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bitterkarella · 7 months

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JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: i want you to sssay hello to Rowling: graham lineham Lineham: [wearing foil hat] free masons run the country Rowling: he'sss got sssome great ideasss you should hear

Poe: joanne you don't need to bring him here Poe: like, you really don't Rowling: he hass thingsss to sssay and you're ALL going to hear them Poe: this is really kind of off topic for us here Rowling: EVERYONE will hear them

Rowling: ssssee, yearsss ago i disssmisssed graham lineham'ssss babble as the bad opticsss ravingsss of a lunatic Rowling: but now that the overton window hass sshifted Rowling: i'm proud to sssay thessse bad opticsss ravingsss are quite good actually!

Rowling: go ahead, graham, tell them what you told me Lineham: trans people produce no great films, no music, no art Lineham: they're incapable of doing this basic human thing because they're subhuman Lineham: untermensch, if you will Rowling: isssn't he great?

Lineham: trans books are always universally panned because of their incoherence Billy Martin: Hailey Piper: Eve Harms: Gretchen Felker-Martin: Joe Koch: M. Lopes da Silva: Arden Powell: Lor Gislason: Julya Oui: LC von Hessen: GE Woods: Michelle Belanger: Rain Corbyn: SA Chant:

FT Catulla: Viktor Athelstan: Meagan Hotz: Ziggy Schutz: Rose Sable: WN Derring-Judith: Charles Maria Tor: Devaki Devay: Dayna Ingram: Ori Jay: Ai Burton: Gabriel Valentine: Cosmin-Mihai Birsan: Jei D Marcade: Rhiannon Rasmussen: Max Turner: Taylor J Pitts: Vincent Endwell:

Bri Crozier: Theo Hendrie: Derek des Anges: Briar Ripley Page: Winter Holmes: gaast: Maya Deane: Charles-Elizabeth Boyles: Layne van Rensburg: Amanda M Blake: May Leitz: Alison Rumfitt: Rivers Solomon: Lillian Boyd: Torrey Peters: Taliesin Neith: Daniel M. Lavery: Joss Lake: Aubrey Wood: Jonah Wu:

Daphne du Maurier: Patricia Highsmith: Franz Kafka: Kafka: wait Kafka: why did the camera pan to me

Barker: oh you know why haha Poe: clive Kafka: why Kafka: [hugging blåhaj] i don't know what you mean

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lgbtqreads · 7 months

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Fave Five: New LGBTQ+ Adult Horror (2023 Edition)

For 2022 titles, click here. A Light Most Hateful by Hailey Piper Graveyard of Lost Children by Katrina Monroe Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

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#A Light Most Hateful #Alison Rumfitt #Brainwyrms #Camp Damascus #Chuck Tingle #Graveyard of Lost Children #Hailey Piper #Horror #Katrina Monroe #Lucy A. Snyder #Sister Maiden Monster

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transbookoftheday · 6 months

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The Worm and His Kings by Hailey Piper

New York City, 1990:

When you slip through the cracks, no one is there to catch you. Monique learns that the hard way after her girlfriend Donna vanishes without a trace.

Only after the disappearances of several other impoverished women does Monique hear the rumors. A taloned monster stalks the city's underground and snatches victims into the dark.

Donna isn't missing. She was taken.

To save the woman she loves, Monique must descend deeper than the known underground, into a subterranean world of enigmatic cultists and shadowy creatures. But what she finds looms beyond her wildest fears-a darkness that stretches from the dawn of time and across the stars.

#the worm and his kings #hailey piper #transfem #trans book of the day #trans books #queer books #bookblr #booklr

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haveyoureadthistransbook · 4 months

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Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy by Hailey Piper

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Love twisted into horrific shapes, nightmares driven by cruel music, and a world where what little light remains fractures the sky into midnight rainbows in eighteen stories tracing the dark veins of queer horror, isolation, and the monstrous feminine. The universe unwinds to the tune of a malicious ice cream truck jingle in “We All Scream.” “The Law of Conservation of Death” dictates that a ghost pursue his prey across her every reincarnation. Superstitions thrive even in the distant future and across the stars when a colony shuttle mounts a witch trial in “Hairy Jack.” And try to “Forgive the Adoring Beast” as it scavenges a world of dead gods for tokens of bloody affection. Including two new short stories and a never-before-published novelette, Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy digs deep inside and clings to the beating nightmare heart you always knew was there.

