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aroaessidhe · 4 months

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some aspec books coming out in 2024. netgalley, I am in your walls

#well not quite all of these are on NG. but the ones that are are not available in my country 😡#shall i reblog this and add specific details #dear wendy #don't let the forest in #fallen thorns #so let them burn #the loudest silence #asking for a friend #moth to a flame #the final curse of ophelia cray #asexual books #aroace books

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lgbtqreads · 26 days

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Happy (Upcoming) International Asexuality Day 2024!

April 6 marks International Asexuality Day, and we’re celebrating by championing books all over the ace spectrum. For even more recs, check past years’ International Asexuality Day/Ace Week posts! To Read Now Middle Grade Just Lizzie by Karen Wilfrid There’s the part of me that doesn’t understand kissing or cuteness or attraction, and then there’s the part of me that feels so lonely. How do I…

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#Ace #Ace-Spec #Ann Zhao #Asexual #Christine Calella #Dear Wendy #Demi #demisexual #Easy Does It #Ivy Fairbanks #Just Lizzie #K.M. Neuhold #Kamilah Cole #Karen Wilfrid #Morbidly Yours #So Let Them Burn #The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray #Upside Down

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justabooklovingmetalhead · 1 month

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New Releases of April 2024!

I’ve been really excited for Dear Wendy for so long! Can’t wait for it to come out :) I have no clue how I’m going to find time to read everything coming out this month tho 😅

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wondereads · 28 days

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April YA Book Releases

The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson

YA Thriller

Author of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

true crime, missing persons, memory loss

Fate Be Changed by Farrah Rochon

YA Fantasy

Twisted Tales series

princess, disney, curses

Your Blood, My Bones by Kelly Andrew

YA Fantasy

Author of The Whispering Dark

dark magic, gothic, lgbt

The Black Girl Survives in This One: Horror Stories by Desiree S. Evans and Saraceia J. Fennell

YA Horror

Author of Cool. Awkward. Black.

anthology, ghosts, zombies

Something Kindred by Ciera Burch

YA Contemporary

Author of Finch House

lgbt, coming of age, photography

Against the Darkness by Kendare Blake

YA Fantasy

Buffy: The Next Generation #3

vampires, witches, high school

The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray by Christine Calella

YA Historical

Debut author

pirates, identity theft, navy

Calling of Light by Lori M. Lee

YA Fantasy

Shamanborn Series #3

class differences, dark forest, sacrifice

We're Never Getting Home by Tracy Badua

YA Contemporary

Author of This Is Not a Personal Statement

aapi, religion, friendship breakup

The Kill Factor by Ben Oliver

YA Horror

Author of The Loop

dystopian, survival, social injustice

Song of the Six Realms by Judy I. Lin

YA Fantasy

Author of A Magic Steeped in Poison

aapi, royalty, music

Off With Their Heads by Zoe Hana Mikuta

YA Fantasy

Author of Gearbreakers

korean, retelling, sapphic

Harley Quinn: Redemption by Rachael Allen

YA Adventure

DC Icons Series #3

superheroes, lgbt, action

Powerful by Lauren Roberts

YA Fantasy

The Powerless Trilogy

forbidden romance, assassination, class difference

To a Darker Shore by Leanne Schwartz

YA Fantasy

Author of A Prayer for Vengeance

beauty standards, invention, monsters

Return of the Vengeful Queen by C. J. Redwine

YA Fantasy

Author of The Shadow Queen

pirates, political, revenge plot

The Notes by Catherine Con Morse

YA Contemporary

Debut author

boarding school, musical arts, aapi

The Lilies by Quinn Diacon-Furtado

YA Thriller

Debut author

detective, time loop, dark academia

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aspeccharactersoftheday · 5 months

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Ophelia from The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray is asexual!

#ophelia #the final curse of ophelia cray #canon aspec #asexual

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bookishlyvintage · 3 months

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The ARCs currently on my TBR cart ~

#bookstack #stack challenge #arc #the final curse of ophelia cray #draw down the moon #the book of doors #new books #new release #fantasy #ya fantasy #bookblr #booklr #flay lay #cozy reads #sweater weather #autumn #books #cozy

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ash-and-books · 1 month

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Rating: 2/5

Book Blurb: Storms and pirates are nothing compared to the evil within men’s hearts.

