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ariadnethedragon · 8 months

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— The Winner’s Kiss, Marie Rutkoski

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king-maven-calore · 2 years

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The Winner’s Trilogy

#The winner's curse #the winner's crime #the winner's kiss #The Winner's Trilogy #marie rutkoski #book posters #my edits

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zainsmorgan · 2 years

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discountalien-pancake · 2 years

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Bite and Sting tile blanks! The dried clay makes the most satisfy click-clack sounds when you tap the tiles on a hard surface (including each other!) and I’m so pleased. Sooo worth the effort of making actual tiles and not just cutting out cards.

#bite and sting #the winner's curse #i only needed 6 blanks for the cover but this gives me some more leeway with the designs #i will probably make a full playable set eventually #but it takes so long to produce the tiles #i should have 16-18 different designs in sets of 3 #in other words 48-54 tiles #in other words i need 6 times as many as i currently possess

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albelen · 2 years

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book talk: it’s going well so far...

I’m one book ahead of my reading goal? WHAT.

PROOF.

I don’t remember that ever happening...? lol

Anyway, I’ve read 13 books so far this year and rated five stars only three of them: The Winner’s Curse (which was a reread and it’s still good as I remember), 1984 (my second Orwell novel and there’s a reason why it’s a classic) and Rhythm of War (it’s a Sanderson book, do I even need to explain?)

I’ve also read a few contemporary romances here and there; my favorite has to be Lukov with Love and my biggest disappointment was The Summer I Turned Pretty books.

I loved the tv show of TSITP so I was expecting a good read, but it turned out to be... not so good? Granted, it could simply be that I don’t belong to the target audience anymore. Who knows, maybe I would have liked it when I was in my teens. The cheating subplot made me dislike it even more.

I expected to have read more Dark Academia-ish book by this time of the year, but so far I’ve only read If We Were Villains, which was so good and it kept reminding me of The Secret History. I picked up Mona Awad’s Bunny when I was in Amsterdam, but I’m still not in the mood for it.

Another favorite of mine is The Island of the Missing Trees - this was so sad and dark. Apart from the beautiful writing, It was interesting to read from a fig tree’s perspective. Yep, one of the main perspective is a fig tree’s. RAFO.

The last book I finished is Half-Blood since I wanted to read fantasy along with Emma (oh, right- I’m currently reading my first Austen novel and I don’t want to devour it in one ago). It’s by no means mind-blowing or life-changing, but it’s entertaining and interesting.

I can’t wait to read Ariadne on my train ride :)

#books #book talk #halfblood #tsitp #if we were villains #the island of the missing trees #rhythm of war #1984 #the winner's curse

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mylove4reading · 3 months

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Anyone know about the winner's curse book?

Honestly I've read the first 2 and loving it so far💓💞 especially the 2nd book since it has more tension and angst🤭 Idk 🤷‍♀, but the MC's best friend is a bit annoying in my opinion, hope she gets a character development in the next book,,,

I knew that the dad would betray her in the end but it hurts 💔😭 I don't relate with Krestal but at the same time I do 😵‍💫 Honestly, was a bit scared that Arin might fall for the Queen or at least use her to forget Krestal but I was relieved to see that he rejected her,,, as he should!

#books #arin #krestal #the winner's crime #the winner's curse #the winner's kiss #underrated books #booktok #tumblr fyp #fypage #fypツ #fypシ #fyp

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bookcoversonly · 2 years

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Title: The Winner's Curse | Author: Marie Rutkoski | Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2014)

#books #The Winner's Curse #Marie Rutkoski

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books-to-add-to-your-tbr · 2 years

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Title: The Winner’s Trilogy

Author: Marie Rutkoski

Series or standalone: series

Publication year: 2014

Genres: fiction, fantasy, romance, dystopia, historical fiction

Blurb: As a general’s daughter in a vast empire that revels in war and enslaves those it conquers, 17-year-old Kestrel has two choices: she can join the military, or get married...but Kestrel has other intentions. One day, she is startled to find a kindred spirit in a young slave up for auction. Arin’s eyes seem to defy everything and everyone. Following her instinct, Kestrel buys him, with unexpected consequences. It’s not long before she has to hide her growing love for Arin...but he, too, has a secret, and Kestrel quickly learns that the price she paid for a fellow human is much higher than she ever could have imagined.

#the winner's trilogy #bridge of snow #the winner's curse #the winner's crime #the winner's kiss #marie rutkoski #series #2014 #fiction #fantasy #romance #dystopia #historical fiction

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ariadnethedragon · 3 months

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— The Winner’s Curse, Marie Rutkoski

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bre4yd · 2 months

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May the stars guide you

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zainsmorgan · 2 years

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"You are important to me."

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rosiethorns88 · 11 months

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Arin and Kestrel from The Winner's Curse by @marierutkoski

#the winners curse #the winner's trilogy #arin and kestrel #kestrel trajan #marie rutkoski #the smoulder #my art

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f1-birb · 20 days

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After this, f*ck to his haters. He didn't win because he was lucky. It was not luck at all. It was strategy and talent.

Absolutely brilliant🧡🧡

let's first factor in that he had less than an hour of FP1 and was crashed out of the sprint, he maximised the fuck out of suboptimal testing of what was borderline a whole new car

the safety car helped, much like it often helps anyone (cheaper pit stops, helps save tyres a bit, etc) but even before that as soon as Checo was out the way Lando was closing the gap to Carlos like a madman, I'm talking full scenario 7 Austria 2020 style

the safety car was also gone on lap 33. out of 57.

Lando had 24 laps of just pure brilliant driving where anything could've happened, except the only thing that did was him extending his lead

one does not pull a 7.6 gap to Max Verstappen in a rocket ship with just luck, it's talent 😌

#miami gp 2024 #lando norris #he was super solid all weekend #and he beat his miami curse #third time's the charm fr #HE'S A WINNER BABEY #birb speaks

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feralportalmaster · 1 year

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Ok, Traffic Lifers. Specifically those invested in the celestial winner system.

Can we all agree right now that if, by some miracle, Jimmy ever wins a season, his associated celestial body will be Pluto.

Pluto, being the Roman counterpart of Hades, is god of the underworld, and by association death. I don’t think I need to reiterate the canary curse to explain how well this fits.

(Also Pluto is the last of the main eight planets, and is basically the wet-cat of the solar system)

#jimmy solidarity #solidarity jimmy #traffic life series #trafficblr #life series #traffic life jimmy #life series jimmy #canary curse #life series winners #traffic life winners #Pluto

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minty-sweet-art · 19 days

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@saytrrose

Fuck I was just finishing up a bad edit of this but in reverse lol.

And of course carnival art of kinger by @sm-baby and your art by you saytr

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