Mod opinion: I've read and really, really enjoyed this book. I've read some short stories by Haily Piper before (In 'Your Body Is Not Your Body' and 'Bound in Flesh', two trans horror anthologies, and 'Aspectic and Faintly Sadistic', an anthology of Hysteria Fiction) and so I knew I would enjoy her work, but her short story collection really cemeted her as a new favorite horror author of mine.

#unfortunate elements of my anatomy #hailey piper #polls #trans books #trans lit #trans literature #lgbt lit #lgbt literature #lgbt books #horror #anthologies #short stories #trans woman #own voices

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aurorawest · 1 year

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Reading update!

So as you'll see below I've read a lot of books since the last time I did one of these. I'm not going to write a little blurb for all of them, only the ones I feel strongly about. But I'm going to start including my ratings.

Arctic Sun by Annabeth Albert. 4.25/5 stars

Where We Left Off by Roan Parrish. 5/5 stars

Peter Cabot Gets Lost by Cat Sebastian. 5/5 stars

This book was just. So lovely. Short and fast-paced, but I loved Peter and Caleb so much. I love the time period too. I know this is me being toxic and problematic and showing my internalized homophobia or whatever but I actually really like books set in places and time periods where homophobia is a real and present danger. I think it's because I'm totally a Love Conquers All romantic, so the fact that people dgaf and make a go of being together anyway scratches that itch.

Anyway, good book. I picked up the other two in the series but haven't read them yet.

Let's Get Back to the Party by Zak Salih. 4/5 stars

Literature. Good but pretty sad.

No Gods For Drowning by Hailey Piper. 3/5 stars

The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas. DNF

I got 50 pages in before I gave into my hate and DNFed this.

The Lost Future of Pepperharrow by Natasha Pulley. 5/5 stars

I find it genuinely upsetting that Natasha Pulley isn't a household name, because she writes the most beautiful, gutting books that I have maybe ever read. I don't understand how she's able to write what is, on the surface, a completely mundane sentence, and yet there's this roiling sea of heartbreak underneath it.

This is the sequel to The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, easily one of the best books I've ever read, and this one is at least as good.

Natural Enemies by Roan Parrish. 4/5 stars

Us by Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy. 3.75/5 stars

Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh. 5/5 stars

Lovely little novella that read like a fairy tale.

The Prince's Poisoned Vow by Hailey Turner. 4.25/5 stars

At first I despaired of ever learning who all the characters were in this book because the first like, 10 chapters were all from a different POV, but I got a handle on all of them and liked it a lot.

Spectred Isle by KJ Charles. 4.75/5 stars

Un Lun Dun by China Miéville. DNF

This is the book that made me realize I hate whimsical books.

Here the Whole Time by Vitor Martins. 4/5 stars

The Lightning-Struck Heart by TJ Klune. 3/5 stars

I ranted about this one already but Jesus, Klune. This straight up reads like the kind of stuff I wrote when I was like, 14, and I don't mean that as a compliment to my 14 year old self.

Love, Hate & Clickbait by Liz Bowery. 5/5 stars

!!!!! This book was so good!!!! I picked it up way back when it came out but it only surfaced in the TBR pile in March, and it did not let me down. Thom and Clay are SO unlikable, but you start to like them in a way that's practically insidious because you don't see it coming. By the end, I was totally rooting for them and loved them both. And this is a romcom with a truly great villain, too, which definitely isn't standard in romances.

Red Skies Falling by Alex London. 5/5 stars

Second book in a series that revolves around a culture where falconry is hugely important. If you want fantasy that doesn't take place in fantasy England, check this series out. It has an A+ sibling relationship, a lovely romance, and high stakes. But this one was saaaaad ugh so sad.

Less by Andrew Sean Greer. 3.75/5 stars

I hated this book until about 80% through, and then it subverted all my expectations and I ended up liking it okay. I thought it was just about a pathetic middle aged gay white man (I know I know, that's my type, what's the problem?) feeling sorry for himself, but it was deeper than that. And it had a nice ending.

Invitation to the Blues by Roan Parrish. 4/5 stars

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston. 5/5 stars (reread)

Bought this edition for the bonus chapter from Henry's POV and for @vkelleyart's end pages. Totally worth it. I love this book just as much as I did the first time.