After a lifetime of abuse at the hands of superstitious townsfolk, Ophelia Young, a bastard child of the notorious pirate queen, is tired of paying for the sins of her mother. Despite playing by the rules her whole life, she’s earned nothing but spite and suspicion. So when a naval officer saves her from the jeering crowd at her mother’s hanging, Ophelia hatches a new hope of enlisting in the navy to escape her mother’s legacy and redeem her own reputation for good. But Ophelia soon discovers that a life at sea isn’t as honorable as she hoped.

Betsy Young is as different as she could be from her half-sister Ophelia. She’s a nervous homebody who wants to keep her family safe and longs to be in love. So naturally, she’s devastated when the son of their family’s business partner rejects her hand in marriage and her sister joins the navy. But when her father contracts a life-threatening illness as well, Betsy has to bring Ophelia home to save the family business.

Unfortunately for the Young sisters, Betsy trying to get Ophelia recalled reveals that Ophelia enlisted fraudulently under Betsy’s name, a secret which Ophelia struggles to keep from crewmates who would kill her if they knew she was the pirate queen’s daughter. To save Ophelia from the naval authorities, Betsy will have to board a ship during hurricane season and brave all the dangers of the sea to get them both home safe.

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Two sisters, deadly pirate adventures, a family legacy, and all the trouble the sea could offer. Ophelia Young has lived in the shadow of her mother's death ever since she was young, she is the bastard child of the notorious pirate queen who was hanged... and before she was hanged she cursed the island. Ophelia has tried to play by the rules her entire life to avoid people's suspicion and to beat her mother's reputation. All she dreams about is escaping the island filled with people who hate her and she plans on joining the navy to redeem her own reputation for good. Betsy Young is as different from her half-sister as can be, she's shy and timid and longs to find love. Betsy lives in her sister's shadow and wants someone to notice her, yet when the son of their family's business partner brutally rejects her hand in marriage thinking it was meant for her sister, it's the last straw for Betsy. To make matters worse, Ophelia runs off to the navy and their father contracts a life threatening illness, which means Betsy will bring Ophelia back no matter what to save the family business... yet nothing is easy for the Young sisters as they realize that life at sea is much more brutal than either of them could ever imagine from being attacked by pirates, lashed on a navy ship, nearly murdered (multiple times), and facing hurricane season.... they'll have to find a way to survive before they can even meet each other again. This book was nothing like I thought it was going to be, it just felt kind of bland if I'm going to be honest. I was expecting a fun high seas pirate adventure with a dash of romance and while this book did have a lot of action and a tiny bit of romance it just didn't really feel all that exciting. The characters didn't exactly feel like they had a lot of dimension and I just felt like they weren't all that fleshed out. I did love the representation of an Aro/Ace female protagonist and other queer relationships shown in this though. The overall story was fine but it just wasn't great, I didn't hate reading this I just don't think I would recommend it. Overall, if you want a pirate book with a strong sister relationship give this one a go, maybe you'll have a better time with it than I did.

*Thanks Netgalley and Page Street Publishing, Page Street YA for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

#book review #bookish #lgbtq reads #the final curse of ophelia cray

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rosieethor · 6 months

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ace books ace books we got 'em

Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria

Beyond the Black Door by A.M. Strickland

Little Thieves by Margaret Owen

What We Devour by Linsey Miller

The Grimrose Girls by Laura Pohl

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

This Dark Descent by Kalyn Josephson

The Kindred by Alechia Dow

The Reckless Kind by Carly Heath

The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray by Christine Calella

Silver in the Mist by Emily Victoria

Not Your Backup by C.B. Lee

The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia

Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko

The Circus Infinite by Khan Wong

Scavenge the Stars by Tara Sim

Love Letters for Joy by Melissa See

Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun

Aces Wild by Amanda Dewitt

I Am Ace by Cody Daigle-Orians

ACE by Angela Chen

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality by Sherronda J Brown

Being Ace ed by Madeline Dyer

#asexuality #asexual books #asexual representation #asexual awareness week #acespec #ace pride

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christinecalella · 6 months

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A book recommendation for OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH fans!

