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A primer on disability justice, memoir, personal activism history, and love letter to disabled BIPOC femmes all at once.
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries is a whimsical read that feels like drinking fairy wine by the crackling fire while listening to folktales. Peppered with light academia, coziness, and adventure. A must-read for a cold winter day when you're longing for adventure.
“Never pray to the gods that answer after dark.”
A modern-day classic, Schwab weaves a story that will not be forgotten. Written with heart-wrenching beauty, Addie LaRue will forever be a favorite novel of mine. The most beautiful book I've ever read.
Haunting, ethereal writing that pulls you in and leaves your mind littered with flower petals and dripping with honey. The Last Tale of the Flower Bride reveals the dark and toxic shape friendship and marriage can take. The story brings to light the obsessive controlling love friends can build and how damaging and heartbreaking it can be. Flower Bride, is a true gem woven together from dark fairytales and peppered with romance and lies.
Darkly funny and written in a journal-like format, this is a fast read for anyone who has worked an infuriatingly corporate 9-5 job. The witty narrations reminded me of a morbidly humorous Monty Python skit. I had a blast with this one!
For people who love folklore and dark fantasy! The Spiderwick Chronicles is one of my favorite series of all time. The Grace children move to an old house surrounded by a wealth of mythical creatures and a dark, mysterious shapechanger who has been terrorizing the residents of the house for generations. A fantasy classic for middle grade and up!
Little Red Riding Hood meets Beauty and the Beast in this dark fairytale retelling. For The Wolf is for anyone who loves eerie woods, enchanting story's and a taste for the darker sides of magic.
This was a wonderful fantasy novel with a great cast of neurodivergent, fae, and other magical, power-wielding characters. I am incredibly happy to see neurodiversity, especially autism, being represented more and more in literature these days, ESPECIALLY when it is done by an neurodivergent author.
Outlaws, airstream trailers, and cinnamon rolls--this book is a fairytale and a fable, or a lantern on a dark night. Read this once and read it again before passing it on to a friend.