Threshold by Jordan L Hawk. 4.25/5 stars

So this is a series with like, 11 books? I read the first one and was kind of eh on it. Good enough to buy the second, not enough to buy all 11 or whatever. But the second one was substantially better, so now I've acquired like 5 more of them. I continue to be a sucker for late 19th century/early 20th century settings.

Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen. 4.5/5 stars

Is gay noir a thing? Because that's what I'm calling this book. Gay noir. I loved the main character and I'm really excited this is going to be a series (I've already preordered the second one). The only reason I knocked off half a star is because some of the side characters were irritating. And as a mystery, it wasn't great, so I wouldn't read this one if you're looking for a really good mystery. It's definitely more about the character development and the relationships.

Though possibly one reason I didn't think the mystery was that good is because it got spoiled for me on tumblr by someone who imo had a pretty shallow read on the book. Honestly not sure if they actually read it or they just skimmed it.

Something Wild & Wonderful by Anita Kelly. 5/5 stars

AHHH. THIS BOOK!! This book was so good. So I've been making fun of it for a while because if you look at the cover, it looks like a Stucky AU. And you know what, maybe it was, but at least it didn't read that way, lol. It was really lovely and I'll be using it as a comp for the manuscript I finished last week.

The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley. 5/5 stars

I don't even have anything else to say except that you need to read Natasha Pulley's books. Please. If you're reading this post, go get her books. Buy them, take them out of the library, whatever. Do it.

Work for It by Talia Hibbert. 4.25/5 stars

A Tree of Bones by Gemma Files. 4.5/5 stars

Any Old Diamonds by KJ Charles. 5/5 stars

Something happened in this book that made me close it and stare into the middle distance, then put it aside until I could process.

Anyway you should definitely read it.

Farview by Kim Fielding. 4/5 stars

Whistling in the Dark by Tamara Allen. 4.25/5 stars

Currently reading The Restless Dark by Erica Waters

Which I'm enjoying more than I thought I would!

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hyphae-branch · 18 days

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this one is a wild ride once it gets going. a storm rolls into Olivia's small town one summer night, but instead of thunder and lightning this storm brings monsters and otherworldly phenomena. to reach her best friend, Sunflower, and escape, she must navigate the new dangers of familiar streets to uncover the truth behind the storm and all it has wrought

#a light most hateful #hailey piper #bookblr #horror #queer horror #lgbtq

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dee-the-red-witch · 1 year

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*goes scrolling back through a week-plus of @haileypiperfights blog*

Seriously, no post just about this one to bump? FINE. I'LL DO MY OWN.

Friendos, I just finished this one about half an hour ago. I cried for the last sections, in a few different ways.

Friends, if you like your fantasy tales dark, your apocalypses bleak but with a glimmer of light, your wonder and terror just barely separated by being opposite sides of the same thin coin? You should pick this up.

Saying much past that and the blurb st the link would lead into spoiler territory so I'll stop there, but trust me. This is a wondeffully rich world that I hope we get to visit at some point again. For now I'm just deeply happy to have gotten this much of it as it was. Go hit the link, grab a copy, and enjoy.

#mediavoring #fantasy #horror #hailey piper

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scholar-of-yemdresh · 4 months

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Dear God it's pure agony being a fan of media that has a (near) nonexistent fandom😢. Like the tags are empty no fanart, no analysis, no memes I'm lucky if I see a gifset edit...Hell indescribable.

Please people I'm dying here, I'm writhing and crying. So like peep those tags pick up any that interest you and join me so their fandoms aren't empty and Inactive 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

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sapphicbookoftheday · 1 year

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No Gods for Drowning by Hailey Piper

Today's sapphic book of the day is No Gods for Drowning by Hailey Piper!

Summary: "IN THE BEGINNING, MAN WAS PREY.

WITHOUT THE GODS, THEY'LL BE PREY AGAIN.

The old gods have fled, and the monsters they had kept at bay for centuries now threaten to drown the city of Valentine, hunting mankind as in ancient times. In the midst of the chaos, a serial killer has begun ritually sacrificing victims, their bodies strewn throughout the city.

Lilac Antonis wants to stop the impending destruction of her city by summoning her mother, a blood god—even if she has to slit a few throats to do it. But evading her lover Arcadia and her friends means sneaking, lying, and even spilling the blood of people she loves.

Alex and Cecil of Ace Investigations have been tasked with hunting down the killer, but as they close in—not knowing they're hunting their close friend Lilac—the detectives realize the gods may not have left willingly.

