BOOK ROUND-UP: 2023 SEQUELS It's never a bad time to revisit a beloved world! Anticipated sequels (or prequels) we are looking forward to in 2023 include:

The Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson (Book 2, Her Majesty's Royal Coven)

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon (Book 0, Roots of Chaos)

Iris Kelly Doesn't Date by Ashley Herring Blake (Book 3, Bright Falls)

The Severed Thread by Leslie Vedder (Book 2, The Bone Spindle)

The Faithless by C.L. Clark (Book 2, The Magic of the Lost)

The Battle Drum by Saara El-Arifi (Book 2, Ending Fire)

Books without a cover image released yet that are also anticipated 2023 sequels are:

Alecto the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Book 4, The Locked Tomb)

In Charm's Way by Lana Harper (Book 4, The Witches of Thistle Grove)

He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan (Book 2, The Radiant Emperor)

It’s not too late to get into any of the series yet. Just in time for the next book!

but that is how a tragedy like ours or king lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.

for @grayconan <3

@fictionnet event 6: pride.

@librarysource event III: pride (the song of achilles)

❝  i could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; i would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. i would know him in death, at the end of the world. ❞

i kissed shara wheeler by casey mcquiston

'and to the girl who kissed me,’ she says, ‘I have done some of the best work of my life because of you. And I know you have done some of the best work of your life because of me. I don’t know a better way to explain what love means to two people like us.'

@fictiondaily event 2: pride (pynch). 

tamquam alter idem. (as if a second self).

don't ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box. Don't do that.

- evelyn hugo

His cousin Anna: he remembered when she had worn petticoats and dresses, her hair long and braided into plaits. And always in her eyes a look of discomfort, of sadness. He remembered, too, when she had emerged like a butterfly from a cocoon, transforming into what she was now—a vision in gleaming cuff links and starched collars. She lived her life so boldly, so unapologetically, that sometimes it made Thomas’s stomach hurt a little, just to look at her.

[@fictiondaily event 2: Pride || @lgbtqia-litsource event 4 — celebrating pride. || @fictionnet event06 - pride.]

I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

'And to the girl who kissed me,' she says, 'I have done some of the best work of my life because of you. And I know you have done some of the best work of your life because of me. I don’t know a better way to explain what love means to two people like us.'

loyal to a fault (truly, a fault)

horatio patel, from the king of infinite space, by lyndsay faye

happy birthday my love, my sun!!! @taylorjamie <3

ASTRID PARKER DOESN'T FAIL - ASHLEY HERRING BLAKE Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐ I loved Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail just as much (maybe more, I keep going back and forth) as Delilah Green Doesn’t Care. The cast from Bright Falls returns, this time adding the Jordan and Everwood family as new characters. Although this could be read as a standalone, having the familiar characters return from book one is so great. It’s nice to get updates from beloved characters and the scene is set for what will be in store for Iris’ book. The dedication, ‘For everyone who figured it out a little later in life’, had me tearing up and really set the tone for the way Astrid’s arc was handled. I enjoyed watching Astrid grow as a character and loved the way her coming to terms with her new attraction was handled. Astrid and Jordan’s relationship is a delightful rollercoaster of tension. I think Jordan’s characterization was great, and I felt like I was falling for her alongside Astrid. For a romance book I’d consider it a slower burn but worth the wait! Thanks to Berkley and NetGalley for sending me the eARC for review consideration, however all opinions are my own.

one last stop by casey mcquiston

she can’t believe jane had the nerve, the audacity, to become the one thing august can’t resist: a mystery.

BOOK ROUND UP: VAMPIRES VS WITCHES In honor of the season, we have compiled a round up of wlw witch and vampire books! Sapphic witches and vampires are tropes as old as time, which do you all prefer? The Vampire books pictured are:

House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson

The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl

A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson

Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk

The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan

The Witch books pictured are:

Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

Wild and Wicked Things by Francesca May

Payback's a Witch by Lana Harper

Sweet & Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley

The Scapegracers by H.A. Clarke

❝he left bloody fingerprints on the rock, but there was something satisfying about that. - i was here. i exist. i’m alive, because i bleed.❞

for @reinasmoris <3 @fictionnet event 6: pride.

@librarysource event 2: characters of colour — alex claremont-diaz.

“to you, specifically, i say: i see you. i am one of you. as long as i have a place in this white house, so will you. i am the first son of the united states, and i’m bisexual. history will remember us.”

@librarysource event III: - pride : Jane Su, One Last Stop

Like - okay, I dated this girl who was an artist, right? And she'd do figure drawing where she'd draw the negative space around a person first, and then fill in the person. and that's how I'm trying to look at it. maybe I don't know what fills it in yet, but I can look at the space around where I sit in the world, what creates that shape, and I can care about what it's made of, if it's good, if it hurts anyone, it makes people happy, if it makes me happy. And that can be enough for now.

“It's easier, sometimes, to love when you know it's a love you can't have.”

@fictiondaily event 2: pride (trans and non-binary pride)

Felix Love || Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender