#taherah mafi

[foreverneverafter]

For all the shatter me fans out there because yk I love shatter me

(ignore the fact that this is a ouabh page)

[tacticaldiary]

NO BUT LISTEN LISTEN LISTEN I WILL ALWAYS LOVE KAMRAN AND YEAH I GET THE APPEAL OF CYRUS BUT NO. IF KAMRAN ISN'T ENDGAME I MIGHT JUST PERISH.

LIKE I GET THE CYRUS HYPE BUT KAMRAN IS RIGHT THERE AND SO DESPERATE FOR HER IT KILLS ME EVERYTIME. HIS DIALOGUE? THE DESPERATION FOR SOMEONE HE'S BARELY SPENT A DAY WITH? THAT SCENE IN THE ATTIC?

THE TEA SCENE? GOOD LORD THE TEA SCENE

I CANNOT WITH GOOD INTENTIONS EVER ROOT FOR CYRUS IT'S ALWAYS GONNA BE KAMRAN

[aleegerous]

"Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too."

- Juliette Ferrars (Shatter Me)

[stargirlie25]

Its before all the events in ignite me.

The only reason Taherah mafi made Adam SAY some imo harmless stuff was so she can make her main character look right when she is not...Adam has so much trauma and everybody in the fandom hates him even though the love and simp for their fav for the same exact reason.

All Adam ever wanted to do was protect James.

At the end of the day, his family came before him.

Booktok will scream but just bc u like hot villains does not mean you ignore the hero

Hold up. I just found out Adam Kent gets a novella in Shatter Me??? Is it good??? Does he get a happy ending??? Has anyone read it who can tell me???

I will not be getting back to the rest of the series but I might just read Adam Kent’s novella. For spite. And because I love his character.

[christophernolan]

Fantasy books by female authors that deserve more praise and recognition and are so SO MUCH better than whatever SJM writes.

The Sun Sword series | Michelle West

A hundred thousand kingdoms | NK Jemisin

The killing Moon | NK Jemisin

An ember in the Ashes | Sabaa Tahir

Shatter Me | Taherah Mafi

Furyborn | Claire Legrand

The bone season | Samantha Shannon

Darker shade of Magic | VE Schwab

The invisible life of Addie LaRue | VE Schwab

Realm of the Elderlings | Robin Hobbs

Sands of Arawiya | Hafsah Faizal

The Daevabad Trilogy | SA Chakraborty

Year of the Reaper | Makiia Lucier

The bear and the Nightingale | Katherine Arden

The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern

Descendent of the Crane | Joan He

The bridge Kingdom | Danielle Jensen

Dark Shores | Danielle Jensen

Falling Kingdoms | Morgan Rhodes

Range of Ghosts | Elizabeth Bear

Children of blood and Bone | Tomi Adeyemi

The Wrath and the Dawn | Renee Ahdieh

Lumatere Chronicles | Melina Marchetta

The Alchemists of Loom | Elise Kova

[n-mes1s]

"And me," he says

"You are my friend," I tell him

"But not your best friend. Kenji is your best friend."

I try so hard not to laugh at the jealousy in his voice.

"Yes, but you're my favourite friend."

-Ignite me, Taherah Mafi.

[bizarrebazaar13]

FL-inspired book recs, part 2!

part 1 here

Locations

The Shuttered Palace: Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? by Crystal Smith Paul. when Kitty Karr, a white film star, dies and leaves her estate to the Black St. John sisters, everyone wants to know why. Elise, the oldest of the three sisters, takes on the responsibility of getting Kitty’s affairs in order, and stumbles on a secret that could change everything. told in both Elise’s words and Kitty’s own, the book examines wealth, fame, race, gender, family, and the inner workings of Hollywood. I’m not usually very into the palace, but I think the themes here of family ties, facades, and who exactly gets to be rich and famous could be a nice parallel.

The Stacks: Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine. an alternate history where the library of Alexandria was never destroyed, and now controls all the world’s knowledge. Jess Brightwell, a book smuggler, passes the entrance exam to join the Library’s ranks. but nothing about the Library is quite what it seems, and Jess and his fellow postulants are about to learn just how powerful- and dangerous- knowledge can be. this is the first book in what is honestly one of my favorite series that I’ve ever read.

The Brass Embassy: The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo. a retelling of The Great Gatsby from Jordan Baker’s point of view, set in a version of the Jazz Age with demons, magic, and the possibility of losing your soul. Vo’s version of Jordan is a queer Vietnamese woman adopted by the wealthy Baker family as a child, and I loved her narration. I don’t really care for the original great gatsby, but this version hooked me immediately.

Exceptional Stories

Caveat Emptor: Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu. isolated but wealthy households, mysterious characters that you know are vampires but the protagonist doesn’t, be careful what you wish for, something oddly romantic about what the narrator and the antagonist have going on… sound familiar? I think Carmilla is technically a novella, so it’s a shorter read than some of these other books.