As flooding drags this city of cars and neon screaming into the jaws of sea demons and Arcadia struggles to save the people as captain of the evacuation team, Lilac’s ritual killings at last bear fruit, only to reveal her as a small piece in a larger plan. The gods’ protection costs far more than anyone has ever known, and Alex and Cecil are running out of time to discover the true culprit behind the gods’ disappearance before an ancient divine murder plot destroys them all.

Set in an alternate reality which updates mythology to near-modern day, NO GODS FOR DROWNING is part hunt for a serial killer, part noir detective story, and unlike anything you’ve ever read before."

#bisexual #bi #lesbian #trans #transgender #sapphic #wlw #queer #lgbtqia #lgbtq #lgbt #books #book recs #book recommendations #booklr #horror #fantasy #no gods for drowning #hailey piper

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mattwritesmonsters · 1 year

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Queer Horror: "The Worm and His Kings"

4 / 5 Stars

A very satisfying cosmic horror read! Features a trans wlw for an MC, which is always a positive, and some very memorable imagery. Burrowing tunnels, lost civilisations, celestial visions.

However, I found the beginning a little clumsy, and the middle seemed to go over setpieces a little too fast for any of them to sink in. But the ending was absolutely worth it. Knocked it out of the park.

Content warnings for the book under the cut.

"The Worm and His Kings" contains depictions of transphobia, medical malpractice on a trans patient, cults, homelessness, poverty, and mild gore.

#books #diverse books #book recs #cosmic horror #horror #queer horror #trans protagonist #booklr #the worm and his kings #hailey piper

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hasmoneanbulbasaur · 8 months

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I just finished reading the cosmic horror novella The Worm and His Kings by Hailey Piper.

It follows a young homeless trans woman searching for her girlfriend who went missing three months ago. Her searching leads her to encounter a talon-wielding cloaked monster and cult that worships the Worm. A being whose song can tear people asunder.

My review.

#book #books #book review #review #hailey piper #the worm and his kings #horror #cosmic horror #lovecraftian #lovecraftian horror #lgbtqia #lgbtq #lgbt+#horror books #trans #trans women #trans femme #trans author

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bitterkarella · 11 months

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Midnight Pals: Faust Love

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of faust Goethe: so this guy sells his soul to the devil to get the ultimate knowledge Goethe: oh the guy's name is faust by the way

Goethe: so part 1 is all about faust trying to bang this one hottie Goethe: part 2 is where we just go off the rails Goethe: he meets dante! Goethe: and the devil invents fiat currency! Goethe: we need to go back on the gold standard btw Barker: oh christ here we go

Goethe: so faust anyway is despairing about the vanity of scientific, humanistic, and religious scholarship Brian Yuzna: hey do you take creative criticism Goethe: yeah? Yuzna: this sucks

Yuzna: this is boring, people don't wanna hear about Faust the scholar Yuzna: they wanna hear about Faust the action star Goethe: Yuzna: see, what if Faust was like a vigilante with big old wolverine claws? Goethe: Goethe: that would be badass Yuzna: yes! exactly!

Yuzna: ok so what if faust sold his soul to the devil for revenge after some gangsters killed his girlfriend? Yuzna: but then the devil tricks him and is all 'ha ha now you have to kill the chinese ambassador for me!' Yuzna: 'make sure you make some wacky quips when you do it'

Goethe: why does the devil want to kill the chinese ambassador Yuzna: details! you're getting bogged down with details!

Yuzna: so the devil wants to use john jaspers to kill people Goethe: john who? Yuzna: john jaspers. that's what we call faust now Goethe: his name's not faust anymore? Yuzna: no no man get with the program! Yuzna: it's john jaspers Yuzna: we'll still call the story Faust tho

Goethe: aren't people going to be confused if we call the story faust but the guy isn't named faust? Yuzna: ok look Yuzna: when the devil kills him, we'll have him buried under a tombstone that says 'faust' Yuzna: happy?

