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Hi! Love your sonia characterisation and from your ooc posting, I see your tastes are great~ Can I ask the mun: do you have any recommendations for books or TV series? c:

Hi anon! Thank you so much for your kind words regarding my IC content and OOC ramblings, that's really nice of you to say. I'm happy to recommend some things (I admit I did a 'Stitch laughing maniacally on a pile of wreckage' when I got this ask because anon, I am not sure you know what you have asked to unleash!).

However, I wasn't sure if you were asking for recommendations for books/TV series that have directly inspired my Sonia portrayal, or recommendations of things I enjoy in general. With that in mind, I'm going to be sharing a long list of books, TV series, manga/webtoons, and story-based video games that I just happen to like.

If you're looking for media that has directly inspired my portrayal though, please send another ask and I'd be happy to narrow it down for you!

In order not to keep the dash tidy, everything is under a cut, with notes (some important, some just me making jokes) beside a few of them. I hope you find a new favorite book/series to enjoy!

Books: 

General Notes: For book series where the first book title isn't the series name, I've indicated which book to start with, save for the historical romances because that's easier to find online and there's a lot of them. I hope that helps! Additionally, for all romance series, assume that there is some mention of sexual content in various degrees of description, aka. "spice." Depending on your comfort level of literary sex, I highly recommend checking out each title on https://www.romance.io/ for their spice level rating, at the very least. The site will also show you tropes found in each book as well as reviews.

Contemporary Romance:

The Time-Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

American Royals series by Katharine McGee

Crazy Rich Asians series by Kevin Kwan (way, way better than the movie! It's a trilogy, followed by China Rich Girlfriend and Rich People Problems. I'd highly recommend this if you are writing a modern wealthy character of East Asian descent. Yes it's romance, humor, and contemporary family drama, but it gives what's apparently a very accurate look at high society)

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade (if you are looking for contemporary romance with plus size heroines, you want to check out Olivia Dade! Also Mary Warren and for young adult romance, Kelsie Stelting)

Modern Royals series by Aven Ellis (start with A Royal Shade of Blue)

The Royal Runaway by Lindsay Emory

The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan (and its sequel, The Heir Affair)

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston (this was better than Red, White, and Royal Blue, IMO)

Fantasy Romance:

Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas

Crescent City series by Sarah J. Maas

A note about SJM series: I highly suggest reading TOG or ACOTAR first, with the understanding the first three or so TOG books and the first ACOTAR books have a slower pace and are more about worldbuilding than anything else. Read Crescent City after these two (CC 1 is also a big, long worldbuilding book). You must read ACOTAR to read CC, but you do not need to read TOG to read CC (though you'll miss some of the references/easter eggs!). 

The Empyrean series by Rebecca Yarros (Start with Fourth Wing)

The Shepherd King duology by Rachel Gillig (Start with One Dark Window)

The All-Souls Trilogy/series by Deborah Harkness (Start with A Discovery of Witches)

Historical Romance:

Don't Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma Alban

Love by Numbers series by Sarah MacLean (start with Nine Rules to Break While Romancing a Rake. If you finish this series and like her writing, move on to the Bareknuckle Bastards series and the Rules of Scoundrels series)

Spindle Cove series by Tessa Dare (start with A Night to Surrender. If you liked this series, move on to the Castles Ever After series and the Girl Meets Duke series)

pretty much anything by Lisa Kleypas (Bridgerton fans? This is how you get over your hangover/wait between finishing the books and/or Season 3. start with the Wallflowers or the Hathaways series, then move onto the Ravenels and the Bow Street Runners series. This is mostly historically the chronological order with crossover characters between the Wallflowers and Hathaways. Bow Street Runners is chronologically before Wallflowers but it's disappointing if you read it first, trust me!)

everything by Jane Austen. Just everything. 

Series/books I'm in the middle of/currently on my TBR list so I can't recommend them fully yet but I'm actively reading them:

The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black (start with The Cruel Prince)

Letters of Enchantment duology by Rebecca Ross (start with Divine Rivals)

Crowns of Nyaxia series by Carissa Broadbent (Start with The Serpent and the Wings of Night)

Hades x Persephone saga by Scarlett St. Clair (Start with A Touch of Darkness)

The Shadow and Bone trilogy by Leigh Bardugo (and Six of Crows. And everything else: I've yet to dive into Bardugo's series) 

A League of Extraordinary Women series by Evie Dunmore (Start with Bringing Down the Duke)

Royals series by Rachel Hawkins (start with Prince Charming)

Infamous by Lex Croucher

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

Deliciously Dark Fairytales series by K.F. Greene (Start with A Ruin of Roses)

TV series:

Downton Abbey (my love for this show runs deep. It changed my life!)

