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bigdreamsandwildthings · 5 months

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Always coziest with my pup and my current read 🤍

#booklr #book photography #book picture #the third daughter #adrienne tooley #bookworm #bibliophile #ya fiction #ya fantasy #book community #book aesthetic #books and dogs #book lover #book nerd #my photos #mine

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sapphic-book-tournament · 6 months

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Here we are! The bracket for the Sapphic Fantasy Book Tournament! Polls will start going up Tomorrow!

Edit: I see the spelling errors now, they’ll be fixed next round.

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thereadingchallengechallenge · 1 year

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JOMP BPC - May 20th - Caused an All-Nighter

staying up late to read Sweet and Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley while on a busy road-trip holiday was not the wisest decision I’ve ever made but it was so worth it to see how this brilliant standalone fantasy ended

#sweet and bitter magic #adrienne tooley #justonemorepage #jompbpc #booklr #bookblr #trcc original #portraits #lgbt books #wlw reads

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tinynavajoreads · 8 months

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Currently Reading: Sofi and the Bone Song by Adrienne Tooley

Another book for @just0nemorepage 's Traveling Book Project! I will say I was a little slow in getting into it, but the magic and world building and the ideas of music are drawing me in! My husband plays the trombone, and I can sing, so hearing the way music is described and intoned is fascinating and I'm interested to see where this goes next!

What do you enjoy about music? Why?

#sofi and the bone song #adrienne tooley #currently reading #jomp traveling book project #traveling book project #book #booklr #fantasy #young adult

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agardenandlibrary · 1 year

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Recently finished: Sofi and the Bone Song by Adrienne Tooley

#cara reads sofi and the bone song #sofi and the bone song #adrienne tooley #review in a reblog!#my book picture

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melanielocke · 1 year

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My favorite books of 2022

Unfortunately, no picture for this post, and I won't talk a lot about each book so it becomes readable. If you want to know more about a certain book or talk about it, send me an ask! Since I read 110 books this year, this list will only feature books that were also published in 2022 and the list will be in order of me reading them because there are simply too many to play favorites.

The Girl who Fell Beneath the Sea - Axie Oh

Misrule - Heather Walter

A Cruel and Fated Light - Ashley Shuttleworth

So This is Ever After - F.T. Lukens

This Wicked Fate - Kalynn Bayron

Sofi and the Bone Song - Adrienne Tooley

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance - Foz Meadows

The Oleander Sword - Tasha Suri

A Taste of Gold and Iron - Alexandra Rowland

The Sunbearer Trials - Aiden Thomas

A Restless Truth - Freya Marske

Ocean's Echo - Everina Maxwell

Lord of Silver Ashes - Kellen Graves

Fire Becomes Her - Rosiee Thor

Silver in the Mist - Emily Victoria

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lgbtqreads · 1 year

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Shopper's Delight: B&N Preorder Sale

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just0nemorepage · 2 years

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September Just One More Page BPC 📚 // Day 5 ➜ Magic.

↳ The magic system in this is SUPER cool!

#jompbpc #justonemorepage #day 5 #book photo challenge #books #sofi and the bone song #adrienne tooley #jomp photography #jomp original

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dykes-on-books · 5 months

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What is up, bookworms! Chapter Two of Dykes on Books is now live on most major platforms, give it a listen and shout out what you think of it! Enjoy!

#book podcast #dykes #lgbtq #book blog #book review #books #queer #queer books #queer media #adrienne tooley #sweet and bitter magic #dykes on books podcast #dykes on books

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the-final-sentence · 2 years

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And sixth days - like every breath Sofi had ever taken, like every dream she'd ever dreamed, like every future she'd ever imagined - had always been for music.

Adrienne Tooley, from Sofi and the Bone Song

#Sofi and the Bone Song #Adrienne Tooley

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bigdreamsandwildthings · 2 years

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Darby and books make me the happiest 💙

#booklr #book photography #book picture #books and dogs #reading buddy #an arrow to the moon #emily xr pan #sofi and the bone song #adrienne tooley #a rogue of one's own #evie dunmore #book lover #book nerd #book aesthetic #book community #bibliophile #bookworm #my photos #mine

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sapphic-book-tournament · 6 months

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The Midnight Girls by Alicia Jasinka-

It's Karnawał season in the snow-cloaked Kingdom of Lechija, and from now until midnight when the church bells ring an end to Devil's Tuesday time will be marked with wintry balls and glittery disguises, cavalcades of nightly torch-lit "kuligi" sleigh-parties.

