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Blueberry lemonade tag 🍋🫐

I'm so late to this tag but here we are, thank you @onceuponmypage for tagging me, love you!! 🫶🏻

🧊Ice ice baby: a character who comes off as cold but you know it's just a sweetheart
۶ৎ Winter from the chestnut spring series

🍋Lemons: a black cat/sour character you adore
۶ৎ Tory Vega from zodiac academy

🦋Blue butterfly: a book bf that gave you butterflies
۶ৎ Rowan from tog series, my husband ofc

🥤Lemonade: a book with the most perfect sweet slow burn
۶ৎ All Rhodes lead here by Mariana Zapata

🫐Blueberries: a book you loved with a blue cover
۶ৎ Still beating by Jennifer Hartmann

💫Golden star: a book you wish you could rate way higher than a 5 stars
۶ৎ The devil of Tarsyn forest by Aalis blue

🌱Mint: a book that was a refreshing read
۶ৎ Between tides and thunder, fantasy standalone is not something you encounter often

✨Sparkling lemonade: a character that you think you'd be besties with irl
۶ৎ Evangeline, i always say her cause she's just the sweetest 🩷

I tagged a few friends (sorry if you've already been tagged 😔) but if you see this consider yourself tagged too! 💗

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books I’m going to jail with 💞 challenge 💞

Idk what possessed me to do this 🫣 but there you go 😂 books that live rent free in my head and would absolutely beg to take with me to prison. Like imagine us in prison with our books? The book swaps would be off the charts 🤣😭

Which books would you take with you? Or would you do book swaps with me “on the inside” 😂🤪🤭

#bookstagram #darkromance #bookrecs #booktok

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book expectations tag ✨
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was tagged in this by the lovely @lostinbookswithdi thx so much 🙈 i’ve also tagged a few others but everyone is welcome 🤍

honestly this tag was kinda hard!! i had to go through my good reads to decide which books to put. i couldn’t remember a single book 😭

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Bookswop bookmail 💌

As someone who loves gifting (and receiving them lol), I've made it a point this 2026 to finally get out to bookswopping this year and I'm so proud to say that I've been doing pretty great holding to checking that box on my list of "To do" things🤭

With seeing this bookswop trend going around for about 2 weeks,which includes an entire instruction layout and you end up putting it on your instagram story for others to see,I was fortunate enough to be paired with @itsshayreads_ who I stopped out a book that I enjoyed and sent her way. It was honestly so much fun and thought behind it, especially kinda figuring it was one of the authors she loved and it was a book she hadn't read yet☺️Ofcourse decorating it was probably the most exciting part for me and her actually receiving it because it took so long arriving to her😂

Anyways onto my bookmaiiil! Look at the cute book she selected for me🥹 Thank you so so much Lushe for this thoughtful book you chose out for me lol and for some reason,even the small note attached from Amazon from you had my stomach full of butterflies because I love such small details🤭🎀I haven't heard of this book yet but I know you have such amazing taste with cute romcoms and I'm honestly so excited to dive in!

Thank you, thank you, thank yoooou.This totally made my day when it came about a week or two ago lol,I just forgot to bring it up but hope you loved your book too 🩵🥰

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⋆ 𓍢ִ໋. ✿ Fantasy january tag

Here I am with another tag 👀 Thank you so much @ellieslibrary_ for tagging me 🥺💖 I loved doing this !!

🌌 Night sky: a world you would want to live in
⋆ Terrasen
⋆ Elfhame
⋆ The magnificent north

⚔️ Swords: an MC you would pick to fight by your side
⋆ The queen herself Aelin Galathynius 🙇🏻‍♀️

🌹 Rose: a gothic fantasy you couldn't put down
⋆ I have like 100 pages left but I'm pretty sure the knight and the moth is my new favorite of the year

🦄 Beast: a mythical creature you would be bonded to
⋆ Dragon, obviously 😌
⋆ Dire wolf (my Direbound girlies will understand)
⋆ And idk but a phoenix, I rarely see them mentioned in books

💫 Star: a book with a unique magic system
⋆ The shepherd king duology

🧚🏻‍♀️ Fairy: a favorite book with faes
⋆ Throne of glass

🛌🏻 Bed: a character you would share a room with at the inn
⋆ Jacks 😮‍💨 (we're already at the hollow btw)

🕯️ Candle: a cozy fantasy that felt comfy
⋆ Tusk love

I tagged a few besties but if you see this consider yourself tagged! 💕

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