📚🌈Kerie🐉🪐

October is Substance Use Prevention Month & stories of addiction and recovery remind us that healing is not linear, and that there is no single “right” path to recovery. Representation gives language, visibility, and hope to those who may feel alone in their journey. Here are some recs! #booksky

Three image tiles. The first image tile is part of the cover for SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN, highlighting the title. The second image tile is Fred Savage sitting in his bed in THE PRINCESS BRIDE, looking wary and asking, "Is this a kissing book?" The third image tile is a xenomorph from Alien, jaws open, looming through steam and darkness, and saying, "...Kind of."

I don't know why I had to make this, but I had to make this.

One of my absolute favorites! ♥️

Featured Books: Blood Over Bright Haven The Isle in the Silver Sea

Featured Books: Someone You Can Build A Nest In What Moves the Dead

Featured Books: Lone Women Her Majesty’s Royal Coven

Featured Books: The Invocations We Shall Be Monsters

Who is building their Fall TBR (despite the weather being nothing like Fall…)? If that’s you and you’re not sure what to add to it, might I suggest…. #booksky

It is sapphic!! That’s exactly the set up 🥰 Happy reading!

If you are still curating your TBR for Sapphic September and enjoy speculative fiction genres, I have a few suggestions for you…

What other books are on your list for this month?

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So relatable though… the fomo always gets me

The @illumicrate.bsky.social 10th Anniversary Farseer Trilogy special edition set is finally here and the ARTWORK has me totally spoiled. Each piece of art detailed a favorite scene or character from this series that literally does not ever leave my mind. I’m obsessed 😍 #booksky

My dream of having a special edition of Black Sun by @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social has finally come true, and the in-chapter ARTWORK 😍😍. This series WON A HUGO last week, by the way, for Best Series and it was so incredibly well deserved. I can’t wait to display this whole set on my shelf! #booksky

I was influenced to pick up Tiny Book Shop (a cozy little switch game where you decorate your mobile bookshop & drive around recing & selling books) and now I am addicted 😂 I spent my Sunday playing and listening to The Unbroken by C.L. Clark (which isn’t cozy at all!). How was your Sunday? #booksky

The Fantasy Finishers Bookclub is now reading the Gael Song trilogy! This is an epic historical fantasy series that comes highly recommended in fantasy reader spaces. If this sounds interesting to you, it is not too late to join via the link below! #booksky

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When the real world is too loud, I turn to stories that swallow me whole.
Here are some of the most immersive SFF series to lose yourself in with rich worlds, fierce characters, high stakes, and the kind of emotional devastation we crave. Are any of these already in your radar? #booksky

My weekend reads:

Overgrowth by Mira Grant
The Unbroken by C.L. Clark

What you all reading this weekend?#booksky

The Volcano Daughters: historical fiction meets mythic fury, following two sisters escaping a brutal regime in El Salvador, trailed by ghosts that refuse to be silenced.

Beasts of Carnaval: gothic fantasy drenched in colonial reckoning, ancestral memory, and a mysterious, monstrous island festival where no one leaves unchanged.

Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire: cozy-meets-creepy YA with a witch apprentice, missing townsfolk, and ancient magic awakening under the mountain.

A Magic Deep & Drowning: a Dutch Golden Age retelling of The Little Mermaid with secrets, sea bargains, and a slow-burn descent into magic and danger.

Book mail days are the best days and this stack is full of genre-bending gems! Thank you to @pantheonbooks.bsky.social @htpbooks.bsky.social @htphive.bsky.social and Page Street YA for the review copies! Which should I pick up first? #booksky

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It’s a BIG release week for finales and otherwise magical tales! Whether you’re ready to say goodbye to your favorite fantasy series or dive into a creepy standalone, these new releases deserve a spot on your TBR ASAP
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Girl Lost, please.
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MESSY. TRAGIC. GAY. FANTASY.
I’m so in! The Sins on Their Bones by Laura R Samotin kicks off this dark Jewish folklore inspired fantasy duology about two estranged husbands on opposite sides of a civil war & a daring spymaster caught in the crossfire. Thanks PRH Canada! #booksky

