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Sky's Reads
@skysreads.bsky.social
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Welcome to my bookish corner of the internet!
I'll share my positive reviews here, interesting book news and generally just share bookish stuff :)

Contact Email: skyreviewsbooks@gmail.com (please use this as DMs are blocked!)

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My review of Role Model by Elle McNicoll
5/5⭐

An absolute must read for everyone, especially autistics. Her best book so far.

Representations: trello.com/c/Pujxfq0x

PB: pagebound.co/reviews/3793...
GR: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Cover for the book Role Model. Pale blue background with icons from social media, numbers and elephants scattered over it around a headshot of a person with dark blue shoulder length hair, light skin, hands on the sides of their head, red lips slightly angled. The title of the book is in dark blue with a red background as 2 stripes across their eyes. Elle McNicoll's name is along the bottom of the cover formatted to look like it's in a comment bubble.
October 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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My review of A Mermaid's Diary by Chris Riddell
5/5⭐

Perfect art as always from Chris, and spot on humour even for adults!

Representations: trello.com/c/3MvHvYk1/1...

PB: pagebound.co/reviews/2824...
GR: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Cover image. Shows the title of the book over the blue sky, clouds coloured in a gradient from yellow at the top down to pink at the bottom, seagulls are dotted around the sky too. Blue sea with white webbing across the bottom of the image. A mermaid with red hair, green t-shirt and a pearly light blue tail is waving from the water. Behind her is some magical creatures and a red and white striped lighthouse.
August 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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My review of New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre by Cho Yeeun
4.5/5⭐

Insane, body horror-y sticky sweet book that isn't exactly *fun* but it is enjoyable.

Representations: trello.com/c/eKmvl9Zc/1...

PB: pagebound.co/reviews/2886...
GR: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Cover image. Top half shows a human face that's made from a reddish pink gloopy jelly-like substance, that's dripping down onto a human regular-looking face on the bottom half of the image. Between the 2 faces, behind them in the background, you can see part of a rollercoaster, a greenish sky and a castle that looks a bit like the Disney castle.
August 30, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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My review of Needy Little Things by Channelle Desamours
3.5/5⭐

Very good, slightly predictable but not fully (at least for me), pretty damn good characters too!

Representations: trello.com/c/YGB0bVYh/1...

PB: pagebound.co/reviews/711410
GR: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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April 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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My review of Strange Pictures by Uketsu
3.75/5⭐

Weird, engaging, but falls short with its gimmick.

Representations: trello.com/c/S0swy9aT/1...

PB: pagebound.co/reviews/655672
GR: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Cover of Strange Pictures by Uketsu. Cover is a red background, with a green based and black walled bento box. There's red blood dripping down it, a piece of nigiri with an octopus tentale ontop and red blood between the rice and octopus. There's also a soy sauce fish shaped packet to the side.
April 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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My review of The Underwood Tapes by Amanda DeWitt
5/5⭐

Read this in 2 settings, half of the book each time. I got absolutely HOOKED!

Representations: trello.com/c/AFPp8tnh/1...

PB: pagebound.co/reviews/136159
GR: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Cover of the book The Underwood Tapes by Amanda Dewitt. The cover mostly has a teal/light blue and green colour palette, black cassette tapes and their tape is woven around 2 characters stood back to back in the middle. One on the left has blonde hair in an over-the-shoulder braid wearing a white t shirt and a black jacket. They're looking towards the reader. The other character on the right has very short black hair wearing a patterned red t shirt. Their face has been smudged out.
February 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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My review of Black Tag by Simon Mayo
3.5/5⭐

Feels a tad generic, but with some very wild curveballs thrown in with not much research. Quick & easy read!

Representations: trello.com/c/VCDroEhD/1...

PB: pagebound.co/reviews/128109
GR: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Cover of the book black tag by simon mayo. The cover is mostly black and grey, with the middle of the cover looking out of a dark tunnel with the space beyond showing a burning archway and a blazing inferno in the room beyond it.
January 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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My review of Pine by Francine Toon
3.5/5⭐

An absolute fever dream that's very Scottish but might try to do too much

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PG: pagebound.co/reviews/110073
GR: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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The cover of the book Pine by Francine Toon. It's a mostly plain white cover, with the title in a reddish gold block font in the middle, and just below is an image of a black deer who's back is a landscape of a forest.
January 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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My review of The Last Great Heir by Carina Finn
5/5⭐

Incredible descriptions, fantastic characters, interesting plot! Dont read while hungry!

