#the last tale of the flower bride

[freckles-and-books]

These are three of my favorites reads this year, and they all feel like they’re in conversation with each other. Each deals with fairytales in ways that go beyond mere retellings, and each one has stunning prose that really made me fall in love.

#books #fairytale retelling #juniper and thorn #ava reid #the last tale of the flower bride #roshani chokshi #the salt grows heavy #cassandra khaw

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Best Books of 2023

I've already written quite a bit about these books and have a tag #best books of 2023 where I also include my honorable mentions, so here is a rapid fire of my best books of the year!

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen

Little Thieves by Margaret Owen

The Daevabad Trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty

Kindred by Octavia Butler

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual's Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J Brown

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty

Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo

The Feast Makers by H. A. Clarke

The Mirror Season by Anne-Marie McLemore

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

Painted Devils by Margaret Owen

Sisters of the Neversea by Cynthia Leitich Smith

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

#best books of 2023 #the last tale of the flower bride #the magic fish #little thieves #the daevabad trilogy #kindred #spinning silver #refusing compulsory sexuality #the adventures of amina al sirafi #the scapegracers #family lore

[dustjacketmusings]

👁👄👁

That's a hell of an opener

#currently reading #the last tale of the flower bride #ill allow the second person because its such a gut punch

[swiftiebookwormlogastellus]

I finished reading The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi and I feel like it reached into my heart and ripped out my soul.

Please please please tell me there’s some corner of the internet dedicated to this absolute masterpiece of a book

#roshani chokshi #the last tale of the flower bride #bookblr #booklr

[the-final-sentence]

In the end, they lived.

Roshani Chokshi, from The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

#roshani chokshi #the last tale of the flower bride

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🌌🌌 The Last Tale of The Flower Bride 🌌🌌

#the last tale of the flower bride #roshani chokshi #the gilded wolves #gothic #fairy tale retelling #fantasy #book recommends #suspense #2023 reads #new adult books #booktok

[viewoneverything]

– The Last Tale of the Flower Bride, by Roshani Chokshi

#quotes #roshani chokshi #the last tale of the flower bride #book

[suzannahnatters]

I finished reading Roshani Chokshi's THE LAST TALE OF THE FLOWER BRIDE last night and it was great. A brooding, suspenseful gothic novel where the role of the gothic heroine in a nightie is played by a bloke. Also: Susan Pevensie discourse that is VALID actually? AND a bonafide fairytale eucatastrophe?

#roshani chokshi #the last tale of the flower bride #gothic #I saw all the plot twists coming from like the first act but I didn't expect them to feel so good when they DID hit #and the WAY! she explodes the 'Susan Pevensie was exiled for wanting to be a grownup' take #like it's subtle but also Lewis was ACTUALLY saying that it's immature to think that maturity means leaving the imaginative world behind #which is precisely what Chokshi ends up saying here T_T yes queen

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JOMP BPC - September 23rd - Hello Autumn Spring

a recent flowery purchase with the lavender that's burst into bloom this week 💐🥰

#the last tale of the flower bride #roshani chokshi #justonemorepage #jompbpc #booklr #bookblr #trcc original #portraits

[theinquisitxor]

March 2023 Reading Wrap-Up

Hard to believe that we are already going into April, but I read 7 books in March + 1 dnf. It was a really good reading month in general, and I found some new favorites this month.

1.A Day Of Fallen Night (Roots of Chaos #0) by Samatha Shannon. 5/5 stars. Absolutely stellar and my favorite book so far this year. I thought this was better than Priory and this is one of the few books where I don't think I have any complaints. Adult High Fantasy

2.The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty 4/5 stars. This was a very entertaining story about lady pirate coming out of retirement for one last job, set in the middle east during the middle ages. Very fast paced, plot and action driven story. Excited to see where this new series goes. Adult Historical Fantasy

3.The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokski 1/5 stars-DNF. I could not stand this book, and stopped only after about 25%. Sadly, I don't think Chokski is an author for me. There were a lot of things I didn't like- the writing style, the characters, the instalove. I was very disappointed in this. Adult Fantasy

(the same cover artist did the covers for both A Day of Fallen Night and Amina al-Sirafi!)

