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[homerjacksons]

Took a really pretty book photo today and wanted to share it with y’all even though I won’t be posting it on my bookstagram for a while.

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[boxyghost]

Just got two new books!!

I have started reading Youngblood and it is amazing

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[melanielocke]

Book recommendations - Queer POC books

Some more book recommendations, this time I'm focusing on Queer PoC books, all by authors of color. All the books shown in the picture are UK editions. I generally like it when books have a UK paperback edition because they're a lot cheaper than US hardcovers, usually also cheaper than US paperbacks, and release the same week as the US hardcover. I don't think these editions are always available if you live in North America, but to those living in Europe, buying UK editions can save you a lot of money. Other parts of the world I honestly don't know which editions are easiest to come by. Only downside for UK editions is that sometimes there are some with a redesigned cover that is very ugly. Of the books shown here, only the Witchery has a different cover than the US edition but in this case I like both.

Starting with this Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron

This is a duology, the second and last book was released last June and so this is a complete series. It is inspired by Greek mythology, and specifically, the myth of Medea, and follows Briseis, who was adopted and inherits an estate from her aunt whom she never met. Briseis has always been able to make plants grow, and is immune to poisonous plants, and at the estate she discovers her birth family had these same gifts, and they keep a garden with some of the most poisonous plants in the world. This book has some great characters, and Briseis was adopted and raised by two sapphic Black mothers, who also play a big role in this series. This series has also served as inspiration for the Lightwood's magic garden in Flowers Bloom

Also by this author: Cinderella is Dead, which I'd also recommend, the Vanquishers, a MG which I did not read

Upcoming books: My Dear Henry, a Jekyll & Hide retelling (3-2023); You're not Supposed to Die Tonight, a slasher horror (6-2023)

Next up is Afterlove by Tanya Byrne

This is a sapphic love story with a MC of Indian decent. At New Years's Eve, just before midnight, Ash is hit by a car and dies instantly. She gets the offer to become a reaper, who guide the city's dead to their afterlife. But Ash can't forget Poppy, her girlfriend, and will do anything to get to see her again.

I haven't seen a lot of people talk about this book, but I really enjoyed it. The main focus is the romance here, and it's more romance with a fantasy aspect to it than fantasy.

Other books by this author: there are several other older books, none of which I've read

Upcoming books: The Mermaid of Black Rock (9-2023), a sapphic book about a girl with no memory found in the sea and a girl who falls in love with her

The Jasmine Throne is the only adult series I put in this list (the rest is YA), and is a fantasy trilogy set in an India inspired world. Book 1 and 2 are out now.

Malini is a princess who is imprisoned in an old temple by her dictator brother, an emperor obsessed with religious ideas revolving women gaining purity and immortality by being burnt alive. Malini refused to burn for his sake.

Priya is a maidservant who travels to the temple every night to clean Malini's chambers. Before her land was conquered by Malini's family, Priya was a temple child, and she had passed through the magical deathless waters once, but all the temple children were murdered except a few who survived and she has to hide her past.

Malini and Priya eventually start working together, with the goal of restoring the throne to Malini's other, oldest brother who'd abandoned the throne to become a priest.

Other books by this author: The Books of Ambha duology, adult fantasy, and What Souls are Made of, a YA Wuthering Heights retelling

Upcoming books: Book 3 of the series, scheduled for 2023, currently no release date known

The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas is one of my personal favorites of this year. It's the first book in a YA fantasy duology set in a world inspired by Mexican culture. In this world, the sunbearer trials are held every ten years to replenish the energy of the sol stones and keep the sun alive and evil gods at bay. Ten demigods (called semidioses) are chosen by Sol to compete in a set of trials. The winner becomes the Sunbearer and gets to replenish the sol stones. The loser becomes a human sacrifice that is necessary to replenish said stones.

Semidioses are divided in gold and jade categories, depending on if their parent is a gold or jade god. Gold gods are the most powerful gods, ruling over things like the earth, the seas, fire etc, while jade gods are considered less powerful and their children too. There haven't been any jade competitors in the Sunbearer trials in over a century, but that year, two are chosen.