Hey y'all! I know we're sad to be bidding goodbye to Stede and Ed (all my fingers are crossed for a Season 3 announcement) so I wanted to let the rest of the fandom know about my debut YA novel, a pirate adventure very much in the spirit of OFMD called THE FINAL CURSE OF OPHELIA CRAY (coming from Page Street YA on April 9, 2024).

THE FINAL CURSE OF OPHELIA CRAY is the story of two half-sisters, Ophelia and Betsy. Ophelia is the daughter of an infamous pirate queen, but she was raised alongside Betsy by their father. The local townspeople absolutely haaaaate her ass because they think she's cursed. Meanwhile, Betsy is a homebody and incredibly talented seamstress struggling with anxiety. Ophelia decides she'll be best-served by going to sea and making a new life for herself in the navy, but wouldn't you know it, the navy won't accept the daughter of a pirate.

Naturally, Ophelia does what anyone would do: she steals her sister's identity to join the navy anyway. As one does.

When a family crisis reveals to the navy that Ophelia's committed fraud, Betsy needs to conquer her many, many fears and take to the sea in order to warn Ophelia before she gets caught and hanged for her crimes.

On the way, the sisters make friends & enemies, battle in pistol duels & set ships ablaze, struggle through hurricanes and pirate attacks, travel to distant shores and magical islands, discover long-lost relatives and fall in love.

It's a story about sisterhood, legacy, and self-acceptance. Plus, it's chock full of queer characters and body-positive representation, just like OFMD! Ophelia is canonically aroace and Betsy is a plus-sized woman who finds true love at sea.

If any of this sounds up your alley, consider pre-ordering the book at any of the links below the Read More! Nothing helps first-time authors more so I'd really appreciate it. Til next time, crew-mates!

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-final-curse-of-ophelia-cray-christine-calella/1143329910?ean=9781645678724

#our flag means death #our flag means gay #our flag means love #ofmd #ofmd s2 #taika waititi #rhys darby #potc #pirates of the caribbean #books #ya books #ya fantasy

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battyaboutbooksreviews · 1 day

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🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in April 2024 🌈

🌈 Good morning, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

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❤️ Spring on the Peninsula - Ery Shin 🧡 When I Arrived at the Castle - Emily Carroll 💛 Bloodline - Jenn Alexander 💚 Grey Dog - Elliott Gish 💙 Every Time You Hear That Song - Jenna Voris 💜 I'm in Love with the Villainess v. 2 - Inori and Hanagata ❤️ The Caravaggio Syndrome - Alessandro Giardino 🧡 Leather, Lace, and Locs - Anne Shade 💛 Firebugs - Nico Bulling 💙 I Married My Female Friend v.2 - Shio Usui 💜 The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray - Christine Calella 🌈 A Sweet Sting of Salt - Rose Sutherland ❤️ The Selected Shepherd: Poems - Reginald Shepherd 🧡 Rough Trade - Katrina Carrasco 💛 Aubrey McFadden is Never Getting Married - Georgia Beers 💚 Taming of a Rebel - Eada Friesian 💙 Dayspring - Anthony Oliveira 💜 The Titanic Survivors Book Club - Timothy Schaffert ❤️ Orphia And Eurydicius - Elyse John 🧡 The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers - Samuel Burr 💛 A Good Happy Girl - Marissa Higgins 💙 Winnie Nash Is Not Your Sunshine - Nicole Melleby 💜 Here We Go Again - Alison Cochrun 🌈 Women! In! Peril! - Jessie Ren Marshall