The Gilded Age (Carrie Coon deserves an Emmy for this at some point I s2g)

The Crown (Claire Foy is the best QEII, Elizabeth Debicki is the best Diana, Josh O'Connor is the best Charles)

Gossip Girl (original 2007 series, not the remake)

The Royals (the E! show)

Succession (Come for Brian Cox emotionally and verbally harass his children, stay for Kieran Culkin, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook, Matthew MacFayden, Conheads, and a Ludicrously Capacious Bag.)

The White Lotus (Tanya is ICONIC.)

Miss Scarlet and the Duke

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (If you like Miss Scarlet, I can almost guarantee you will like Miss Fisher. And vice-versa.)

All Creatures Great and Small (the remake)

Sanditon

Black Mirror

Skins (UK series only)

Sex Education

The IT Crowd (the creator is an ass. The show is eternal.)

The Great

The Sopranos

The Empress

The Fall of the House of Usher

Midnight Mass (arguably the best Flanagan series. Fight me.)

Marie Antoinette (2022 TV series)

Dickinson

Euphoria

Stranger Things

The Tudors

Versailles

Unforgotten

Endeavour (you don't need to have seen Inspector Morse beforehand but it helps contextualize where some of this cast ends up in the future! Endeavour is the best murder mystery show ever written, IMO. Unforgotten is a close contender for second place.)

Outlander

Sherlock

Mad Men

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

American Horror Story (earlier seasons are way better than the later ones)

Gentleman Jack

Ted Lasso

Emily in Paris

Pride and Prejudice (the 1995 miniseries with Colin Firth)

Books and TV (that is, read and watch both!):

Bridgerton (books by Julia Quinn)

Magpie Murders (books by Anthony Horowitz. One of my few book recs that isn't a romance! Horowitz is a wonderful contemporary mystery writer)

Webtoons/manga:

(Because some people prefer manga/webtoons to novels! I have read all of these on MangaKatana. Mostly fantasy romance and contemporary romance, several have been made into J or K-dramas)

Under The Oak Tree

See You In My 19th Life

What's Wrong With Secretary Kim?

Like Wind on a Dry Branch

Marriage of Convenience

Father, I Don't Want to Get Married!

We Are Not Ourselves Today

An Hour of Romance

Innocent (The sole historical drama over here. Every sex and violence trigger warning you can imagine applies to this manga. It is also one of the most beautifully-drawn and intriguing stories I've ever read. Rose of Versailles fans, this is for you: this is your fave but darker.)

Marry My Husband

Video games with excellent storytelling:

(mostly. These are primarily otome games, mystery visual novels, and horror visual novels):

Zero Escape: The Nonary Games (there are three games in this series: 999, Virtue's Last Reward, and Zero Time Dilemma)

AI: The Somnium Files (There are currently two games in this series, AITSF and AITSF: Nirvana Initiative. Zero Escape and Somnium Files are basically required to play after Danganronpa. I said what I said: the storytelling is better)

Code: Realize (The best storytelling of all otome games, hands down. Do not watch the anime: it sucks. The first game is the best and really the only one you need to play. The other two games have okay side stories and are mostly romantic continuations of the first game's routes)

Collar x Malice

Cupid Parasite (mostly for the last two routes, though: if you're using a walkthrough guide. Generally much lighter than your usual otome...save for the last two routes that serve to break you.)

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (you could watch both seasons of the original anime if you really want to, but the games are better)

Umineko no Naku Koro ni (Note: please keep in mind this was written 10+ years ago in Japan, especially when you get to the Big Reveals in the final game. There are Some Takes that would go over poorly today. Like Code: Realize, do not watch the anime: IT SUCKS.)

Spirit Hunter: Death Mark

Spirit Hunter: NG (You don't technically have to play Death Mark first but it makes one of the endings far more impactful if you do!)

Honorable mentions:

Hakuoki (so many routes, so very long! But if you like Japanese history around this time, you may like this)

Olympia Soiree (good on the more mature content, bad on some of the LIs giving me pause like 'this is not a good romance idea')

Amnesia: Memories (I'm not a fan of the female main character or two of the LIs. At all.)

Piofiore (Similar complaints as Amnesia.)