Teo is the transgender son of Quetzal, the goddess of birds, and he never expected to be chosen for the trials. The other jade is Xio, the son of Mala Suerte, god of bad luck. The other 8 competitors are all gold semidioses, including Teo's best friend Niya, daughter of Tierra, god of the Earth and the twin children of the fire goddess, Aurelio and Auristela. Compared to many of the others, Teo does not have a lot of powers and will have to fight with everything he has to survive.

The fantasy world in this book is modern second world, so while everything is different from this world, there are equivalents of instagram and tiktok for example, and they have trading cards featuring different semidiose heroes.

Other books by the author: Cemetery Boys, Lost in the Never Woods, I've read both and they're very good

Upcoming books: book 2 of the sunbearer trials (expected in 2023), companion/sequel to Cemetery Boys (fall 2024), untitled book pitched as gay titanic in space (2024), Just Max (a contemporary set in college, 2024).

I don't think it's likely there'll be 3 books coming out in 2024 but that's the information I currently have

The last book in the picture is the Witchery by S. Isabelle

This book features four witches and two human boys. Logan only recently found out she's a witch and transferred to a school for witches, and so far she's no good at it. But she's taken under the wing by the Red Three, three Black witches and the most powerful witches at the school. Thalia, a greenwitch, Iris, a deathwitch and Jailah, the most powerful witch at school, want to end the curse that's plaguing their town, and want Logan's help to do it.

Every year, there's a Haunting Season during which wolves come out of the swamp and kill people. The witches can protect people, to some extent, but the Red Three want to end the Haunting Season once and for all.

This book has a total of 6 POV's, which can make it confusing but I think it worked well. All the characters were interesting, but there wasn't enough space to flesh them all out as much as I would have liked. Still, I think the story was great, and would recommend it. There's not much focus on romance, but Jailah is a lesbian which is why I included it on this list.

Other books by this author: The Witchery is her first book

Upcoming books: another book is expected to be released in 2023. I have no idea what this book is about

Let me know if there are specific recommendations you'd like me to cover next time, I think I'll make more posts like these because it's lots of fun. Also, if you've read any of the books I recommend and want to talk about it, let me know, because I don't have a lot of people to talk about my favorite books with

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[shxpeshifterr]

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[missbudak]

Esen after Poppy sees them in the graveyard and starts yelling at Ash

#afterlove #lgbtq books #esen budak #ashana persaud #poppy morgan #tanya byrne #bookblr

[cassmouse]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Afterlove - Tanya Byrne Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Poppy Morgan/Ashana Persaud, Esen and Dev Characters: Esen Budak, Isla Devlin, Ashana Persaud, Poppy Morgan, Deborah Archer Additional Tags: Sixth Form, AU, Fluff, sort of oneshots?, basically this is my random scenarios for the gang, this is an AU where they are ALIVE yay, Esen is my favourite book character ever in the world, also there's basically no fanfics in this fandom yet so here I am, I adore the original book, it is my life, tanya byrne Summary:

What I call a 'Beforelove' Afterlove AU, where absolutely no one has died, and everyone meets under completely normal circumstances at school.

AKA...

Ash and Poppy have finally started their A levels at a school they can attend together. In their tutor group, they meet some... Interesting other girls, and the four form an unlikely bond.

AKA character absolute shenanigans for a book I absolutely adore

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SO GUYS I DID IT

I FINALLY GOT ROUND TO CONTRIBUTING FANFIC FOR THIS VERY QUIET MOSTLY NONEXISTENT FANDOM YAY

Essentially, as the summary says, it's my AU where the Reaper Gang And Poppy™️ all meet at sixth form instead of... Being dead or being close to dead, and I hope this becomes a running series of all my short almost oneshots of this squad's shenanigans 

Their dynamic is gorgeous I adore it 

Esen is my favourite character I warn you of possible Esen favouritism lmao 

Anyway I'm super excited about this I absolutely ADORE this book and it's characters and it's author and story and everything so this is my homage to the great characters 

Any support is much much greatly appreciated!

