#emily lloyd jones

[nonalimmen]

"The forest did not scare her; rather, she wanted to be like it: ageless and impervious, cruel and beautiful. Death could not touch it."

-Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

#Emily Lloyd Jones #The Bone Houses

[bigdreamsandwildthings]

🤍 cozy cozy cozy 🤍

#booklr #book photography #book picture #open book #the drowned woods #emily lloyd jones #ya fiction #ya fantasy #bookworm #bibliophile #book lover #book nerd #book aesthetic #book community #my photos #mine

[bookishjules]

worth living

maya c. popa, duress // noah kahan, growing sideways // unknown // unknown // gabriel mistral, selected prose and prose-poems // megan chance, the spiritualist // faridah àbíké-íyímídé, where sleeping girls lie // james baldwin, giovanni's room // @bookishjules, from @ann-perkins4 // emily lloyd jones, the hearts we sold // the strumbellas, shovels & dirt // albert camus // antoine de saint-exupéry // the strumbellas, shovels & dirt // jeff buckley

#the opposition of those noah kahan and strumbellas lyrics have been itching at me for a long time #web weaving #words #noah kahan #the strumbellas #maya c. popa #gabriel mistral #faridah àbíké íyímídé #james baldwin #emily lloyd jones #<- that one i learned is actually often misattributed to virginia wolf #albert camus #antoine de saint exupéry #jeff buckley

[brightbeautifulthings]

She had walked willingly into a fairy tale, into a world where she could trade her heart for her freedom. She may as well have donned a red cloak and strode into a darkened forest. She had always known there would be wolves.

Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Hearts We Sold

#emily lloyd jones #the hearts we sold #fairy tales #wolves #little red riding hood #Q: #book quotes #books

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

JOMP BPC - May 11th - Nature

some books with natural titles 🌳💙💚🦋

#heather kassner #anna marie mclemore #emily lloyd jones #robin benway #justonemorepage #jompbpc #booklr #bookblr #trcc original #portraits

[bangbangwhoa]

books I’ve read in 2022 📖 no. 088

The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones

“Do not apologize. That’s the one thing I wish I could have taught you. Never apologize for what you have to do.”

#booklr #2022 reads #the drowned woods #emily lloyd jones #books #lit edit

[desdasiwrites]

– Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

#book quote of the day #emily lloyd jones #the bone houses #zombies #dark fantasy fairytale #book recommendations #book quotes

[books-and-cookies]

5 SECOND REVIEW

#books #booklr #book review #the hearts we sold #emily lloyd jones #mary says stuff about

[books-to-add-to-your-tbr]

Title: The Drowned Woods

Author: Emily Lloyd-Jones

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2022

Genres: fiction, fantasy, retelling, mythology, romance

Blurb: Once upon a time, the kingdoms of Wales were rife with magic and conflict, and 18-year-old Mererid “Mer” is well-acquainted with both. She is the last living water diviner, and has spent years running from the prince who bound her into his service. Under the prince’s orders, she located the wells of his enemies, and he poisoned them without her knowledge, causing hundreds of deaths. After discovering what he had done, Mer went to great lengths to disappear from his reach...then her old handler returns with a proposition: use her powers to bring down the very prince that abused them both. The best way to do that is to destroy the magical well that keeps the prince’s lands safe. With a motley crew of allies - including a fae-cursed young man, the lady of thieves, and a corgi that may or may not be a spy - Mer may finally be able to steal precious freedom and peace for herself. After all, a person with a knife is one thing...but a person with a cause can topple kingdoms.

