#girl serpent thorn

[ace-artemis-fanartist]

Recently re-read Girl, Serpent, Thorn so I thought I'd try a mock cover.

#girl serpent thorn #melissa bashardoust #mock cover #lgbt books #queer books #my art #artists on tumblr

[apsarareads]

I have around 15 books pending to re-start reading 🤣😭and i remember where I left off every one of them. And Right now I'm reading palace of illusions!!

#book addict #booklr #book blog #Palace of illusions #Assassin's apprentice #Jade city #How to kill your family #as good as dead #girl serpent thorn #Almond #Nothing more to tell #one of us is lying #the bell jar #poppy war #assistant to the villain #truly devious #the secret history #LegendBorn #how to survive your murder #someone stop me please!!!

[lesolehabitantdelalune]

"𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒓𝒚?" 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐚 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞.𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐡 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐚'𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫, 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐚'𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐞. "𝑻𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒗𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒔, 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆," 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝. 𝐇𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐚'𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐬. "𝑰 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 ... 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍."

— Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust

⤷ Comm. by me

⤷ Art by @imlouise_art (insta)

⤷ HAPPY PRIDE MONTH EVERYONE 🥹🌈💖✨

#soraya #parvaneh #soraya x parvaneh #girl serpent thorn #fanart #book fanart #book art #melissa bashardoust #ya books #lgbtq #lgbtq books #pride month

[miasbraindump]

I don't think I have a favourite trope...

...girl who hurts everything they touch + love interest who isn't affected/don't care >>>>>>

#carve the mark #akos & cyra #cyra and akos #shatter me #warnette #aaron warner #juliette ferrars #renegades marissa meyer #adrian everhart #nova artino #girl serpent thorn #enemies to lovers #enemies to friends to lovers #veronica roth #tahereh mafi #melissa bashardoust

[sapphic-book-tournament]

Part 1 of Round 1 starts tomorrow. I hope everyone is excited as I am. It's a bit much but I wanted to include all the recommendations that I got to make everyone happy.

#sapphic #lesbian books #bisexual #sapphic book tournament #sapphic books #criers war #delilah green doesn't care #girl serpent thorn #girls of paper and fire #hani and ishu's guide to fake dating #the henna wars #the unbroken #last night at the telegraph club #malice duology #lesbian #one last stop #these witches don't burn #paper girls #girls of fate and fury #the jasmine throne #fireheart tiger #she gets the girl #honey girl #the miseducation of cameron post #some girls do #something to talk about #the price of salt #we set the dark on fire #i kissed shara wheeler #hayley kiyoko

[carpe-astrae]

Every book I read and rated 5 stars this past year!

-All Our Hidden Gifts (Caroline O'Donohue, urban fantasy)

-The Language of Thorns (Leigh Bardugo, folktale anthology)

-Six of Crows (Leigh Bardugo, fantasy)

-Cemetery Boys (Aiden Thomas, queer supernatural romance)

-Crooked Kingdom (Leigh Bardugo, fantasy)

-Cafe con Lychee (Emery Lee, queer romance)

-The Secret History (Donna Tartt, psychological fiction/thriller)

-The Gathering Dark (multiple authors, folk horror anthology)

-In the Time of the Butterflies (Julia Alvarez, historical fiction/magical realism)

Girl, Serpent, Thorn (Melissa Bashardoust, fantasy)

-The Mary Shelley Club (Goldy Moldavsky, thriller)

-A Scatter of Light (Malinda Lo, queer romance/coming of age)

-The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Neil Gaiman, dark fantasy/magical realism)

#luca reads #book recommendations #booklr #all our hidden gifts #six of crows #crooked kingdom #cemetery boys #the secret history #girl serpent thorn #leigh bardugo #donna tartt #neil gaiman

[lonelyanimeperson]

When I say I like messy main characters, I mostly mean in fantasy books.I love the thieving,murderous,just learning about their powers,just want to protect themselves and/or their friends

#red queen #dance of thieves #girl serpent thorn

[im-teddylove]

Soreya from girl, serpent and thorn

#art #didgital art #girl serpent thorn #mellissa bashardoust #art fanart #book fanart

[bookcub]

Best Books Read in February 2023

A recap of the best books I read each month of 2023

An Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

I read this because my sister loved it and she's got good taste! This is a book from the perspective of a fig tree about a family over the course of a few decades. It's a multigenerational novel about generational trauma, yet it feels quite mystical. It's emotionally heavy but really beautiful.

Monster by Walter Dean Myers

I was assigned this book for class and I'm glad because I wouldn't have read this on my own. It follows a Black teenage boy who was arrested for a murder and is imagining his trial as a movie. I highly recommend it, very emotional and harrowing.

