#My Dearest Darkest
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read in 2023: cults
The Shadow Cabinet
The Feast Makers
Monstrous
Camp Damascus
You’re Not Supposed To Die Tonight
Burn
City of Nightmares
Beholder
My Dearest Darkest
#read in 2023#man that [horror or urban fantasy genre] sure do love [cults]#again this is not all of them i read#you're not supposed to die tonight#my dearest darkest#a couple more that are SMP books too#patrick ness
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Fave Five: Queer Boarding School Thrillers
My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham
People Like Us by Dana Mele
Fraternity by Andy Mientus
A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
As I Descended by Robin Talley
Bonus: Coming this fall, The Forest Demands its Due by Kosoko Jackson, and coming in 2024, With Love & Mischief by Derek Milman
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#A Lesson in Vengeance#As I Descended#Dana Mele#Derek Milman#Kayla Cottingham#Kosoko Jackson#My Dearest Darkest#People Like Us#Robin Talley#The Forest Demands its Due#Victoria Lee#With Love & Mischief
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I got a new book ✨
Thank you @honeybcj for the recommendation. I will be reading it today.
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"You can tell who someone is by what they read"
Yes. Yes, you certainly can.
(My books are certainly an aesthetic)
#my dearest darkest#crooked kingdom#dead things are closer than they appear#WENT TO A BOOKSTORE TODAY AND GOT THESE BOOKS!1!1
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My favourite morning ritual: coffee, my current read, and my little man 🐶☕️📖
#booklr#book photography#book picture#my dearest darkest#kayla cottingham#bookworm#bibliophile#ya fiction#ya horror#book community#book aesthetic#book lover#book nerd#i read ya#books and dogs#books and coffee#open book#my photos#mine
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Hello everyone! I'm finally getting around to planning out book posts like I mentioned in a post the other week!
I figured that I would start with a general post showing you all of the books that I've read so far this year! They're in the order that I read them for the most part. I had to throw The Black Phone Stories at the top so that my stack wouldn't be too haphazardous.
I've talked on here breifly before that I would like to start posting more, and specifically post some bookish content. I've loved books since I was a child, and I've collected them my whole life.
I've always been a reader but I've found that the last two years of my life I'm starting to read just as much as I did when I was a child. This is something that I'm really excited about. I've discovered so masny amazing titles and authors the past few months and my To Read List is getting longer and longer.
I'm not sure exactly how these posts will go, I imagine they'll be quite rambly just like this one. I'll always warn before I spoil anything, but keep in mind that I will be posting spoilers!
Let me know if you've read or plan to read any of the books in this list! I dont know if I'll make a post on every book on here, but I'm going to for sure make posts on my favorite ones! If I'm being honest, most of them have become a favorite in some way. I feel like I've gotten so lucky with my book selections this year!
Reply with any book reccs you have for me!! :D
Also, I'm currently reading These Violent Delights, I'm a bit over halfway and I absoluuutely love it so far!! I can't wait to read the sequel, I have sooo many sequels to read!! A lot of the books in this list have sequels coming out this year and early next year!!
#bookish#bookblr#reading#readersoftumblr#dr jekyll and mr hyde#atomic habits#my heart is a chainsaw#the sky is everywhere#my dearest darkest#catherine house#wicked: with & curse#the grimrose girls#the atlas six#the forest of a thousand lanterns#ninth house#the black phone stories
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'𝒎𝒚 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒔𝒕' 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰.
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"Wʜɪʟᴇ ᴀʟʟ ᴛᴏᴡɴs ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴛʜᴇɪʀ ɢʜᴏsᴛs, Rᴀɪɴᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ's ᴡᴇʀᴇ sᴘᴇᴄɪᴀʟ. Tʜᴇ ɪsʟᴀɴᴅ ʜᴀᴅ ᴀ ʜᴀʙɪᴛ ᴏғ ᴋᴇᴇᴘɪɴɢ ᴛʜɪɴɢs ʟᴏɴɢ ᴀғᴛᴇʀ ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴡᴇʀᴇ ɢᴏɴᴇ.
Aɴᴅ ᴡʜᴇɴ Fɪɴᴄʜ Cʜᴀᴍʙᴇʀʟɪɴ sᴛᴇᴘᴘᴇᴅ ғᴏᴏᴛ ɪɴᴛᴏ Rᴀɪɴᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ, Mᴀɪɴᴇ . . .
𝗜𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗵𝗲𝗿."
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5/5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
It takes so much for me to rate something a five-out-of-five, but seriously? This book is amazing. Everything about how they approach lesbian themes, to supernatural/creepy themes, to gore. Oh, it makes me feel how it is intended. If you're a fan of horror, I would really recommend this book. The plot twists are something that had my mouth open— and how this book goes from 1 to 100 quickly with the gore is flattering. What else can I say . . .?
