#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 💖

[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

[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 four (4) 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…

[sffinsiders]

Review: Mistress of Lies by K. M. Enright — SFF Insiders

[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

[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. 

[readinginmars]

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

Mistress of Lies - K. M. Enright

[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

[bookwyrmshoard]

Best Fictional Fathers in Children’s/YA Books

It's surprisingly hard to find good fathers in fiction, even (or maybe especially) in children's fiction. By good fathers, I mean fathers who are not absent, harsh, or abusive. But with the help of my daughter and a few other family members, we managed to come up with eight. In no particular order, here are books and series featuring men who truly qualify as "good fathers."

The Penderwicks series by Jeanne Birdsall. To paraphrase my daughter Robin, Mr. Penderwick is fantastic, completely supportive of his girls, and he keeps coming out with Latin quotations. He's a really good father all around, and handles being a single parent of four girls extremely well. He supports their interests including science, math, sports, and writing. When two of his daughters get into real trouble, he's disappointed in them, but he sees that they feel terrible about it so he doesn't make a huge thing of it. And when he remarries, he doesn't differentiate between his own children and his new stepson, but loves them all equally.

Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery. Anne may only have had Matthew for a short time, but in that time, he made her feel truly loved and wanted. Matthew's love was quiet and unconditional, and it remained, I believe, one of the foundations of Anne's life forever after.

The Melendy series by Elizabeth Enright. I almost left Mr. Melendy out because he is not always home (notably in book two, The Four-Story Mistake.) But when he is home, he's always caring and supportive of his children, and does his best as a single parent. And when he takes on add an orphaned boy to his family, it's clear he will be just as much a father to him as to his biological children (in Now We Are Five.)

Beauty by Robin McKinley. Beauty's father loves and believes in all three of his daughters. And he's a well-grounded person; while he is hit hard by the loss of his ships and wealth, he never loses a sense of who he is, nor how blessed he is to have his daughters. He only accedes to Beauty's request to take his place at the Beast's castle because she is so adamant.

The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Pa is caring but firm (and even stern when Laura has been naughty.) It's clear he loves his family and they love him. (Note: Wilder idealizes her real father in these books; she downplays his restlessness and makes their frequent moves seem like adventures, not the difficult uprooting they must have been.)

The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling. Arthur Weasley is sometimes absent-minded and definitely eccentric even by the standards of the wizarding world, with his keen interest in Muggle technology and culture, but he's also a very good father in all the ways in which it counts — particularly in terms of love and acceptance. Between them, he and Molly raise a family of strong, loyal and highly individual offspring who know their own minds and are (for the most part) determined to side with the right and good. That loyalty, both to family and to what is right, is what makes Percy's defection so painful to them — and even Percy comes round in the end.

Linnets and Valerians by Elizabeth Goudge. Initially, the Linnet children think their Uncle Ambrose is stern, dry, and unloving, but they soon discover that while he can be stern and holds them to a high standard, he has a softer side which he keeps well-hidden. In fact, he makes a very good parent once he gets used to no longer being a crusty old batchelor.

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. This is another book I almost left out, because Dr. Murray is very much absent through much of the book. But his love and presence loom large in Meg's memories, and it's her longing for him that sends her across the galaxy to rescue him. He comes across as a good, loving father through those memories, as well as in his actions once the children find him.

Five on a Merry-Go-Round by Marie McSwigan. It's the Great Depression, and Mr. Sloan has been ill and lost his job. So he and his family head south for a job, only to find no job and no available housing. Mr. Sloan worries about his inability to provide for his family, but he doesn't give up, drink, take his frustration out on his children, or disappear. With great resourcefulness, he and his family turn an abandoned merry-go-round into a home and figure out how to live there.

Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert A. Heinlen. Like Anne, Thor doesn't have his father figure for long; Baslim is killed at the end of the first section of the book. But before that, over the course of several years, he provides the orphaned, runaway slave Thor with a home and a sense of stability. Baslim teaches Thor not only to read but to think independently, while instilling in him integrity, values, and a sense of honor. Though he is never demonstrative, Baslim's love and care for Thor are obvious, and later on, Thor recognizes their relationship as one of father and son.

The Paddington series by Michael Bond. Mr. Brown loves his children. And though he's initially reluctant to add a bear to the household (who wouldn't be?), he eventually accepts Paddington as a member of the family. He's often played for laughs, but he's a pretty good father all the same.

HONORABLE MENTION (fathers who are only peripheral to the story):

The Dark is Rising (Susan Cooper.) Will Stanton's father doesn't come into the story much, but Will and most of his siblings are pretty well-adjusted and clearly loved by their parents.

The Nancy Drew series (Carolyn Keene.) Mr. Drew is a pretty good father. He's not usually involved in Nancy's sleuthing, but he doesn't stop her and seems proud of her intelligence. Given when these books were written, the amount of freedom and trust he gives to Nancy is a little surprising.

The Protector of the Small series (Tamora Pierce). Keladry of Mindelan's father doesn't come into the books often, but he's totally supportive of his daughter's desire to become the first female knight in centuries.