4.The River of Silver : Tales from the Daevabad Trilogy by SA Chakrabory 4/5 stars. I really enjoyed reading this collection of short stories from one of my favorite series. This included stories from before, during, and after the main events of the series. This gave a good wrap-up and bonus content to this series. Adult High Fantasy

5.Velvet Was The Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 3/5 stars. This was an enjoyable historical noir from one of my new favorite authors. I didn't enjoy this book as much as Garcia's others, but it was quite different. Historical Noir.

6.Persepolis Rising (The Expanse #7) by James SA Corey 4/5 stars. I'm hoping to finally finish this series this year, and I enjoyed this entry quite a bit. It is very action and plot driven, but I really like the new plot and new villain this book introduced. It should be a good end to the series. Science-Fiction

7.Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen. A must read for ace folks and those interested. Really well done and informative. Nonfiction

8. Legendborn by Tracy Deonn 4.5/5 stars. Wow wow wow I really like this. I was hooked, and could not put this down. It was very action and plot forward, but didn't feel over the top. This was also unique and original, even though it has familiar ya tropes. A new favorite and I hope to read book 2 soon. YA Fantasy.

That is:

5 Fantasy, 1 Historical Fiction, 1 Nonfiction .

April TBR:

The Evening and The Morning by Ken Follett

How High We Go In the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

A Lady for A Duke by Alexis Hall

A Marvelous Light by Freya Marske

How to Live like a Monk: Medieval Wisdom for Modern Life by Danielle Cybulskie

#Reading Wrap Up #fantasy books #ya fantasy #books #bookblr #booklr #a day of fallen night #the adventures of amina al sirafi #the last tale of the flower bride #the river of silver #velvet was the night #the expanse #ace #angela chen #legendborn

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Group E, Round 2, Poll 6:

Propaganda under the cut

Indigo Maxwell-Castañada

She's kind of a gender swapped Bluebeard. . . She is one of the most compelling villains I have encountered in a while and what defines her is the toxic and codependent relationships she forms with people.

Morag Ladair

She is an inquisitor for a despotic colonizing empire, who is ruthlessly efficient, a master manipulator, and also a genuinely charming characters. She creates a rumor of the execution of a party member to successfully lure out the rest of them, and they only escape because she chooses to let them go

#round 2 #group e #the last tale of the flower bride #roshani chokshi #morag ladair #xenoblade chronicles 2

[freckles-and-books]

My favorites from the first half of 2023!

There weren’t a lot of standouts until the end of May/beginning of June when I read The Salt Grows Heavy, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride, and A Marvellous Light in a row. I’m hoping for a great second half to the year though.

#books #cheddar the cat #book recs #shubeik lubeik #catwoman lonely city #bea wolf #the salt grows heavy #a marvellous light #the last tale of the flower bride

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You might like The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi if. . .

you love fairy tales

are deeply fascinated by the story of Bluebeard

enjoy descriptive prose and extended metaphors

like engaging with complicated and toxic relationships

adore stories about stories

want a soft magic system

are not turned off by homoerotic and horrifying friendships between teen girls

want to read more Gothic modern fiction

need more women who are villains

#roshani chokshi #the last tale of the flower bride #my book reviews #booklr #book reviews #bluebeard

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The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

By Roshani Chokshi

#moodboard #the last tale of the flower bride #roshani chokshi

[evenaturtleduck]

I have since learned that marriage is nothing more than a spell strengthened by daily ritual. The spell requires libations: mundane musings hoarded and pored over, the repetition of small dismays, the knowledge of how your spouse takes their coffee. Marriage asks for that crust of time you were selfishly saving for yourself. Marriage demands blood, for it says: Here is what is inside me, and I tithe it to you.

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride, by Roshani Chokshi

#currently reading #the last tale of the flower bride #roshani chokshi

[mommybookwyrm]

So I completely binged this audiobook during my shift today, and if you love lyrical writing and stories that read like a fairy tale, then you NEED to read this!!!

#book blog #bookblr #bookish #booklr #booknerd #booksarelife #the last tale of the flower bride #roshani chokshi #adult fiction #audiobook