#k m enright

[lilibetbombshell]

[readinginmars]

"A lie can be more powerful than the truth, if applied correctly."

Mistress of Lies - K. M. Enright

[the-bi-library]

Here are some upcoming bi Asian books! Make sure to pre-order the ones that interest you! 🩷💜💙 Books listed: Saints of Storm and Sorrow by Gabriella Buba The Dark We Know by Wen-yi Lee The Dark Becomes Her by Judy I. Lin These Deathless Shores by P. H. Low Rani Choudhury Must Die by Adiba Jaigirdar Better Catch Up, Krishna Kumar by Anahita Karthik Mistress of Lies by K. M. Enright Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao Please do let me know if I missed any books 💖

[chthonic-cassandra]

tagged by my dear @goblins-riddles-or-frocks

last song: Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3

last book: I am presently reading an extremely silly vampire book, K. M. Enright's Mistress of Lies, which I am having some trouble getting into. Before that it was Patricia Evangelista's Some People Need Killing, on the absolutely horrific series of extrajudicial killings under Duerte.

last movie: Halfway through The Piano Teacher! We'll finish it tonight.

last show: Rewatched two Xena episodes with a friend last night, which is becoming a weekly routine for us. But I'm also watching Twin Peaks for the first time. Curious experience.

last thing I searched: Something related to a current event happening in my area which deeply impacts my job.

favorite color: Blue

sweet/savory/spicy: Sweet

looking forward to: The first spring flowers. Cannot come soon enough right now.

current obsession: Not really sure I'm in an obsession place right now? Except for my own trauma and vampires? I'll get back to other things. Baking, tea, Shakespeare, and perfume are all bringing me a lot of joy.

Tagging @idionkisson, @amarocit, @child-of-hurin, @kareenvorbarra, @mysikrolik, @tomato-greens, @winged-cries

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

💙💜💖 Bi Books Coming Out August 2024

💖💜💙 Do you know what we could always use a little more of? Bi books! Here are a few bisexual books coming out in August that would make fabulous additions to your never-ending TBR! Happy reading!

💙 I apologize for any discrepancies. Publishing days are subject to change.

💖 The New Camelot - Robyn Schneider 💜 Emmy Star is So Everything by Daniel Tawse 💙 Rules for Ghosting - Shelly Jay Shore

💖 New Adventures in Space Opera - (ed.) Jonathan Strahan 💜 Mamele - Gemma Reeves 💙 The Ending Fire - Saara El-Arifi

💖 Gilgamesh - Emily H. Wilson 💜 Mistress of Lies - K. M. Enright 💙 The Phoenix Keeper - S.A MacLean

💖 The Dark We Know - Wen-yi Lee 💜 The Last Witch in Edinburgh - Marielle Thompson 💙 Catching the Con - Dominique Davis

💖 Full Shift - Jennifer Dugan & Kristen Seaton 💜 Practical Rules for Cursed Witches - Kayla Cottingham 💙 Heads Will Roll - Josh Winning

💖 Queen of Dreams - Kit Rocha 💜 Mighty Millie Novak - Elizabeth Holden 💙 Better Left Buried - Mary E. Roach

💖 The Sea of Clouds - Sheila Jenné 💜 Kindling - Bonnie Woods 💙 Navigating With You - Jeremy Whitley & Cassio Ribeiro

[qbdatabase]

Hi! Sorry to bother you, I was wondering if you've ever compiled a list of queer Victorian horror/gothic novels. It's a genre I crave for in this season! Thanks in advance!

I haven't put together a list, but you can absolutely filter for this in the database!

In the top left, just below the Fiction Database tab, click the Filter button > Add Filter. Change Title to Genre, and "has any of" to "has all of" then select Historical and Horror.

Click Add Filter again, then on Title, and scroll down to select Time Periods. Choose 1800s

Do the same to add one more filter, select Sub-Genres, then choose Gothic.

This will give you a list of 8 titles; if you take off the Historical + Horror filter (so you'll get some titles that aren't tagged as horror), this bumps the number up to 12 (listed under the cut)

Inheriting Her Ghosts by S. H. Cooper

Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye

The Witch of Tin Mountain by Paulette Kennedy

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher (recommended!)

What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher

Teeth in the Mist by Dawn Kurtagich

Our Hideous Progeny by C. E. McGill

A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock

The Ghostkeeper by Johanna Taylor (not really scary, but still recommended!)

