#standalone book

[maxalotlxl]

Five Survive by Holly Jackson

5 Stars.

If you want a quick but tense thriller that makes you stay up late at night because you just have to find out the ending. Then read anything by Holly Jackson I guess. I really enjoyed GGGTM and thought I'd pick up Five Survive before continuing the series.

When a group of friends go on a road trip for spring break and found themselves stranded on a off road at night, it only got worse when a sniper starts demanding that one of them have a life changing secret that they must give up if the rest of them are to survive.

I did start and finish this book in the same day, as like I said above I just stayed up wanting to know what happened next. I'm excited to see the rest of GGGTM and anything else Holly Jackson releases.

March 7th.

#Five Survive #holly jackson #standalone book #booklr #book recs #thriller

[pjo-hoo-toa-freakazoid]

I made a discovery

If I’m correct I will literally cry

#my art 🌸 do not repost #CROSSING MY FINGERS THAT IM CORRECT #tsats #tsats spoilers #the sun and the star #a nico di angelo adventure #solangelo solo #will solace #nico di angelo #pjo fanart #hoo fanart #percy jackson fanart #solangelo standalone #solangelo solo book #nico solo book #mark oshiro #rick riordan #pjo #hoo #percy jackson and the olympians #heroes of olympus #toa #percy jackson #trials of apollo #pjo fandom #pjo hoo toa #pjoverse #solangelo #pjo funny

[offonaherosjourney]

PoV: You just finished reading Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

#great book pls read it it's standalone #cosmere #yumi and the nightmare painter #ssp3 #secret project 3 #sp3 #brandon sanderson #nym's posts

[comfortablynumb]

I’VE SAID THIS COUNTLESS TIMES AND I’LL SAY IT AGAIN:

- NICO IS SO DEPRESSED AND IRON DEFICIENT THAT HE COULD LITERALLY SLEEP FOR DAYS ON END AND STILL WAKE UP TIRED

- WILL PUMPS HIMSELF FULL OF CAFFEINE AND GOES DAYS WITHOUT SLEEPING BECAUSE HIS SAVIOR COMPLEX CAUSES HIM TO FEEL GUILTY WHENEVER HE LEAVES THE INFIRMARY FOR MORE THAN A COUPLE HOURS

- NICO GETS WILL TO SLEEP AND WILL GETS NICO TO WAKE UP AND GO OUTSIDE

thank you for coming to my tedtalk :)

#solangelo #will solace #nico di angelo #nico di angelo x will solace #percy jackson #heroes of olympus #rick riordan #uncle rick #trials of apollo #solangelo solo book #nico di angelo solo book #nico di angelo headcanon #will solace headcanon #solangelo headcanon #solangelo stand alone #solangelo standalone

[one-bunny-a-day]

27/11/2023

#daily bunny #331 #standalone bunny #manager caught me reading when there was nothing to do and yelled at me about it #gotta be faster when putting my book away smh @ myself #her: would you think it's appropriate if you walked into a bookstore and saw someone reading as a client? #me: yea #fsdgfh I didn't say it but like Yeah Of Course #I genuinely prefer employees to be on their phones or reading or something and pay attention to me only when I ask them for something #if you think employees should be standing at attention at all times you're wrong sorry

[loupy-mongoose]

How could Clover's skirt cause pain to her broken tail in that scenario?

Warning: Discussion of injury and self-mutilation ahead, as well as SPOILERS (I'd call it minor, or at least non-detailed) for the Guardians of Ga'hoole book, "The Rise of a Legend".

I'm not thinking so much that the skirt itself causes pain. Although having the skin pull on the injured spot might hurt a little.

I'm thinking more like a Lyze of Kiel situation, from the aforementioned book. (For context, he is an owl.) In that book, one of his toes/talons gets injured and causes him chronic pain. So he rips it off.

Clover is no stranger to pain--She can and will handle it in bursts. But I can see her getting fed up with chronic pain, especially if she sees a way out of it.

Alternatively, maybe something else ripped off her tail and part of the skirt, so she decided to finish the job.

#violetjazz25 #ask #I should reread that book. #It's been a while. #It's part of a 15 or 16 book series #but it's basically a standalone book. #An origin story. #If anyone's looking for a good tragedy... #Check it out. :3 #VERY violent though! #tw: injury

[hyacjnthus]

wouldn’t it be so funny if they released those nico book chapter previews and they’re not real. like wrote extra chapters just to mess with us

#that would be so funny ngl #mark and rick: ‘here are some chapter previews!’ #us seven months later: ‘what—wasn’t this supposed—what— huh?’ #nico solo book #solangelo standalone #nico di angelo #will solace #solangelo #percy jackon and the olympians #heroes of olympus #trials of apollo

[smalltownfae]

#the goblin emperor #booklr #piranesi #black water sister #lonely castle in the mirror #sistersong #spinning silver #the seventh bride #the last unicorn #the house in the cerulean sea #the forgotten beasts of eld #it was hard to pick a mckillip and a kingfisher book #I decided on one book per author so... #my polls #best standalone fantasy #making this post I am now wondering if women are more likely to write fantasy standalones than men #either that or is just because I read more books by women in general #and yeah there is no neil gaiman book here oops #I haven't reread the ones I liked in a while so I am not sure if those would top my other 2 four stars in here

[hyperfocuscentre]

I ONLY JUST NOTICED AND OMFG. WHY IS HE WEARING SHORTS??? WILL YOU DUMB WHORE WTF?? WHATS NEXT, FLIP FLOPS TOO??

