Read THE FACELESS THING WE ADORE by Hester Steel if you love beautiful islands, running away from your life, ancient mysteries, cults, manipulations, abuse narratives, eldritch horrors, fragmented reality, chrysalis & butterflies, figuring out where & how you fit, the rot beneath it all, the incomprehensible & lemons.

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Read THE RIVER HAS ROOTS by Amal El-Mohtar if you love fairy tales, love stories, murder ballads, riddles, the love between sisters, unwanted suitors, getting lost, swan songs, harps, grammar, conjugations, transformations, voices, willow trees, rivers, borderlands & changing course.

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Read OLD SOUL by Susan Barker if you love a story told through interviews, mysteries, portrait photography, malevolent presences, immortals, grief & abuse narratives, exploring cities, new identities, the female gaze, strangers, digging deep into old wounds & the desire to survive at all costs.

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Read THE EVERLASTING by Alix E. Harrow if you love how stories are created, lady knights, making myths, quests, propaganda machines, time travel, scars, always finding each other, genderfuckery, broken & dislikable people doing their best, interesting interpersonal dynamics & rewriting history.

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Read THIS GILDED ABYSS by Rebecca Thorne if you love old loves, old wounds, old griefs, militaristic societies, strict & violent hierarchies, horizontal cities, giant ships, rose gold, dangerous outbreaks, sapphic longing twinged with bitterness, film photography & Leviathans.

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Read SLOW GODS by Claire North if you love intimate world building, hard scifi, reincarnation (of sorts), neurodivergent protagonists, the Evils of Capitalism, what lays hidden in the dark, the end of the world, the importance of our past & stories, the quirks of language, and the meaning of life & love.

(I received a copy of this book for review).

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Read LUCY UNDYING by Kiersten White if you love Dracula, retellings, queer stories, horrific mothers, losing yourself, intertwining narratives, epistolary stories, men doing horrific things, butter chicken, cults, trauma responses, intense longing, going to therapy & histories soaked in blood.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/736804/lucy-undying-by-kiersten-white/

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Read THE INCANDESCENT by Emily Tesh if you love messy bisexuals, magical schools, demon hunters, incredibly specific specialties, beautiful tattoos, containing multitudes, centuries of tradition, pastoral settings, class dynamics, tragic backstories, hot butches on bikes, and a gin & tonic.

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Read THE WATERS by Bonnie Jo Campbell if you love beautiful prose, wetlands, complicated families, the poetry of women, the violence of brutes, mathematics, babbies, cures, rattlesnakes, towns wrecked by capitalism, nesting dolls, moving tenderly, and secrets never told (until they are).

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Read WHAT STALKS THE DEEP by T. Kingfisher if you love a missing persons case, helping an old friend, the color mauve, SCIENCE!, abandoned mines, definitely not being claustrophobic, mysterious lights, boredom & terror, the whole & fragments, trauma narratives, skeletons, pronouns & dogs.

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