vigor#like dude thats a HUGELY typical self sabotage thing. like why YES im what people think i am.#hes interesting because hes good at manipulation. but also at the same time bad at it because he refuses to not be himself.#which... yanno i can respect. truth to being yourself even if thats offputting and annoying. but certainly makes it more difficult#re: manipulation. and then there was ford who was just. really into Bill in entirety#congrats! you guys match each others freak and toxic neediness to the t#gravity falls meta
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