#the drowned woods #drowned woods #emily lloyd jones #standalone #2022 #fiction #fantasy #retelling #mythology #romance

[bookwyrminspiration]

finding anything to do with The Bone Houses in the tags is so annoying because "the bone houses" has key words that overlap with so so many other fandoms (like toh, hoeab, etc) and "tbh" is both the autism creature and just a thing people say all the time

so I think I will simply start tagging it as "tboho" instead because it's similar enough to the title to make sense but also doesn't seem to have any overlap with anything as far as I can tell. the tag is currently empty. this is like. purely for me because the fandom is non existent but hey

#the bone houses #emily lloyd jones #tboho #i don't post about it often but it is so so dear to my heart #love love love it and all the characters so much #desperately want to reread it but I have a lot of other and more time sensitive things I need to read #so I will instead stare longingly at it as it sits on my shelf #if anyone wants to talk about tboho with me ever...I am Right Here And So So Willing

[displayheartcode]

Characters reacting to the corgi in Emily Lloyd-Jones’ The Drowned Woods: The dog is a boot thief! A spy for the otherfolk! He must not be trusted!

Fane: This dog is my only friend.

#the drowned woods #emily lloyd jones #this is a trefor appreciation blog

[publishedtoday]

The Drowned Woods - Emily Lloyd-Jones

Once upon a time, the kingdoms of Wales were rife with magic and conflict, and eighteen-year-old Mererid “Mer” is well-acquainted with both. She is the last living water diviner and has spent years running from the prince who bound her into his service. Under the prince’s orders, she located the wells of his enemies, and he poisoned them without her knowledge, causing hundreds of deaths. After discovering what he had done, Mer went to great lengths to disappear from his reach. Then Mer’s old handler returns with a proposition: use her powers to bring down the very prince that abused them both. The best way to do that is to destroy the magical well that keeps the prince’s lands safe. With a motley crew of allies, including a fae-cursed young man, the lady of thieves, and a corgi that may or may not be a spy, Mer may finally be able to steal precious freedom and peace for herself. After all, a person with a knife is one thing… but a person with a cause can topple kingdoms.

tw: death, violence

#the drowned woods #emily lloyd jones #Little Brown BFYR #august 16 2022 #lgbtq #bisexual

[whatisamettafor]

I read the Bone Houses too.

I’m not looking forward to drawing an axe and a crossbow, but I enjoyed this story and thought their relationship was very cute.

#the bone houses #ryn and ellis #ellis and ryn #bone goat #emily lloyd jones #I think I'm going to change Ellis boots #book fanart #book art #yalit

[brightbeautifulthings]

'Everything I've done,' she said, and her voice was even quieter than before. She wasn't sure he could hear her; part of her didn't care. 'Everything--it was to survive. And I won't apologize for that.'

Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Drowned Woods

#Q: #emily lloyd jones #the drowned woods #survival #book quotes #books

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

JOMP BPC - May 12th - Should Win An Award

any of these would be excellent contenders for a “Best Disability Rep in a YA Novel” prize 🥰

#kody keplinger #emily lloyd jones #j albert mann #justonemorepage #jompbpc #booklr #bookblr #trcc original #portraits #disabled characters

[mistwraiths]

5 stars

This was such a beautiful story. It's a story about choices and cost, about survival and magic, and about a heist to steal treasures from a magic well. If you loved The Bone Houses, I think you'll love this book too. You don't need any prior knowledge of it to understand what's going on in this book. There's a neat little link in the epilogue though.

I loved the characters. You know it's going to be a good book when one of the characters is a dog. Mer was such a great character. Fane too. I love that Mer was just trying to live, for survival, with guilt, just running. And Fane who wanted revenge and magic, and then realized the cost of said magic. Ifanna too was a good character as well. Choosing her people, leading, even when it would be difficult and when it's so easy to be selfish. Gryf and Renfrew too. I understood where each of them came from and wanted.

While I love in-depth magic systems, I also love when we don't always understand the magic but it's there and foreign and dangerous. I love when the fae are considered more Other and unknown. I love when they are just so wholly different than humans. I wish we got to see more of the magic island but I know the point was mainly humans like them are really welcome there or belong.

Anyways, this was just such a rich little story and I loved it.

#emily lloyd jones #the drowned woods #steph's book review #steph reads #book review