Oh, yeah, Selena is a bi queen and Finch is a lesbian queen. Take that as you will, and I would GENUINELY recommend reading this in one sitting. <3
Page number: 350 pgs.
Author (c): Kayla Cottingham
TW (TRIGGER WARNING)s:
Gore
Teenage cringe
Creepy description tellings
(No, not putting lesbianism as a trigger, fuck off if you're homophobic) Romance [Both straight and gay]
Cults
Suggestive themes (not that much, no smut or anything
Gay panics 😻
#my dearest darkest#kayla cottingham#5/5 stars#5/5 review#positive reviews#lgbtq community#lesbian books#horror books#horror#lesbian#lgbtq#books and reading#books#book lover
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Via @ terriblybland on Twitter
My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham
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#annotating books#bookblr#book photography#booklover#reading#currently reading#lgbtq#my dearest darkest#sapphic books#book quote
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I just read My Dearest Darkest in one night I have no idea how to function anymore
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Reluctant Reader Wednesday: My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham
When Finch starts the school year as a transfer student at the prestigious, private, and competitive Ulalume Academy, her life has already gone through some major changes.
The day of Finch’s audition for the school’s music program, as she and her parents were driving home, their car went off the road and into a river. Finch’s parents both died, but Finch survived … although she doesn’t understand how that could have happened. Because her heart stopped, and then something started it up again.
Now Finch is a student at Ulalume, and things are even more complicated for her than just the weirdness of coming back from the dead. As she meets new students, she has to figure out which ones have the potential to become her enemies, her friends, or even something more than friends. Plus, the old school has some secrets of its own, including several mysterious disappearances and a strange creature that can be found by exploring the tunnels underneath the school.
Give this book to teens who are fans of sapphic horror and dark academia!
#Reluctant Reader Wednesday#My Dearest Darkest#Kayla Cottingham#horror#LGBT#LGBTQ#paranormal#Kingsbridge Library#NYPL
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Pros of the book we just read:
Basically The Craft with explicit sapphics, and also instead of witchcraft it's girls fucking with an Eldritch deity they found trapped in a basement
Cons of the book we just read:
one of the main characters has an ex who gets an Eldritch monster form because she's super devoted to the evil Eldritch god and it's super cool and none of the Heroic sapphics get cool tentacles :(
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Fave Five: Sapphic YA Horror
Fave Five: Sapphic YA Horror
My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham
A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
Rules for Vanishing and These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall
Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand
The River Has Teeth and The Restless Dark by Erica Waters
Bonus: Coming in June 2023, You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron
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#A Lesson in Vengeance#Claire Legrand#Erica Waters#Kalynn Bayron#Kate Alice Marshall#Kayla Cottingham#My Dearest Darkest#Rules for Vanishing#Sawkill Girls#These Fleeting Shadows#Victoria Lee#You&039;re Not Supposed to Die Tonight
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Halloween 2023: 31 Days of Dark Academia, October 10
Dark Academia novel:
My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham (2022)
From the cover:
You’ll never guess what’s watching in the dark...
Quote:
While all towns have their ghosts, Rainwater’s was special. They sank through its submerged sea caves and slithered up its cliffs. They bounced around its caverns and tunnels like electrical pulses in a brain, echoing memories of footsteps and laughter and screams through the ground and into the towering evergreen trees. The peninsula had a habit of keeping things long after they were gone.
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2023 reads // twitter thread
My Dearest Darkest
sapphic YA paranormal
a girl who’s suffered a recent tragedy transfers to an elite arts-focused girls boarding school
when she stumbles across something powerful in the tunnels under the school, and uncovers a history of deaths, she has to work together with the popular girl she got off on the wrong foot with to stop the horror being unleashed
lesbian MC
#My Dearest Darkest#aroaessidhe 2023 reads#this is also fine in general but not amazing writing#hholy headhopping up the wazoo. or possibly it’s just bad audiobook editing? there’s 0 pause between POV or scene changes.#it definitely gets straight into the spooky…..doesn’t feel like there’s any mystery or atmosphere#the writing is not amazing overall#though it picked up more towards the end#the fucking. side character and his taako from tv shirt lmao. *points* i know what you are#(what he is is a podcast listener yet also straight? missed opportunity...)#(unless I missed a mention of him being bi.....regardless; his place in that part of the narrative felt awkward lmao)#the author was definitely very influenced by certain fiction podcasts tho lmao there were. quite a few references
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