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Stratospheric safety standards: How aviation could steer regulation of AI in health

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/stratospheric-safety-standards-how-aviation-could-steer-regulation-of-ai-in-health/

Stratospheric safety standards: How aviation could steer regulation of AI in health

What is the likelihood of dying in a plane crash? According to a 2022 report released by the International Air Transport Association, the industry fatality risk is 0.11. In other words, on average, a person would need to take a flight every day for 25,214 years to have a 100 percent chance of experiencing a fatal accident. Long touted as one of the safest modes of transportation, the highly regulated aviation industry has MIT scientists thinking that it may hold the key to regulating artificial intelligence in health care. 

Marzyeh Ghassemi, an assistant professor at the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Institute of Medical Engineering Sciences, and Julie Shah, an H.N. Slater Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, share an interest in the challenges of transparency in AI models. After chatting in early 2023, they realized that aviation could serve as a model to ensure that marginalized patients are not harmed by biased AI models.  

Ghassemi, who is also a principal investigator at the MIT Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health (Jameel Clinic) and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), and Shah then recruited a cross-disciplinary team of researchers, attorneys, and policy analysts across MIT, Stanford University, the Federation of American Scientists, Emory University, University of Adelaide, Microsoft, and the University of California San Francisco to kick off a research project, the results of which were recently accepted to the Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms and Optimization Conference. 

“I think I can speak for both Marzyeh and myself when I say that we’re really excited to see kind of excitement around AI starting to come about in society,” says first author Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly, now an assistant professor of EECS at the University of Michigan who was a postdoc in Ghassemi’s lab when the project began. “But we’re also a little bit cautious and want to try to make sure that it’s possible we can have frameworks in place to manage potential risks as these deployments start to happen, so we were looking for inspiration for ways to try to facilitate that.” 

AI in health today bears a resemblance to where the aviation industry was a century ago, says co-author Lindsay Sanneman, a PhD student in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. Though the 1920s were known as “the Golden Age of Aviation,” fatal accidents were “disturbingly numerous,” according to the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.  

Jeff Marcus, the current chief of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Safety Recommendations Division, recently published a National Aviation Month blog post noting that while a number of fatal accidents occurred in the 1920s, 1929 remains the “worst year on record” for the most fatal aviation accidents in history, with 51 reported accidents. By today’s standards that would be 7,000 accidents per year, or 20 per day. In response to the high number of fatal accidents in the 1920s, President Calvin Coolidge passed landmark legislation in 1926 known as the Air Commerce Act, which would regulate air travel via the Department of Commerce. 

But the parallels do not stop there — aviation’s subsequent path into automation is similar to AI’s. AI explainability has been a contentious topic given AI’s notorious “black box” problem, which has AI researchers debating how much an AI model must “explain” its result to the user before potentially biasing them to blindly follow the model’s guidance.  

“In the 1970s there was an increasing amount of automation … autopilot systems that take care of warning pilots about risks,” Sanneman adds. “There were some growing pains as automation entered the aviation space in terms of human interaction with the autonomous system — potential confusion that arises when the pilot doesn’t have keen awareness about what the automation is doing.” 

Today, becoming a commercial airline captain requires 1,500 hours of logged flight time along with instrument trainings. According to the researchers’ paper, this rigorous and comprehensive process takes approximately 15 years, including a bachelor’s degree and co-piloting. Researchers believe the success of extensive pilot training could be a potential model for training medical doctors on using AI tools in clinical settings. 

The paper also proposes encouraging reports of unsafe health AI tools in the way the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) does for pilots — via “limited immunity”, which allows pilots to retain their license after doing something unsafe, as long as it was unintentional. 

According to a 2023 report published by the World Health Organization, on average, one in every 10 patients is harmed by an adverse event (i.e., “medical errors”) while receiving hospital care in high-income countries. 

Yet in current health care practice, clinicians and health care workers often fear reporting medical errors, not only because of concerns related to guilt and self-criticism, but also due to negative consequences that emphasize the punishment of individuals, such as a revoked medical license, rather than reforming the system that made medical error more likely to occur.  

“In health, when the hammer misses, patients suffer,” wrote Ghassemi in a recent comment published in Nature Human Behavior. “This reality presents an unacceptable ethical risk for medical AI communities who are already grappling with complex care issues, staffing shortages, and overburdened systems.” 