Honestly, I think I must read this based on the cover alone…. WOWZA. #booksky

7 Books Read Pages 2,736 Avg Rating 4.42

A Song of Legends Lost by M.H. Ayinde Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby A Sky So Hollow by Craig Montgomery Flight of the Fallen by Hana Lee He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan Metal from Heaven by August Clarke We Can Never Leave by H.E. Edgmon

📚✨ June Reading Wrap-Up ✨📚
From epic queer fantasies to emotional tearjerkers, June was packed with powerful reads that made me feel ALL THE THINGS! #booksky

It is SO GOOD! One of the few romance fantasy’s I love and it has great rep across the board

July is Disability Pride Month, and Im spotlighting some incredible scifi, horror, & fantasy books featuring disabled characters across a spectrum of experiences that celebrate resilience, identity, and complexity!
PART 2 of 2 #booksky

100% deserves more hype!

You are in for quite a ride! Happy reading ☺️

One of the very best!

This photo shows the paperback edition of Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse on a wooden bookstore shelf, nestled between other books in the Between Earth and Sky series. The cover art features an image of a woman’s face in cool shades of teal and blue. Her eyes glow faintly, and her hair is an intricate mass of feathers, braids, and sea creature-like shapes. Above her head is a endorsement from R.F. Kuang that reads: “Roanhorse is at the top of her game here.”

Hey Kerie, what are some of your favorite fantasy series? Well, this completed, queernormative, indigenous, epic fantasy for starters! The Between Earth & Sky trilogy by @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social!
Mirrored Heavens now in paperback! Thank you @sagapressbooks.bsky.social! #booksky #sagasayscrew

Books Featured: • She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan (Historical Fantasy) • The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin (Science Fantasy) • Faebound by Saara El-Arifi (Romance Fantasy)

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow (Historical Fantasy) • The Unbroken by C.L. Clark (Military Fantasy) • Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor (Sci-fi Literary Fiction)

• Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Indigenous Fantasy) • The Devourer by Alison Ames (YA Horror) • The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher (Horror Thriller)

• The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart (High Fantasy) • Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Space Fantasy) • The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon (Dystopian Fantasy)

July is Disability Pride Month, and Im spotlighting some incredible scifi, horror, & fantasy books featuring disabled characters across a spectrum of experiences that celebrate resilience, identity, and complexity!
PART 1 of 2
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Sapphic. Spellbinding. Stunning.
The FairyLoot exclusive of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab: 3 women make impossible choices in a world that wants to claim them. Immortality comes with a cost, & these women are done paying quietly. This will be pure magic, inside and out #booksky

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They’ll say “it’s just a story” but we are seeing it unfold before our eyes. Governments that rewrite histories, are complicit in cultural erasure, elevate institutions that hoard power, & promote “peace”built on silence. Fiction has ALWAYS been a mirror, sometimes a warning, now its both. #booksky

The Unbroken by C.L. Clarke: Buddy Read with @talliereadsandwrites @literarymadmax Someone You Can Build a Nest In By: John Wiswell The No Shelf Control Book Club & Buddy Read with @geengeenreads Pearl City by @juliaveewrites & @kenbebelle - thank you to the authors for the arc copy! Overgrowth by Mira Grant: Buddy Read with @melissa_read_s Voyage of the Damned by Frances White: The NSC Bookclub Retreat Book Red Temptest Brother: Buddy Read with @lillies.libraryy The Unmapping: Buddy Read with @haunflyingsolo; thank you @bindery_books for the e-arc! The Nightshade God: Arc Read - thank you @orbitbooks_us for the e-arc! You Werent Mean to Be Human: Buddy Read with: @harleyquinnbabe; Thank you @sagapressbooks for the e-arc!

📚JULY TBR🎧

Per usual, my tbr is stacked with some highly anticipated speculative fiction faves! I’ve got a little bit of everything and even better, almost every one of these is being read with a friend. Happy July friends! #booksky
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