standalone fantasy recs

sometimes you just want a good ole standalone story!!

📚 books mentioned:

• The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
• The Last Tale of the Flow...Show more

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#disabled characters in fantasy books: here we go again!!

disabled characters in fantasy books: here we go again!! i’ll never get tired of giving you all these recs.

📚 books mentioned:

• These Vengeful Gods by Gabe Cole Novoa
• The Necessity of Rain by Sarah Chorn
• The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

👗💄:

• eyeshadow is The Spring Symphony Palette from Dandy Lion Cosmetics and The Lord of the Rings Middle Earth Palette from Glamlite
• mascara is Cloud Mascara from Sweed Beauty
• lip is Lip Buttercream (Strawberry Sugar) from Pacifica
• (also if you have a question about my makeup or something i’m wearing, most of it is curated in my shopmy!)

thank you to Get Underlined for the gifted copy!

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Books mentioned in various contexts:

• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
• Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White
• Fawn’s Blood by Hal Schrieve
• The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
• Station Six by S.J. Klapecki
• An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
• The Maiden and Her Monster by Maddie Martinez
• Somadina by Akwaeke Emezi
• Dauntless by Elisa A. Bonnin
• On Sundays She Picked Flowers by Yah-Yah Scholfield
• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
• In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
• Blood Orange by Yaffa As
• Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir by Walela Nehanda
• Death’s Country by R.M. Romero
• Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories by GennaRose Nethercott
• Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic: An LGBTQ+ Young Adult Fantasy Anthology of Unforgettable Adventures edited by g. haron davis
• Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction edit by Joshua Whitehead

Additional Book Recommendations:

• The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
• Beasts of Carnaval by Rosália Rodrigo
• Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White
• Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
• Warm-Blooded by J Greene
• Canon by Paige Lewis
• A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing by Alice Evelyn Yang

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#fantasybooks #horrorbooks #scifibooks #nycinfluencer #bookstagram @henryholtbooks @readmirabooks @htp_hive @peachtreeteen @fsgbooks @ingramsparkbooks @delreybooks @vikingbooks @williammorrowbooks

3 books:

• The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
• No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull
• The Redemption Center is Closed on Sundays by Andrea Hairston