Grace Wickerson, co-author and health equity policy manager at the Federation of American Scientists, sees this new paper as a critical addition to a broader governance framework that is not yet in place. “I think there’s a lot that we can do with existing government authority,” they say. “There’s different ways that Medicare and Medicaid can pay for health AI that makes sure that equity is considered in their purchasing or reimbursement technologies, the NIH [National Institute of Health] can fund more research in making algorithms more equitable and build standards for these algorithms that could then be used by the FDA [Food and Drug Administration] as they’re trying to figure out what health equity means and how they’re regulated within their current authorities.” 

Among others, the paper lists six primary existing government agencies that could help regulate health AI, including: the FDA, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the recently established Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Office of Civil Rights (OCR).  

But Wickerson says that more needs to be done. The most challenging part to writing the paper, in Wickerson’s view, was “imagining what we don’t have yet.”  

Rather than solely relying on existing regulatory bodies, the paper also proposes creating an independent auditing authority, similar to the NTSB, that allows for a safety audit for malfunctioning health AI systems. 

“I think that’s the current question for tech governance — we haven’t really had an entity that’s been assessing the impact of technology since the ’90s,” Wickerson adds. “There used to be an Office of Technology Assessment … before the digital era even started, this office existed and then the federal government allowed it to sunset.” 

Zach Harned, co-author and recent graduate of Stanford Law School, believes a primary challenge in emerging technology is having technological development outpace regulation. “However, the importance of AI technology and the potential benefits and risks it poses, especially in the health-care arena, has led to a flurry of regulatory efforts,” Harned says. “The FDA is clearly the primary player here, and they’ve consistently issued guidances and white papers attempting to illustrate their evolving position on AI; however, privacy will be another important area to watch, with enforcement from OCR on the HIPAA [Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act] side and the FTC enforcing privacy violations for non-HIPAA covered entities.” 

Harned notes that the area is evolving fast, including developments such as the recent White House Executive Order 14110 on the safe and trustworthy development of AI, as well as regulatory activity in the European Union (EU), including the capstone EU AI Act that is nearing finalization. “It’s certainly an exciting time to see this important technology get developed and regulated to ensure safety while also not stifling innovation,” he says. 

In addition to regulatory activities, the paper suggests other opportunities to create incentives for safer health AI tools such as a pay-for-performance program, in which insurance companies reward hospitals for good performance (though researchers recognize that this approach would require additional oversight to be equitable).  

So just how long do researchers think it would take to create a working regulatory system for health AI? According to the paper, “the NTSB and FAA system, where investigations and enforcement are in two different bodies, was created by Congress over decades.” 

Bondi-Kelly hopes that the paper is a piece to the puzzle of AI regulation. In her mind, “the dream scenario would be that all of us read the paper and are super inspired and able to apply some of the helpful lessons from aviation to help AI to prevent some of the potential harm that might come about.”

In addition to Ghassemi, Shah, Bondi-Kelly, and Sanneman, MIT co-authors on the work include Senior Research Scientist Leo Anthony Celi and former postdocs Thomas Hartvigsen and Swami Sankaranarayanan. Funding for the work came, in part, from an MIT CSAIL METEOR Fellowship, Quanta Computing, the Volkswagen Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Herman L. F. von Helmholtz Career Development Professorship and a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar award.

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The Royal Runaway by Lindsay Emory

BROOKE’S REVIEW

This is not your standard princess story, and that is a very good thing. Princess Theodora of Drieden, or Thea, is jilted by her fiancé on her wedding day. Her grandmother, also known as the Queen, had been talking about changing the order of succession when she was going to be a new bride, but the newly single princess finds herself exiled to a lonely island instead for some R&R - and not a tropical one. 

Back from her seclusion, Thea feels the need to break free from the castle walls and finds herself in a local bar, where she meets a sexy Scot named Nick. Things, however, are not as they seem. Nick’s a British spy in search of his brother, who happens to be Thea’s cold-footed fiancé. 

Meeting Nick launches Thea into a caper that leads her into an adventure beyond what she could have ever expected. While a princess, Thea’s no damsel in distress. She’s bold and capable and takes matters into her own hands - confronting her destiny. Royal wedding watchers and rebels alike will enjoy this book. Add it to your TBR list, as it debuts on October 9, 2018. 

AUTHOR

Lindsay Emory began her career as a lawyer but now writes romantic suspense, mysteries, and romantic comedy. She hosts a popular podcast Women with Books about genre fiction written by and for women. Lindsay lives in North Texas with two big dogs and her romance hero, drinking gimlets and raising two STEM warrior princesses. 

