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BookBr
Long Live Evil | Sarah Rees Brennan
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Pickpick

This book is almost entirely a story within a story, with a nod and a wink as if the reader, along with the MC, is in on the plot. A very clever way to experience the “travel to another world” scenario, with a lot of secrets, surprises, and wtf moments. The world is lushly imagined and the characters, from MC to the most minor, are richly developed and well written. The end left me gasping, and def waiting for more…

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JuliaTheBookNerd
Long Live Evil | Sarah Rees Brennan
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#Evil 😈 #WickedWhispers 👻🦇🕷️🕸️🎃🍁☕️🌰

#BookNerd 🤓📚💙

Eggs Gorgeous books💫🌟✨ 3d
Booksblanketsandahotbeverage Wow all the sprayed edges are just stunning (edited) 3d
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️❤️❤️ 3d
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willaful
Long Live Evil | Sarah Rees Brennan
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Game of Thrones parody, I think? I haven't read or watched that.

I am DNFing like there's no tomorrow! Or more accurately, like there are limited tomorrows and I don't want to waste them on books I'm not enjoying.

So far these cute, funny villain stories that are trendy right now aren't working for me at all. 🥱 #HailTheBail

#HauntedShelf team #FrightClub

willaful @Puddlejumper is there any way to get credit for hours spend on DNFs? I've got a lot of them! 1w
PuddleJumper @willaful Oh yeah, just include the hours you read and calculate points. You don't need to finish a book for it to count. 1w
dabbe 🖤🧡🖤 1w
willaful @dabbe you are my inspiration. 😁 1w
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LitStephanie
Long Live Evil | Sarah Rees Brennan
Bailedbailed

This looked fun, about a sick young woman offered a chance to save herself by becoming a villainous character in her favorite fantasy series, but the writing is so juvenile and simplistic that it just didn't work for me. I only made it 50 pages. Maybe it gets better.

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TieDyeDude
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"Be Sure" warns the door. The Wayward Children series is about kids who enter portals into worlds unknown.

#wickedwhispers @eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

AnnCrystal 😎👍🚪💫. 3w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👍🏻 3w
Eggs Brilliant 😱👏🏻😊 3w
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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The previous Wayward Children book (Where the Drowned Girls Go) was the first one in the series that didn‘t totally rock me, but book 8 corrected the wobble!

This series is kind of evolving into the ultimate treatise on Portal Fantasy as a whole, examining their internal rules, plotting them on an all-encompassing map, and examining why we respond to them the way we do.

Such a great series! Highly recommended.

TieDyeDude Great review. Totally agree 1mo
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Balibee146
The Light Between Worlds | Laura E. Weymouth
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Next up. I've seen this described as a kind of reverse Narnia set up. Hoping for a Friday comfort read.

I've just noticed the publisher, who I've never heard of or noticed before is called Chicken House, which I'm finding oddly hilarious.

Luke-XVX So not heavy handed with the Christian symbolism? 1mo
Balibee146 @Luke-XVX Hah! Yeah hopefully not! The first two Narnia books still give me the nostalgia filled good feeling, but I have to hold my nose and just ignore the allegory. I found the remainder of the series unbearable and never read most of them. 1mo
Sace I love the cover! 1mo
Balibee146 @Sace me too and it has lots of pretty and relevant little nature illustration details throughout 1mo
Luke-XVX Yeah I still like them and can appreciate them for what they are. I think my anti-religion stance has mellowed in my old age 1mo
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Twainy
Long Live Evil | Sarah Rees Brennan
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I liked the ARC so much I picked up the hardcover, 🖤

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Rachiiebookdragon
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Pickpick

An enjoyable/interesting book, needed more dinosaurs though 🦖 🦕

Read for reading challenges

3.75/5

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thewallflower0707
Long Live Evil | Sarah Rees Brennan
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Mehso-so

Not even two weeks ago, I was sweating on the beach, now I‘m shivering every morning on my way to work again. Yup, school year has officially started and I‘m teaching my first classes next week 😐.
#LongLiveEvil is too long and the middle drags on and on. Idea was pretty cool though.