Goethe: Goethe: but if his name is john jaspers why would the tombstone say Yuzna: oh my god i can't work under these conditions

Yuzna: ok so the devil has this sexy assistant with big tits Edward Lee: yeah boi Yuzna: you like that? well hold on to your hats Yuzna: cuz you're gonna love this

Yuzna: you like when a girl has big tits? Lee: you know it Yuzna: ok so picture this Yuzna: what if she turns into a wet blob monster made out of giant tits and ass cheeks Lee: Yuzna: pretty hot huh? Lee: Lee: Lee: i can work with that

Hailey Piper: i feel like this story is missing something Yuzna: what's that? Piper: dunno, just feeling the absence of a something that should have a certain thrill Yuzna: what Piper: and a certain smell Yuzna: what are you talking about Cynthia Pelayo: NO

#midnight pals #the midnight society #midnight society #clive barker #edward lee #hailey piper #cynthia pelayo #brian yuzna

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lgbtqreads · 10 months

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Fave Five: Queer Takes on Westerns

Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens (Traditional) Backwards to Oregon by Jae (Romance) Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey (Dystopian) Cruel Angels Past Sundown by Hailey Piper (Horror) Crossing the Wide Forever by Missouri Vaun (Romance)

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#Backwards to Oregon #Claudia Cravens #Hailey Piper #Jae #Lucky Red #Missouri Vaun #Sarah Gailey #Upright Women Wanted

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transbookoftheday · 1 year

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No Gods For Drowning by Hailey Piper

IN THE BEGINNING, MAN WAS PREY.

WITHOUT THE GODS, THEY'LL BE PREY AGAIN

The old gods have fled, and the monsters they had kept at bay for centuries now threaten to drown the city of Valentine, hunting mankind as in ancient times. In the midst of the chaos, a serial killer has begun ritually sacrificing victims, their bodies strewn throughout the city.

Lilac Antonis wants to stop the impending destruction of her city by summoning her mother, a blood god—even if she has to slit a few throats to do it. But evading her lover Arcadia and her friends means sneaking, lying, and even spilling the blood of people she loves.

Alex and Cecil of Ace Investigations have been tasked with hunting down the killer, but as they close in—not knowing they're hunting their close friend Lilac—the detectives realize the gods may not have left willingly.

As flooding drags this city of cars and neon screaming into the jaws of sea demons and Arcadia struggles to save the people as captain of the evacuation team, Lilac’s ritual killings at last bear fruit, only to reveal her as a small piece in a larger plan. The gods’ protection costs far more than anyone has ever known, and Alex and Cecil are running out of time to discover the true culprit behind the gods’ disappearance before an ancient divine murder plot destroys them all.

Set in an alternate reality which updates mythology to near-modern day, No Gods For Drowning is part dark fantasy, part noir detective story, and unlike anything you've read before, from an author whose imagination knows no boundaries.

#no gods for drowning #hailey piper #transfem #trans book of the day #trans books #queer books #bookblr #booklr

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haveyoureadthistransbook · 4 months

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The Worm and His Kings by Hailey Piper

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New York City, 1990: When you slip through the cracks, no one is there to catch you. Monique learns that the hard way after her girlfriend Donna vanishes without a trace.

Only after the disappearances of several other impoverished women does Monique hear the rumors. A taloned monster stalks the city’s underground and snatches victims into the dark.

Donna isn’t missing. She was taken.

To save the woman she loves, Monique must descend deeper than the known underground, into a subterranean world of enigmatic cultists and shadowy creatures. But what she finds looms beyond her wildest fears—a darkness that stretches from the dawn of time and across the stars.

Mod opinion: I haven't read this book yet but it is on my tbr and I'm hoping to get around to it soon.

#the worm and his kings #hailey piper #polls #trans lit #trans literature #trans books #lgbt lit #lgbt literature #lgbt books #horror #trans woman #own voices #to read

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bekah-reading · 10 months

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76/120

3/5

This was TBR jar pull.

This was a book that I found on Tiktok. They said it was horror but wasn’t quite extreme horror. I feel like if you want to get into the extreme horror genre this is a nice stepping stone into it.

The writing for me was a bit hard to get into, but I was intrigued enough to stick around. The writing style is very ramble-y, but it’s told from 3rd person perspective that is centred around Monique, so it’s mostly her inner dialogue and thoughts. (This has a name but I forgot it lol). I sometimes do like rambling pics but Sick Fux is giving such a book hangover that no I couldn’t stand Monique’s rambling.

This does have a sequel, but I don’t want to read it, this one was okay. I’m glad I read it-it did have some points to think about but ultimately it was just mid-lane.

#booklr #booktok #reading #reading challenge #horrorbooks #2023 reading #2023 reading challenge #the worm and his kings #hailey piper

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