faith's bookshelf: all en-US Thu, 27 Feb 2025 12:43:12 -0800 60 faith's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Golden Raven (All for the Game, #5)]]> 213726350 I do not care what they think of me. I can’t. It only matters that I play.

Jeremy Knox is no stranger to damage control, but his last season on an Exy court is off to a disastrous start. The relentless crusade against his newest teammate threatens the haven he and his friends have worked so hard to build. He promised Jean a fun senior year, but tragedy and ugly truths make every step forward an uphill fight.

Jean Moreau promised the USC Trojans a championship trophy, and he intends to deliver. Granted, it would be significantly easier if they’d slide off their high horses and throw a few elbows on the court. Their steadfast refusal to do things his way is nearly as aggravating as their unwanted affection, but maybe they’re not the ones that need to change.

With so many ready to drag him down, how can he learn to fly?]]>
484 Nora Sakavic faith 5 4.60 2025 The Golden Raven (All for the Game, #5)
author: Nora Sakavic
name: faith
average rating: 4.60
book published: 2025
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/27
date added: 2025/02/27
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still thinking what i want to say but they healed me. i’m also still emotionally unwell with andrew minyard getting multiple sentences
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<![CDATA[The Rise of the Hotel Dumort (The Bane Chronicles, #5)]]> 17334064
The immortal Magnus Bane is making the most of his time in the Roaring Twenties: He's settled into New York society and is thriving among the fashionable jazz set. And there is nowhere better to see and be seen than the glamorous Hotel Dumort, a glittering new addition to the Manhattan landscape. But a different type of glamour may be at play...]]>
61 Cassandra Clare 144249560X faith 2 3.79 The Rise of the Hotel Dumort (The Bane Chronicles, #5)
author: Cassandra Clare
name: faith
average rating: 3.79
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rating: 2
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date added: 2024/11/09
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i am so confused..? only thing i got from it was that it happened during the great depression which reminded me i need to study for apush, and that the very end was dolly getting into a car with camille and she’s back and hotel dumort. i didn’t like this one that much tbh i still don’t get what happened. all this reminded me of was apush and i hate apush.
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Wildcard (Warcross, #2) 29386918
Determined to put a stop to Hideo's grim plans, Emika and the Phoenix Riders band together, only to find a new threat lurking on the neon-lit streets of Tokyo. Someone's put a bounty on Emika's head, and her sole chance for survival lies with Zero and the Blackcoats, his ruthless crew. But Emika soon learns that Zero isn't all that he seems--and his protection comes at a price.

Caught in a web of betrayal, with the future of free will at risk, just how far will Emika go to take down the man she loves?]]>
352 Marie Lu 0399548017 faith 5
reread: i heard they were engaged in a book where they make a cameo and yes. i agree. this was fun again. thanks hideoemika + everyone else im too lazy to name]]>
3.99 2018 Wildcard (Warcross, #2)
author: Marie Lu
name: faith
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2018
rating: 5
read at: 2024/11/05
date added: 2024/11/04
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once again. HOLY FUCKING SHIT. it was a bit slow in the beginning and i know most people read for hideoemika (i did too but like) but the whole plot line was so good. from jax (i love!) to sasuke’s storyline which makes sid so much. then the relationship between hideo and emika and their development from enemies (who still love each other!!) to lovers once again. then the phoenix riders !!!!! lomls and tremaine and roshan. just UGH everything about it. i prefer the first book tbh but i really did enjoy this one and SOBBING SO MUCH. hideoemika novella�?

reread: i heard they were engaged in a book where they make a cameo and yes. i agree. this was fun again. thanks hideoemika + everyone else im too lazy to name
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Warcross (Warcross, #1) 41014903
Convinced she’s going to be arrested, Emika is shocked when instead she gets a call from the game’s creator, the elusive young billionaire Hideo Tanaka, with an irresistible offer. He needs a spy on the inside of this year’s tournament in order to uncover a security problem . . . and he wants Emika for the job. With no time to lose, Emika’s whisked off to Tokyo and thrust into a world of fame and fortune that she’s only dreamed of. But soon her investigation uncovers a sinister plot, with major consequences for the entire Warcross empire.]]>
368 Marie Lu 0399547983 faith 5 favorites
reread: sister had to read/watch ready player one for a school assignment and it reminded me of warcross so i reread on my plane back from new york. it was great. thank you. ]]>
4.11 2017 Warcross (Warcross, #1)
author: Marie Lu
name: faith
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2024/11/04
date added: 2024/11/03
shelves: favorites
review:
holy. fucking. shit?? THAT WAS SO FUCKING GOOD. literally everything about it from the start of emika’s hacking to meeting up with hideo to the phoenix riders (ily!) and also tremaine and i just. this was so good. the break up hurt like hell but was also so fucking good and SASUKE??? WHAT THE HELL. i’m addicted that was so fucking good oh my god. so excited for the next book gimme hideoemika endgame

reread: sister had to read/watch ready player one for a school assignment and it reminded me of warcross so i reread on my plane back from new york. it was great. thank you.
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<![CDATA[Nothing Like the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #2)]]> 207293948
Flash forward months later, and Wes and Liz find themselves in college, together. In a healthier place now, Wes knows he broke Liz’s heart when he ended things, but he is determined to make her fall back in love with him.

Wes knows Liz better than anyone, and he has a foolproof plan to win her back with rom-com-worthy grand gestures she loves. Only . . . Liz will have none of it! Wes has to scheme like a rom-com hero to figure out how to see her. Even worse, Liz has a new friend . . . a guy friend.

Still, Wes won’t give up, adapting his clever plans and going hard to get Liz’s attention and win back her affection. But after his best efforts get him nowhere, Wes is left wondering if their relationship is really over for good.]]>
442 Lynn Painter 1665947136 faith 0 to-read 3.99 2024 Nothing Like the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #2)
author: Lynn Painter
name: faith
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/10/31
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<![CDATA[Our Secret Moments (Drayton Hills, #1)]]> 209164586
As a journalism major, grades and reviews mean everything to her, so when nobody rises at the opportunity to take over the abandoned newspaper for the college football team, she takes the opportunity by the horns. Or, well, the helmet, I guess?

Connor Bailey, quarterback for the Drayton Titans, is not a fixer. Or a planner. He learned what YOLO meant in the fifth grade and he's been rolling with it ever since. He's confident in most of the ways that matter - huge ego, flirtatious personality, convinced he's got the biggest... You get the idea.

One thing he's not so good at? Talking to people about himself. Football? He could talk for the whole of North America. But when he tries to get down to the deeper stuff, about what makes Connor Connor, he often comes up empty. Strangely enough, talking to Cat is easier than it is with most people.

When the two are in more close-contact situations than they'd like at parties and in hot tubs filled with steamy tension, will Cat and Connor be able to keep their attraction to one another at bay, or will they blow their cover as they hide their relationship from Nora, Cat's best friend, roommate and worst of all Connor's sister...]]>
Janisha Boswell faith 0 to-read 3.65 Our Secret Moments (Drayton Hills, #1)
author: Janisha Boswell
name: faith
average rating: 3.65
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rating: 0
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date added: 2024/09/21
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<![CDATA[The Sunshine Court (All For the Game, #4)]]> 201914164 My name is Jean Moreau. My place is at Evermore. I belong to the Moriyamas.

It is a truth Jean has built his life around, a reminder this is the best he can hope for and all he deserves. But when he is stolen from Edgar Allan University and sold to a more dangerous master, Jean is forced to contend with a life outside of the Nest for the first time in five years. The Foxes call his transfer to California a fresh start; Jean knows it is little more than a golden cage.

Captain Jeremy Knox is facing his final year with the USC Trojans and fifth straight year falling short of the championships trophy he desperately craves. Taking in the nation’s best defenseman is a no-brainer, even if that man is a Raven. But Jean is no monster, just a man with no hope or desire for a future, and when Evermore's collapse starts dragging Jean's hideous secrets to light, Jeremy is forced to contend with the cost of victory.]]>
Nora Sakavic faith 5 4.53 2024 The Sunshine Court (All For the Game, #4)
author: Nora Sakavic
name: faith
average rating: 4.53
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2024/07/04
date added: 2024/07/05
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i’m still foxes > trojans but they are all very dear to me so all is well. also neil just being a menace in jean’s eyes is so funny like yes you go you little gremlin !! also jerejean was cute like ill take another book with them why lie but also give us more kevin
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<![CDATA[The King's Men (All for the Game, #3)]]> 23594461
Befriending the Foxes was inadvisable. Kissing one is unthinkable. Neil should know better than to get involved with anyone this close to the end, but Andrew's never been the easiest person to walk away from. If they both say it doesn't mean anything, maybe Neil won't regret losing it, but the one person Neil can't lie to is himself.

He's got promises to keep and a team to get to championships if he can just outrun Riko a little longer, but Riko's not the only monster in Neil's life. The truth might get them all killed—or be Neil's one shot at getting out of this alive.]]>
556 Nora Sakavic faith 5 favorites
reread: review still stays the same. foxes mention too. i love my found family. time to read all the extra content. ]]>
4.57 2014 The King's Men (All for the Game, #3)
author: Nora Sakavic
name: faith
average rating: 4.57
book published: 2014
rating: 5
read at: 2024/06/30
date added: 2024/06/29
shelves: favorites
review:
ANDREIL ANDREIL ANDREIL ANDRIEL. THATS IT. THATS IT. THATS IT.

reread: review still stays the same. foxes mention too. i love my found family. time to read all the extra content.
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<![CDATA[The Raven King (All for the Game, #2)]]> 18187013
Except Andrew doesn't give up anything for free and Neil is terrible at trusting anyone but himself. The two don't have much time to come to terms with their situation before outside forces start tearing them apart. Riko is intent on destroying Neil's fragile new life, and the Foxes have just become collateral damage.

Neil's days are numbered, but he's learning the hard way to go down fighting for what he believes in, and Neil believes in Andrew even if Andrew won't believe in himself.]]>
423 Nora Sakavic 1301824291 faith 4
reread: im once again. miserable!!! thanks foxes, you ALL ruined my life ( not as bad as ur lives� but you get it )]]>
4.37 2013 The Raven King (All for the Game, #2)
author: Nora Sakavic
name: faith
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2013
rating: 4
read at: 2024/06/29
date added: 2024/06/28
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tbh i still was waiting for andreil but the foxes development was everything to me

reread: im once again. miserable!!! thanks foxes, you ALL ruined my life ( not as bad as ur lives� but you get it )
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<![CDATA[The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)]]> 17259690
Signing a contract with the PSU Foxes is the last thing a guy like Neil should do. The team is high profile and he doesn't need sports crews broadcasting pictures of his face around the nation. His lies will hold up only so long under this kind of scrutiny and the truth will get him killed.

But Neil's not the only one with secrets on the team. One of Neil's new teammates is a friend from his old life, and Neil can't walk away from him a second time. Neil has survived the last eight years by running. Maybe he's finally found someone and something worth fighting for.]]>
237 Nora Sakavic 1301529044 faith 4
reread: jk read this on my 16 hour flight and i’ll do anything for those foxes also andrew on meds is a menace to society ]]>
4.03 2013 The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)
author: Nora Sakavic
name: faith
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2013
rating: 4
read at: 2024/06/28
date added: 2024/06/27
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100% honest i started this at first for andreil, to realize that andreil doesn’t really happen till like the third book. and this book was really slow for me tbh, but i did really enjoy reading about the development of the foxes relationships but just too slow i could not

reread: jk read this on my 16 hour flight and i’ll do anything for those foxes also andrew on meds is a menace to society
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<![CDATA[Hidden Scars (Darby U Hockey Boys, #1)]]> 62775194 I want to sock the golden boy of college hockey right in the mouth.
He enjoys telling me everything I’m messing up. Publicly.
And since he’s my roommate for the next year, I can’t avoid him.

Yet there’s something about him that makes me watch him.
Something dark.
A secret I want to uncover.

When he returns from a weekend away, broken and haunted, I can’t keep my distance anymore.
He needs someone and I’ll be damned if it’s not me.
Soon my life no longer revolves around hockey, but the nightmares he’s living with.
Desperately I want to save him but I can’t, not yet. The timing has to be just right.

Can I watch him destroy himself as he tries to hold tight to the things that matter or will I be the final hit in the destruction of his life?]]>
470 Andi Jaxon faith 0 to-read 4.13 2022 Hidden Scars (Darby U Hockey Boys, #1)
author: Andi Jaxon
name: faith
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/05/27
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They Hate Each Other 55923615
There are plenty of words Jonah Collins could use to describe Dylan Ramírez. “Arrogant,� “spoiled,� and “golden boy� to name a few. Likewise, Dylan thinks he has Jonah accurately labeled as an attention-seeking asshat who never shuts his filthy mouth. Their friends are convinced Jonah’s and Dylan’s disdain for one another is just thinly veiled lust—a rumor that surges like wildfire when the two wake up in one bed after homecoming. Mutually horrified, Dylan and Jonah agree to use the faux pas to their advantage by fake dating. If they can stay convincing long enough to end their “relationship� in a massive staged fight, they can prove their incompatibility to their friends once and for all. But the more time they spend together, the more their plan begins to fall apart—and the closer they come to seeing each other clearly for the first time.]]>
352 Amanda Woody 0593403096 faith 0 to-read 4.22 2023 They Hate Each Other
author: Amanda Woody
name: faith
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/05/23
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<![CDATA[The Charm Offensive (The Charm Offensive, #1)]]> 56898248 Ever After. As the most successful producer in the franchise’s history, Dev always scripts the perfect love story for his contestants, even as his own love life crashes and burns. But then the show casts disgraced tech wunderkind Charlie Winshaw as its star.

Charlie is far from the romantic Prince Charming Ever After expects. He doesn’t believe in true love, and only agreed to the show as a last-ditch effort to rehabilitate his image. In front of the cameras, he’s a stiff, anxious mess with no idea how to date twenty women on national television. Behind the scenes, he’s cold, awkward, and emotionally closed-off.

As Dev fights to get Charlie to connect with the contestants on a whirlwind, worldwide tour, they begin to open up to each other, and Charlie realizes he has better chemistry with Dev than with any of his female co-stars. But even reality TV has a script, and in order to find to happily ever after, they’ll have to reconsider whose love story gets told.

