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Black Sheep
A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irreverent horror novel from the author of Such Sharp Teeth and Cackle. Nobody has a “normal” family, but Vesper Wright’s is truly…something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back—mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community
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My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s Season 1
Oda Akira is the kind of guy who people forget is even there. His unassuming nature pays off, though, when his entire class is swept away to a fantasy world, and he slips easily into his new role as a silent assassin. Between his suspiciously high starting stats and too many details that don’t fit,
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The Unbreakable Bladesong Druid
My greatest enemy has always been myself. Over the past few weeks, I’ve painstakingly put my broken pieces back together, from the dark mysteries of my past to the heart-rending conflict of my present. But just when I finally start to feel whole again, everything around me falls apart. Lallakai, the newly ascended Queen of
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The One and Only Crystal Druid
Ten years ago, I risked everything on a nameless boy. I came out the other side with a murder conviction, a prison sentence, and a minor case of amnesia. I forgot everything about that boy, and now I’m out on parole, just a nobody witch volunteering at an animal rescue and keeping a low profile.
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A Wild Last Boss Battle Appeared!
Lufas Maphaahl rules the land of Mizgarz with an iron fist. Mankind stands no chance of prevailing against the most powerful being in the world and her army of loyal minions—until a band of heroes bests her in an epic battle, sealing her soul away for all eternity. But this is just another day in
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We Had to Remove This Post
For readers of Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma’s Severance: a tight, propulsive, chilling novel by a rising international star about a group of young colleagues working as social media content monitors—reviewers of violent or illegal videos for an unnamed megacorporation—who convince themselves they’re in control . . . until the violence strikes
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The Hitman Stans Vol. 1
The best hitman of the underworld, Owaru Endou, leads a dark and secretive life, constantly bathing in the blood of his targets. However, his life takes a brighter turn when he becomes a fan of Kaori “Kaorin” Minaboshi, an underground idol from Rosaceae whose concerts Owaru always attends. Feeling that his hands and dirty money
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Raised by the Demon Kings! Vol. 01
Hell is ruled by three Demon Kings: Death Mask, Giant Lock, and Dark Night. Using their authority to live as they please, they command the sinful dimension’s denizens to do their bidding and make sure to punish any humans who enter their territory. This all changes, however, when their minions find a human child during
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Hard-Boiled Cop and Dolphin Vol. 1
Meet hard-boiled cop Boyle Samejima. He’s just been assigned to the remote Ogasawara Islands. There he finds coworkers, a mysterious young girl and a dolphin for a partner?! Cop x girl x ocean! Welcome to the craziest hard-boiled cop story you’ll ever read! You know, what did I expect from the guy that did Beelzebub?
M's Media Menagerie
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Trope: Sympathetic Evil
This villain is acting with reason and justification. We can see and understand why they are doing what they are doing… and sometimes we might agree.
Welcome to the Menagerie.
Here is where M logs their media activity. Partly because Goodreads is forgettable and keeping physical logs is harder. Sometimes M writes a lot. Sometimes M doesn’t write enough. It doesn’t matter. This is just a for-fun little blog so that M can remember what they thought about whatever they watched or read or played or. Whatever.
What is M?
I read. Voraciously. I have subscriptions to those book things on digital retailers. I consume books at nearly all hours. The hours I don’t spend reading? I’m writing. I’m drawing. I have a problem. I have a problem in that I love to read things that are in the same vein repeatedly. Book journals don’t work and as much as I text my friends screenshots of book passages, it doesn’t scratch the itch. Now I’m going to be doing… tiny… tiny book reports.
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