Many thanks to Gallery Books and NetGalley for providing me with an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an unbiased review. 

[isabelreads7]

16/100

The royal runaway

After reading Lolita, I just needed something easy and lighthearted and that’s exactly what this book is.

Thea finds herself in trouble after her fiancé leaves her at the altar and now, as a princess, she has to deal with public consequences that that has brought; her life starts to change when she meets Nick, a Scot that treats her like an actual human being rather than a royal… oh, and he also blackmails her.

It’s fun, it’s easy, I love Nick and it has the exact vibe of watching a Netflix romcom, so if you want something to read that’s like that, totally recommend this book. Is this book a masterpiece? No. Did I enjoy it a lot? Yeah!

I recommend anyone that wants a sweet break from reality to read it and enjoy Thea’s story as she unfolds the long time saved family secrets.

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3.5/5 stars

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Title: The Royal Runaway | Author: Lindsay Emory | Publisher: Gallery Books (2018)

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#BookTour #Giveaway #NewRelease THE ROYAL BODYGUARD by @Lindsay_Emory

When Princess Caroline of Drieden of the Royal House Laurent eloped with a race car driver, she forfeited her royal title and her family. Now a widow and exiled from Drieden, Caroline is working as a journalist, writing exposes under a pen name. When, one day, she catches sight of her sister Thea's ex-fiancé, she's stunned - Christian is supposed to be dead. Here could be the scoop of the century. But Caroline's plans to uncover Christian's deception are foiled by the arrival of Hugh Konnor - her former bodyguard and Caroline's first - unrequited - love. When Hugh stubbornly refuses to leave her side, Caroline can't deny they make a good team. As they unravel a web of deception that could bring down the House of Laurent, Caroline must decide how far she's willing to go to protect a family she feels deserted her - and whether the man who swore to guard her body can safely hold her heart.

#romcom #bookreview #books #romance #lindsayemory #TheRoyalBodyguard #NetGalley @Lindsay_Emory A Wonderful 🌍 of Words

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If it weren’t for the amazing cast, I would have stopped watching The 100 after season four. The cast have worked their asses off for 7 years to bring us these characters that we have grown to love despite the show runner crashing and burning it to the ground. The cast deserves so much better and I’m so thankful that they were able to deliver so incredibly well through all of these seasons and I am so excited to see them in any new projects they take on. Jroth May have fucked his show up, but these actors and actresses took all the shit he threw at them and still managed to make art.

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5 books to read this winter

If you’re like me and are sick of this snow and cold weather, then you find warmth in a good book. It’s the season where you cozy up in a blanket in bed and binge the pile of books you’ve had on your desk for weeks now. Because it is negative temps and snowing where…

5 books to read this winter was originally published on Hollywood News Source

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they trying to tell us that the way he looks at her is ‘Platonic’

Sure jan

[the-most-beautiful-broom]

the roach -- hunter!emori & harmless barista!murphy fic for @chopped100challenge -- read on ao3

She wasn’t surprised to find the place was empty; even armed with espresso, few began their journey at evening. The maple floorboards sank under her step, creaking under her combat boots and Emori shrugged off her jacket, draping it over the arm of a once-emerald velvet couch.

The man behind the counter was familiar, the owner, Murphy Something. He was cute in the way the least-hottest member of a band is attractive, when it kind of goes over their head because they’re used to compliments being paid to everyone else. But he made a good espresso and didn’t seem too concerned when Emori traipsed into his shop with mud on her boots and blood on her arms. Which meant a lot more to her than a good jawline and blue eyes.

Although, if she were being honest, Murphy Something had both.

And he was the closest thing she had to a friend these days.

He looked up when more boards creaked under her boots, and nodded up in an acknowledging salute. “Officer Em.”

Emori bit the inside of her mouth. She wasn’t one for nicknames, and no one else shortened her name, but the man never accepted her correction. 

“Morris,” she said, on principal.

She heard a cough that might’ve been a laugh. “Catch the bad guys, today?”

“I’ll take a double espresso,” she said, instead of answering.

Murphy whistled. “I’m sorry.”

Emori shrugged, easing herself onto a stool at the bar. “Part of the job.”

[octaviareina]

WE'RE BACK BITCHES!!!!

I'm lazy, and I have to wake up early to work, so I'm not in the mood to make my reviews as I always do, so send me questions and I'll answer my thoughts and theories.