In this witty and heartwarming romantic comedy—reminiscent of Red, White & Royal Blue and One to Watch—an awkward tech wunderkind on a reality dating show goes off-script when sparks fly with his producer.]]>
354 Alison Cochrun 1982170719 faith 0 to-read 4.11 2021 The Charm Offensive (The Charm Offensive, #1)
author: Alison Cochrun
name: faith
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/05/16
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I Hope This Doesn't Find You 124932739 I Hope This Doesn't Find You is Never Have I Ever meets To All the Boys if Lara Jean wrote hate emails instead of love letters.

Sadie Wen is perfect on paper: school captain, valedictorian, and a "pleasure to have in class." It’s not easy, but she has a trick to keep her model-student smile plastered on her face at all times: she channels all her frustrations into her email drafts. She'd never send them of course -- she'd rather die than hurt anyone's feelings -- but it's a relief to let loose on her power-hungry English teacher or a freeloading classmate taking credit for Sadie's work.

All her most vehemently worded emails are directed at her infuriating cocaptain, Julius Gong, whose arrogance and competitive streak have irked Sadie since they were kids. "You're attention starved and self-obsessed and unbearably vain . . . I really hope your comb breaks and you run out of whatever expensive hair products you've been using to make your hair appear deceptively soft..."

Sadie doesn't have to hold back in her emails, because nobody will ever read them... that is, until they're accidentally sent out.

Overnight, Sadie’s carefully crafted, conflict-free life is turned upside down. It's her worst nightmare -- now everyone at school knows what she really thinks of them, and they're not afraid to tell her what they really think of her either. But amidst the chaos, there's one person growing to appreciate the "real" Sadie -- Julius, the only boy she's sworn to hate...]]>
320 Ann Liang 1338827154 faith 5 4.17 2024 I Hope This Doesn't Find You
author: Ann Liang
name: faith
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2024/02/13
date added: 2024/02/13
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first book of the year yippe i love rivals to lovers but one of them was already in love since day one
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<![CDATA[The Voicemail of Magnus Bane (The Bane Chronicles, #11)]]> 23568841 16 Cassandra Clare faith 5
isabelle - SHES SO OVERPROTECTIVE AND I LOVE HER. when she basically threatens magnus for breaking up with alec and saying how he lost “a fox� LMAOAOA. girl is committed to get happiness for her brother tho and it makes me happy. PLUS THE CHURCH AND CHAIRMAN MEOW PART LMAOAOAOAO. by far my favorite voicemail

clary - i may not have liked her that much but her relationship with malec will always have my heart. i absolute adored seeing their development and seeing how much she cares about alec AND magnus in the voicemail makes me heart.

simon - simon’s was just hilarious. he just rambled and it’s so funny and i love the simon alec friendship with him trying to justify for alec and it was just cute overall

maia - LMAOAOAOA not maia trying to find a way to get magnus to come out of hiding to visit the “werewolves� when we all know it was for alec. love their friendship tho

raphael - BAHAHAHAHHA. that’s all. love raphael and the mention of ragnor and raphael being lowkey happy about malec breaking up is kinda funny to me idk. loved raphael’s tho

maryse - THIS WAS ONE UNEXPECTING??? never thought i would see maryse trying to justify for magnus to come to the institute for a “meeting� when in reality it’s just to see alec. love her development sm

alec - lastly alec. i just know he sounded so heartbroken on these voicemails and it makes me so sad. i mean he did kinda deserve it but.. the one where he goes “i was the best thing that ever happened to you!� LMAOAOA. calm down gay disaster, you get magnus back eventually. but overall they were cute

overall they were cute and i miss tmi so much.. i will never admit that again omg

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the voicemails after their breakup WHEN I SOB. but this was really entertaining tbh

isabelle - SHES SO OVERPROTECTIVE AND I LOVE HER. when she basically threatens magnus for breaking up with alec and saying how he lost “a fox� LMAOAOA. girl is committed to get happiness for her brother tho and it makes me happy. PLUS THE CHURCH AND CHAIRMAN MEOW PART LMAOAOAOAO. by far my favorite voicemail

clary - i may not have liked her that much but her relationship with malec will always have my heart. i absolute adored seeing their development and seeing how much she cares about alec AND magnus in the voicemail makes me heart.

simon - simon’s was just hilarious. he just rambled and it’s so funny and i love the simon alec friendship with him trying to justify for alec and it was just cute overall

maia - LMAOAOAOA not maia trying to find a way to get magnus to come out of hiding to visit the “werewolves� when we all know it was for alec. love their friendship tho

raphael - BAHAHAHAHHA. that’s all. love raphael and the mention of ragnor and raphael being lowkey happy about malec breaking up is kinda funny to me idk. loved raphael’s tho

maryse - THIS WAS ONE UNEXPECTING??? never thought i would see maryse trying to justify for magnus to come to the institute for a “meeting� when in reality it’s just to see alec. love her development sm

alec - lastly alec. i just know he sounded so heartbroken on these voicemails and it makes me so sad. i mean he did kinda deserve it but.. the one where he goes “i was the best thing that ever happened to you!� LMAOAOA. calm down gay disaster, you get magnus back eventually. but overall they were cute

overall they were cute and i miss tmi so much.. i will never admit that again omg]]>
4.08 2014 The Voicemail of Magnus Bane (The Bane Chronicles, #11)
author: Cassandra Clare
name: faith
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2014
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2023/11/16
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the voicemails after their breakup WHEN I SOB. but this was really entertaining tbh

isabelle - SHES SO OVERPROTECTIVE AND I LOVE HER. when she basically threatens magnus for breaking up with alec and saying how he lost “a fox� LMAOAOA. girl is committed to get happiness for her brother tho and it makes me happy. PLUS THE CHURCH AND CHAIRMAN MEOW PART LMAOAOAOAO. by far my favorite voicemail

clary - i may not have liked her that much but her relationship with malec will always have my heart. i absolute adored seeing their development and seeing how much she cares about alec AND magnus in the voicemail makes me heart.

simon - simon’s was just hilarious. he just rambled and it’s so funny and i love the simon alec friendship with him trying to justify for alec and it was just cute overall

maia - LMAOAOAOA not maia trying to find a way to get magnus to come out of hiding to visit the “werewolves� when we all know it was for alec. love their friendship tho

raphael - BAHAHAHAHHA. that’s all. love raphael and the mention of ragnor and raphael being lowkey happy about malec breaking up is kinda funny to me idk. loved raphael’s tho

maryse - THIS WAS ONE UNEXPECTING??? never thought i would see maryse trying to justify for magnus to come to the institute for a “meeting� when in reality it’s just to see alec. love her development sm

alec - lastly alec. i just know he sounded so heartbroken on these voicemails and it makes me so sad. i mean he did kinda deserve it but.. the one where he goes “i was the best thing that ever happened to you!� LMAOAOA. calm down gay disaster, you get magnus back eventually. but overall they were cute

overall they were cute and i miss tmi so much.. i will never admit that again omg

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the voicemails after their breakup WHEN I SOB. but this was really entertaining tbh

isabelle - SHES SO OVERPROTECTIVE AND I LOVE HER. when she basically threatens magnus for breaking up with alec and saying how he lost “a fox� LMAOAOA. girl is committed to get happiness for her brother tho and it makes me happy. PLUS THE CHURCH AND CHAIRMAN MEOW PART LMAOAOAOAO. by far my favorite voicemail

clary - i may not have liked her that much but her relationship with malec will always have my heart. i absolute adored seeing their development and seeing how much she cares about alec AND magnus in the voicemail makes me heart.

simon - simon’s was just hilarious. he just rambled and it’s so funny and i love the simon alec friendship with him trying to justify for alec and it was just cute overall

maia - LMAOAOAOA not maia trying to find a way to get magnus to come out of hiding to visit the “werewolves� when we all know it was for alec. love their friendship tho

raphael - BAHAHAHAHHA. that’s all. love raphael and the mention of ragnor and raphael being lowkey happy about malec breaking up is kinda funny to me idk. loved raphael’s tho

maryse - THIS WAS ONE UNEXPECTING??? never thought i would see maryse trying to justify for magnus to come to the institute for a “meeting� when in reality it’s just to see alec. love her development sm

alec - lastly alec. i just know he sounded so heartbroken on these voicemails and it makes me so sad. i mean he did kinda deserve it but.. the one where he goes “i was the best thing that ever happened to you!� LMAOAOA. calm down gay disaster, you get magnus back eventually. but overall they were cute

overall they were cute and i miss tmi so much.. i will never admit that again omg
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This Time It's Real 60759266 massive secret to keep.

Eliza made her essay up. She’s never been in a relationship before, let alone in love. All good writing is lying, right?

Desperate to hide the truth, Eliza strikes a deal with the famous actor in her class, the charming but aloof Caz Song. She’ll help him write his college applications if he poses as her boyfriend. Caz is a dream boyfriend -- he passes handwritten notes to her in class, makes her little sister laugh, and takes her out on motorcycle rides to the best snack stalls around the city.

But when her relationship with Caz starts feeling a little too convincing, all of Eliza’s carefully laid plans are threatened. Can she still follow her dreams if it means breaking her own heart?

Get ready to fall in love in this hilarious romcom about a girl who begins a fake relationship with the famous actor in her class, perfect for fans of Meg Cabot and Jenny Han.]]>
352 Ann Liang 1338827111 faith 0 to-read 4.03 2023 This Time It's Real
author: Ann Liang
name: faith
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/09/25
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<![CDATA[Heated Rivalry (Game Changers #2)]]> 41735449 “Sexy, hot, funny and sweet, Heated Rivalry is a game changer in sexy sports romance.� All About Romance

Nothing interferes with Shane Hollander’s game—definitely not the sexy rival he loves to hate.

Pro hockey star Shane Hollander isn’t just crazy talented, he’s got a spotless reputation. Hockey is his life. Now that he’s captain of the Montreal Voyageurs, he won’t let anything jeopardize that, especially the sexy Russian whose hard body keeps him awake at night.

Boston Bears captain Ilya Rozanov is everything Shane’s not. The self-proclaimed king of the ice, he’s as cocky as he is talented. No one can beat him—except Shane. They’ve made a career on their legendary rivalry, but when the skates come off, the heat between them is undeniable. When Ilya realizes he wants more than a few secret hookups, he knows he must walk away. The risk is too great.

As their attraction intensifies, they struggle to keep their relationship out of the public eye. If the truth comes out, it could ruin them both. But when their need for each other rivals their ambition on the ice, secrecy is no longer an option.

USA TODAY bestselling author Rachel Reid

Game Changers
Book 1: Game Changer
Book 2: Heated Rivalry
Book 3: Tough Guy
Book 4: Common Goal
Book 5: Role Model
Book 6: The Long Game
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375 Rachel Reid 1488051240 faith 5 i love them 4.36 2019 Heated Rivalry (Game Changers #2)
author: Rachel Reid
name: faith
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2023/09/25
date added: 2023/09/25
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i love them
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<![CDATA[Foul Lady Fortune (Foul Lady Fortune, #1)]]> 57190453
It’s 1931 in Shanghai, and the stage is set for a new decade of intrigue.

Four years ago, Rosalind Lang was brought back from the brink of death, but the strange experiment that saved her also stopped her from sleeping and aging—and allows her to heal from any wound. In short, Rosalind cannot die. Now, desperate for redemption from her traitorous past, she uses her abilities as an assassin for her country.

Code name: Fortune.

But when the Japanese Imperial Army begins its invasion march, Rosalind’s mission pivots. A series of murders is causing unrest in Shanghai, and the Japanese are under suspicion. Rosalind’s new orders are to infiltrate foreign society and identify the culprits behind the terror plot before more of her people are killed.

To reduce suspicion, however, she must pose as the wife of another Nationalist spy, Orion Hong, and though Rosalind finds Orion’s cavalier attitude and playboy demeanor infuriating, she is willing to work with him for the greater good. But Orion has an agenda of his own, and Rosalind has secrets that she wants to keep buried. As they both attempt to unravel the conspiracy, the two spies soon find that there are deeper and more horrifying layers to this mystery than they ever imagined.]]>
528 Chloe Gong faith 0 dnf, to-read 4.22 2022 Foul Lady Fortune (Foul Lady Fortune, #1)
author: Chloe Gong
name: faith
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/09/24
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<![CDATA[The Darkness Within Us (The Shadows Between Us, #2)]]> 180634025 Chrysantha Stathos has won.
By hiding her intelligence and ambition behind the mask of a beautiful air-headed girl, she has become a wealthy duchess. And, once her elderly husband dies, she will have all the freedom, money, and safety she’s ever wanted.

Or so she thought.
A man claiming to be the estranged grandson of Chrysantha’s lecherous late husband has turned up to steal her inheritance. To make matters worse, her little sister is going to be queen and is rubbing it in her face.

Chrysantha decides that the only thing to do is upstage Alessandra at her own wedding. And as for this grandson, he has to go. Never mind that he’s extremely handsome and secretive with mysterious powers . . . No, Chrysantha wants Eryx Demos dead, and in the end, a Stathos girl always gets what she wants.]]>
331 Tricia Levenseller faith 0 to-read 3.92 2024 The Darkness Within Us (The Shadows Between Us, #2)
author: Tricia Levenseller
name: faith
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/08/19
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Bred 45454605
She was also mad.

Not the kind of madness that’s readily apparent. No, her psychopathy was far more surgical—more…insidious. She was surrounded by beautiful things—most notably her grand piano and her adopted son, Henry.

I fell in love with both.

My gift blossomed when my fingers touched her black and white keys. But my life began when I became haunted by the boy. Henry Alderman was a handsome blend of arrogance and seduction, and as we grew up together, I found it more and more impossible to separate him from my thoughts. I envied his life. I imagined how my name—Lily—would look with his. I became his closest friend…and more. I gave him my kiss, locked away his secrets, and loved him even when it was hard to.

But we were just a game. Elena Alderman made the rules. And when she decided to change them, she broke everything.

Almost.< br>
A coming-of-age romance inspired by Great Expectations .]]>
278 Ginger Scott 0999046497 faith 0 to-read 3.85 2019 Bred
author: Ginger Scott
name: faith
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/08/12
shelves: to-read
review:

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<![CDATA[Wes & Liz’s College Road Trip (Better than the Movies, #1.7)]]> 156715283 57 Lynn Painter faith 0 to-read 4.43 2022 Wes & Liz’s College Road Trip (Better than the Movies, #1.7)
author: Lynn Painter
name: faith
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/08/03
shelves: to-read
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They Never Learn 124948406 From the author of the “raw, ingenious, and utterly fearless� (Wendy Walker, USA TODAY bestselling author) Temper comes a dynamic psychological thriller about two women who give bad men exactly what they deserve.

Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor. But she’s even better at getting away with murder.

Every year, she searches for the worst man at Gorman University and plots his well-deserved demise. Thanks to her meticulous planning, she’s avoided drawing attention to herself—but as she’s preparing for her biggest kill yet, the school starts probing into the growing body count on campus. Determined to keep her enemies close, Scarlett insinuates herself into the investigation and charms the woman in charge, Dr. Mina Pierce. Everything’s going according to her master plan…until she loses control with her latest victim, putting her secret life at risk of exposure.

Meanwhile, Gorman student Carly Schiller is just trying to survive her freshman year. Finally free of her emotionally abusive father, all Carly wants is to focus on her studies and fade into the background. Her new roommate has other ideas. Allison Hadley is cool and confident—everything Carly wishes she could be—and the two girls quickly form an intense friendship. So when Allison is sexually assaulted at a party, Carly becomes obsessed with making the attacker pay...and turning her fantasies about revenge into a reality.

Featuring Layne Fargo’s trademark “propulsive writing style� (Kirkus Reviews) and “sinister, of the moment� (Chicago Review of Books) suspense, They Never Learn is a feminist serial killer story perfect for fans of Killing Eve and Chelsea Cain.]]>
349 Layne Fargo faith 4 3.86 2020 They Never Learn
author: Layne Fargo
name: faith
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2023/06/04
date added: 2023/06/04
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unhinged sapphics i love you forever
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<![CDATA[The Last True Poets of the Sea]]> 41783734 Lyric sank off the coast of Maine, their great-great-great-grandmother didn't drown like the rest of the passengers. No, Fidelia swam to shore, fell in love, and founded Lyric, Maine, the town Violet and Sam returned to every summer.
But wrecks seem to run in the family. Tall, funny, musical Violet can't stop partying with the wrong people. And, one beautiful summer day, brilliant, sensitive Sam attempts to take his own life.
Shipped back to Lyric while Sam is in treatment, Violet is haunted by her family's missing piece—the lost shipwreck she and Sam dreamed of discovering when they were children. Desperate to make amends, Violet embarks on a wildly ambitious mission: locate the Lyric, lying hidden in a watery grave for over a century.
She finds a fellow wreck hunter in Liv Stone, an amateur local historian whose sparkling intelligence and guarded gray eyes make Violet ache in an exhilarating new way. Whether or not they find the Lyric, the journey Violet takes—and the bridges she builds along the way—may be the start of something like survival.]]>
400 Julia Drake faith 0 to-read 3.92 2019 The Last True Poets of the Sea
author: Julia Drake
name: faith
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/06/04
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Far From You 20517739 Nine months. Two weeks. Six days.

That's how long recovering addict Sophie's been drug-free. Four months ago her best friend, Mina, died in what everyone believes was a drug deal gone wrong - a deal they think Sophie set up. Only Sophie knows the truth. She and Mina shared a secret, but there was no drug deal. Mina was deliberately murdered.

Forced into rehab for an addiction she'd already beaten, Sophie's finally out and on the trail of the killer—but can she track them down before they come for her?]]>
341 Tess Sharpe 1780621655 faith 5 favorites
reread: yeah i’m still sad. i don’t wanna talk about it i just binge read this at 1am at night no one speak to me ]]>
4.05 2014 Far From You
author: Tess Sharpe
name: faith
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2014
rating: 5
read at: 2023/02/28
date added: 2023/02/28
shelves: favorites
review:
hate my life. anyways sophiemina best girls forever and sobbing so much over them and the plot twist was like woah and loved this book smsmsmsm

reread: yeah i’m still sad. i don’t wanna talk about it i just binge read this at 1am at night no one speak to me
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<![CDATA[Lord of Shadows (The Dark Artifices, #2)]]> 30312891 Would you trade your soul mate for your soul?

A Shadowhunter’s life is bound by duty. Constrained by honor. The word of a Shadowhunter is a solemn pledge, and no vow is more sacred than the vow that binds parabatai, warrior partners—sworn to fight together, die together, but never to fall in love.

Emma Carstairs has learned that the love she shares with her parabatai, Julian Blackthorn, isn’t just forbidden—it could destroy them both. She knows she should run from Julian. But how can she when the Blackthorns are threatened by enemies on all sides?

Their only hope is the Black Volume of the Dead, a spell book of terrible power. Everyone wants it. Only the Blackthorns can find it. Spurred on by a dark bargain with the Seelie Queen, Emma; her best friend, Cristina; and Mark and Julian Blackthorn journey into the Courts of Faerie, where glittering revels hide bloody danger and no promise can be trusted. Meanwhile, rising tension between Shadowhunters and Downworlders has produced the Cohort, an extremist group of Shadowhunters dedicated to registering Downworlders and “unsuitable� Nephilim. They’ll do anything in their power to expose Julian’s secrets and take the Los Angeles Institute for their own.

When Downworlders turn against the Clave, a new threat rises in the form of the Lord of Shadows—the Unseelie King, who sends his greatest warriors to slaughter those with Blackthorn blood and seize the Black Volume. As dangers close in, Julian devises a risky scheme that depends on the cooperation of an unpredictable enemy. But success may come with a price he and Emma cannot even imagine, one that will bring with it a reckoning of blood that could have repercussions for everyone and everything they hold dear.]]>
699 Cassandra Clare 1442468408 faith 0 dnf, to-read 4.40 2017 Lord of Shadows (The Dark Artifices, #2)
author: Cassandra Clare
name: faith
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/02/28
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If You Could See the Sun 60099660 actually invisible.

When her parents drop the news that they can no longer afford her tuition, even with the scholarship, Alice hatches a plan to monetize her strange new power—she’ll discover the scandalous secrets her classmates want to know, for a price.

But as the tasks escalate from petty scandals to actual crimes, Alice must decide if it’s worth losing her conscience—or even her life.

In this genre-bending YA debut, a Chinese American girl monetizes her strange new invisibility powers by discovering and selling her wealthy classmates� most scandalous secrets.]]>
346 Ann Liang 1335915842 faith 5 4.01 2022 If You Could See the Sun
author: Ann Liang
name: faith
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2023/01/08
date added: 2023/01/08
shelves:
review:
this is the first book i’ve read in a really long time and i’m happy it was. i told colleen to give me a book cause i trust her judgement, and ofc she didn’t fail me. this book was so cute and i absolutely loved the plot. alice and henry my loves were so cute and i love rivals to lovers trope. their dynamic was so good and <33. also i loved chanel and her dynamic too. this was such a beautiful book and a good distraction on my way home. so happy this was the first book i’ve read in a long time
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Scarlet Angel (Mindf*ck, #3) 33304878
Logan Bennett makes me want to have a future not tainted by the constant hunger for revenge. Doesn't mean I can stop. Doesn't mean I want to stop. It just means I want more...one day.

But how do you make a good man love the monster inside you without stripping his soul away as well? He is all the best parts of me right now, resurrecting bits of my heart I forgot could even exist.

He makes me feel something other than cold.

He also thinks I'm weak and fragile. Something I laugh about to myself, while secretly soaking in all his protectiveness and concern.

If anyone touches him, harms him, or even threatens him, then they should probably run. Because his girlfriend is a little bit crazy. They just don't know it yet.]]>
139 S.T. Abby faith 0 to-read, dnf 4.40 2016 Scarlet Angel (Mindf*ck, #3)
author: S.T. Abby
name: faith
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/01/01
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Love Sky พระพายหมายฟ้� 50717624
"...น้องรู้ใช่มั้ยว่างานนี้ต้องมีบัตรผ่า� ลอบเข้ามาแบบนี้ไม่ดีนะ"

"งั้นผมขอถามว่าต้องแลกกับอะไรถึงจะออกไปได้เงียบ�" แล้วสิ่งที่เขากลัวก็เกิดขึ้�

"พี่ว่าȨองรู้นะว่าพี่ต้องการอะไร"

แม้สกายจะบอกตัวเองว่าเขาจะไม่มีความสัมพันธ์กับใครหน้าไหนทั้งนั้น แต่เมื่อมองบรรยากาศรอบงา� และการคุ้มกันที่ค่อนข้างแน่นหน� เด็กหนุ่มก็ทำได้เพียงตอบรับ

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Mame faith 5 4.07 Love Sky พระพายหมายฟ้า
author: Mame
name: faith
average rating: 4.07
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2022/10/09
date added: 2022/10/09
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THEY MEAN SO MUCH TO ME. their journey is everything and seeing their story come to life on screen just makes me so happy. i cannot wait to see the two of them and their chemistry and their storyline. also psi’s family HIGHLIGHT OF THE NOVEL HANDS DOWN. ok i’ll go cry over them again, this was fun
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Not Here to Be Liked 56755542 Emergency Contact meets Moxie in this cheeky and searing novel that unpacks just how complicated new love can get…when you fall for your enemy.

Eliza Quan is the perfect candidate for editor in chief of her school paper. That is, until ex-jock Len DiMartile decides on a whim to run against her. Suddenly her vast qualifications mean squat because inexperienced Len—who is tall, handsome, and male—just seems more like a leader.

When Eliza’s frustration spills out in a viral essay, she finds herself inspiring a feminist movement she never meant to start, caught between those who believe she’s a gender equality champion and others who think she’s simply crying misogyny.

Amid this growing tension, the school asks Eliza and Len to work side by side to demonstrate civility. But as they get to know one another, Eliza feels increasingly trapped by a horrifying realization—she just might be falling for the face of the patriarchy himself.]]>
384 Michelle Quach 0063038366 faith 0 to-read 3.64 2021 Not Here to Be Liked
author: Michelle Quach
name: faith
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/09/16
shelves: to-read
review:

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Some Girls Do 56692357 Hot Dog Girl, an openly gay track star falls for a closeted, bisexual teen beauty queen with a penchant for fixing up old cars.

Morgan, an elite track athlete, is forced to transfer high schools late in her senior year after it turns out being queer is against her private Catholic school's code of conduct. There, she meets Ruby, who has two hobbies: tinkering with her baby blue 1970 Ford Torino and competing in local beauty pageants, the latter to live out the dreams of her overbearing mother. The two are drawn to each other and can't deny their growing feelings. But while Morgan—out and proud, and determined to have a fresh start—doesn't want to have to keep their budding relationship a secret, Ruby isn't ready to come out yet. With each girl on a different path toward living her truth, can they go the distance together?]]>
336 Jennifer Dugan faith 0 to-read 3.70 2021 Some Girls Do
author: Jennifer Dugan
name: faith
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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date added: 2022/09/13
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<![CDATA[Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)]]> 50892338
A flying demon feeding on human energies.

A secret society of so called “Legendborn� students that hunt the creatures down.

And a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a “Merlin� and who attempts—and fails—to wipe Bree’s memory of everything she saw.

The mage’s failure unlocks Bree’s own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that Bree knows there’s more to her mother’s death than what’s on the police report, she’ll do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn as one of their initiates.

She recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society’s secrets—and closer to each other. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur’s knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how far she’ll go for the truth and whether she should use her magic to take the society down—or join the fight.]]>
502 Tracy Deonn 1534441603 faith 0 to-read 4.32 2020 Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
author: Tracy Deonn
name: faith
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/08/15
shelves: to-read
review:

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<![CDATA[The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)]]> 38447
Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.]]>
311 Margaret Atwood 038549081X faith 2
i also think it’s because i don’t really like historical books. i’ve never been the biggest fan of school books or history books for that matter. also the lack of quotation marks i still don’t understand and i just didn’t get the concept of the book. sorry but i don’t recommend at all, mostly because it just wasn’t a book i would read in my free time and i didn’t connect to the plot or characters at all. i’ll give it 1.5 stars for the writing and round to 2 lol.]]>
4.15 1985 The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
author: Margaret Atwood
name: faith
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1985
rating: 2
read at: 2022/08/13
date added: 2022/08/13
shelves:
review:
i’m sorry i just cannot like this book. i know this book is meant to showcase what our world would be like if something like this were to happen, but it was absolutely disgusting and disturbing to read. gonna be honest i didn’t understand this book at all and i never will. there is so many plot holes and so many questions left unanswered and i absolutely hate that. i think the only part about i liked about this book was that the author had an unique way of describing everything. but besides the writing it’s self, i genuinely just hated the concept of the book but it’s also because i truly didn’t understand a single thing i read tbh.

i also think it’s because i don’t really like historical books. i’ve never been the biggest fan of school books or history books for that matter. also the lack of quotation marks i still don’t understand and i just didn’t get the concept of the book. sorry but i don’t recommend at all, mostly because it just wasn’t a book i would read in my free time and i didn’t connect to the plot or characters at all. i’ll give it 1.5 stars for the writing and round to 2 lol.
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<![CDATA[Last Violent Call (Secret Shanghai, #3.5)]]> 61419120 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Chloe Gong comes two captivating new novellas surrounding the events of Foul Lady Fortune and following a familiar cast of characters from the These Violent Delights Duet!

In A Foul Thing, Roma and Juliette have established themselves as the heads of an underground weapons ring in Zhouzhuang, making a living the way they do best while remaining anonymous in their peaceful, quiet life. But when they hear about several Russian girls showing up dead in nearby towns, they decide to investigate—and ultimately discover that this mystery is much closer to home than they ever imagined.

In This Foul Murder, Benedikt and Marshall have been summoned by Roma to find the elusive scientist, Lourens, and bring him to Zhouzhuang. Time is of the essence aboard the week-long Trans-Siberian Express, but when someone is murdered on board, Benedikt and Marshall convince the officer in charge not to stop the train so that they aren’t thrown off-schedule. Instead, they pretend that they are investigators and promise they can solve the murder, but as they dig deeper, they realize that the murder might having surprising ties to their own mission…]]>
240 Chloe Gong 1665934514 faith 0 to-read 4.23 2023 Last Violent Call (Secret Shanghai, #3.5)
author: Chloe Gong
name: faith
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/08/13
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review:

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Looking for Alaska 99561 Before. Miles “Pudge� Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps� even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . .
After. Nothing is ever the same.]]>
221 John Green 1435249151 faith 0 to-read 3.97 2005 Looking for Alaska
author: John Green
name: faith
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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date added: 2022/08/13
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review:

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<![CDATA[It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)]]> 27362503
Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up � she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true.

Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his “no dating� rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place.

As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan � her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.]]>
386 Colleen Hoover 1668021048 faith 3
this book has a special place in my heart always. the message it sends and how relationships between people are never ending and you can find your way back to your person. lilyatlas has my absolute heart and they remain special always]]>
4.11 2016 It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
author: Colleen Hoover
name: faith
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2016
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2022/08/13
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(EDIT AUG 2022): dropping to 3.5 stars sorry :(

this book has a special place in my heart always. the message it sends and how relationships between people are never ending and you can find your way back to your person. lilyatlas has my absolute heart and they remain special always
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The Hating Game 25883848
Nemesis (n.) 1) An opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome.
2) A person’s undoing
3) Joshua Templeman


Lucy Hutton has always been certain that the nice girl can get the corner office. She’s charming and accommodating and prides herself on being loved by everyone at Bexley & Gamin. Everyone except for coldly efficient, impeccably attired, physically intimidating Joshua Templeman. And the feeling is mutual.

Trapped in a shared office together 40 (OK, 50 or 60) hours a week, they’ve become entrenched in an addictive, ridiculous never-ending game of one-upmanship. There’s the Staring Game. The Mirror Game. The HR Game. Lucy can’t let Joshua beat her at anything—especially when a huge new promotion goes up for the taking.

If Lucy wins this game, she’ll be Joshua’s boss. If she loses, she’ll resign. So why is she suddenly having steamy dreams about Joshua, and dressing for work like she’s got a hot date? After a perfectly innocent elevator ride ends with an earth shattering kiss, Lucy starts to wonder whether she’s got Joshua Templeman all wrong.

Maybe Lucy Hutton doesn’t hate Joshua Templeman. And maybe, he doesn’t hate her either. Or maybe this is just another game. ​​]]>
387 Sally Thorne faith 0 to-read, dnf 3.93 2016 The Hating Game
author: Sally Thorne
name: faith
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/07/30
shelves: to-read, dnf
review:
dnf at 15% but i think it’s cause i’m in a book slump and i can’t read anything rn so maybe i’ll finish when i can
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<![CDATA[Long Way Down (Calloway Sisters, #4)]]> 60690822
Behind the scenes, heartbreaking troubles continue to test Ryke & Daisy’s resilience and shape their future together.

They promise:

To never slow down.
To never compromise who they are.
To never abandon their love for each other.

But preserving their happiness also means adding more risks. Ones that Connor Cobalt wouldn’t even take. As a professional free-solo climber, Ryke is no stranger to risk, but his next step with Daisy wagers more than just his health.

With their lives on the line, Ryke & Daisy head towards the vast, wild unknown.


***Authors' Note***
It's possible to only read the Calloway Sisters spin-off series without reading the Addicted series, but you MUST read Fuel the Fire (Calloway Sisters #3) before reading Long Way Down (Calloway Sisters #4).

It's highly recommended to read the books in the recommended reading order, which is in tangent with the Addicted series.]]>
641 Krista Ritchie faith 0 to-read, dnf 4.37 2015 Long Way Down (Calloway Sisters, #4)
author: Krista Ritchie
name: faith
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/07/30
shelves: to-read, dnf
review:

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<![CDATA[Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)]]> 22299763
Kaz Brekker and his crew of deadly outcasts have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives.

Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals and new enemies emerge to challenge Kaz's cunning and test the team's fragile loyalties.

A war will be waged on the city's dark and twisting streets - a battle for revenge and redemption that will decide the fate of the Grisha world.]]>
561 Leigh Bardugo faith 0 dnf, to-read 4.58 2016 Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
author: Leigh Bardugo
name: faith
average rating: 4.58
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/07/30
shelves: dnf, to-read
review:

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Sidetracked (Mindf*ck, #2) 33271162 Or at least I was...until her.

****
LOGAN

I've had tunnel vision for one main goal for so long, that I forgot there was a whole other world just outside. Until Lana.

She's everything I never expected, and I love the fact I can never guess her every move or reaction. It's part of the reason I keep falling. But I also know she shuts me out, hides things from me she feels she can't share.

One day, I hope she trusts me enough to share.

It isn't until my job puts her at risk that I realize just how fierce she is, but it doesn't stop me from doing all I can to protect her. I should walk away to protect her better, but I can't. Instead, I'm forced to find other ways to keep her safe.

I just hope it's enough.

Though she is fierce, she's still fragile...

Right?]]>
115 S.T. Abby faith 4 4.37 2016 Sidetracked (Mindf*ck, #2)
author: S.T. Abby
name: faith
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2022/07/29
date added: 2022/07/29
shelves:
review:
wait this is actually addicting oh my god- THE ENDING????? lana i really hope u succeed in your deed you got this. also poor hadley and laurel and lindy i’m sorry :( you guys deserve better. logan is kinda on my nerves rn but he’s ok. jake still my favorite character tbh
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The Risk (Mindf*ck, #1) 33131867 Left too little.
I had nothing to lose...until him.

**

~Lana~

I didn't expect him.
I didn't want to fall in love.
But I can't let him go.

Logan Bennett makes the world a safer place.
He's brilliant.
He's a hero.
He locks away the sick and depraved.
But while he's saving lives, I'm taking them. Collecting the debts that are owed to me.

Ten years ago, they took from me. They left me for dead.
They should have made sure I stayed dead.

Now I'm taking from them.
One name at a time.

I've trained for too long.
I've been patient.
I can't stop now.

Revenge is best served cold...

They never see me coming, until I paint their walls red.

Logan doesn't know how they hurt me. He doesn't know about the screams they ignored. He doesn't know how twisted that town really is.

He just knows people are dying.
He doesn't know he's in love with their killer.

No one suspects a dead girl.
And Logan doesn't suspect the girl in his bed.

They're looking for a monster.
Not a girl who loves red.
Not a girl in love.

I'm a faceless nightmare.

At least until I tell them the story they've pretended never happened.

But in the end, will Logan choose them? Or will we watch them burn together?

**Graphic
**Adult language
**Some triggers could be too much for the easily disturbed reader
**Sexual content
**Fucked up moral compass; read at your own risk.]]>
132 S.T. Abby faith 3 4.21 2016 The Risk (Mindf*ck, #1)
author: S.T. Abby
name: faith
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2016
rating: 3
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3.5 stars. the romance was too fast for me tbh but lana you go girl! jake ily best friend. logan ur great too. hadley fuck off. lanalogan was pretty cute i guess
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The Partner Track 17286782
In the eyes of her corporate law firm, Ingrid Yung is a "two-fer." As a Chinese-American woman about to be ushered into the elite rank of partner, she's the face of Parsons Valentine & Hunt LLP's recruiting brochures--their treasured "Golden Girl." But behind the firm’s welcoming façade lies the scotch-sipping, cigar-smoking old-boy network that shuts out lawyers like Ingrid. To compensate, Ingrid gamely plays in the softball league, schmoozes in the corporate cafeteria, and puts in the billable hours � until a horrifically offensive performance at the law firm's annual summer outing throws the carefully constructed image way out of equilibrium. Scrambling to do damage control, Parsons Valentine announces a new "Diversity Initiative" and commands a reluctant Ingrid to spearhead the effort, taking her priority away from the enormous deal that was to be the final step in securing partnership. For the first time, Ingrid finds herself at odds with her colleagues � including her handsome, golden-boy boyfriend � in a clash of class, race, and sexual politics.

"Smart, incisive, and fast-paced, THE PARTNER TRACK is a sparklingly readable look at the inner workings of a Wall Street law firm -- from the vantage point of a brainy, beautiful and self-doubting Asian-American associate. Wan has the remarkable ability to make you feel as if "you are there" -- inside the law firm, inside protagonist Ingrid Yung's head. I did not want to put this book down." –Susan Cain, New York Times bestselling author of "QUIET: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking"

"A wholly engrossing behind-the-scenes look at real life behind the pomp, power and prestige of a high-powered law firm that wants to still play by a 1950s rule book." –Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus, co-authors of "Citizen Girl"

"Hell hath no fury like Helen Wan's savvy heroine in this terrific debut. We all know women like Ingrid Yung: the well-educated over-achiever who does everything right to ensure a long, productive journey on a lucrative career path. But what happens when someone blows up the path? The Partner Track is a delicious, satisfying read for anyone who has fantasized about getting the better of the boss, the ex-lover, the corporate powers that be--or all three. Ingrid Yung has done it for all of us." –Kristin van Ogtrop, editor of REAL SIMPLE

"Behind Helen Wan's wit and sparkling prose is a poignant and at times, painfully honest tale of loyalty, ambition and sacrifice. Funny, fragile, sometimes bold, often unsure, Ingrid Yung is one of those unforgettable heroines that you actually miss, like a dear friend, when the story’s over." –Ann Leary, New York Times bestselling author of "The Good House"

"What a terrific debut novel. Ingrid Yung is a fresh, funny, and fearless heroine. Her razor-sharp wit and keen observations of gender, race and class politics in corporate America make THE PARTNER TRACK an entertaining, engrossing and ultimately deeply compelling read." –Cristina Alger, author of "The Darlings"

"The Partner Track is a marvelous story about female ambition and power, about betrayal, identity, and the conflict between self-interest and desire. In short: all the big, human stuff. Read it." –Alison Clement, author of "Twenty Questions"]]>
304 Helen Wan 1250019575 faith 0 to-read 3.73 2013 The Partner Track
author: Helen Wan
name: faith
average rating: 3.73
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Too Late 29610595
Sloan will go through hell and back for those she loves. And she does so, every single day. Caught up with the alluring Asa Jackson, a notorious drug trafficker, Sloan has finally found a lifeline to cling to, even if it’s meant compromising her morals. She was in dire straits trying to pay for her brother’s care until she met Asa. But as Sloan became emotionally and economically reliant on him, he in turn developed a disturbing obsession with her—one that becomes increasingly dangerous every day.

When undercover DEA agent Carter enters the picture, Sloan’s surprised to feel an immediate attraction between them, despite knowing that if Asa finds out, he will kill him. And Asa has always been a step ahead of everyone in his life, including Sloan. No one has ever gotten in his way.

No one except Carter.

Together, Sloan and Carter must find a way out before it’s too late…]]>
395 Colleen Hoover 1365547116 faith 0 to-read 3.91 2016 Too Late
author: Colleen Hoover
name: faith
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[The Gilded Wolves (The Gilded Wolves, #1)]]> 39863498 From New York Times bestselling author Roshani Chokshi comes a novel set in Paris during a time of extraordinary change--one that is full of mystery, decadence, and dangerous desires...

It's 1889. The city is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. Here, no one keeps tabs on dark truths better than treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier Séverin Montagnet-Alarie. When the elite, ever-powerful Order of Babel coerces him to help them on a mission, Séverin is offered a treasure that he never imagined: his true inheritance.

To hunt down the ancient artifact the Order seeks, Séverin calls upon a band of unlikely experts: An engineer with a debt to pay. A historian banished from his home. A dancer with a sinister past. And a brother in arms if not blood.

Together, they will join Séverin as he explores the dark, glittering heart of Paris. What they find might change the course of history--but only if they can stay alive.]]>
388 Roshani Chokshi 125014454X faith 0 to-read 3.71 2019 The Gilded Wolves (The Gilded Wolves, #1)
author: Roshani Chokshi
name: faith
average rating: 3.71
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rating: 0
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<![CDATA[The Perfect First (Fulton U, #1)]]> 43802284 “How long do you last in bed?� Those were her first words to me, swiftly followed up with, “And how big would you say you are?�

Persephone Alexander. Math genius. Lover of blazers. The only girl I know who can make Heidi braids look sexy as hell. And she’s on a mission. Lose her virginity by the end of the semester.

I walked in on her interview session for potential candidates (who even does that?) and saw straight through her brave front. She’s got a list of Firsts to accomplish like she’s only got months to live. I’ve decided to be her guide for all her firsts except one. Someone’s got to keep her out of trouble. I have one rule, no sex. We even shook on it.

I’ll help her find the right guy for the job. Someone like her doesn’t need someone like me and my massive...baggage for her first time.

Drinking at a bar. Check.

Partying all night. Double check.

Skinny dipping. Triple check.

She’s unlike anyone I’ve ever met. The walls I’d put up around my heart are slowly crumbling with each touch that sets fire to my soul.

I’m the first to bend the rules. One electrifying kiss changes everything and suddenly I don’t want to be her first, I want to be her only. But her plan was written before I came onto the scene and now I’m determined to get her to re-write her future with me.]]>
342 Maya Hughes faith 0 to-read 3.84 2019 The Perfect First (Fulton U, #1)
author: Maya Hughes
name: faith
average rating: 3.84
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<![CDATA[The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)]]> 35068705
When Rin aced the Keju—the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies—it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin’s guardians, who believed they’d finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise; and to Rin herself, who realized she was finally free of the servitude and despair that had made up her daily existence. That she got into Sinegard—the most elite military school in Nikan—was even more surprising.

But surprises aren’t always good.

Because being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the south is not an easy thing at Sinegard. Targeted from the outset by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers she possesses a lethal, unearthly power—an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive—and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school.

For while the Nikara Empire is at peace, the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea. The militarily advanced Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War, and only barely lost the continent in the Second. And while most of the people are complacent to go about their lives, a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away . . .

Rin’s shamanic powers may be the only way to save her people. But as she finds out more about the god that has chosen her, the vengeful Phoenix, she fears that winning the war may cost her humanity . . . and that it may already be too late.]]>
545 R.F. Kuang 0062662597 faith 0 to-read 4.16 2018 The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
author: R.F. Kuang
name: faith
average rating: 4.16
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Ugly Love 17788401
Never ask about the past.
Don’t expect a future.

They think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can’t handle it at all.