Affinity by Sarah Waters

Salt Magic, Skin Magic by Lee Welch

The Route of Ice and Salt by Jose Luis Zarate

honorable mentions (may not be exactly gothic and/or 1800s but def has sexy queer victorian-aesthetic)

A Vile Season by David Ferraro

The Alchemy of Moonlight by David Ferraro

Lakesedge by Lyndall Clipstone

Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco

A Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson

The Faithful Dark by Cate Baumer

A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft

Mistress of Lies by K. M. Enright

Don't Let the Forest In by C. G. Drews

[themoonking]

so which 2024 debut that got review bombed by that fraud cait corrain will you be most likely to pick up?

[daphneblakess]

hey y'all. i shouldn't have downplayed the details of what happened in the original version of this post. the author in question, cait corrain, made multiple sockpuppet accounts on goodreads for the purpose of reviewbombing books that were debuting at the same time as hers, many of which were written by authors of color. as well as this, several of the sockpuppet accounts used east asian and bipoc names (this comes from the receipts i've seen, i don't know exactly how many they racefaked on).

this was racist, on so many levels. corrain couldn't handle that debut authors of color were seeing the same, if not higher, level of success as her. i'm sorry for focusing on the sensationalism of this over the fact that it tells on the much larger problem of racism in the publishing industry (goodreads, for instance, i believe still has reviews of corrain's book locked despite doing nothing of the sort for their victims or other authors of color who've faced similar harassment campaigns). i'm also sorry for contributing to that by reducing the reality of what happened to 'petty drama'.

if you're going to engage with this post from this point onwards, please do so with this version. i don't feel great about leaving the meme unedited, but i also feel as though quietly replacing it or deleting the post entirely would look like i'm trying to dodge accountability. i'd rather the people who took part with me in laughing acknowledge that people other than corrain did get hurt because of this, and making light of that is a very callous show of privilege.

on that note: corrain has lost her book deal and will hopefully never have a presence in publishing again, but the authors who they targeted have their books forthcoming and would deserve support regardless of whether they'd been harmed by this.

So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole

The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste

To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang

Voyage of the Damned by Frances White

Mistress of Lies by K. M. Enright

the Gods of Hunger series by R. M. Virtues

other than that, i'm sorry and it's on me to do better in the future.

whatever you do definitely don't go on twitter and look up 'cait corrain' rn

[wolfreader]

november 2024 wrap-up - adult fiction

this month i read three (3) adult novels and one (1) adult novella.

the frugal wizard's handbook for surviving medieval engalnd by brandon sanderson 📖 🌟🌟🌟🌟

brandon sanderson has got to stop writing protagonists who are sad pathetic little losers with no friends. i end up relating to them way too heavily and i'm starting to feel personally called out.

i think this is a contender for "best first brandon sanderson book", because it's not connected to the cosmere but it still carries all of the hallmarks of sanderson's writing and worldbuilding style. especially his penchant for blending scifi and fantasy - that's something that will show up in most of his works, so if you want to get into sanderson this might be a great place to start to see if you vibe with it.

mistress of lies by k. m. enright 📖 🌟🌟🌟🌟

i don't know what i expected from this book. i first heard about it from the cait corrain scandal, and put it on my "24 books to read in 2024" list because the description interested me. then as it got close to release i started seeing it described as a romantasy (rather than a fantasy), which is a genre i really don't enjoy, and seeing it compared to books i hate or blurbed by authors i dislike. so that kind of put me off. but it was on my list and it was on sale at my b&n, so i picked it up.

and i quite liked it!! i think it was maybe a little too long - it started to drag a bit at the end - but i found all three main characters really compelling. usually with multi-pov book i end up liking one character way, way more, and while i definitely still have a favorite the gap between them and the second favorite isn't nearly as wide as it normally is for me. really excited to see where this series goes.

i will say, the back of the book says that this is a book about vampires. the goodreads page lists it as a book about vampires. my initial interest was because it was advertized as a book about vampires. there are no vampires in this book. i don't even think they use the term "vampire" once. so don't pick this up if you're wanting a vampire book, regardless of what the marketing says.

the last of dragon the east by katrina kwan 📚 🌟🌟🌟

i have never read a book that felt more like fanfiction in my life. even books that i know were literally once fanfiction, or books that draw obvious heavy inspiration from things i have watched / read, have felt less like fanfiction.

unlike those books, it's not that it feels like it can be tied to a specific other piece of media. like, i couldn't tell you for certain what this is fanfiction of (though i have a guess, based off the author's previous work and the other authors that appear to be in her circle), but it reads like fanfiction even more than those other books.

the short pagecount, the length of the chapters, the oddly juvenile writing style and light tone that clash with the scale of the story, the odd pacing that swaps between breakneck in some areas but painfully slow in others, the soulmates, the insta love, the circular plot, the flat villain. this reads like dozens of completed multi-chapter fics i read on ao3 when i was 15. if you had put this in a shitty self-published-esque cover, handed it to me, and told me it was printed and bound fanfiction of show or book series i'd never heard of, i'd believe you.

a fine read i guess, but completely forgettable.

the way home: two novellas from the world of the last unicorn by peter s. beagle 📚 🌟🌟🌟

another item knocked off of my "24 books to read in 2024" list!

less vague than the last unicorn was, to be sure. it's more clear exactly what's happening (at least in the first novella). there was a weird and, in my opinion, tasteless sexual assault plot point that added nothing adn didn't seem to have any reason for being there... but other than that it was fine.

