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Hawksquill

Book 9 of 2025

Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang

3 stars

This was a slightly better version of Babel by R. F. Kuang with more of a focus on intersectionality, but it still wasn't fully satisfying. Despite not being marketed as YA, it felt very YA in terms of prose and romance. A little too Baby's First Anti-Colonialist and Anti-Capitalist Fantasy for my taste (but maybe I've just been spoiled by Ursula K. Le Guin). I picked this up because I read a review that compared it to Le Guin, actually, but I'm afraid there's really no comparison.

The setting is certainly imaginative and it is fairly radical in its politics. Compared to Babel, I think it's an interesting choice to have a protagonist who's an ambitious, white feminist, girl boss-y woman who has never considered her complicity in the colonial project before. But Wang is really hamfisted in the same way Kuang is, with entire chapters devoted to hand-holding passages explaining basic concepts like false allyship, capitalist extraction, and white guilt without much subtlety or anything that makes it feel transformative or insightful.

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Cover of Blood Over Bright Haven. A golden spellograph (a magical typewriter used to compose magical spells) with a large circular window or mirror attached to the top of it. In the window is an abstract flame-like pattern in blood red.
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Mother Suspiria :autism:

My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, & spectacular #horror #books far & wide.

A GRAVESIDE GALLERY is an outstanding and darkly delightful collection that runs the gamut of the spooky, the sinister, and the strange. Eric J. Guignard has crafted an impressive, imaginative assortment of stories that will equally captivate and creep you out- there's even some whimsy, too! (Cemetery Dance)

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Paperback of A GRAVESIDE GALLERY by Eric J. Guignard
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Antonina_orthefallofrome
📚 “And that’s part of our trouble. Thinking things inevitable. Not believing change is possible.”

👍 A little late to the game on this one bit this book did what I wanted it to do. It gives depth and humanity to a previously flat character. Haymich is not the hero you want to root for if you knew him from Katniss’ journey, but knowing his story is something I have wanted for years. You know how it will start, you know how it will end, but the journey along the way will inspire you to think what makes a good man, what makes love worth fighting for, and most importantly how many sparks does it take to fan into a flame?
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QueeRomance Ink

Linda reviews "Cake & Cocktails" by A.D. Ellis, Men of Haven Grove book 2:

"Henry runs the family bar and restaurant. Jack is twenty-five, and has recently left his home, taking a bus and stopping in Haven Grove... Another wonderful story by A.D. Ellis, proving that age is just a number. Five stars."

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#BookReview: The Liar by Louise Jensen @HQstories #TheLiar #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles

"The Abbotts’ new lodger Luke hasn’t told them much about himself, but they can’t expect to know everything about a stranger who’s just moved in. But Luke keeps asking about their family photos and looking through their things. Why does he want to know everything about them? And why does daughter Jen think someone is watching her? Then, suddenly, Mum Mel texts…

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damppebbles.com · #BookReview: The Liar by Louise Jensen @HQstories #TheLiar #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles“The Abbotts’ new lodger Luke hasn’t told them much about himself, but they can’t expect to know everything about a stranger who’s just moved in. But Luke keeps asking about their family phot…
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📖 **“Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” by Laura Spinney**

Peter Gordon

“_The “Proto” in the title Laura Spinney’s new book is a reference to “Proto-Indo-European” (PIE), the language from which modern tongues as diverse as Hindi, Greek, English, Russian and Armenian derive; this was perhaps deemed not quite fascinating enough, so the book was given a subtitle presumably more in tune with the contemporary zeitgeist._”

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asianreviewofbooks.com · “Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” by Laura SpinneyFew subjects have progressed as rapidly in recent years as the study of prehistory and ancient history. The ability to decode the human genome has upended everything. In retrospect, archaeologists …
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