Hearts get infiltrated.
Promises get broken.
Rules get shattered.
Love gets ugly.]]>
330 Colleen Hoover faith 2
2 stars. i forgot about the incest plot and the fetishized baby parts section and yeah. anyways thanks twitter ]]>
4.01 2014 Ugly Love
author: Colleen Hoover
name: faith
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2014
rating: 2
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tbh idk tatemiles was cute ig but i hated that miles took it out on here and i get his trauma but my girl tate deserved better. 3.5 rounded down i would say idk i’m conflicted on this book

2 stars. i forgot about the incest plot and the fetishized baby parts section and yeah. anyways thanks twitter
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Throttled (Dirty Air, #1) 53058846 Noah
Maya Alatorre is the sister of my teammate…and my new obsession.
Keeping my distance during the Formula 1 season should be easy, except I always find ways to see her.
Press tours. Pre-race rituals. Sponsor events and black-tie galas.
The more time we spend together, the stronger my desire grows.
Sneaking around with her is one thing, but wanting more?
Never going to happen.
She might be a distraction dressed like a daydream, but no woman is worth risking the championship title over.
Or so I thought.

Maya
Noah Slade is Formula 1 royalty and my brother’s biggest rival.
When I’m invited to join my sibling while he competes for the World Championship, I promise to avoid Noah at all costs.
Twenty-one races. Two drivers who hate each other. And one forbidden attraction I can’t ignore.
Developing feelings for Noah wasn’t part of my plan.
But then again, neither was anyone finding out.
Turns out the man I was warned about happens to be the one I can’t stay away from.
Even if he breaks my heart once the season comes to an end.]]>
355 Lauren Asher faith 0 to-read 3.84 2020 Throttled (Dirty Air, #1)
author: Lauren Asher
name: faith
average rating: 3.84
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<![CDATA[An Illustrated History of Notable Shadowhunters and Denizens of Downworld]]> 31298846
Featuring characters from Cassandra Clare's international best-selling novels from the Shadowhunters world including The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices and The Dark Artifices, this anthology showcases beautifully illustrated portraits from Cassandra Jean � creator of The Shadowhunter Tarot � alongside never-before-known details from Cassandra Clare about all your favourite characters.]]>
208 Cassandra Clare 1471161196 faith 5 4.42 2016 An Illustrated History of Notable Shadowhunters and Denizens of Downworld
author: Cassandra Clare
name: faith
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2016
rating: 5
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this wasn’t even a book but just like the flower cards and fun facts, but i need to add to my book count so! was extremely fun tho to read through and alec throwing a birthday party for magnus with almost all the guests being cats is a 10/10 move.
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<![CDATA[Whatever It Takes (Bad Reputation Duet, #1)]]> 52142931
Call me what you Bad Boy Next Door. Trouble. That Kid Who Can’t Do Anything Right.

When Willow moves into my neighborhood, nothing should have happened. She’s geeky. Shy. A true wallflower.

Willow is a good girl.
Too good for me.

And how the hell was I supposed to know that she’s related to Loren Hale—yeah, that douchebag celebrity that lives on my street. The same guy I've been pranking by spray painting vulgar words on his mailbox and worse. Much worse.

Don't ask me why I do the things I do.
Don't ask me why it had to be her.

I'm cursed. Simple as that. But here's the thing about people who are cursed—they break everything they touch.

And yet. . .I still want to touch her.

Whatever It Takes is the first book in the Bad Reputation Duet and can be read and enjoyed without reading any of Krista & Becca's other novels.]]>
298 Krista Ritchie 1950165752 faith 0 to-read 4.10 2020 Whatever It Takes (Bad Reputation Duet, #1)
author: Krista Ritchie
name: faith
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2020
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<![CDATA[Wherever You Are (Bad Reputation Duet, #2)]]> 52142589
You know that old saying “opposites attract� � well, no one ever tells you what happens after the attraction part.

Do opposites stick together forever?

Or do they just self-combust?

And then there’s the third someone or something forces them apart.

Look, the third option isn’t happening to us. I will end the bastard who thinks he can keep me from her. I only need to worry about one thing. . .

Epic, soul-crushing self-destruction.
Because I screw up everything I touch.
Even her.

Wherever You Are is Book 2 in the Bad Reputation Duet and should be read after Book 1, Whatever It Takes.]]>
395 Krista Ritchie 1950165760 faith 0 to-read 4.24 2020 Wherever You Are (Bad Reputation Duet, #2)
author: Krista Ritchie
name: faith
average rating: 4.24
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The Love Hypothesis 56732449
That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor--and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford's reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive's career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding... six-pack abs.

Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.]]>
356 Ali Hazelwood 0593336828 faith 5 4.11 2021 The Love Hypothesis
author: Ali Hazelwood
name: faith
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2021
rating: 5
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took colleen and i two days technically to read this but we’re terrible so it took us like 3 months to figure it out when to read. sobbing so hard they truly are everything and i love them sm :(. also FUCK TOM AND HOLDEN UR MY FAVORITE!!! buddy reading with colleen was fun too <3
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<![CDATA[This Woven Kingdom (This Woven Kingdom #1)]]> 56554281 Clashing empires, forbidden romance, and a long-forgotten queen destined to save her people—Tahereh Mafi’s first in an epic, romantic trilogy inspired by Persian mythology.

To all the world, Alizeh is a disposable servant, not the long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom forced to hide in plain sight.

The crown prince, Kamran, has heard the prophecies foretelling the death of his king. But he could never have imagined that the servant girl with the strange eyes, the girl he can’t put out of his mind, would one day soon uproot his kingdom—and the world.

Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, Tomi Adeyemi, and Sabaa Tahir, this is the explosive first book in a new fantasy trilogy from the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-nominated author Tahereh Mafi.]]>
512 Tahereh Mafi 0062972464 faith 0 to-read 3.95 2022 This Woven Kingdom (This Woven Kingdom #1)
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name: faith
average rating: 3.95
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Her First Bite 58901254 notushieorgushie faith 0 to-read 3.17 Her First Bite
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name: faith
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<![CDATA[Lady Midnight (The Dark Artifices, #1)]]> 25494343 Lady Midnight is a Shadowhunters novel.

It’s been five years since the events of City of Heavenly Fire that brought the Shadowhunters to the brink of oblivion. Emma Carstairs is no longer a child in mourning, but a young woman bent on discovering what killed her parents and avenging her losses.

Together with her parabatai Julian Blackthorn, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches across Los Angeles, from the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica. If only her heart didn’t lead her in treacherous directions�

Making things even more complicated, Julian’s brother Mark—who was captured by the faeries five years ago—has been returned as a bargaining chip. The faeries are desperate to find out who is murdering their kind—and they need the Shadowhunters� help to do it. But time works differently in faerie, so Mark has barely aged and doesn’t recognize his family. Can he ever truly return to them? Will the faeries really allow it?

Glitz, glamours, and Shadowhunters abound in this heartrending opening to Cassandra Clare’s Dark Artifices series.]]>
688 Cassandra Clare 1442468351 faith 4 4.35 2016 Lady Midnight (The Dark Artifices, #1)
author: Cassandra Clare
name: faith
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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4.5-5 idk rn so i’ll keep it at 4. but HOLY SHIT???? i’m in like shambles omg. this was so intense and so good omg. i’m addicted to this series. firstly getting to know all the blackthorns i was like oh my god. then julian and emma?!1?2?22 i knew that was coming but like yoooo. also MARK AND KIERAN??? SIGN ME UP!! i know christina is apart of it too but still mark & kieran omg i loved them. also kit and ty meeting and ty putting a knife to kit’s neck LMAOAOAOOAOA that’s a meet for such. also fuck malcolm!!!!!!!!!!!!! also magnus mentions and being there my lover my best character. and also the way magnus talks about alec like they are my best ship and even if they are barely in this i will make it about them!!!!! diego is ok rn i think idk and i like diana. also jem and tessa in the end my heart and kit finally joining wooo. still this was so good and THE ENDING???? not the emma & mark fake dating ! and ANNABEL WAKING UP????? this was intense i loved it and i’m so excited to finish this series omg
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<![CDATA[The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)]]> 26032912 He will be destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne.

Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power.

Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is powerless and left reeling from Cardan’s betrayal. She bides her time determined to reclaim everything he took from her. Opportunity arrives in the form of her deceptive twin sister, Taryn, whose mortal life is in peril.

Jude must risk venturing back into the treacherous Faerie Court, and confront her lingering feelings for Cardan, if she wishes to save her sister. But Elfhame is not as she left it. War is brewing. As Jude slips deep within enemy lines she becomes ensnared in the conflict’s bloody politics.

And, when a dormant yet powerful curse is unleashed, panic spreads throughout the land, forcing her to choose between her ambition and her humanity�

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black, comes the highly anticipated and jaw-dropping finale to The Folk of the Air trilogy.]]>
321 Holly Black 0316310409 faith 5 4.33 2019 The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)
author: Holly Black
name: faith
average rating: 4.33
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rating: 5
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<![CDATA[The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)]]> 26032887 The enchanting and bloodthirsty sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Cruel Prince.

You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring.

The first lesson is to make yourself strong.


After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her brother safe. To do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to her, and made herself the power behind the throne. Navigating the constantly shifting political alliances of Faerie would be difficult enough if Cardan were easy to control. But he does everything in his power to humiliate and undermine her even as his fascination with her remains undiminished.

When it becomes all too clear that someone close to Jude means to betray her, threatening her own life and the lives of everyone she loves, Jude must uncover the traitor and fight her own complicated feelings for Cardan to maintain control as a mortal in a Faerie world.]]>
336 Holly Black 0316310336 faith 4 4.27 2019 The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)
author: Holly Black
name: faith
average rating: 4.27
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rating: 4
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<![CDATA[The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)]]> 26032825 Of course I want to be like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.

And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.

Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King.

To win a place at the Court, she must defy him–and face the consequences.

As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, she discovers her own capacity for trickery and bloodshed. But as betrayal threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.]]>
370 Holly Black 0316310271 faith 4 4.01 2018 The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
author: Holly Black
name: faith
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Fuel the Fire (Calloway Sisters, #3)]]> 60690809 Protect your family. At all costs.

It’d take the impossible to hurt Connor Cobalt, even for a moment.

Protect your family. At all costs.

At twenty-six, his narcissistic tendencies have made room for the people he loves.

Protect your family. At all costs.

And he loves Rose. But when his love is threatened, when his greatest dreams with her are compromised � what is the cost then?

Protect your family. At all costs.

Love will guide his choices.
For the first time in his life.


***Authors' Note***
It's possible to only read the Calloway Sisters spin-off series without reading the Addicted series, but you MUST read Hothouse Flower (Calloway Sisters #2) before reading Fuel the Fire (Calloway Sisters #3).

It's highly recommended to read the books in the recommended reading order, which is in tangent with the Addicted series. If you choose not to read Addicted After All before Fuel the Fire, there will be a time jump.

Fuel the Fire picks up in the Addicted Timeline where Addicted After All ended. FTF will not retell past events from Addicted After All in Rose & Connor's POV. All new material.]]>
558 Krista Ritchie faith 0 4.30 2015 Fuel the Fire (Calloway Sisters, #3)
author: Krista Ritchie
name: faith
average rating: 4.30
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<![CDATA[Hothouse Flower (Calloway Sisters, #2)]]> 60690795 Ryke Meadows, meet Daisy Calloway ... she’s all grown up.

Twenty-five-year-old Ryke Meadows knows he’s hard to love. With a billion-dollar inheritance, a track-star resume, and an alpha-male personality—he redefines the term likable asshole. But he’s not living to make friends. Or enemies. He just wants to free climb three of the toughest mountains in Yosemite without drama or interruption.

And then he receives a distressed call from a girl in Paris—a girl that he has never been allowed to have.

Daisy Calloway is eighteen. Finally. With her newfound independence, she can say goodbye to her overbearing mother and continue her modeling career. Next stop, Paris. Fashion Week begins with a bang, and Daisy uncovers the ugly reality of the industry. She wants to prove to her family that she can live on her own, but when everything spirals out of control, she turns to Ryke to keep her secrets.

As Daisy struggles to make sense of this new world and her freedom, she pushes the limits and fearlessly rides the edge. Ryke knows there’s deep hurt beneath every impulsive action. He must keep up with Daisy, and if he lets her go, her favorite motto—�live as if you’ll die today”—may just come true.

New Adult Romance: recommended for readers 18+ for mature content

***Authors' Note***
Hothouse Flower is a spin-off of the Addicted series. Kiss the Sky is required before reading, and we strongly recommend reading the Addicted series before this spin-off.]]>
479 Krista Ritchie faith 0 4.20 2014 Hothouse Flower (Calloway Sisters, #2)
author: Krista Ritchie
name: faith
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2014
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<![CDATA[Kiss the Sky (Calloway Sisters, #1)]]> 60690784 A virgin "ice queen" heiress & the arrogant god who wants to melt her...

Rose Calloway thought she had everything under control. At twenty-three, she's a Princeton graduate, an Academic Bowl champion, a fashion designer and the daughter of a Fortune 500 mogul. But not everything comes easy.

When Rose's fashion line is in peril, she plans an unconventional solution to save it. Making matters more intense, she agrees to be in a relationship with her "godly" college rival, Connor Cobalt.

At twenty-four, Connor Cobalt bulldozes weak men. Confident and smart-as-hell, Connor vows to help Rose outside of the bedroom and inside. But melting this ice queen is a challenge no one has been able to succeed at.

And now they're living together.]]>
443 Krista Ritchie faith 0 4.16 2014 Kiss the Sky (Calloway Sisters, #1)
author: Krista Ritchie
name: faith
average rating: 4.16
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<![CDATA[Addicted After All (Addicted, #5)]]> 55475504 Two addicts. One epic love story.

Prepare for the worst.

That’s what Lily and Lo try to do when Jonathan Hale schedules an “important� meeting. The problem: after being swept into the public eye and battling their addictions, they’re not sure what the worst is anymore.

In a sea of many changes—including Ryke & Daisy living with them—Lily realizes that the best part of her fluctuating hormones might just be the worst.

Her sex drive is out of control.

Loren knows that she’s insatiable, but he’s not giving up on her. She’s too much a part of him. And as he carries more and more responsibility, some of the people that he loves doubt his resolve.

In the conclusion to their love story, Lily & Lo stand side-by-side to fight, one last time, for their happily ever after.

**AUTHORS' NOTE**
Due to the 2-year gap between Addicted for Now (Addicted #3) and Addicted After All (Addicted #5), you must read Thrive (Addicted #4) or the Calloway Sisters spin-off series before reading Addicted After All.]]>
534 Krista Ritchie faith 0 4.39 2014 Addicted After All (Addicted, #5)
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Thrive (Addicted, #4) 55475489 Two years will change them forever.