[elaine-white-author]

#SocialSunday: Take A Chance: K.M. Enright

On Take A Chance posts, I’ll be showcasing authors I love to read, but who I don’t have contact with, for things such as interviews and teasers. I will be sharing their bio, some of the works I loved best, and a showcase of up to 5 books, if they have a larger back catalogue, as well as their social media links. ~ K.M. Enright K. M. Enright is a Filipino-American writer of fantasy romance.…

[tsmom1219]

Thirst for a Solution: Alginate Biopolymer Experiments for the Middle and High School Classroom

Corcoran, E. R., Lydon, C., Enright, M. C., Buenaflor, J. P., Anderson, K., & Wissinger, J. E. (2022). Thirst for a Solution: Alginate Biopolymer Experiments for the Middle and High School Classroom. Journal of Chemical Education, 99(2), 1021–1025. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00905 Abstract Comprehensive curricula are described for middle and high school classrooms built around the…

[sapphic-sprite]

Mistress of Lies by K. M. Enright comes out on August 13th 2024

May Day Flowers by Faeri Sami comes out on May 8th 2024

2 Screams 1 Sugar by Sula Sullivan comes out on May 24th 2024

A Wolf Steps in Blood by Tamara Jerée comes out on April 16th 2024

here are some coming out this year/that came out this year that I’m excited for:

This Ravenous Fate by Hayley Dennings comes out on August 6th 2024

Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White comes out on September 3rd 2024

An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson came out on February 15th 2024

A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity Nguyen comes out on August 27th 2024

I Am the Dark That Answers When You Call (2nd book in the series) by Jamison Shea comes out on November 12th 2024

Escaping Mr. Rochester by L.L. McKinney came out on January 16th 2024

Rani Choudhury Must Die by Adiba Jaigirdar comes out on November 12th 2024

So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole came out on January 16th 2024

Angels & Man by Rafael Nicolás comes out on March 31st 2024

Celestial Monsters (2nd book in the series) by Aiden Thomas comes out on September 3rd 2024

[readinginmars]

"There will be time for feeling later. Now we have bodies to dispose of."

Mistress of Lies - K. M. Enright

[kmenright]

hello! I’m K. M. Enright, and I’m an author making migration over from the collapse of Twitter. I write sexy, dark romantic fantasy and my debut novel MISTRESS OF LIES is coming from Orbit in 2024!

While I will be talking about writing from time-to-time, this is just for fun, not super professional. 

[thefaerielights]

( b o o k   m e m e ) eleven side characters

Tori Enright // Darkest Powers trilogy (10/11)

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

💙💜💖 Bi Books Coming Out August 2024

💖💜💙 Do you know what we could always use a little more of? Bi books! Here are a few bisexual books coming out in August that would make fabulous additions to your never-ending TBR! Happy reading!

💙 I apologize for any discrepancies. Publishing days are subject to change.

💖 The New Camelot - Robyn Schneider 💜 Emmy Star is So Everything by Daniel Tawse 💙 Rules for Ghosting - Shelly Jay Shore

💖 New Adventures in Space Opera - (ed.) Jonathan Strahan 💜 Mamele - Gemma Reeves 💙 The Ending Fire - Saara El-Arifi

💖 Gilgamesh - Emily H. Wilson 💜 Mistress of Lies - K. M. Enright 💙 The Phoenix Keeper - S.A MacLean

💖 The Dark We Know - Wen-yi Lee 💜 The Last Witch in Edinburgh - Marielle Thompson 💙 Catching the Con - Dominique Davis

💖 Full Shift - Jennifer Dugan & Kristen Seaton 💜 Practical Rules for Cursed Witches - Kayla Cottingham 💙 Heads Will Roll - Josh Winning

💖 Queen of Dreams - Kit Rocha 💜 Mighty Millie Novak - Elizabeth Holden 💙 Better Left Buried - Mary E. Roach

💖 The Sea of Clouds - Sheila Jenné 💜 Kindling - Bonnie Woods 💙 Navigating With You - Jeremy Whitley & Cassio Ribeiro