Representations: trello.com/c/0g8YKmS4/1...

PG: pagebound.co/reviews/95159
GR: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Cover for the book of Feast and Famine The Last Great Heir by Carina Finn. The book has a lot of smoke around it, with 2 silhouette portraits of faces looking away from each other in the center with a very fluffy white cat curved along the bottom. In the 4 corners are 4 icons, a steaming muffin in the top left, a potion bottle in the top right, a dagger in the bottom left and a steaming mug of tea in the bottom right. There's golden embellishments all over the cover framing the centre of the cover in an oval shape.
January 16, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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My review of The Broposal by Sonora Reyes!
4.5/5⭐

Funny, a bit raunchy but very heartfelt and pretty serious when it wants to be!

Representations: trello.com/c/3YDDdUHv/1...

SG: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/1227...
GR: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Cover image of The Broposal showing 2 men, one kneeling on one knee with his left hand behind his back, right hand holding out a ring in a blue ring box. He is wearing a white tank top and yellow shorts and white with red accents trainers with very short cut black hair. The other guy is stood infront of the other, left hand on his mouth and right hand behind his back crossing his fingers. He is wearing black glasses, an orange-red sweater, ripped jeans and pink with white accent canvas shoes. The cover is set in a room with a beige couch, blue background with a light shining on the 2 guys. A golden dog is sat on the floor to the right, blue weights in the background, a controller on the couch next to a pizza box, multicoloured stained glass like style rug under them and in the foreground is a cactus plant with a black top hat and a black monocle.
December 15, 2024 at 12:00 AM
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My review of Temple Alley Summer by Sachiko Kashiwaba!
5/5⭐

Felt VERY much like a classic Ghibli story, warming and cosy and just the right amount of magical ❤️

Representations: trello.com/c/puw0f9oV/1...

SG: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/2d42...
GR: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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An image of the cover for Temple Alley Summer. It's in a cartoon/manga style, showing a modern traditional small Japanese alley running straight down the middle of the image with the viewpoint looking down the street with the buildings either side. There is a child in the middle of the image, looking like she is mid-run looking back towards you, she has short brown hair in a bowl cut, a blue short dress, red japanese school backpack, red shoes and a red bow in her hair. There is a silhouette of a 3 towered castle very small and very in the distance surrounded by mist and the end of the alley. Above the castle there is a witch on a broom.
December 4, 2024 at 1:33 AM
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My review of To Strip the Flesh by Oto Toda!
4/5⭐

2 halves
1st an inspiring & powerful own voices tale of transitioning, the 2nd half being a wild mix of short stories!

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SG: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/e795...
GR: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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The cover for the manga To Strip The Flesh by Oto Toda. It's got a plain yellow background, the main character with pale skin is half cut off down the middle of their face on the left side down only showing from the bottom of their neck to the top of their head. He's wearing a pale blue turtle-neck type shirt, have a small stubble on their chin, grey kind of eyes and very short hair that starts as pink at the bottom and gradients into a purple like black at the top. He's looking to the right side with a smile, where there's an animal carcass hung up by the back feet with the title and author overlaid ontop of it. Mostly just seen as a pink silhouette with details in a darker pink but you can see the outline, and a hollow cavity behind the title where you can see the ribs.
November 19, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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Brought some books on wednesday~

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A picture of 6 books on a teal blanket. Temple street summer, don't let the forest in, a prayer for the crown shy, somewhere beyond the sea, onyeka and the rise of the rebels and the taking of Jake Livingston.
November 17, 2024 at 11:17 PM
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The rest of the images~
November 2, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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My Andrew J White books from Illumicrate arrived! They're SO beautiful omg #booksky 💙📚

Highly recommend all 3 of these books - Very queer and terrifying (though I wouldn't recommend them for YA, except the first one HFWU!)
November 2, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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Not my best month, had a lot going on, but some cracking books anyway!

#booksky #reading
November 1, 2024 at 12:32 AM