#afterlove #Tanya Byrne #fanfic #fanfiction #young adult #ao3 #archive of our own #poppy morgan #Ashana Persaud #esen budak #isla devlin

[slaughter-books]

Day 25: JOMPBPC: Genre

The pride flag made out of my favourite genre, contemporary! 💞

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈

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[queercomesthesun]

Sixteen years is nowhere near long enough to live a whole life, a life like Poppy's grandmother, but it's enough to have learned this: don't worry about dying, because while you're worrying about that, you won't notice the thousand tiny ways that you die every day.

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“If you love someone, tell them. If you already have, tell them again.”

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Don’t worry about dying, because while you’re worrying about that, you won’t notice the thousand tiny ways that you die every day.

Every time someone tells you to grow up.

Each time someone tells you to be realistic.

Every time someone tells you that you’re too much and not enough, all at once.

Don’t listen to them. You don’t need to be better than anyone else, you just need to be better than who you used to be. It doesn’t feel like it now, but one day you’ll be scared of becoming the person you are today. Actually, you’ll be scared that you never stopped being that person.

-Afterlove, Tanya Byrne

#afterlove #a month of lgbt books #day23 #Tanya Byrne

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Afterlove

By Tanya Byrne.

#Afterlove #Tanya Byrne #Insects #animals #books #book covers

[illustration-alcove]

Sarah Maxwell’s book cover for Tanya Byrne’s Afterlove.

#sarah maxwell #book covers #aferlove #tanya byrne #british literature

[queerographies]

[Afterlove][Tanya Byrne]

Clicca qui per acquistare il libro Titolo: AfterloveScritto da: Tanya ByrneTitolo originale: AfterloveTradotto da: Roberta VerdeEdito da: MondadoriAnno: 2024Pagine: 314ISBN: 9788804775799 Se c’è una cosa che ho imparato è che in quel momento, quando tutti gli anni che pensavi di avere davanti si dissolvono in pochi secondi, il perché non ha importanza. Ciò che ha importanza è chi ti lasci alle…

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[catsbooksandbees]

Book 24 of 2022!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Afterlove by Tanya Byrne

Ash is about to become a reaper in the afterlife but she’s determined to see her first love Poppy again. The only thing that separates them is death.

Content Warnings: death, homophobia, car accident, lesbophobia, suicide, child death, cancer

What Did I Think?

The first half and the second half were kind of like two different stories. I really liked them both, but I wish they had more connections other than characters. The first half follows the development of Ash’s and Poppy’s relationship, and the second half follows Ash as she is recruited as the best reaper and is determined to get back to Poppy.

I did like that this was a nice way to process grief. It was really wholesome and I love the themes and ideas that were explored, but I do wish they were fleshed out a bit more. This could easily turn into two or three books due to how many roads were left unexplored, specially the logistics of the afterlife.

There were also a few plot holes like Ash not really caring about her best friend not that long after her death, and there were also things like adding a lot of lesbian-inner jokes, which were cute but there were a lot of them!

Overall, I did really like it so I gave it a high rating but there are a bunch of issues.

Prompts

Popsugar - “A Book About the Afterlife”

52 Book Club - “Featuring a Library or a Bookstore”

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[highkey-lowkey-as-hell]

you ever just read a book that’s so fucking GOOD and then you look it up on tumblr and realize that only like roughly 2.5 people on social media have actually read it?

#this could actually apply to a lot of books i read but at this specific moment i'm talking about afterlove by tanya byrne #literally broke my heart in the best way

[startingfires]

this damn book is really calling me out huh

#it's so cute but also so very relatable i want to scream #i'm reading afterlove by tanya byrne btw

[shxpeshifterr]

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[missbudak]

Hooooly fuck y'all, new Tanya Byrne book coming out next Feb!!

I'm genuinely really excited I love her writing so much (if you couldn't tell)

SO LOOK FORWARD TO THISSS

Also same cover artist for Afterlove which is an absolute slay

Can't wait

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