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Remember this cool ass cover?

I read the available preview and liked it enough to once again chance an ARC request and got approved! 

While there is a part of me going hmm at this North African-inspired fantasy also having white colonialism run rampant, I’m assuming (and hoping!) that breaking free of that will be the triumphant endgame, so really looking forward to it. Aside from just how incredibly hot the lead looks above, lol.

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Had Priory of the orange tree since your rec last year. I stalled because of THE LENGTH but finally I started and finished it last week and I want more of it. Ead and Sabran are just so ~chefs kiss~ Thank you so much! I wasn’t big on fantasy before but now I’m craving more. Do you have other book recs? (I finished a book called Never tilting World today which has a literal goddess whos a gay disaster and in love with her healer/bodyguard right off the bat)

The length was the best part! The establishing, the buildup, the arc! 

Uh, but I actually have not really read a lot of books since and liked even fewer, and none really like Priory? Gideon the Ninth and Memory of Empire are probably the two biggest ones but neither are fantasy. Maybe just go through my sparsely used books tag? I guess there’s the Nevernight trilogy, though the f/f takes a super long time to start. There are so many books I’ve heard about and want to get around to (including The Never Tilting World!) but obviously can’t rec yet.

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Have you heard of Crier’s War and Iron Heart? It’s a f/f sci-fi/fantasy duology and I just finished it was so good! I think you’d enjoy it, and since I’ve found good book recs from u I thought I’d share the titles in case you haven’t heard of them :)

I’m pleased you liked it, anon! Sadly, I did try Crier’s War and honestly tried to keep with it for a while, since I’d preordered it off a premise that sounded so fun but I just wasn’t able to get into it.

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Are you planning to read Harrow the Ninth?

Oh, definitely! I even preordered the special signed sprayed edges version from Illumicrate because I can’t resist a special edition but it’s still sealed. D: I’m still stuck on the current books I’m “reading” and TV is just so tempting instead…

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have you read any good books lately?

Sadly…no. I’m in the middle of reading several different books and I’m not really liking any of them but I’ve been marking a lot of my recent attempts as not my thing (my version of dnf) so I’m trying to finish some.

Outside of this set, there is a pile growing that I’m hearing good things about. I actually still have a bunch from just today’s releases to go through at some point:

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have you ever read “This Is How You Lose The Time War”? Your recent ask about Dani and Grace where you mentioned the time-shifting aspect kind of reminded me about that book. It’s wonderful if you were thinking of picking up a book and not too long either

I did read it! I liked it, but I felt like it ended just when it was getting started? I love when characters process in depth and it was just a long setup to then a quick “well, that happened”. It was very pretty and interesting, for sure! I just wanted more. 😮

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i recently was at a book store and happened to find priory of the orange tree and was like oh!! the book booasaur keeps recommending. and by god. what a unit. what an absolute CHONK of a book. that thing could break a toe

Heh, keeps recommending? Am I really so strongly associated with it now? I mean, I guess I am! And yes! It is MASSIVE. Like a coward I bailed and got the ebook version (also, the hardcover was taking too long to arrive). The paperback version is coming out soon and it still looks hefty af:

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Thank you so much for the book recs! Really appreciate it!! I’ll go check those out :D I’ve read Priory and loved it!! But have not read the rest :)

Good, good, hope you enjoy! Oh, and don’t look up too much info for Nevernight, don’t let yourself be spoiled too much for it. There’s a m/f romance for much of the first book in the trilogy, but like, considering I’m still adding it to the list…you know. Oh, and the romance was frankly pretty inconsequential in Foundryside but I liked the first book well enough, it’s a very intricately built fantasy world kind of like Mistborn. So like, if you read those magic-based fantasies but are like, ugh, now it’s time for the obligatory m/f romance, this would be a good one to try.