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The last one had my editors in a chokehold. Definitely the most emotional scene I've ever written. I had to set the mood. FROST & SHADOWS by JESSIE VALLÉE K-Pop Demon Hunters meets X-Men in this YA fantasy duology where those born Blessed with Gifts go to a magic academy to learn how to hone their skills to serve society. The protagonist is a warrior trained to hunt those Cursed by demons. But when she encounters one, instead of killing him, she learns she has a connection with him. COMPLETE DUOLOGY 👏 What to expect: ✨ Forbidden soulmates 🗡️ Protective shadow daddy ✨ Even more protective frost mommy 🗡️ Found family ✨ Magic academia 🗡️ High stakes ✨ No-spice swoony romance 🗡️ Unique mythical creatures ✨ Animal companion (book 2) 🗡️ Canadian winter setting Available on KU, Amazon, and audio Comps: K-Pop Demon Hunters meets X-Men, Winx Club vibes, The Immortal Instruments level high stakes 🏷️ #bookquotes #yafantasy #fantasybooks #fantasyrecs #fantasybookrecs
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this song has been everywhere on instagram lately and perpetually stuck in my head 🎧 and these are some of the FMCs who i think would absolutely love it 💕 thank you to these amazing artists for bringing these baddies to life 💕 @madschofield @liaramirezillustration @tangerine.eileen @brunojlopez @mariaselto @folklorefaery @megillustrate @penellope.art @morgana0anagrom @readingbythelantern @katriona_artist @zombiidactal what baddie FMCs would you add to this list? 🤭 #bookstagram #bookish #reader #nicolekidman #baddie
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Compulsion magic, a blood oath, a broody human regent AND a lethal Fae guard?! Well then. 👀🖤 ✨ THE COMPELLING FATES SAGA | Sophia St. Germain 📚 READING ORDER: 👅 1. A Tongue So Sweet and Deadly ⚔️ 2. A Promise So Bold and Broken ❤️‍🔥 3. A Bond So Fierce and Fragile 🥀 4. A Fate So Dark and Delicate 📖 Format: Completed 4-book series 🌶️ Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ → 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 🎨: @mariaselto & @eurephora At the center of it all is Elessia, a half Fae woman with the power to compel others with just a look who wants one thing more than anything: her freedom. Then we have Loche, the brooding human regent she’s sent to investigate, and Merrick, the lethal Fae guard assigned to watch her. Two VERY different men. Yeah…nothing could possibly go wrong here. 😂👀 ✨ Tropes & Vibes: ⚔️ Enemies to lovers ❤️‍🔥 Slow burn 🫶🏽 Found family ✨ Fae + compulsion magic 👑 Political intrigue 🩸 Blood oath 🖤 Morally gray characters 🗡️ Forced proximity 🥀 High stakes + divided loyalties Basically, give me dangerous magic, questionable decisions, morally gray characters, and relationships that have me WAY too emotionally invested. I’m there. 🖤 AND the series is complete, so no waiting between books?! 🙌🏽 We love to see it. Which one of these titles has you the most intrigued? 👀 #CompellingFatesSaga #SophiaStGermain #RomantasyBooks #Bookstagram #FantasyRomance
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I can't take all the credit! I also had the help of editors, proofreaders and numerous artists 😏😘 All human baby 👌 The complete These Unbreakable Bonds duology can be found on Amazon & KU. Book 1 is also available on 🎧 The first book shown is a special edition omnibus featuring silver foiling, custom sprayed edges, illustrated endpages and both books in the duology. You can get it via the Etsy link in my bio ❤️ Side note: When the natural light inside just isn't doin' it, take the video outside 😂 ~ #yafantasy #canadianauthor #sprayededges #noai #humanartists
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Oh, I'm sorry. Did we just add another book to your TBR? 🫣 Mark your calendars or pre-order now! These books will be in your hands SOON 👇 🌙 A Witch and her Vampire by @emberlywyndham 🗡️ Souls & Starlight by @jvalleeauthor ✨ To Drown Among the Stars by @lkfrost.author 🌊 On Gilded Waters by @a_paper_affair 🐉 When Dealing with Dragons by @danaswiftbooks ❄️ The Flame in the Frost by @authoroliviaboothe Did you just discover a new book? ~ #fantasybooks #junebookrelease #junerelease #bookstolookforwardto #bookrecs
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Allow me to brag on behalf of my incredible artists 😏 The YA fantasy duology: ❄️ These Unbreakable Bonds ❄️ Book 1: Frost & Shadows 👉 Read it now! Book 2: Souls & Starlight 👉 Pre-order it now! (June 14th release) Perfect for fans of K-Pop Demon Hunters and X-Men, you will find these tropes in the duology 👇 ❄️ Magic academia ❄️ Found family ❄️ Forbidden soulmates ❄️ Protective shadow daddy ❄️ Even more protective frost mommy ❄️ High stakes ❄️ Good vs. Evil ❄️ Animal companion (book 2) #bookart #bookillustrations #bookishart #characterart #yafantasy
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Romantic quotes that make you kick your feet 😍🔥 Dimitri is our resident quiet shadow daddy, but readers learn early on that when he has something to say, you're going to want to be listening 🥰 Book 2 of this duology comes out June 14th! Read book 1 now on Amazon or KU, and pre-order its sequel ❤️ Duology: These Unbreakable Bonds Book 1: Frost & Shadows Book 2: Souls & Starlight All links in my bio 🫶 🖌️All artists are tagged on their respective slides ~ #yafantasy #bookquotes #romanticquotes #swoonyquotes #makemeswoon