Unbeknownst to the oblivious merrymakers, two monsters join the fun, descending upon the royal city of Warszów in the guise of two innocent girls. Newfound friends and polar opposites, Zosia and Marynka seem destined to have a friendship that's stronger even than magic. But that's put to the test when they realize they both have their sights set on Lechija's pure-hearted prince. A pure heart contains immeasurable power and Marynka plans to bring the prince's back to her grandmother in order to prove herself. While Zosia is determined to take his heart and its power for her own.

When neither will sacrifice their ambitions for the other, the festivities spiral into a wild contest with both girls vying to keep the hapless prince out of the other's wicked grasp. But this isn't some remote forest village, where a hint of stray magic might go unnoticed, Warszów is the icy capital of a kingdom that enjoys watching monsters burn, and if Zosia and Marynka's innocent disguises continue to slip, their escalating rivalry might cost them not just the love they might have for each other, but both their lives

Sweet and Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley

Tamsin is the most powerful witch of her generation. But after committing the worst magical sin, she’s exiled by the ruling Coven and cursed with the inability to love. The only way she can get those feelings back—even for just a little while—is to steal love from others.

Wren is a source—a rare kind of person who is made of magic, despite being unable to use it herself. Sources are required to train with the Coven as soon as they discover their abilities, but Wren—the only caretaker to her ailing father—has spent her life hiding her secret.

When a magical plague ravages the queendom, Wren’s father falls victim. To save him, Wren proposes a bargain: if Tamsin will help her catch the dark witch responsible for creating the plague, then Wren will give Tamsin her love for her father.

Of course, love bargains are a tricky thing, and these two have a long, perilous journey ahead of them—that is, if they don't kill each other first..

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caffeinated-bibliophile · 1 year

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Ooh I'm having thoughts about Sweet & Bitter Magic but I can't focus enough to get them out of my brain right now (and I'm only about 100 pages/30% in).

#currently reading #sweet & bitter magic #sweet and bitter magic #adrienne tooley

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bookcoversonly · 10 months

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Title: Sofi and the Bone Song | Author: Adrienne Tooley | Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books (2022)

#books #Sofi and the Bone Song #Adrienne Tooley

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agardenandlibrary · 1 year

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Today I'm finally starting Sofi and the Bone Song, my current JOMP traveling book!

#cara reads sofi and the bone song #sofi and the bone song #Adrienne Tooley #nearly typed bong song but i made it #my book picture

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melanielocke · 1 year

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Book recommendations: witches

Everyone loves witches, right? They're certainly one of my favorites and somehow keep showing up in most of the books I write. So I picked out a couple of witch books that I loved and will tell you a little more about them.

I'm starting with These Witches Don't Burn and This Coven Won't Break by Isabel Sterling

This is a complete duology set in modern day Salem, following Hannah, an elemental witch, with as you guessed, power over the elements. She has to keep her magic a secret from everyone non magical, including her best friend Gemma. When Hannah starts discovering signs of dark magic in her town, she suspects a blood witch, but her coven doesn't believe her, so she's forced to team up with her ex girlfriend Veronica, another elemental, to figure out who's responsible.

This book is really the kind that balances contemporary teen life and romance with magic and action, and you do have to like that, but generally the book is fast paced and easy to get through. There's a romance built up inbetween the action between Hannah and a new girl in town called Morgan, and a lot of tension comes from the old fashioned YA magic girl who has to keep her powers secret from best friends and potential girlfriends.

Other books from this author: The Coldest Touch, which is a sapphic vampire book

Next I'll talk about Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova, which is first in a complete series but the books are more companions than direct sequels. I realize now that I never actually bought or read the third book, so maybe I'll put that on my wishlist.

The series is about a latine family of brujas, which each book focusing on a different sister and the first one follows Alex. Alex is an Encantrix, the most powerful bruja in her generation, but she struggles to control her magic and would much rather be rid of it. On her Deathday celebration she tries a spell to get rid of it, but instead she accidently makes her family disappear. To get them back, she has to travel to Los Lagos, a mysterious alternate world she has to traverse to find them. She has the help of Nova, a brujo she doesn't trust, and her best friend Rishi.

There's somewhat of (bisexual) love triangle, but Alex makes a pretty clear choice pretty soon so it's not dragged out or in the way of the story.