#i hate this bitch so much #but not actually #will solace #the sun and the star #nico di angelo #pjo #heroes of olympus #solangelo #hoo #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo hoo toa #trials of apollo #solangelo standalone #solangelo textpost #nico book #riordanverse #rrverse #william andrew solace #william freaking solace #bro is dumb #love him all the same

[shittygaypornmagazine]

guys. gUYS. THEY CHANGED THE COVER.

aMEN TO THAT DESIGN

edit: ok so I was wrong. it's not The New Cover: it's The British Cover... which is weird to me because I had no idea the covers are usually different.

#percy jackson #pjo #trials of apollo #heroes of olympus #nico diangelo #will solace #solangelo book #solangelo solo book #solangelo standalone #solangelo #the sun and the star

[pjo-hoo-toa-freakazoid]

Waiting for the day we read Tsats and loose our shit as Will pulls out his revolver and shoots a monster right in the head before it can attack Nico.

And Nico looks at his Ray of Sunshine of a boyfriend. Stunned but beyond impressed.

“Where’d you get that?” He asks, with a hint of excitement in his voice.

“Oh! My grandfather gave me Susan before I left for camp” Will smiled. “Now that I think about it, maybe giving a nine year old a revolver wasn’t really the safest parting gift—”

“—Wait…Susan..?”

“Susan!” Will nodded as he raised the gun.

Nico gave out a chuckle. “I like Susan”

#how tf did a shitpost become a short fic- #just some boys being dudes. just some dudes loving guns #help me manifest this #tsats #the sun and the star #a nico di angelo adventure #will solace #nico di angelo #solangelo #solangelo solo #solangelo solo book #mark oshiro #Rick Riordan #solangelo standalone #percy jackson and the olympians #heroes of olympus #toa #percy jackson #pjo fandom #hoo #pjo prompt #trials of apollo #pjo #pjo hoo toa #pjoverse #pjo funny #solangelo prompt #riordanverse #pjo fic #pjo incorrect quotes

[the-modern-typewriter]

Happy birthday to me, and happy birthday to The God Key! 🥳

Thank you all so much more for your support, encouragement and feedback on my writing over the last seven years (bloody hell) I've been writing on here <3 It has meant a lot. I really hope you enjoy this one too.

Please let me/the interwebs know what you think. Rate. Review. Share. All that jazz!

I also promised I would share a masterlist of links on the day so...here we go :)

Print options

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Read the first chapter here FREE.

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#i always post on my birthday #but it's extra cool that it's a book this year #The God Key #TGK #lgbtq books #fantasy books #lgbtq reads #fantasy reads #m/m #m/m books #m/m fiction #dark fantasy #fantasy fiction #superpowers #heroes and villains #standalone fantasy #queer fantasy #book #books #books and reading #queer books

[skyriderwednesday]

Abbreviating Discworld books like Sherlock Holmes stories is a TERRIBLE idea and nobody would should do it, but taking the most cursed route possible it could look something like...

Rincewind/Wizards: COLO/LIGH/SOUR/ERIC/MOVI/INTE/CONT/UNSE

Witches: EQUA/WYRD/WITC/LORD/MASK/CARP

Death: MORT/REAP/SOUL/HOGF/THIE

Watch: GUAR/ARMS/FEET/JING/FIFT/NIGH/THUD/SNUF

Tiffany: WEEF/HATF/WINT/SHAL/SHEP

Moist: GOIN/MAKI/RAIS

Standalone: PYRA/SMAL/TRUT/LAST/MAUR/MONS

#discworld #sherlock holmes #i told you it was cursed #the first person to figure out the deliberate wtf abbreviation does not get a prize but does reserve the right to yell in replies #(personally i count moving pictures as a wizards book but i know a lot of people call it a standalone) #(but like. it's where ridcully comes from. so.)

[nani-nonny]

I finished my book now what… read my other book on my tbr list? Or continue where I left off on my fic lol?

