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Favourite Quotes & Top 5 Reasons to Read Stalking Shadows by Cyla Panin

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✨ Are there any duologies you’re excited to re

✨ Are there any duologies you’re excited to read? ✨

I’ve been storing up a few duologies so I can binge read them, one of them is this gorgeous copy of Where Dreams Descend by @janella_angeles! ❤️

My copy of When Night Breaks should hopefully be delivered this week and then pretty soon I’ll be able to read them, but based off the synopsis and everything I’ve heard - I’m going to love it 🥰

✨ Synopsis ✨

In a city covered in ice and ruin, a group of magicians face off in a daring game of magical feats to find the next headliner of the Conquering Circus, only to find themselves under the threat of an unseen danger striking behind the scenes.

As each act becomes more and more risky and the number of missing magicians piles up, three are forced to reckon with their secrets before the darkness comes for them next.

The Star: Kallia, a powerful showgirl out to prove she’s the best no matter the cost

The Master: Jack, the enigmatic keeper of the club, and more than one lie told

The Magician: Demarco, the brooding judge with a dark past he can no longer hide

Where Dreams Descend is the startling and romantic first book in Janella Angeles’ debut Kingdom of Cards fantasy duology where magic is both celebrated and feared, and no heart is left unscathed.

✨ Which is your favourite, stencilled or sprayed

✨ Which is your favourite, stencilled or sprayed edges? ✨

When this @illumicrate copy of FBAA was shown in a Live, with these gorgeous stencilled edges… I was kicking myself for not having grabbed it as soon as it went on sale, so I sent an email asking to sign up to the waitlist whilst the Live was on 🥲

And then there were unboxings showing the gorgeous replica here?! So basically when I got an invite to buy it off the waitlist I jumped on it 🥰

Pictured with a kind of matching Ghostie from @yorkghostmerchants, partly because I think it’s Illumicrate’s fault I’m obsessed with these little cute figures! ❤️🖤

✨ What was the most recent book post you fell in

✨ What was the most recent book post you fell in love with? ✨

For me, it’s got to be this @fairyloot edition of The Blood of Stars duology by @elimpix. Honestly, when it was announced earlier this year that @hodderscape would be publishing the duology in the UK I was SO excited. But I already had the US hardcovers and if I’m honest I’m a bit of a hardcover snob… BUT then FairyLoot announced this one Friday and basically made my entire year! 💖

Featuring the spines today because they just look so gorgeous with the FairyLoot edition of Six Crimson Cranes, but I’ll be taking more photos of this set for sure over the next… well, probably forever. 💜

If you loved Six Crimson Cranes, I’d definitely advise reading Spin the Dawn and Unravel the Dusk. Edan and Maia are just so adorable and who doesn’t want to read a book with magic dresses made from the sun, stars and moon? 🥰

✨ What was the last retelling you read? ✨ Fo

✨ What was the last retelling you read? ✨

For me the last one was #LittleThieves by @what_eats_owls, and it’s my stop on the blog/Insta tour for it through @tbrbeyondtours today! 💖

Okay so, to sum up my review on my site basically this was a 5-star read for me. I loved the way it was written as a fairytale itself and there was one particular character, Ragne, who seriously stood out to me as ADORABLE. ❤️

There’s a full review on my website at www.luchiahoughton.com, make sure to check out the rest of the stops from there too! 💎

#margaretowen #tbrbeyondtours

✨ Are you a fan of fairytale retellings? ✨ I

✨ Are you a fan of fairytale retellings? ✨

If you are, then 100% go out and grab this beautiful book!! I actually took this photo for a blog/Insta tour I’m on tomorrow but my gorgeous finished copy arrived today so I’m using that for it instead 😌

I’ll say more on the book tomorrow but for now happy happy release day to @what_eats_owls with Little Thieves and thank you very much to @readeatretreat @hodderscape for the eARC!! 💙 this was such a treat and I think it needs to be on everyone’s radar, as a short summary of what I thought 🥰 (also, Ragne is bae) ❤️

✨ What was the last preorder incentive you recei

✨ What was the last preorder incentive you received? ✨

The last incentives I got were for @cylapanin’s Stalking Shadows, I wasn’t expecting the bookplate to be personalised so it was such a lovely surprise 🥺❤️

If you’ve missed recent posts I’ve put about this book then… it’s definitely one to check out if you like gothic stories, and retellings! It’s a really interesting take on a Beauty and the Beast story but with some twists.

✨ Synopsis ✨

A gothic YA fantasy debut about a young woman striving to break her sister’s curse and stop the killing in her small French town

Seventeen-year-old Marie mixes perfumes to sell on market day in her small eighteenth-century French town. She wants to make enough to save a dowry for her sister, Ama, in hopes of Ama marrying well and Marie living in the level of freedom afforded only to spinster aunts. But her perfumes are more than sweet scents in cheap, cut-glass bottles: A certain few are laced with death. Marie laces the perfume delicately—not with poison but with a hint of honeysuckle she’s trained her sister to respond to. Marie marks her victim, and Ama attacks. But she doesn’t attack as a girl. She kills as a beast.

Marking Ama’s victims controls the damage to keep suspicion at bay. But when a young boy turns up dead one morning, Marie is forced to acknowledge she might be losing control of Ama. And if she can’t control her, she’ll have to cure her. Marie knows the only place she’ll find the cure is in the mansion where Ama was cursed in the first place, home of Lord Sebastien LeClaire. But once she gets into the mansion, she discovers dark secrets hidden away—secrets of the curse, of Lord Sebastien . . . and of herself.

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