When rumors spread like wildfire—like having three-ways with her boyfriend’s rock climbing brother—Lily Calloway spirals into a dark place. Her bedroom. Loren Hale is more confident and determined to keep their sex life private, even from their friends, and he helps Lily in the only way he knows how. But how much love is too much?

Their lives are filmed, watched, and criticized. And through it all, Lily and Loren have to face enemies they never thought they’d see, demons they don’t know if they should bury, and setbacks they didn’t think they’d meet. Not this soon.

And one rumor could be too much for them to handle. It will test their greatest limitations, and if they don’t hold onto each other, someone is going to drown.

A full-length New Adult Romance. Thrive must be read before Addicted After All if you have not read the Calloway Sisters spin-off series.]]>
465 Krista Ritchie faith 0 3.95 2014 Thrive (Addicted, #4)
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<![CDATA[Addicted for Now (Addicted, #3)]]> 55475477 He's addicted to booze. She's addicted to sex...staying sober is only half the battle.

No. More. Sex.

Those are the three words Lily Calloway fears the most. But Loren Hale is determined to be with Lily without enabling her dangerous compulsions. With their new living situation—sleeping in the same bed, for real, together—Lily has new battles. Like not jumping Lo’s bones every night. Not being consumed by sex and his body.

Loren plans to stay sober, to right all of his wrongs. So when someone threatens to expose Lily’s secret to her family and the public, he promises that he’ll do anything to protect her. But with old enemies surfacing, Lo has more at stake than his sobriety.

They will torment Lily until Lo breaks.

And his worst fear isn’t relapsing. He hears the end. He sees it. The one thing that could change everything. Just three words.

No. More. Us.

New Adult Romance recommended for readers 18+ for mature content]]>
513 Krista Ritchie faith 0 4.13 2013 Addicted for Now (Addicted, #3)
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Ricochet (Addicted, #2) 55475465 As a sex addict, Lily Calloway must do the impossible. Stay celibate for 90 days.

Cravings and fantasies become her new routine, but while Loren Hale recovers from his alcohol addiction, Lily wonders if he’ll realize what a monster she really is. After all, her sexual compulsions begin to rule her life the longer she stays faithful to him.

Progress. That’s what Lily’s striving for. But by trying to become closer to her family—people who aren’t aware of her addiction—she creates larger obstacles. When she spends time with her youngest sister, she learns more about her than she ever imagined and senses an unsettling connection between Daisy and Ryke Meadows.

With Lily and Lo’s dysfunctional relationship teetering and unbalanced, they will need to find a way to reconnect from miles apart. But the inability to “touch� proves to be one of the hardest tests on their road to recovery. Some love brushes the surface. Some love is deeper than skin.

Lily and Lo have three months to discover just how deep their love really goes.

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Companion to the Sequel: A full-length New Adult Romance that continues where Addicted to You left off. It is highly recommended to be read before Addicted for Now.]]>
265 Krista Ritchie faith 0 3.70 2013 Ricochet (Addicted, #2)
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<![CDATA[Addicted to You (Addicted, #1)]]> 55475442 Fans of Gossip Girl, Friends, and Euphoria will devour this edgy new adult romance set in a world of lust, fame, swoon-worthy men, and friendships that run deeper than blood.

She’s addicted to sex. He’s addicted to booze…the only way out is rock bottom.

No one would suspect shy Lily Calloway’s biggest secret. While everyone is dancing at college bars, Lily stays in the bathroom. To get laid. Her compulsion leads her to one-night stands, steamy hookups and events she shamefully regrets. The only person who knows her secret happens to have one of his own.

Loren Hale’s best friend is his bottle of bourbon. Lily comes at a close second. For three years, they’ve pretended to be in a real relationship, hiding their addictions from their families. They’ve mastered the art of concealing flasks and random guys that filter in and out of their apartment.

But as they sink beneath the weight of their addictions, they cling harder to their destructive relationship and wonder if a life together, for real, is better than a lie. Strangers and family begin to infiltrate their guarded lives, and with new challenges, they realize they may not just be addicted to alcohol and sex.

Their real vice may be each other.

New Adult Romance recommended for readers 18+ for mature content]]>
335 Krista Ritchie faith 0 3.69 2013 Addicted to You (Addicted, #1)
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How to Fake It in Hollywood 59029665 A talented Hollywood starlet and a reclusive A-lister enter into a fake relationship . . . and discover that their feelings might be more than a PR stunt in this sexy debut for fans of Beach Read and The Unhoneymooners.

Grey Brooks is on a mission to keep her career afloat now that the end of her long-running teen soap has her (unsuccessfully) pounding the pavement again. With a life-changing role on the line, she's finally desperate enough to agree to her publicist's scheme... faking a love affair with a disgraced Hollywood heartthrob who needs the publicity, but for very different reasons.

Ethan Atkins just wants to be left alone. Between his high-profile divorce, his struggles with drinking, and his grief over the death of his longtime creative partner and best friend, he's slowly let himself fade into the background. But if he ever wants to produce the last movie he and his partner wrote together, Ethan needs to clean up his reputation and step back into the spotlight. A gossip-inducing affair with a gorgeous actress might be just the ticket, even if it's the last thing he wants to do.

Though their juicy public relationship is less than perfect behind the scenes, it doesn't take long before Grey and Ethan's sizzling chemistry starts to feel like more than just an act. But after decades in a ruthless industry that requires bulletproof emotional armor to survive, are they too used to faking it to open themselves up to the real thing?]]>
368 Ava Wilder 0593358953 faith 0 to-read 3.63 2022 How to Fake It in Hollywood
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<![CDATA[The Maddest Obsession (Made, #2)]]> 40613322 He rules it.

Her dresses are too tight, her heels too tall. She laughs too loudly, eats without decorum, and mixes up most sayings in the book. Little do most know it’s just a sparkly disguise, there to hide one panic attack at a time.

Nobody can crack Gianna’s facade . . . no one anyway, until he comes along.

Most see a paragon of morality; a special agent upholding the law. In the New York underworld, others know him as a hustler, a killer, his nature as cold as the heart of ice in his chest. Christian Allister has always followed the life plan he’d envisioned in his youth, beneath the harsh lights of a frigid, damp cell. With a proclivity for order and the number three, he’s never been tempted to veer off course. But perhaps one should never say never . . .

One winter night and their lives intertwine. She hates him—his stone-cold demeanor, his arrogance and too-perceptive eye—but over the years, even as their games consist of insulting each other’s looks and intelligence, she begins to live to play with him.

Nowhere in Christian’s plans had he ever prepared for Gianna. She’s chaos embodied, not his type, and married, but none of that can stop his eyes from following her wherever she goes.

All along, she doesn’t even know that she’s his—his frustration, his fascination.

His maddest obsession.]]>
333 Danielle Lori faith 0 to-read 4.22 2019 The Maddest Obsession (Made, #2)
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average rating: 4.22
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Faking with Benefits 61175985
My name is Layla Thompson, and I am undateable.
Seriously. I’m twenty-eight and I’ve never had a boyfriend. And with my thirties rapidly approaching, I’m starting to lose patience.

Lucky for me, I have three overprotective best friends who are all-too-eager to help hone my dating skills.
There’s Zack, the huge rugby player with the cheeky grin and rippling biceps.
Josh, the boy-next-door with the sculpted jaw and calculating stare.
And Luke, the silver-haired divorcee� who also happens to be my old professor.

After a bad date leaves me crying on their shoulders, the three men are determined to help me find a guy. Together, they agree to be my ‘practice boyfriends�, and come up with a lesson plan packed with fake dates, make out sessions, and classes on flirty texting. In return, I just have to make an appearance on their relationship advice podcast once a week. Easy.

But as my lessons become more and more intense, we soon find ourselves getting in too deep. Every butterfly-inducing touch lingers a little too long, and every molten kiss ends in fireworks. It’s not long before I realise that their friendship isn’t enough for me anymore. I want more.

The guys have been teaching me how to get a boyfriend, and now it’s time I put their lessons to the test.

Three times over.

Faking With Benefits is a sizzling fake dating romance featuring multiple love interests, tons of molten fake relationship heat, and a whole lot of heart. No cheating, and an ultra-sweet HEA guaranteed!]]>
552 Lily Gold faith 0 to-read 3.77 2021 Faking with Benefits
author: Lily Gold
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average rating: 3.77
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<![CDATA[Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)]]> 52339313
When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered cousin and set it free.

However, the ghost he summons is actually Julian Diaz, the school’s resident bad boy, and Julian is not about to go quietly into death. He’s determined to find out what happened and tie up some loose ends before he leaves. Left with no choice, Yadriel agrees to help Julian, so that they can both get what they want. But the longer Yadriel spends with Julian, the less he wants to let him leave.]]>
344 Aiden Thomas 1250250463 faith 0 to-read 4.26 2020 Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)
author: Aiden Thomas
name: faith
average rating: 4.26
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<![CDATA[Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato, #1)]]> 25756328 “I made the wrong choice.�

Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn’t in the mood for Italy’s famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. She’s only there because it was her mother’s dying wish that she get to know her father. But what kind of father isn’t around for sixteen years? All Lina wants to do is go back home.

But then she is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. Suddenly Lina’s uncovering a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries. A world that inspires her, along with the ever-so-charming Ren, to follow in her mother’s footsteps and unearth a secret that has been kept for far too long. It’s a secret that will change everything she knew about her mother, her father—and even herself.

People come to Italy for love and gelato, someone tells her, but sometimes they discover much more.]]>
386 Jenna Evans Welch 1481432540 faith 0 to-read 4.03 2016 Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato, #1)
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average rating: 4.03
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<![CDATA[To Kill a Kingdom (Hundred Kingdoms, #1)]]> 34499221
The ocean is the only place Prince Elian calls home, even though he is heir to the most powerful kingdom in the world. Hunting sirens is more than an unsavory hobby—it’s his calling. When he rescues a drowning woman in the ocean, she’s more than what she appears. She promises to help him find the key to destroying all of sirenkind for good—But can he trust her? And just how many deals will Elian have to barter to eliminate mankind’s greatest enemy?]]>
344 Alexandra Christo 1250112680 faith 0 to-read 3.72 2018 To Kill a Kingdom (Hundred Kingdoms, #1)
author: Alexandra Christo
name: faith
average rating: 3.72
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<![CDATA[Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite]]> 52750517 Eleven fresh vampire stories from young adult fiction’s leading voices!

In this delicious new collection, you’ll find stories about lurking vampires of social media, rebellious vampires hungry for more than just blood, eager vampires coming out―and going out for their first kill―and other bold, breathtaking, dangerous, dreamy, eerie, iconic, powerful creatures of the night.

Welcome to the evolution of the vampire―and a revolution on the page.

Vampires Never Get Old includes stories by authors both bestselling and acclaimed, including Samira Ahmed, Dhonielle Clayton, Zoraida Córdova and Natalie C. Parker, Tessa Gratton, Heidi Heilig, Julie Murphy, Mark Oshiro, Rebecca Roanhorse, Laura Ruby, Victoria “V. E.� Schwab, and Kayla Whaley.]]>
272 Zoraida Córdova 1250230012 faith 0 to-read 3.61 2020 Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite
author: Zoraida Córdova
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<![CDATA[The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)]]> 28187 Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here

Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse - Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea. Soon a mystery unfolds and together with his friends—one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena - Percy sets out on a quest across the United States to reach the gates of the Underworld (located in a recording studio in Hollywood) and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods.]]>
377 Rick Riordan 0786838655 faith 0 to-read 4.31 2005 The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
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<![CDATA[The Lost Book of the White (The Eldest Curses, #2)]]> 34605974 From #1 New York Times bestselling authors Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu comes the second book in the Eldest Curses series and a thrilling new adventure for High Warlock Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood, for whom a death-defying mission into the heart of evil is not just a job, it’s also a romantic getaway. The Lost Book of the White is a Shadowhunters novel.

Life is good for Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood. They’re living together in a fabulous loft, their warlock son, Max, has started learning to walk, and the streets of New York are peaceful and quiet—as peaceful and quiet as they ever are, anyway.

Until the night that two old acquaintances break into Magnus’s apartment and steal the powerful Book of the White. Now Magnus and Alec will have to drop everything to get it back. They need to follow the thieves to Shanghai, they need to call some backup to accompany them, and they need a babysitter.

Also, someone has stabbed Magnus with a strange magical weapon and the wound is glowing, so they have that to worry about too.

Fortunately, their backup consists of Clary, Jace, Isabelle, and newly minted Shadowhunter Simon. In Shanghai, they learn that a much darker threat awaits them. Magnus’s magic is growing unstable, and if they can’t stop the demons flooding into the city, they might have to follow them all the way back to the source—to the very realm of the dead. Can they stop the threat to the world? Will they make it back home before their kid completely wears out Alec’s mom?]]>
365 Cassandra Clare 1471162095 faith 5 favorites
anyways this is a daily reminder that malec IS the superior ship of the whole tsc because they are the only ship to have their own fucking trilogy based on just them and we all know they were superior already. this was fun, now i have a headache. gn i’m gonna go cry over them again

also all the reviews i’ve read are like lowkey bad and you know what. i don’t give a shit. even if the plot was odd and shit i will always give a malec book 5 stars because i am biased like that. it’s pride month fuck off.

OH ALSO THE EPILOGUE???? LUCIFER??? holy shit. i know this helps to build up towards the wicked powers but i’m so excited oh my god. anyways remember they are MY PEOPLE! so. ]]>
3.97 2020 The Lost Book of the White (The Eldest Curses, #2)
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read this in a few hours and i’m honestly struck. reading this made me remember why i adore malec so much both book and show wise and why they make me so happy. the plot was kinda funky and WHY CANT THEY JUST HAVE A MOMENT OF HAPPINESS?? but i did enjoy it nonetheless. seeing the tmi gang reunited and teaming up always makes me happy, tian was a really good addition to this, seeing jem for a bit made me smile. also max is so adorable omg i wanna hug him, he’s like an adorable disaster but he’s malec’s disaster and SOBS. but also shinyun i absolutely despise you like you might be my least favorite character in the whole shadowhunters series now tbh. but honestly this was a fun story. ragnor being alive made me happy (even if he was evil for a good 3/4 of the book) as well as hearing the backstories of how magnus met ragnor and how he met catarina. maryse and kadir were also funny with their little part of babysitting max and so on. but i just wanna cry because the way magnus and alec would literally sacrifice their lives for each other and how much loved they showed each other in this book. I WANNA SOB. also the quotes. THE QUOTES!!!!!!!!!! i wanna cry. they make me so happy.

anyways this is a daily reminder that malec IS the superior ship of the whole tsc because they are the only ship to have their own fucking trilogy based on just them and we all know they were superior already. this was fun, now i have a headache. gn i’m gonna go cry over them again

also all the reviews i’ve read are like lowkey bad and you know what. i don’t give a shit. even if the plot was odd and shit i will always give a malec book 5 stars because i am biased like that. it’s pride month fuck off.

