#labyrinth's library

[labyrinths-library]

Book 89 of 2024

The Games Gods Play by Abigail Owen

★★★★★

Find the author here. Get the book here.

Pages: 509

Genre: Romantasy

Spice (out of five):

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Review:

It's the Hunger Game meets Percy Jackson. It's got forbidden romance between god and mortal. It's got the drama of the gods. Essentially every 100 years there is a crucible in which the gods all pick one champion to fight for them in a deadly Olympic games where the winner determines which god or goddess will rule until the next crucible. Lyra, a thief in the order of Hermes, gets chosen by Hades as his champion, which throws the entire game into chaos because Hades never plays. Not to mention, no one wants him to win because he is the king of the Underworld and people don't know what would happen if he wins. That would be too much power. This book is so fast paced that I couldn't put it down. It is the first book in a series so I am chomping at the bit for book 2. If you enjoyed the song God Games from EPIC, you'd probably like this book, because it feels like that on crack.

[labyrinth-runner]

New Blog Alert!

I made a new sideblog to catalogue and review all the books I read. Right now I've only gotten through my January backlog, but I'm hoping to catch it up to date with my current reads by the end of the month. It's @labyrinths-library if anyone is interested.

[escapismsworld]

Jennifer Connelly

Labyrinth (1986)

[the-book-raven]

[bobcat-pie]

things in the caverns under the city of Dundee:

dwarves

laser horses

ruins left by the starlords of eternity

sword lord of the goblin horde

zargothrax's hibernating clone legion

ancient closed gateway to the 18th hell dimension

a crack in spacetime

ralathor

[shakespearesdaughters]

[piniatafullofblood]

my favorite trope is just Massive Library. Massive Library being Huge and Beautiful. star trek discovery?? doctor who?? atla?? the sandman?? it always goes so hard

[its-to-the-death]

Villain Song Showdown Preliminary Round #28

Top two will make it into the bracket

Songs below the cut

Finale - Villain: The Leading Player (Throw yourself into a fire they said, it'll be fun and fulfill you they said)

It Feels So Good To Be Bad - Villain: Red and Carface

On the Road - Villain: Mrs. Toad and her toad henchmen

Yer Beautiful, Baby - Villain: Berkeley Beetle (I like how just hearing the name of the song, I can already imagine the exact voice saying it)

From a Place of Love - Villains: Tommy and Merry

Your Best Nightmare - Villain: Flowey the Flower

The Trial (Pantheon edition) - Villain: Athena

King of Villains - Villain: Aurelio Voltaire

Cool, Considerate Man - Villain: John Dickinson/Congressional Conservatives from 1776

We Don't Talk About Bruno - Villain: Bruno Madrigal (assumedly)

[inlovewithquotes]

"We'll follow the path," she said. "The brightness on the floor."

"The brightness that led us straight into a trap?" Annabeth asked.

"Lay off her, Annabeth," I said. "She's doing the best she can."

Annabeth stood. "The fire's getting low. I'll go look for some more scraps while you guys talk strategy." And she marched off into the shadows.

Rachel drew another figure with her stick--an ashy Antaeus dangling from his chains

"Annabeth's usually not like this," I told her. "I don't know what her problem is."

Rachel raised her eyebrows. "Are you sure you don't know?"

"What do you mean?"

"Boys," she murmured. "Totally blind."

-The Battle Of The Labyrinth

[dresyreads]

Well, I timed myself reading Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth By Rick Riordan.

The book is a first edition, 361 pages long and I hit the lap time every 100 pages.

Unfortunately, I do have ADHD and got distracted but I can read 361 pages in about 3 hours and 4 minutes, after a full 8 hour workday. Google says the word count for the book is 85,079 words. About 462 words per minute and 27,743 words per hour. See the screenshots below for reference.

[labyrinths-library]

Book 83 of 2024

My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

★★★★

Find the authors here (Brodi Ashton), here (Cynthia Hand) and here (Jodi Meadows) . Find the book here.

Pages: 493

Genre: YA Fantasy

Review:

First of all, some background on this series. These three authors met when their agents sent them on a book tour together and became fast friends. They decided to write books together so each book has three POVs and they're all so lovely. They call themselves the Lady Janies They have rapidly become one of my favorite series of all time.

My Lady Jane is about the Lady Jane Grey, the 9 days queen of England. However the Lady Janies are very upfront that this is not normal history like in your textbooks and they've rewritten it as they see fit. We go through the POV of Jane, her eventual husband G (he's a horse), and Jane's cousin King Edward. If you're coming into this from the tv series, it does not match up perfectly, but I found this to be a fun read and I enjoyed it.

[risetherivermoon]

The likely family!! yay!! ive been meaning to get down my scam design as well as making one for mark & the library tbh so this was a good opportunity, and i never pass up a reason to draw hermie

ive been working on family design sheets like this one w/ the main families and was planning on also doing the likelys too anyway so this just gave me the excuse of making it sooner, i also already have the close family down, so i'll be posting that at some point...jodie is featured on that one!

thank you sm for the art request! @a-rats-hat

// closeups under cut

[travelingtwentysomething]

Time is not linear for me.

Imagine your brain is storing all your memories like making a scrapbook. Most people have one giant book that's like a linear timeline of events, each memory gets added one after the other, maybe with footnotes that link events and things together so you can flip to relevant pages to see more memories attached to any given moment. But it's like a linear timeline you can say, this came before this, and then this happened, and so on.

My brain is like, "Oh birthdays? We have a whole book for that?" and as my brain adds the new birthday memory to the birthday scrapbook it looks at some thing in there and goes oh, you don't belong here, and rips a page out, and then turns around and goes into the labyrinthian library to find another book to shove that page into, and it's just like the Hogwarts library, books reshuffling themselves on shelves, pages floating around free, a restricted section that is too easily broken into, and sometimes books in there will just start randomly screaming.

[archliches]

HELPPPP 4 yrs no touch and I've finally been indoctrinated into our in-store warhammer crusadeeee...

[ohhfarts]

They didn't even make Michael put on some gloves to touch that 800 year old book?!