❤️ Blood City Rollers - V. P. Anderson and Tatiana Hill 🧡 The Prospects - KT Hoffman 💛 Crazy Like a Fox: Adventures in Schizophrenia - Christi Furnas 💚 WATCHNIGHT - Cyree Jarelle Johnson 💙 Love From The Sidelines - Tuesday Harper 💜 The Pleasure in Pain - Roxie Voorhees ❤️ Mal - Perla Zul 🧡 The Black Girl Survives in This One - Desiree S. Evans and Saraciea J. Fennell 💛 Darker by Four - June C.L. Tan 💙 Otherworldly - F.T. Lukens 💜 Hearts Still Beating - Brooke Archer 🌈 Tryst Six Venom - Penelope Douglas

❤️ Teenage Dirtbags - James Acker 🧡 The Heart Wants What It Wants - D.M. Batten 💛 Something Kindred by Ciera Burch 💚 Sheine Lende - Dr. Darcie Little Badger & Rovina Cai 💙 Rainbow Overalls - Maggie Fortuna 💜 Flowers for Dead Girls - Abigail Collins ❤️ Canto Contigo - Jonny Garza Villa

❤️ Court of Wanderers - Rin Chupeco 🧡 Molten Death - Leslie Karst 💛 Triad Magic - ‘Nathan Burgoine 💚 You, Me and Bad Movies - Twoony 💙 The Faithful Dark - Cate Baumer 💜 A Case for Discretion - Ashley Moore ❤️ Party of Fools - Cedar McCloud 🧡 The Last Love Song - Kalie Holford 💛 This is Me Trying - Racquel Marie 💙 Dear Wendy - Ann Zhao 💜 Sun Eater - Dre Levant 🌈 The Breakup Lists - Adib Khorram

❤️ Bad Dream - Nicole Maines & Rye Hickman 🧡 If We Were Stars - Eule Grey 💛 The Broken Lines of Us - Shia Woods 💚 Eye of the Ouroboros - Megan Bontrager 💙 Henry Henry - Allen Bratton 💜 Dear Bi Men - JR Yussuf ❤️ Paige Not Found - Jen Wilde 🧡 Mechanic Shop Femme’s Guide to Car Ownership - Chaya Milchtein 💛 Wide Awake Now - David Levithan 💙 Merciless Saviors - H.E. Edgmon 💜 Smile and Be a Villain - Yves Donlon 🌈 Crash Landing - Charmaine Anne Li

❤️ Call Forth a Fox - Markelle Grabo 🧡 Central Avenue Poetry Prize 2024 - Beau Adler 💛 Good Bones - Aurora Rey 💚 Curiosities - Anne Fleming 💙 Someone You Can Build a Nest in - John Wiswell 💜 Revisiting Summer Nights - Ashley Bartlett ❤️ Bright Spring - Emmaline Strange

❤️ Girls Night - I.S. Belle 🧡 Late Bloomer - Mazey Eddings 💛 Withered - A.G.A. Wilmot 💚 A Wolf Steps in Blood - Tamara Jerée 💙 It Always Finds Me - Anthology 💜 Dulhaniyaa - Talia Bhatt ❤️ Moon Dust in My Hairnet - JR Creaden 🧡 Blood Justice - Terry J. Benton-Walker 💛 Relinquishing Control - J.J. Arias

❤️ Selamlik - Khaled Alesmael 🧡 Houseswap 101 - Jaime Clevenger 💛 Earthflown by Frances Wren & Litarnes 💚 Covenant v.1 - LySandra Vuong 💙 Honey - Victor Lodato 💜 The Dragonfly Gambit - A.D. Sui ❤️ Double Dyno - Sharon K Angelici & Taylor Rose

#queer books #sapphic books #sapphic romance #lesbian books #lesbian romance #gay books #bi books #bisexual pride #lesbian pride #lesbian fiction #book list #book releases #book release #batty about books #battyaboutbooks

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bookaddict24-7 · 22 days

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NEW YOUNG ADULT RELEASES! (APRIL 9TH, 2024)

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HAVE I MISSED ANY NEW YOUNG ADULT RELEASES? HAVE YOU ADDED ANY OF THESE BOOKS TO YOUR TBR? LET ME KNOW!