[daisychains111]

Welcome to the 5%

60% of the fandom: Murven 30% of the fandom: Memori 5% of the fandom: shipping them both equally as much but not wanting either to happen because it might mean the end of the other.  3% of the fandom: not caring about john murphy's love life 2% of the fandom: just causal viewer, probably doesn’t even know what shipping is

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DELMER ERIC DARELL

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In preparation for my books read in 2021, here’s a look back at the books of 2020.

BOOKS READ IN 2020

** Rereads in purple **

** Read more than once that year in blue **

Bloodline Sorcery (Bloodline Academy #0) - Lan Chan

Bloodline Academy (Bloodline Academy #1) - Lan Chan

Bloodline Secrecy (Bloodline Academy #2) - Lan Chan

Bloodline Diplomacy ((Bloodline Academy #3) - Lan Chan

Bloodline Legacy (Bloodline Academy #4) - Lan Chan

Bloodline Fallacy (Bloodline Academy #5) - Lan Chan

The Thousandth Floor - Katharine McGee

The Dazzling Heights - Katharine McGee

The Towering Sky - Katharine McGee

The Royal Runaway - Lindsay Emory

The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas

The Selection (The Selection #1) - Kiera Cass

The Elite (The Selection #1) - Kiera Cass

The One (The Selection #1) - Kiera Cass

Anna K - Jenny Lee

Words of Radiance - Brandon Sanderson

Oathbringer - Brandon Sanderson

Rhythm of War - Brandon Sanderson

Elantris - Brandon Sanderson

Dawnshard - Brandon Sanderson

Warbreaker - Brandon Sanderson

American Royals - Katharine McGee

American Royals II: Majesty - Katharine McGee

Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy #1) - Richelle Mead

Frostbite (Vampire Academy #2) - Richelle Mead

Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy #3) - Richelle Mead

Blood Promise (Vampire Academy #4) - Richelle Mead

Spirit Bound (Vampire Academy #5) - Richelle Mead

Last Sacrifice (Vampire Academy #6) - Richelle Mead

Bloodlines (Bloodlines #1) - Richelle Mead

The Golden Lily (Bloodlines #2) - Richelle Mead

The Indigo Spell (Bloodlines #3) - Richelle Mead

The Fiery Heart (Bloodlines #4) - Richelle Mead

The Silver Shadows (Bloodlines #5) - Richelle Mead

The Ruby Circle (Bloodlines #6) - Richelle Mead

Lying Next to Me - Gregg Olsen

Heir of Shadows (Daizlei Academy #1) - Kel Carpenter

Scion of Midnight (Daizlei Academy #2) - Kel Carpenter

Queen of Lies (Daizlei Academy #3) - Kel Carpenter

Vessel of Distruction (Daizlei Academy #4) - Kel Carpenter

After - Anna Todd

After We Collided - Anna Todd

After We Fell - Anna Todd

After Ever Happy - Anna Todd

The Idea of You - Robinne Lee

When We Believed in Mermaids - Barbara O’Neal

The Silent Daughter - Claire Amarti

A Dark Lure - Loreth Anne White

Darklight (Darklight #1) - Bella Forrest

Darkthirst (Darklight #2) - Bella Forrest

Darkworld (Darklight #3) - Bella Forrest

Darkblood (Darklight #4) - Bella Forrest

Darktide (Darklight #5) - Bella Forrest

Darkbirth (Darklight #6) - Bella Forrest

Also all of the House of Night series (reread from when I was a tween). Did not think they held up 😳

I love Sanderson, but don’t reread him much since the books are pretty long. Lan Chan is my favorite new author I found. Really helped break me out of a slump ❤️

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Yoinking the Top 5 Hottest Women of The 100 challenge from @blodreina-noumou !

1. Raven Reyes

Lindsay Morgan's natural hotness level increases 100 fold with Raven's competency bonus and snappy dialogue 🧡

2. Octavia Blake

Even hotter when drenched in the blood of her enemies ❤

3. Josephine Lightbourn

Problematic fave. So evil, so pretty (so much more interesting than 75% of the plot of season 6) 💛

4. Echo Kom Spacekru

Sexy sitting still, 100x sexier whirling around and stabbing people 🤍

5. Emori Kom Spacekru

She wears “scrappy conwoman turned engineer” and “regal queen goddess” equally well 💙

Who all is active in this fandom still lol? Tagging @ifandomus @levtaviarising @johnmurphysreddit @blodkru @osleyakomwonkru and anyone else who wants to do it!