Factions

The Masters: The Bartimaeus Sequence by Johnathan Stroud. a series of four books (a main trilogy and a prequel) that takes place in an alternate London where the government is controlled by magicians who get their powers from summoning spirits. the first book, The Amulet of Samarkand, is narrated alternatively by Bartimaeus, a djinni summoned to help a young apprentice get revenge on a powerful rival, and Nathaniel, an ambitious magician’s apprentice whose revenge plot soon spirals out of control. Stroud’s magicians parallel FBG’s masters in many ways, and one that jumps out immediately is Nathaniel’s later role as the information minister, and how closely it resembles Pages’s ministry of public decency.

The University: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. it’s about an experiment gone awry, and the truths that might be better left unfaced. another novella, this classic horror story may have been inspired by a friend of Stevenson’s, a french teacher who appeared to be a perfectly normal academic, but turned out to have murdered his wife and possibly several other people by poisoning them. this, along with the focus on Jekyll’s previous high status in the academic community, puts me in mind of the investigations in the university storyline, and the Summerset vs Benthic rivalry.

The Tomb-Colonies: Whichwood by Taherah Mafi. when Laylee’s mother dies, and her father abandons her, she is left as the only mordeshoor in the village of Whichwood. she spends her days washing the bodies of the dead and preparing their souls for the afterlife. rejected by the townspeople and slowly dying as her magic is drained away, her only company is the dozens of ghosts in her shed, awaiting burial. one day, she meets Alice and Oliver, two strangers on a mission to save her. this is technically a companion to one of Mafi’s earlier books, Furthermore, but I read Whichwood before I knew there was another book, and I understood it perfectly fine.

[midiosaamor]

𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐄 | 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐎𝐑

moodboards | masterlist | requests

➵ aaron warner’s wife | chase atlantic bitch | lana girl | introvert | bookworm | grayson hawthorne’s girlfriend | kai azer’s love | shatter me darling | taherah mafi supporter | mrs. warner | romantasy girl | the neighbourhood’s black cat | arctic monkeys whore | born to be in a fantasy dystopian world with a blond, 5’9, green eyed man, forced to study for tests | theodore notts girl | ravenclaw | daughter of hades | cabin 6 girly | cyrus’s queen | pinterest slave

➵ 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂 : chase atlantic, lana del rey, artic monkeys, the neighbourhood, isabel larosa, ari abdul, the weekend

➵ 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐒 : shatter me, the inheritance games, the folk of the air, once upon a broken heart, a good girls guide to murder, the powerless trilogy, caraval, six of crows, this woven kingdom

➵ 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐒/𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐖𝐒 : the hunger games, harry potter, avatar the last airbender, anastasia

➵ 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 : all this twisted glory

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[not-someone-you-adore]

I can't elaborate , but I'm pretty sure Taherah mafi didn't put nazeera kenji scenes in her book because KENJI IS SECRETLY GAY FOR AARON🤭🥹🥹

[highladyofterrasen7]

“Maas ruined tamlin after making him so good”

👏that👏is👏the👏point👏of👏an👏abusive👏character👏

No one says this about Taherah Mafi and Adam. No one says this about Colleen Hoover and Ryle.

One that makes you love them, with a few red flags that most people will look over, until the ultimatum.

[winterrbearsworld]

❤️‍🔥 morally grey love translation ❤️‍🔥

Nothing's better than the morally grey love confessions 🥰

Twisted love — Ana Huang (Alex Volkov)

King of Wrath — Ana Huang ( Dante Russo)

Shatter Me series — Taherah Mafi ( Aaron Warner)

Queen of Nothing — Holly Black ( Carden Greenbriar)

Haunting Adeline — H.D. Carlton ( Zade Meadows)

Love,

Winterbear 💌

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

February 2024 Young Adult Book Releases

🦇 Good afternoon, my bookish bats. I hope you're bundled up with a fur baby, hot bev, and good book as you ward off this (lovely) chilly weather. No TBR is complete without a few young adult novels, and plenty were released in January! Here are a few YA releases to consider adding to your shelves.

🩷 February 6 🩷 ✨ All This Twisted Glory by Taherah Mafi ✨ ASAP by Axie Oh ✨ I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang ✨ No Time Like Now by Naz Kutub ✨ Even If It Breaks Your Heart by Erin Hahn ✨ Who We Are in Real Life by Victoria Koops ✨ How The Boogeyman Became A Poet by Tony Keith Jr. ✨ Dead Girls Don't Say Sorry by Abby Elenko ✨ Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender ✨ Skater Boy by Anthony Nerada ✨ Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories by Various ✨ The Absinthe Underground by Jamie Pacton ✨ Daniel, Deconstructed by James Ramos ✨ King Cheer by Molly Horton Booth, Stephanie Kate Strohm, Jamie Green ✨ Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo ✨ These Deadly Prophecies by Andrea Tang ✨ The Cursed Rose by Leslie Vedder ✨ Clarion Call by Cayla Fay ✨ Out of Body by Nia Davenport

🩷 February 13 🩷 ✨ The Eternal Ones by Namina Forna ✨ A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic by Yi Shun Lai ✨ This Day Changes Everything by Edward Underhill ✨ With a Little Luck by Marissa Meyer ✨ Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid by Ngozi Ukazu, Mad Rupert ✨ The Boyfriend Wish by Swati Teerdhala ✨ Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear by Robin Wasley ✨ The Fox Maidens by Robin Ha