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NEW STANDALONES/FIRST IN A SERIES:

Teenage Dirtbags by James Acker

Canto Contigo by Jonny Garza Villa

The Darkness Rises by Stacy Stokes

The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray by Christine Calella

Right Here, Right Now by Shannon Dunlap

The Last Love Song by Kalie Holford

Dragonfruit by Makiia Lucier

NEW SEQUELS:

Against the Darkness (In Every Generation #3) by Kendare Blake

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Happy reading!

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aroaessidhe · 2 months

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2024 reads / storygraph

The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray

fun YA adventure

follows a girl who’s seen as cursed because of her recently hanged notorious pirate queen mother, and runs away to the navy where nobody will recognise her

and her half-sister who’s desperate to find her before she’s arrested for using a fake name, to bring her home to their dying father & save the family business

both get on the bad side of some pirates and have to brave storms to find each other

aroace MC, sister relationships

arc from netgalley, out april 9

#The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray #aroaessidhe 2024 reads #This is ok! I enjoyed it on the surface level but think it could have had a bit more depth and structure #I do always like to see an aroace MC who mentions it casually throughout the story and the central sister relationship #The writing is a little young for me… I think it has this silly/satirical element of the plot and caricature-villains but the prose wasn’t #quite funny enough to make it work....so parts just felt a bit random and undeveloped to me?#I genuinely love a lot of MG and younger YA but this is on the side of writing style #that felt too noticably young for me to enjoy fully (for me - obviously it's for teens! so that's okay!)#It’s quite slow to start (it doesn’t get into it until half way?) and the two storylines felt a bit disconnected.#All the different things happening felt all over the place & I felt the ending was a bit unsatisfying #Betsy’s love interest seemed like a nice interesting boy but it was such instalove I felt like there was no development between them lol #I think it has some fun parts and some good characters! I would still recommend to teens looking for queer piratey stories #(tho as a note - THEY aren't really ever pirates. maybe briefly.) (I think maybe ofmd comps might do it a disservice if you're not clear #it's just 'piratey and also there's queer people)#there's some good side lesbians (def side tho)

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lgbtqreads · 22 days

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New Releases: April 9, 2024

Young Adult Every Time You Hear That Song by Jenna Voris They say to never meet your idols. But they never said anything about upending your life for a quest designed by one. Seventeen-year-old aspiring journalist Darren Purchase has been a lifelong fan of country music legend Decklee Cassel, who’s as famous for her classic hits as she is for her partnership with songwriter Mickenlee Hooper. The…

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hedghost · 7 days

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I did my own little searchy search for sapphic books and here is a few I found and checked you didn’t already have on your list.

The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray / Christine Calella / Fantasy

Ask, Tell / E.J. Noyes / Romance

The Map That Lead To You / Ella McLeod / Fantasy

The Honeymoon Mix-up / Frankie Fyre / Romance

Hers For The Weekend / Helena Greer / Romance

Bachelorette Number Twelve / Jae / Romance

First Comes Death / Avrah C. Baren / Sci-fi

Of course my eyes could’ve skipped over if any of these were actually on your list but we’ll see ahah I also have more if you would like them ❤️

ahh amazing thank you! i’ll add them sometime later when i get home xx

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theobviousparadox · 17 days

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Review: The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray by Christine Calella

The Final Curse of Ophelia CrayChristine CalellaPage Street PressPublished April 9, 2024 Amazon | Bookshop | Goodreads About The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray Storms and pirates are nothing compared to the evil within men’s hearts. After a lifetime of abuse at the hands of superstitious townsfolk, Ophelia Young, a bastard child of the notorious pirate queen, is tired of paying for the sins of…

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#anxiety #family #family business #legacy #Loss of a parent #navy #Pirates #sailor #sick father #sisters

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themoonphoenix · 20 days

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Book Tour: The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray

Title: The Final Curse of Ophelia CrayAuthor: Christine CalellaPublisher: Page Street YAPublication Date: April 9th, 2024Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Pirates REVIEW: The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray is a fun debut about two sisters who love each other but are very different, Ophelia wants to be a pirate, and Betsy enjoys the comfort of home. It’s a short fast-paced adventure where there is…

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