OH ALSO THE EPILOGUE???? LUCIFER??? holy shit. i know this helps to build up towards the wicked powers but i’m so excited oh my god. anyways remember they are MY PEOPLE! so.
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<![CDATA[Chain of Thorns (The Last Hours, #3)]]> 17699859 James and Cordelia must save London—and their marriage—in this conclusion to the Last Hours series from author Cassandra Clare.
Chain of Thorns is a Shadowhunters novel.

Cordelia Carstairs has lost everything that matters to her. In only a few short weeks, she has seen her father murdered, her plans to become parabatai with her best friend, Lucie, destroyed, and her marriage to James Herondale crumble before her eyes. Even worse, she is now bound to an ancient demon, Lilith, stripping her of her power as a Shadowhunter.

After fleeing to Paris with Matthew Fairchild, Cordelia hopes to forget her sorrows in the city’s glittering nightlife. But reality intrudes when shocking news comes from home: Tatiana Blackthorn has escaped the Adamant Citadel, and London is under new threat by the Prince of Hell, Belial.

Cordelia returns to a London riven by chaos and dissent. The long-kept secret that Belial is James and Lucie’s grandfather has been revealed by an unexpected enemy, and the Herondales find themselves under suspicion of dealings with demons. Cordelia longs to protect James but is torn between a love for James she has long believed hopeless, and the possibility of a new life with Matthew. Nor can her friends help—ripped apart by their own secrets, they seem destined to face what is coming alone.

For time is short, and Belial’s plan is about to crash into the Shadowhunters of London like a deadly wave, one that will separate Cordelia, Lucie, and the Merry Thieves from help of any kind. Left alone in a shadowy London, they must face Belial’s deadly army. If Cordelia and her friends are going to save their city—and their families—they will have to muster their courage, swallow their pride, and trust one another again. For if they fail, they may lose everything—even their souls.]]>
778 Cassandra Clare 1406358118 faith 0 to-read 4.04 2023 Chain of Thorns (The Last Hours, #3)
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Every Summer After 58014893
Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without.

For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books—medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her—Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart.

When Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until Percy can confront the decisions she made and the years she’s spent punishing herself for them, they’ll never know whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past.

Told over the course of six years and one weekend, Every Summer After is a big, sweeping nostalgic look at love and the people and choices that mark us forever.

Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right.]]>
320 Carley Fortune 0593438531 faith 0 to-read 4.17 2022 Every Summer After
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<![CDATA[The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)]]> 18798983 One Life to One Dawn.

In a land ruled by a murderous boy-king, each dawn brings heartache to a new family. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, is a monster. Each night he takes a new bride only to have a silk cord wrapped around her throat come morning. When sixteen-year-old Shahrzad's dearest friend falls victim to Khalid, Shahrzad vows vengeance and volunteers to be his next bride. Shahrzad is determined not only to stay alive, but to end the caliph's reign of terror once and for all.

Night after night, Shahrzad beguiles Khalid, weaving stories that enchant, ensuring her survival, though she knows each dawn could be her last. But something she never expected begins to happen: Khalid is nothing like what she'd imagined him to be. This monster is a boy with a tormented heart. Incredibly, Shahrzad finds herself falling in love. How is this possible? It's an unforgivable betrayal. Still, Shahrzad has come to understand all is not as it seems in this palace of marble and stone. She resolves to uncover whatever secrets lurk and, despite her love, be ready to take Khalid's life as retribution for the many lives he's stolen. Can their love survive this world of stories and secrets?]]>
416 Renée Ahdieh 0399171614 faith 0 to-read 4.05 2015 The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)
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average rating: 4.05
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<![CDATA[The School for Good and Evil (The School for Good and Evil, #1)]]> 42080479 The first kidnappings happened two hundred years before. Some years it was two boys taken, some years two girls, sometimes one of each. But if at first the choices seemed random, soon the pattern became clear. One was always beautiful and good, the child every parent wanted as their own. The other was homely and odd, an outcast from birth. An opposing pair, plucked from youth and spirited away.

This year, best friends Sophie and Agatha are about to discover where all the lost children go: the fabled School for Good & Evil, where ordinary boys and girls are trained to be fairy tale heroes and villains. As the most beautiful girl in Gavaldon, Sophie has dreamed of being kidnapped into an enchanted world her whole life. With her pink dresses, glass slippers, and devotion to good deeds, she knows she’ll earn top marks at the School for Good and graduate a storybook princess. Meanwhile Agatha, with her shapeless black frocks, wicked pet cat, and dislike of nearly everyone, seems a natural fit for the School for Evil.

But when the two girls are swept into the Endless Woods, they find their fortunes reversed—Sophie’s dumped in the School for Evil to take Uglification, Death Curses, and Henchmen Training, while Agatha finds herself in the School For Good, thrust amongst handsome princes and fair maidens for classes in Princess Etiquette and Animal Communication. But what if the mistake is actually the first clue to discovering who Sophie and Agatha really are�?]]>
488 Soman Chainani 006210490X faith 0 to-read 4.00 2013 The School for Good and Evil (The School for Good and Evil, #1)
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<![CDATA[Dance of Thieves (Dance of Thieves, #1)]]> 35796008
At the same time, Kazi, a legendary former street thief, is sent by the queen to investigate transgressions against the new settlements. When Kazi arrives in the forbidding land of the Ballengers, she learns that there is more to Jase than she thought. As unexpected events spiral out of their control, bringing them intimately together, they continue to play a cat and mouse game of false moves and motives in order to fulfill their own secret missions.

Mary E. Pearson's Dance of Thieves is a new YA novel in the New York Times bestselling Remnant Chronicles universe, in which a reformed thief and the young leader of an outlaw dynasty lock wits in a battle that may cost them their lives—and their hearts. ]]>
512 Mary E. Pearson 1250159016 faith 0 to-read 4.11 2018 Dance of Thieves (Dance of Thieves, #1)
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Daisy Jones & The Six 40597810 Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now.

Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n� roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.

Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.

Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.

The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.]]>
368 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1524798622 faith 4 4.20 2019 Daisy Jones & The Six
author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
name: faith
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo]]> 59792552
Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.

Summoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the �80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn’s story nears its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways.]]>
389 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1398515698 faith 5 4.46 2017 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
name: faith
average rating: 4.46
book published: 2017
rating: 5
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need to reread but i remember crying over evelyncelia. it was quite an era.
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<![CDATA[The Stolen Heir (The Stolen Heir Duology #1)]]> 61198118 Return to the opulent world of Elfhame, filled with intrigue, betrayal, and dangerous desires, with this first book of a captivating new duology from the #1New York Timesbestselling author Holly Black.

A runaway queen. A reluctant prince. And a quest that may destroy them both.

Eight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel. There, she is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding and exact her revenge.

Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, and the one person with power over her mother, fled to the human world. There, she lives feral in the woods. Lonely, and still haunted by the merciless torments she endured in the Court of Teeth, she bides her time by releasing mortals from foolish bargains.She believes herself forgotten until the storm hag, Bogdana chases her through the night streets. Suren is saved by none other than Prince Oak, heir to Elfhame, to whom she was once promised in marriage and who she has resented for years.

Now seventeen, Oak is charming, beautiful, and manipulative.He’s on a mission that will lead him into thenorth, and he wants Suren’s help. But if she agrees, it will mean guarding her heart against the boy she once knew and a prince she cannot trust, as well as confronting all the horrors she thought she left behind.
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11 Holly Black 1549135031 faith 0 to-read 4.03 2023 The Stolen Heir (The Stolen Heir Duology #1)
author: Holly Black
name: faith
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Set on You (The Influencer, #1)]]> 58784485 384 Amy Lea 0593336577 faith 0 to-read 3.56 2022 Set on You (The Influencer, #1)
author: Amy Lea
name: faith
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Better Than the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #1)]]> 55710822 In this rom-com about rom-coms, in the spirit of Kasie West and Jenn Bennett, a hopeless romantic teen attempts to secure a happily-ever-after moment with her forever crush, but finds herself reluctantly drawn to the boy next door.

Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he’s back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar - and maybe snag him as a prom date - even befriend Wes Bennet.

The annoyingly attractive next-door neighbor might seem like a prime candidate for romantic-comedy fantasies, but Wes has only been a pain in Liz’s butt since they were kids. Pranks involving frogs and decapitated lawn gnomes do not a potential boyfriend make. Yet, somehow, Wes and Michael are hitting it off, which means Wes is Liz’s in.

But as Liz and Wes scheme to get Liz noticed by Michael so she can have her magical prom moment, she’s shocked to discover that she likes being around Wes. And as they continue to grow closer, she must reexamine everything she thought she knew about love - and rethink her own ideas of what happily ever after should look like.]]>
356 Lynn Painter 1534467629 faith 4
“Enemies-to-lovers—it’s our trope, Buxbaum.”]]>
4.28 2021 Better Than the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #1)
author: Lynn Painter
name: faith
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2022/05/30
date added: 2022/05/30
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omg i loved this so much wtf. lizwes i will absolutely die for you. this was one of the most cliché stories ever written but did i adore every moment of it? yeah. enemies to lovers my favorite thing ever and i’m so happy for them. anyways overall so cute and i love them so much i wanna cry. let me have a love like theirs.

“Enemies-to-lovers—it’s our trope, Buxbaum.�
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Tweet Cute 45045129 Meet Pepper, swim team captain, chronic overachiever, and all-around perfectionist. Her family may be falling apart, but their massive fast-food chain is booming � mainly thanks to Pepper, who is barely managing to juggle real life while secretly running Big League Burger’s massive Twitter account.

Enter Jack, class clown and constant thorn in Pepper’s side. When he isn’t trying to duck out of his obscenely popular twin’s shadow, he’s busy working in his family’s deli. His relationship with the business that holds his future might be love/hate, but when Big League Burger steals his grandma’s iconic grilled cheese recipe, he’ll do whatever it takes to take them down, one tweet at a time.

All’s fair in love and cheese � that is, until Pepper and Jack’s spat turns into a viral Twitter war. Little do they know, while they’re publicly duking it out with snarky memes and retweet battles, they’re also falling for each other in real life � on an anonymous chat app Jack built.

As their relationship deepens and their online shenanigans escalate � people on the internet are shipping them?? � their battle gets more and more personal, until even these two rivals can’t ignore they were destined for the most unexpected, awkward, all-the-feels romance that neither of them expected.

A fresh, irresistible rom-com from debut author Emma Lord about the chances we take, the paths life can lead us on, and how love can be found in the opposite place you expected.]]>
368 Emma Lord 1250237327 faith 0 to-read 3.87 2020 Tweet Cute
author: Emma Lord
name: faith
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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Vengeful (Villains, #2) 26856502 A super-powered collision of extraordinary minds and vengeful intentions�#1 New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab returns with the thrilling follow-up to Vicious.

Magneto and Professor X. Superman and Lex Luthor. Victor Vale and Eli Ever. Sydney and Serena Clarke. Great partnerships, now soured on the vine.

But Marcella Riggins needs no one. Flush from her brush with death, she’s finally gained the control she’s always sought—and will use her new-found power to bring the city of Merit to its knees. She’ll do whatever it takes, collecting her own sidekicks, and leveraging the two most infamous EOs, Victor Vale and Eli Ever, against each other.

With Marcella's rise, new enmities create opportunity--and the stage of Merit City will once again be set for a final, terrible reckoning.]]>
462 Victoria E. Schwab faith 0 to-read 4.13 2018 Vengeful (Villains, #2)
author: Victoria E. Schwab
name: faith
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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Influence 51287905 Get ready to delve into the world of teen influencers like you've never done before--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of PRETTY LITTLE LIARS Sara Shepard and sixteen-year-old actress and social media personality Lilia Buckingham comes a twisty mystery that takes place in the fiercely competitive world of Internet stars.

After a video she makes goes viral, everyone knows Delilah Rollins. And now that she's in LA, Delilah's standing on the edge of something incredible. Everything is going to change. She has no idea how much.

Jasmine Walters-Diaz grew up in the spotlight. A child star turned media darling, the posts of her in her classic Lulu C. rainbow skirt practically break the Internet. But if the world knew who Jasmine really was, her perfect life? Canceled.

Fiona Jacobs is so funny--the kind of girl for whom a crowd parts--no wonder she's always smiling! But on the inside? The girl's a hot mess. And when someone comes out of the shadows with a secret from her past, it's one that won't just embarrass Fiona: it will ruin her.

Who wouldn't want to be Scarlet Leigh? Just look at her Instagram. Scarlet isn't just styled to perfection: she is perfection. Scarlet has a gorgeous, famous boyfriend named Jack and there's a whole fanbase about their ship. To everyone watching online, their lives seem perfect . . . but are they really? The sun is hot in California . . . and someone's going to get burned.]]>
368 Sara Shepard 0593121538 faith 0 to-read 3.41 2020 Influence
author: Sara Shepard
name: faith
average rating: 3.41
book published: 2020
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<![CDATA[Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy]]> 28954137 City of Heavenly Fire left him stripped of his memories, and Simon isn’t sure who he is anymore. He knows he was friends with Clary, and that he convinced the total goddess Isabelle Lightwood to go out with him…but he doesn’t know how. And when Clary and Isabelle look at him, expecting him to be a man he doesn’t remember…Simon can’t take it.

So when the Shadowhunter Academy reopens, Simon throws himself into this new world of demon-hunting, determined to find himself again. His new self. Whomever this new Simon might be.

But the Academy is a Shadowhunter institution, which means it has some problems. Like the fact that non-Shadowhunter students have to live in the basement. And that differences—like being a former vampire—are greatly looked down upon. At least Simon is trained in weaponry—even if it’s only from hours of playing D&D.