🩷 February 20 🩷 ✨ A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal ✨ The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert ✨ Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli ✨ The Diablo's Curse by Gabe Cole Novoa ✨ We Got the Beat by Jenna Miller ✨ The Someday Daughter by Ellen O'Clover ✨ Conditions of a Heart by Bethany Mangle ✨ My Throat an Open Grave by Tori Bovalino

🩷 February 27 🩷 ✨ Fate Breaker by Victoria Aveyard ✨ Illusions of Fire by Nisha Sharma ✨ Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury ✨ Hope Ablaze by Sarah Mughal Rana ✨ Daughter of the Bone Forest by Jasmine Skye ✨ Where the Dark Stands Still by A.B. Poranek

[daechwitatamic]

Jo, feel free to save and answer this ask whenever you have the time, but I love your writing style so much and I'm curious to know what your favorite books are? I used to be such an avid reader as a kid, but I find it so hard as an adult to find books that really hook me. It's like I need something more enjoyable than Faulkner but not anywhere near as formulaic as Nicholas Sparks, but those are the type of books that fill up many recommendation lists!

I love a nice, long novel that follows a character and their development over timen (can you tell why I like your work?). Some of my favorites are East of Eden, Vanity Fair, and I Know This Much Is True.

What have you read that you couldn't put down?

🌴

ohhhhhhh what a question. This is gonna need a read more.

I will admit to being a huge fan of young adult lit, despite being 33. A group of my friends and I go to YALLFest every fall to shout at our favorite authors. Some of my favorites from this category are Taherah Mafi (specifically her stand-alones "An Emotion of Great Delight" and "A Very Large Expanse of Sea"), Libba Bray (The Diviner's Series!!!! The Gemma Doyle Trilogy!!!!), Leigh Bardugo (specifically the Six of Crows duology and the Ninth House series), Sarah Dessen (though I'll admit this is mostly out of loyalty and nostalgia at this point and I think if I read her books fresh as an adult i would not love them like i did growing up), Marissa Meyer (The Lunar Chronicles!!!!!!!!!! but another that idk if i would love if i read them NOW instead of at 20), and E. Lockheart (WE WERE LIARS!!!!!).

As far as fiction meant for real adults lol I haven't been a fan of any of her books since the early 2010s but Jodi Picoult was really formative when I was a teenager and is honestly the reason I went for a writing degree. I thought I'd be her when I grew up (haaaa). I really liked Sara Gruen (EXCEPT for the one about monkeys WHO LET HER WRITE THAT), Tara Conklin, Kevin Brockmeier, Margaret Atwood (i once tripled the page assignment for a paper on Handmaid's Tale about a decade before it was a show and got a B for going over the page limit >:( true story). I am a HUGE HUGE HUGE fan of Brunonia Barry - can't recommend The Lace Reader or The Map of True Places enough!

Ok, for my ults - in the YA category it's Maggie Stiefvater (Raven King series, again - not sure how this will read as an adult person but I read them first in my early 20s and I was DEEPLY attached and she's one of the smartest, most wonderful people and I've met her several times and gone to her writing seminars and she's just..... a god tier human and great writer).

For adult fiction ult... N.K. Jemisen. I named the Professor in MFFMHH after her!!!! Nora is like........ literally a genius in our generation. Her trilogy The Broken Earth Trilogy fucked up my brain so bad I'll never recover (and it's also the key inspo for This is a Love Song, my WIP! It's technically a crossover of parts of the world from this series, plus bangtan lmao). It's a GUTTING analogy of colonization, racism, slavery, oppression... hidden behind an almost sci-fi/apocalyptic backdrop. It is SERIOUSLY so so so so so so so good but it will break your brain and fuck you up.

let me know if you end up reading any of these!!!! i love to talk about books!!!!

<3 <3 <3 <3 i hope you're having a good week!!!!

[lover-of-the-starkindler]

Bookish Fortnight 2022

Day 12:

Book you still aren’t sure of your feelings on:

A Darkness at the Door by Intisar Khanani; on the one hand, the narrative comes to a satisfactory conclusion, but on the other... I have no concrete answers for why I'm going, "ehhhhhh...something didn't hit right here..."

Series you gave up on in 2022?

There were a couple of them...  The Nethergrim by Matthew Jobin started off with a really interesting atmosphere and ordinary heroism, and the arc from hero to selfishness to (hopefully?) coming to ones senses might have value, but the whole thing was getting too grimdark and so I just didn't look for the third book. The second series that didn't hold my interest was This Woven Kingdom by Taherah Mafi which promised Cinderella and Djinn and while it certainly delivered, it also didn't look like it was going anywhere I wanted to follow.

[higgsbosom]

RANSOM RIGGS IS MARRIED TO TAHERAH MAFI???

[dear-indies]

I think an interesting addition to your list is taherah mafi. I have been so devastated by so many authors lately and she was posting about Palestine way back in 2021 https://www.instagram.com/p/COxpOnghNdg/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Thank you anon! For people looking for books recs too, please check her out. 💌