#I finished reading Sword of Kaigen and it was such a heartbreaking read and so so good #I think I might get the author’s other standalone book #but I’m not a fan of the hardcover design hmmm #nonny nonsense

[goforth-ladymidnight]

On ACOTAR Faeries and Names

For some reason, SJM undoes most, if not all, of traditional faerie lore in her books. (I haven't read TOG or CC so I can't comment on those.) The cynical part of me thinks it's because faeries can be difficult to write well, therefore she took the easy route; the more forgiving part of me thinks it's because she set out to explore why humans believed certain myths about faeries, but then lost interest as she spent more and more time in the realm of the Night Court. (Side note: I find it odd that SJM chose to emphasize that the Illyrians are NOT really faeries, whether High or "lesser". I honestly wonder why that is.) Regardless, there's nothing very faerie about SJM's High Fae, etc. except for their ethereal beauty and pointed ears and the fact that they can do magic, I guess.

I've already written about Aging and Lying when it comes to ACOTAR's Faeries, and I thought I'd touch on another aspect of faerie lore that SJM chooses to ignore. (Heh, that rhymes.)

Names.

His [Rhysand's] eyes shifted to my face. “What’s your name, love?” Giving him my name—and my family name—would lead only to more pain and suffering. He might very well find my family and drag them into Prythian to torment, just to amuse himself. But he could steal my name from my mind if I hesitated for too long. Keeping my mind blank and calm, I blurted the first name that came to mind, a village friend of my sisters’ whom I’d never spoken to and whose face I couldn’t recall. “Clare Beddor.” My voice was nothing more than a gasp. ~ACOTAR ch. 26

Clare and her family are killed because Rhys revealed that name to Amarantha, even though he admitted later (in the next book) that he thought she made it up. So, Feyre's fears were not unfounded, but once she is Under the Mountain with everyone else, she is still reluctant to give her name when Amarantha asks for it.

Lucien is even brought forward and refuses to give away Feyre's name. For his defiance, Amarantha orders Rhysand to shatter his mind before Feyre finally gives in and shouts her name for everyone to hear. The Lady of Autumn even repays her sacrifice by helping her with one of Amarantha's "household tasks".

What is the sacrifice, though? It would seem that the only reason Amarantha wants to know her name is because Feyre knows hers, and wants to address her "properly":

“Feyre,” Amarantha said, testing my name, the taste of the two syllables on her tongue. “An old name—from our earlier dialects. Well, Feyre,” she said. I could have wept with relief when she didn’t ask for my family name. “I promised you a riddle.” ~ACOTAR ch. 35

In traditional faerie lore, it is said that names have power, so giving a faerie your name gives them power over you. (It is important to note that they cannot take anything from you. It has to be given.)

There is a scene in Hayao Miyazaki's animated classic in which the young protagonist Chihiro signs a contract to work for the sorceress Yubaba. In a beautifully animated sequence, her signature floats away and into Yubaba's waiting palm. She literally signed away her name. Chihiro is then given a new name in exchange: Sen. By the next day, she has already forgotten her original name and her purpose (freeing her enchanted parents). It is only when another ensorcelled young man gives her the bundle of her old clothes with a card in the pocket (with her name written on it) that she remembers who she was, and why she's there.

I just think it could have been very interesting to give Feyre a similar plotline in ACOTAR. By giving Amarantha her name, she no longer has it, and can no longer remember it. (And since the story is told in first person, it's easier to convey.)

How she gets her name back could be handled in one of two ways: Lucien gives back her name like the true friend he is, or she doesn't remember it until the very end.

If we explore the second option, this is what I'm thinking: Amarantha sought to break Feyre in mind, body, and spirit. The one thing she could never take from Feyre was her love for Tamlin.

“I love you,” I said. “No matter what she says about it, no matter if it’s only with my insignificant human heart. Even when they burn my body, I’ll love you.” My lips trembled, and my vision clouded before several warm tears slipped down my chilled face. I didn’t wipe them away. ~ACOTAR ch. 43

In my Faeries and Lying essay (linked above), I think it would have been more powerful for Amarantha to want Feyre to admit to lying about her love for Tamlin. In the same vein, I think it would be that much more impactful for Feyre to admit that even if she does not know her own name, she knows she loves Tamlin, and that's enough.

It's the one thing Amarantha couldn't take from her. It's the reason Feyre went Under the Mountain in the first place. And most importantly, it's the answer to the riddle. Love. And that's enough.

#my essays #sjm critical #the farther we get from the first book #the less magical it gets #acotar is a better standalone book #acotar worldbuilding #missed opportunities

[one-bunny-a-day]

02/12/2023

#daily bunny #336 #standalone bunny #now that I work in a bookstore I'll prooly be reading a lot more #and I always have a lot to say about the stuff I read #so Im wondering if I can do like a book club thingy? #but like I dont wanna organize a bunch of ppl or ask them to read the same thing as me or somet #just like #idk maybe just whenever I finish a book do a little draw for it and put my oppinions and thoughts under a read-more?? #somet like that would be good I thonk