Join Simon on his journey to become a Shadowhunter, and learn about the Academy’s illustrious history along the way, through guest lecturers such as Jace Herondale, Tessa Gray, and Magnus Bane. These ten short stories give an epilogue to the Mortal Instruments series and provide glimpses of what’s in store in the Dark Artifices.]]>
655 Cassandra Clare 1481443259 faith 4
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy - 4 stars
The Lost Herondale - 3 stars
The Whitechapel Fiend - 5 stars
Nothing but Shadows - 5 stars
The Evil We Love - 3 stars
Pale Kings and Princess - 4 stars
Bitter of Tongue - 4 stars
The Fiery Trail - 5 stars
Born to Endless Night - 5 stars
Angels Twice Descending - 5 stars]]>
4.30 2016 Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
author: Cassandra Clare
name: faith
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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4.5 i think. i actually really enjoyed this one and tbh i cried a few times. the sizzy content, the malec content, all the content. even all the characters in the book made me happy like george especially. this book is gonna be hard to say goodbye to cause i really did enjoy this. ave atque vale book :(. u will always be in my heart

Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy - 4 stars
The Lost Herondale - 3 stars
The Whitechapel Fiend - 5 stars
Nothing but Shadows - 5 stars
The Evil We Love - 3 stars
Pale Kings and Princess - 4 stars
Bitter of Tongue - 4 stars
The Fiery Trail - 5 stars
Born to Endless Night - 5 stars
Angels Twice Descending - 5 stars
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<![CDATA[Angels Twice Descending (Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, #10)]]> 23381014
Simon’s Ascension ceremony draws near in this brilliant conclusion to Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy.

This standalone e-only short story follows the adventures of Simon Lewis, star of the #1 New York Times bestselling series, The Mortal Instruments, as he trains to become a Shadowhunter. Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy features characters from Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments, Infernal Devices, and the upcoming Dark Artifices and Last Hours series. Angels Twice Descending is written by Cassandra Clare and Robin Wasserman.

Read more of Cassandra Clare’s Shadowhunter Chronicles in The Infernal Devices, The Mortal Instruments, and The Bane Chronicles.]]>
96 Cassandra Clare 1406363758 faith 5 4.39 2015 Angels Twice Descending (Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, #10)
author: Cassandra Clare
name: faith
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2015
rating: 5
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oh fuck everything i’m sobbing. WHAT THE HELL. george :((((((((((((. this one just made me cry, i’m gonna miss them so much tho. george u will never be forgotten, and simon lovelace i love you forever. not many words for this one but absolutely brilliant, but sad. so. fucking. sad.
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<![CDATA[Born to Endless Night (Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, #9)]]> 23381012
Read by Keahu Kahuanui]]>
120 Cassandra Clare faith 5 4.50 2015 Born to Endless Night (Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, #9)
author: Cassandra Clare
name: faith
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2015
rating: 5
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best one. i don’t care. this was the best one. MALEC AND MAX IM GONNA SOB. this one just made me cry and smile and cry more and smile more. it made me remember why i adore malec so much and why they are my favorite couple. seeing malec with the baby, especially alec and also when magnus promises alec to marry him when they can be married the right way, and also the sizzy content where simon said he loved her again, and all the lightwoods, also lily coming in was so entertaining, and RAPHAEL AND RAGNOR I MISS YALL SM. with catarina and magnus remembering them and me sob so hard and just everyone at the academy having fun and just being happy. then you had like jon and marisol which was so entertaining to me and also clary and jace was cute even if i despise them. then again malec content!!!! cried so hard AND MAX ILYSM BLUEBERRY ALREADY. just overall i cried and smiled over this one and malec will forever be my best people whether in show, book, film, fanfics, etc form. crying again bye
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<![CDATA[Devil May Care (Boys of Preston Prep, #1)]]> 53413525 Everyone knows Gwendolyn and Hamilton are enemies� what happens when the whole school finds out their secret?


Gwendolyn Adams has been canceled.

The Preston Prep Devils made that clear after the incident that forced my sister, Skylar, to leave our academy. They wanted me to leave, too, but I refused. I’m sticking around to make sure they follow through on the deal the snobby, elite crew of jocks made with the administration.

The arrangement is simple. No one ever speaks about what happened to Skylar again, and no one gets punished.

But that's not exactly true, is it? I still get punished, each and every day that I walk down the halls. No one speaks to me. No one looks at me. No one even admits I exist.

It doesn’t matter. I know what they did. And I know who’s in charge; Hamilton Bates.

Handsome, smart, and ridiculously privileged.

He’s the lead Devil, and my hatred for him is all in the details.

All it takes is one slip, one heated argument, one mistake, and everything gets even more complicated.

We get complicated.

Is this love or has the Devil found a new plaything?



Devil May Care is the gripping, angsty, enemies to lovers, bully romance, by USA Today Best Selling Author, Angel Lawson, you’ve been waiting for!]]>
366 Angel Lawson faith 0 to-read 4.06 2020 Devil May Care (Boys of Preston Prep, #1)
author: Angel Lawson
name: faith
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[The Fiery Trial (Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, #8)]]> 23381009 64 Cassandra Clare faith 5 4.19 2015 The Fiery Trial (Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, #8)
author: Cassandra Clare
name: faith
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2015
rating: 5
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oh my god this one was kinda fun. the way magnus, tessa, and jem trapped clary and simon because they knew and that clary and simon are gonna become parabatai. so exciting, plus emma and julian i’m so excited for them (even tho i know they fall in love and ruin the parabatai rune LOL). also when magnus went “im also literally magnus� i giggled because my forever best character. PLUS THE MENTION OF WILL I WANNA CRYYYYY. this one was good i loved.
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<![CDATA[Bitter of Tongue (Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, #7)]]> 23381007
After Simon is kidnapped by faeries (why is he always kidnapped?), he uncovers rumors of a secret weapon Sebastian left behind for the faerie queen. He must escape the Fey, relying on his only ally, former Shadowhunter and Dark Artifices character Mark Blackthorn.

This standalone e-only short story follows the adventures of Simon Lewis, star of the #1 New York Times bestselling series, The Mortal Instruments, as he trains to become a Shadowhunter. Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy features characters from Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments, the Infernal Devices, and the upcoming Dark Artifices and Last Hours series. Bitter of Tongue is written by Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan.

Read more of Cassandra Clare’s Shadowhunter Chronicles in The Infernal Devices, The Mortal Instruments, and The Bane Chronicles.]]>
96 Cassandra Clare faith 4
OH ALSO STOP KIDNAPPING SIMON FOR THR LOVE OF JONATHON SHADOWHUNTER.]]>
4.21 2015 Bitter of Tongue (Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, #7)
author: Cassandra Clare
name: faith
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2015
rating: 4
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4.5 this one made me emotional but also really happy. mark deserves so much better and to see his family again and his family know he is alive. it makes me sadden to know he is unable to. though mark belong simon made me smile and also izzy going to save simon and such. i’m so proud of simon for finally standing up for the downworlders and i’m so happy for helen and aline to finally get their wedding. it makes me so sad that they have to be exiled again but jia caring about them makes me smile. plus seeing a snippet of the dark artifices characters again and once again the sizzy content. this was really cute tbh

OH ALSO STOP KIDNAPPING SIMON FOR THR LOVE OF JONATHON SHADOWHUNTER.
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<![CDATA[Pale Kings and Princes (Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, #6)]]> 23381006 96 Cassandra Clare 1406363669 faith 4 4.25 2015 Pale Kings and Princes (Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, #6)
author: Cassandra Clare
name: faith
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2015
rating: 4
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firstly helen :( my bby. she deserved so much better and i hate that they are discriminating against her and looking at her like she’s a monster because she’s not. plus helen and aline mentions make me smile because i’m so happy for them and they are adorable as always and i know they would always do anything for each other. the sizzy content was immaculate and when they finally figured out that they need to stop trying to be people they were in the past or other people, but find their own road. has me crying. anyways i really hope helen and aline find their way to happiness :(
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<![CDATA[The Evil We Love (Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, #5)]]> 23381005
The Shadowhunter Academy has only just reopened following the disastrous rise of the Circle. Now the faculty can finally admit to what happened when Valentine was a student.

This standalone e-only short story follows the adventures of Simon Lewis, star of the #1 New York Times bestselling series, The Mortal Instruments, as he trains to become a Shadowhunter. Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy features characters from Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments, Infernal Devices, and the upcoming Dark Artifices and Last Hours series. The Evil We Love is written by Cassandra Clare and Robin Wasserman.

Read more of Cassandra Clare’s Shadowhunter Chronicles in The Infernal Devices, The Mortal Instruments, and The Bane Chronicles.]]>
91 Cassandra Clare faith 3 4.06 2015 The Evil We Love (Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, #5)
author: Cassandra Clare
name: faith
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2015
rating: 3
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3.5 i think idk. this one was kinda slow and hearing robert’s past kinda made me feel bad for him but michael deserved better :(. the whole scene with them murdering the werewolf and robert yelling at michael made me disgusted and made me feel so bad, and like maryse and robert seemed cute but i know they aren’t forever which sucks. but the sizzy moments were cute and i’m proud of simon and julie and when izzy asked for simon to stay so she had support, cries. i’m excited tho cause they are finally getting somewhere
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<![CDATA[Nothing but Shadows (Tales from Shadowhunter Academy, #4)]]> 24365190
It’s hard to be a Shadowhunter when you’ve got demonic powers. Simon learns about the school-time struggles of half-warlock James Herondale in this prelude to The Last Hours.

This standalone e-only short story follows the adventures of Simon Lewis.]]>
96 Cassandra Clare 1481443178 faith 5 4.42 2015 Nothing but Shadows (Tales from Shadowhunter Academy, #4)
author: Cassandra Clare
name: faith
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2015
rating: 5
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IM CRYING THIS ONE WAS SO GOOD :(( my absolute heart. james herondale you deserve the absolute world. this one was so fun tbh and so emotional omg. meeting half of the last hours characters like thomas & christopher lightwood who indeed seem like a delight, alastair carstairs (who i think gets with thomas?? maybe?? WE ROOTING FOR THEM), as well as our lovely james herondale and matthew fairchild. i absolutely loved how james and matthew both were jealous of each other in a different way and now they are best friend and going to be parabatai and it makes me so happy. plus once again tessa, will, and jem mentions never fail to make me smile as well as how much you can tell they love each other. ALSO THE EXCUSE TO ALWAYS SEE THE SILENT BROTHERS WILL FOREVER BE MY FAVORITE THING. also ragnor i miss u and also how simon says how catarina listened to ragnor and made me emotional. this one just hit differently and i’m so excited for the last hours.
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<![CDATA[The Whitechapel Fiend (Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, #3)]]> 23380999
Simon learns the truth behind the Jack the Ripper murders—“Jack� was stopped by Will Herondale and his institute of Victorian Shadowhunters.

This standalone e-only short story follows the adventures of Simon Lewis, star of the #1 New York Times bestselling series The Mortal Instruments, as he trains to become a Shadowhunter. Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy features characters from Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments, Infernal Devices, and the upcoming Dark Artifices and Last Hours series. The Whitechapel Fiend is written by Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson.]]>
98 Cassandra Clare 1406362875 faith 5 4.30 2015 The Whitechapel Fiend (Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, #3)
author: Cassandra Clare
name: faith
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2015
rating: 5
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i am full on sobbing. this one is by far the best out of the three i’ve read. herongraystairs IM SO SAD. the way wessa is so in love but the way they always include jem no matter what because their love all for each other is endlessly. i’m absolutely sobbing. plus all the tid characters that made a cameo like gabriel and cecily and bridget and jessamine AND ALL TLH CHARACTERS IM SO EXCITED. also jace and simon made me tear up a bit because their relationship has always been an entertaining one but knowing that have genuinely cares so much about simon makes me sob. i miss them so much this isn’t funny. and ofc george the loml!
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<![CDATA[Truly, Devious (Truly Devious, #1)]]> 29589074
Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of murder, signed with the frightening pseudonym “Truly, Devious.� It became one of the great unsolved crimes of American history.

True-crime aficionado Stevie Bell is set to begin her first year at Ellingham Academy, and she has an ambitious plan: She will solve this cold case. That is, she will solve the case when she gets a grip on her demanding new school life and her housemates: the inventor, the novelist, the actor, the artist, and the jokester. But something strange is happening. Truly Devious makes a surprise return, and death revisits Ellingham Academy. The past has crawled out of its grave. Someone has gotten away with murder.

The two interwoven mysteries of this first book in the Truly Devious series dovetail brilliantly, and Stevie Bell will continue her relentless quest for the murderers in books two and three.

New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson weaves a delicate tale of murder and mystery in the first book of a striking new series, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and E. Lockhart.]]>
416 Maureen Johnson faith 0 to-read 3.90 2018 Truly, Devious (Truly Devious, #1)
author: Maureen Johnson
name: faith
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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Heart Bones 51007311
With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah has to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in Texas with a father she barely knows. Beyah's plan is to keep her head down and let the summer slip by seamlessly, but her new neighbor Samson throws a wrench in that plan.

Samson and Beyah have nothing in common on the surface.

She comes from a life of poverty and neglect; he comes from a family of wealth and privilege. But one thing they do have in common is that they're both drawn to sad things. Which means they're drawn to each other. With an almost immediate connection too intense for them to continue denying, Beyah and Samson agree to stay in the shallow end of a summer fling. What Beyah doesn't realize is that a rip current is coming, and it's about to drag her heart out to sea.]]>
338 Colleen Hoover faith 0 to-read 4.20 2020 Heart Bones
author: Colleen Hoover
name: faith
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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Swear on This Life 23492533
Yet from the very first page, Emiline is entranced by the story of Emerson and Jackson, two childhood best friends who fall in love and dream of a better life beyond the long dirt road that winds through their impoverished town in rural Ohio.

That’s because the novel is patterned on Emiline’s own dark and desperate childhood, which means that “J. Colby� must be Jase: the best friend and first love she hasn’t seen in over a decade. Far from being flattered that he wrote the novel from her perspective, Emiline is furious that he co-opted her painful past and took some dramatic creative liberties with the ending.

The only way she can put her mind at ease is to find and confront “J. Colby,� but is she prepared to learn the truth behind the fiction?]]>
303 Renee Carlino 1501105795 faith 0 to-read 4.09 2016 Swear on This Life
author: Renee Carlino
name: faith
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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