The second book is about the oldest sister Lula, whose boyfriend dies and she tries to use her healing power to bring him back, only to accidently start a zombie apocalypse. It's been a while since I read these books so I don't remember it well but I loved the first one in particular.

Cemetery Boys is the first novel by Aiden Thomas (I have talked about his newest book the Sunbearer Trials before, which is also amazing)

Cemetery Boys is a contemporary fantasy set in California, where a local latine community has magic powers. Their magic is gendered, and while it does mention the potential of non binary witches, this is not further explore. Brujas have the power to heal while brujos have power over the dead. Yadriel is a trans boy, and while his family seems to accept that he's trans, they don't accept him as a brujo and won't let him prove himself. So he decides to do the ritual himself to prove he is a brujo, and he ends up accidently summoning Julian Diaz, a boy from his school who was recently murdered, and Julian wants nothing more than to find out what happened to him. Yadriel decides to help him, but the longer Julian spends around him, the more Yadriel doesn't want him to leave.

This book has a lot of mystery and intrigue, with Yadriel and Julian following clues to figure out what happened to him, but there's also a lot of relationship building. I also really liked the inclusion of Maritza, Yadriel's best friend and another bruja. Her bruja powers require animal blood to work, but she's vegan and therefore doesn't use her powers, which I think was an interesting choice.

Sweet and Bitter Magic is the first book by Adrienne Tooley

Tamsin is the most powerful witch of her generation, but after committing a terrible magical sin she's exiled from the coven and cursed so she can't feel love. The only way to get the ability back temporarily is by taking love from others. She lives in a village in the human lands where she sells her magic abilities in exchange for people's love.

Wren is a source, a much rarer being than a witch. She's made of magic but can't use it herself. Instead, she can see magic and allow a witch to take power from her. Wren has hidden this ability all her life, because she would be taken away to train with the Coven and she has to take care of her sick father.

When a plague ravages the land, caused by a witch using dark magic somewhere, Wren's father becomes one of its victims, and Wren makes a deal with Tamsin to save her father in exchange for her love for her father. Together, they'll set off on a journey to find out what caused the plague and put an end to it.

This is a very character driven book, with a lot of emphasis on Tamsin's past and what caused her to be exiled and cursed. It's also good to remember that in the story Tamsin is still a teenager, meaning she was twelve or so when she was exiled and cursed. Meanwhile, Wren has always put her father before anyone else, including herself, and has to learn to stop letting her life revolve around him. This is a sapphic book, with the main relationship between Tamsin and Wren, and I guess you could classify it as enemies to lovers? Or at the very least, dislike each other to lovers.

The last book on this list is Sofi and the Bone Song, Adrienne Tooley's second book

Like Sweet and Bitter Magic, this is a stand alone, and while there are also witches in here, this book is in the first place about music, and takes on and challenges the idea that suffering creates the best art.

In the land of Aell, winter is eternal and magic is easily available through paper spells made by witches that can be bought. Music is the last artform that has been untouched by this magic, and to ensure it stays this way there are only five Musiks, each playing a different instrument, who are allowed to compose and perform music. Other people can learn to play from these Musiks, but only as amateurs. Sofi is the daughter of one of the Musiks, and she wants nothing more than to become his successor. She's been practicing music all her life and has quite a brutal routine for herself to ensure she is the best, a routine that her father taught her.

On the day of the auditions for her father's successor, Sofi meets unexpected competition. Lara has never played the lute before, all her musical experience is with singing, but somehow she plays so well that the judges choose her over Sofi.

When her father dies on the same day, Lara immediately inherits the Musik title and has to go on a tour through the kingdom to play her own music, something she has no experience with whatsoever. Sofi doesn't believe Lara's talent is genuine, after all, who plays the lute perfectly when they've never played before? She offers to help Lara with the intent of finding proof Lara used illegal magic to enhance her performance, so she can win the Musik title back.

But the more time Sofi spends around Lara, the more she starts to question what she knew about her family, her practice routine, and if her father was truly as great as she thought he was.

Sofi can be described as an unlikeable main character, especially at first. She only really cares about becoming Musik at first, and offers to help Lara with the idea of exposing her, but despite that I found her easy to root for and I loved seeing her grow and challenging the ideas she was brought up with. I think this is a very underrated book and I hope more people buy it

Next up by Adrienne Tooley is the Third Daughter, a first book in a duology

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