Honorable mentions:

Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust

A story inspired by Sleeping Beauty and a Persian myth, where the princess is also a monster, so to speak. I'm excited to reread this.

Lost in the Moment and Found Again by Seanan McGuire

Another fascinating installment in The Wayward Children series, proving why this is one of the few series I continue to follow.

#best books of 2023 #an island of missing trees #elif shafak #walter dean myers #girl serpent thorn #melissa bashardoust #seanan mcguire #wayward children

[loverrrworld]

i’m always searching for ‘the smell of meat cooking mingled with everyone’s happy laughter and it felt like home’ and ‘one thing was clear: the pariks were a family’ and ‘if i had grown up in that house i couldn’t have loved it more’ and ‘our people. when had that happened?’ and ‘it was strange to think that…she trusted no one in the world as much as the people in this room.’

lost boy, christina henry / girl, serpent, thorn, melissa bashardoust / the secret history, donna tart / ruin and rising, leigh bardugo / rule of wolves, leigh bardugo

#christina henry #lost boy christina henry #lost boy book #girl serpent thorn #melissa bashardoust #the secret history #donna tart #ruin and rising #leigh bardugo #rule of wolves #found family #found family trope

[imdefyingmavity]

I just finished reading Girl, Serpent, Thorn and not at all surprised to see some booktok reviews that are like "Oh I hated the mc and couldn't get into the wlw romance but the antagonist was SO interesting, he deserved a redemption!" Ffffff.

The book was adorable. It's a fairy tale that avoids a lot of predictable tropes and NOT giving the villain a redemption arc was one of those I'm so glad it avoided.

#girl serpent thorn #wlw fiction #sapphic fantasy #soraya x parveneh

[teartra]

From this

To this

Soraya and Pernaveh are so adorable and I need more people to talk about them

#AGSHJGGXJEHJHDGCUY #I GIGGLED LIKE AN IDIOT #gst soraya #gst pervaneh #girl serpent thorn

[meeka-chann]

Novel #7

Girl, Serpent, Thorn

By Melissa Bashardoust (⭐⭐⭐)

Favorite lines from the novel:

• “She had read enough stories to know that the princess and the monster were never the same. She had been alone long enough to know which one she was.”

• “There’s something restless growing within you. We’re all very curious to see what happens when it breaks free.”

• “She was herself and not herself--she didn't know what she was, except that she was free.”

• “Beautiful yet deadly, he had called her. Somehow, he made one sound as sweet as the other.”

• “I was always afraid the poison would make me a monster, but what if trying to get rid of it makes me more of a monster than I was before?”

• “You were the only person who ever made me feel like I was the one worth protecting.”

• “I think you have so much power within you that it scares you, and that you make yourself small on purpose because you don't know what you'll become if a story than you ever stop.”

• “If you told people what they most wanted to hear, they would almost certainly believe you.”

• “Do you see now why I recognized you? You’re my favorite story. I feel like I’ve known you for a long time.”

• “But trust me when I say that if I were you, I wouldn’t shed my armor for the sake of a kind word or a gentle touch. That’s my advice to you, from one monster to another.”

• “She liked to see the roses bloom for the first time in her garden, by her hand. It was proof that she could nurture as well as destroy.”

• “Once hope was gone there was no point in fighting, and so she had no need for anger anymore.”

• “She had always thought guilt was an emotion, but now she understood that guilt was a sickness, a fever.”

• “Sometimes the princess is the monster.”

The photos used are not mine. Credits go to the rightful owners.

#girl serpent thorn #ya novels #novel #books and libraries #fyppage #fyp #book quotes #book recommendations #books #reading #romance #for you #fantasy #coming of age #literature #bookblr #book blog #book quotations #book review

[thepodinmediales]

Val: Please don't use the weird open source art of the Persian Div licking someone's foot. Me: Ok. Also Me:

New episode about Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust out wherever you get your podcasts or at inmediales.com!

#in media les #new podcast episode #inmediales #new episode #girl serpent thorn

[sapphic-book-tournament]

#girl serpent thorn #melissa bashardoust #the jasmine throne #Tasha Siri #sapphic #sapphic books #sapphic book tournament #bisexual #bisexual books #bisexual characters #Lgbt #lgbt books #Lgbt characters #lesbian books #lesbian characters #lesbian #lesbian romance novels #lesbian couple #lgbt fiction #lesbian fiction

[carpe-astrae]

currently reading - Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust

“Stories always begin the same way: There was and there was not. There is possibility in those words, the chance for hope or despair.”

(more of this sort of stuff on my sideblog @astraemoodboards lol)

#girl serpent thorn #book aesthetic #aesthetic #fantasy #queer lit #moodboards #luca reads