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In it for the faerie tales. ✨
Currently beta reading: When Prophecy Burns 🤗
Currently Listening: Gold 😑
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#CurrentlyListening to Gold, 72% of book 5:

One of the alt povs expanded in this book, and it makes me want to gouge my ears out. It is torture to listen to it, and I'm annoyed at how little time our main characters are getting. #BookSky
February 10, 2026 at 3:30 AM
#CurrentlyListening to Gold, 50% of book 5:

Every series needs a revenge tour. 🤣 🔥

The Plated Prisoner tv series is in development, and I can't wait to see it on screen. It's gonna be more shocking than GoT. It's gonna be a spike to the face for anyone who thinks romantasy is silly. #BookSky
February 8, 2026 at 8:57 PM
#CurrentlyListening to Gold, start of book 5:

Whatever Xaden has planned for book 4 of Fourth Wing isn't going to hold a candle to this villain era. He might as well just go home. 🤣

#BookSky
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February 8, 2026 at 12:33 AM
#CurrentlyListening to Glow, end of book 4:

This cliffhanger is outrageous in the best way. I don't know how every plot point in this series can feel both surprising and inevitable, but here we are again. Two books to go!

#BookSky
February 7, 2026 at 11:06 PM
#CurrentlyListening to Glow, 92% of book 4:

Religion has entered the chat. 😏

Nice to see a full exploration of how people are abused by patriarchy.

#BookSky
February 7, 2026 at 9:08 PM
#CurrentlyListening to Glow, 82% of book 4:

This book is a lot of tell and not show, but it's a nice expansion of our understanding of the characters and the world. Things are moving slowly, but they are moving.

And shout out to the side character romance. That trope should be used more.
#BookSky
February 7, 2026 at 5:03 PM
#CurrentlyListening to Glow, 30% of book 4:

I have cried four times in 1 hr 15 mins of listening to this book today. Healing tears.

The way the story is expanding to let us love the side characters is very satisfying. I also remain jealous of the best name ever given: Ryatt (Riot).

#BookSky
February 6, 2026 at 7:01 PM
#CurrentlyListening to Glow, 24% of book 4:

The exploration of domestic abuse and complex trauma continues. 😭 The alt POVs are being used really well in this book to expand our understanding of characters and offer a break in the tension when needed.

#BookSky
February 6, 2026 at 5:26 PM
#CurrentlyListening to Glow, start of The Plated Prisoner series book 4:

Thank the goddess this audiobook is 22 hrs long. I only have one hoopla credit left for this month and it's...Feb 5th. 🤦‍♀️ This series is consuming me whole.

#BookSky
February 6, 2026 at 1:49 AM
#CurrentlyListening to Gleam, end of book 3:

I was screaming and crying (with joy) at the end of this book. This is probably the best trilogy I have ever read. The best character arc for sure. The series continues, but there is a natural end point to part of the story in this book. Wow.

#BookSky
February 6, 2026 at 1:25 AM
#CurrentlyListening to Gleam, 67% of book 3:

This is the slowest of slow burn romances, but somehow it didn't smolder enough. Really not enough set up. Looking forward to seeing how the new dynamic changes the plot, though. Things are about to kick off, I can feel it.

#BookSky
February 5, 2026 at 5:21 PM
#CurrentlyListening to Gleam, 32% of book 3:

I don't love the choice to have villain pov chapters, except that they reveal who these characters really are in a story where the fmc is so unreliable. At least this book is moving right along.

#BookSky
February 5, 2026 at 12:52 AM
I know Anthony Palmetti is lauded for voicing shadow daddies, but his villains are top-tier. I hate every single one of them and their sniveling voices. The tension, even when they are friendly and charismatic, is unmatched.

#BookSky #PlatedPrisoner
February 4, 2026 at 8:31 PM
#CurrentlyListening to Gleam, start of book 3:

The way I RAN to borrow the next book in this series. 😱

Don't plan on taking a break.

#BlueSky
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February 4, 2026 at 12:40 AM
#CurrentlyListening to Glint, end of book 2:

I spent most of this book with my jaw on the floor. This is a slow burn horror, but not a slow burn romance (at least not yet 😏). Romantasy girlies beware. This series shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath as ACOTAR or Fourth Wing.

#BlueSky
February 4, 2026 at 12:28 AM
#CurrentlyListening to Glint, 59% of book2:

I haaaate the secondary pov in this book. 😩 I'm listening to her chapters on 2x speed just to get through it, something I have never done with an audiobook before. Such a buzzkill just as the story is picking up speed.

#BookSky
February 3, 2026 at 7:01 PM
#CurrentlyReading Glint, 46% of book 2:

This is a horror story. Don't pick it up unless you are willing to examine the compromises you have made to the patriarchy.

I have never been so happy to see books by women stepping out of the male gaze and really digging in to the truth. ❤️

#BookSky
February 3, 2026 at 5:11 PM
#CurrentlyListening to Glint, 31% of book 2:

This book is slow moving, but it is rich. The way that it explores perspective with a naive narrator is rewarding. We did just meet the first likeable female side character in the entire series, which is not a great way to tell a story...

#BookSky
February 3, 2026 at 6:12 AM
#CurrentlyListening to Glint, start of book 2:

Will this book be as gut-wrenching as the last, I wonder? Then book 2 begins with a PTSD flashback to book 1. 😭

#BookSky
February 3, 2026 at 2:22 AM
These are the CWs for Gild that I just submitted to StoryGraph. 😅

Anyone picking up this series for the romantasy needs to be warned. Book 1 is entirely sexual assault on trafficked women, some of it extremely graphic. I actually like it as a complicated start to the fmc's journey, but it is hard.
February 3, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Taking a break between audiobooks to watch Best in Show for the 100th time. Anyone who knows Catherine O'Hara from Schitt's Creek has some catching up to do on Christopher Guest movies!! ❤️
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February 2, 2026 at 11:59 PM
#CurrentlyListening to Gild, 93% of book1:

Yooooo...I LOVE how much this narrator is keeping from us!! 👏 👏

(Pay very close attention to the CWs though. This is a rough one.)

#BookSky
February 2, 2026 at 10:42 PM
#CurrentlyListening to Gild, 82% of book 1:

And just like that...this is a faerie tale and I am ALL IN. 👏 💃🏻

#BookSky
February 2, 2026 at 9:01 PM
#CurrentlyListening to Gild:

Wings are out; prehensile ribbons are in. 😍

#BookSky
February 2, 2026 at 8:51 PM
#CurrentlyReading Gild, 77% of book 1:

I was not expecting Game of Thrones style emotional torment from this series. It works, but I now understand why so many people DNF this book. Now, I'm just sitting here waiting for the shadow daddy to appear. He's taking too long. 😏

#BookSky
February 2, 2026 at 7:10 PM