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Trigger warning for gore. Every other book set at a school for magically, supernaturally, or […]
Hungerstone, by Kat Dunn
Lenore might be the best example I’ve ever come across of a repressed Victorian. She […]
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Elspeth Spindle is used to hiding. She carries an infection that means death in the […]
Commonplace book: August and September 2026
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Celia has spent most of her life exiled from the Nigerian island where she grew […]