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Banner post 1/3 Welcome to The Once Seven Kingdoms, an NA, epic romantasy series. Swipe through to learn all about the world, its characters, and just a handful of the gorgeous illustrations from some insanely talented artists I’ve had the pleasure of working with. If you love character driven stories set in dark, mysterious worlds, hello! If your favorite MCs are the ones whose pain you feel and whose happily ever afters have you swooning, welcome! If you live for secrets, betrayal, and all the angst and tension, you’re in the right place! Start your read with book 1, Kingdom of Masks and Mourning today, including on KU #romantasy #slowburnbooks #forbiddenlovers #darkfantasy #mustread
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Would you look at that, we’ve got an Ember portrait by the wonderful @mariaselto 😍 I absolutely adore all of the colors we landed on for this illustration (especially that background, oh my god it’s so prettyyyy). It’s also perfect timing because I should be wrapping up HOET shortly and diving right back into TOSK 4, which is when Ember finally gets her chance in the spotlight. I feel like whenever I get tagged in reviews and talk with readers, Ember is the character most likely to be forgotten. It makes some sense—she HAS gotten the least amount of time out of all the POVs, and whereas the others are dark and twisty and angstie disasters, Ember does a good job of hiding all that away behind her sparkly charm and bravado. It’s really not until KODAD that we see the mask finally crumble, and I’m so excited to finally get to dig into her more. Especially since she is the ultimate linchpin of the entire series… And I may or may not have already started dropping hints as to how 👀 You can read all about this horrifically disorganized healer in my romantic fantasy series, starting with book 1, Kingdom of Masks and Mourning. (Also, because I can’t help myself, can’t wait to see how that celibacy vow stands up to a certain traitor’s wicked charm 😏). #romantasybooks #bookart #darkfantasy #slowburn
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✨️ Series Sunday ✨️ Featuring one of my absolute favourite series by @sophiastgermain_author The Compelling Fates Saga is a COMPLETED romantasy series full of rich world building, found family, political intrigue, a slow burn that burns HOT, fated mates and chosen love. I was completely hooked in by book one, squealed and giggled through book 2, spent most of book 3 crying and ugly snot cried the whole ending of book 4, to the point my husband was genuinely concerned. 😅 So if you love a romantasy that builds with each book and leaves you absolutely emotionally annihilated this is definitely one for you! #seriessunday #bookrecommendations #compellingfatessaga
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𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗘𝗡𝗛𝗔 #resenha 𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗔: ⭐⭐⭐⭐(4,0) Vi muitos comentários dizendo que esse spin-off é melhor que De Sangue e Cinzas, então criei expectativas, até porque o terceiro livro da série principal me decepcionou. E, sendo bem sincera: esse spin-off realmente é bom. A dinâmica do casal me lembrou bastante Poppy e Casteel, o que, ao mesmo tempo, é positivo… mas também pode ser um problema. A Seraphena, por exemplo, me lembrou MUITO a Poppy, especialmente em um ponto que me irrita: o vício em dizer “posso fazer uma pergunta?”. Só faz a pergunta logo! Essa repetição constante quebra o ritmo e acaba ficando cansativa. Por outro lado, essa curiosidade toda traz muitas informações novas sobre o universo. O problema é que vem tanta coisa que eu nem sempre consigo absorver tudo (acabo esquecendo metade kkkkk). Outro ponto que me incomodou foi a estrutura dos capítulos. Eles são muito longos e, às vezes, um capítulo termina só pra continuar exatamente a mesma cena no seguinte. Isso deixou a leitura menos fluida pra mim. Agora, sobre a comparação com a série principal: no momento, eu concordo que esse livro se destaca. Pra mim, ele está no mesmo nível do primeiro livro de De Sangue e Cinzas, só que com potencial de ficar ainda melhor. Gostei muito de explorar mais esse universo, principalmente os dragontinos (inclusive, queria mais deles 👀). Mas senti que havia personagens demais, e acabei não me conectando com a maioria dos secundários… tirando o Nektas, claro. Aliás, Nektas: perfeito, sem defeitos. Sobre o romance… Eu estava gostando, mas confesso que me decepcionei com o Nyktos depois que ele descobriu o plano da Sera. Eu entendo a raiva dele — faz sentido — mas também entendo completamente a Seraphena. E isso me deixou dividida. Mesmo compreendendo o lado dele, não gostei da forma como ele se fechou e tratou a Sera em alguns momentos. Ela merecia ser ouvida sem julgamentos, ter espaço pra se explicar sem que as pessoas simplesmente virassem as costas. E agora, para os próximos livros, eu só quero uma coisa: Nyktos compensando tudo e cadelando MUITO e ABERTAMENTE a Sera. ---------------- Vocês já leram? Comenta aqui o que achou!!
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THIS SCENE!! 🫠 iykyk 🦋🧬 Absolutely in love with this art by @mariaselto ✨ She captured the intensity of this moment between Vanguard and Mia so well, and those post-dystopian city vibes are just 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 ✨She’s an assass!n with a poisonous kiss. He’s the genetically engineered super soldier she’s falling for…and also her target✨ 🦋The Boys meets Dark Romance 🧬Spy x Target 🦋 Forbidden love 🧬Obsessive possessive down bad hero 🦋 Badass touch-starved heroine 🧬 Sci-fi twists 🦋 Wtf was that?! 🧬 What if Captain America had a dark & knky side? 🦋”Who hurt you?” But he’ll literally rip them in half with his bare hands 🧬Post-Dystopian NYC 🦋Found family Bookstagram | Books books books | Romance novels | Dystopian romance | Dark Sci Fi Romance
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