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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 12h

if it makes you feel better, I still have yet to be over I think 73%?? I ALWAYS end up getting knocked back down before I manage to hit the recommended because I just be out here requesting all the time lol

My current feedback ratio is 60% from 25 arcs approved and 15 with feedback sent (the recommended feedback ratio is 80%, I’ll never see it I fear lol)

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

currently reading ~ 🐮 I needed something light and fluffy to get me through life right now so I’m hoping this scratches that itch lol thank you Victory Editing NetGalley Co-op for a copy of the e-arc!

A Witch’s Guide to Freeing A Minotaur by Vivian Quest - the cover is of a woman in a pink over dress and white under dress and a minotaur in a white top and brown waist coast holding hands while facing on another and standing in front of hedgemaze

Book description
Ava is a burnt-out witch. Kal is a self-loathing minotaur. Neither thinks they deserve it, but they just might heal each other.
As a child, Ava was a prodigious witch. Now, almost thirty, she barely leaves bed. When her mother sends her to her late great-aunt's manor with an ultimatum to pass an impossible magic exam (and make her mother rich again) or be disowned, Ava would rather let the void take her. Until a howl rises from the hedge maze.
Kal longs to be the monster everyone expects, not the poetry-loving minotaur he is. Cursed and bound to the grounds after a failed theft, he's ready to claim his freedom. Even if that means killing the manor's new resident. When he bursts into the dining room, he doesnt expect to be offered tea.
Ava doesn't expect the manor's minotaur to blush and apologize when he learns only powerful magic can dispel his curse. Magic that flickers within Ava again as she tries to help him.
But Kal’s mating season looms, and the last thing he needs is a pretty witch who smiles and compliments his taste in literature. He swears he won't give into his instincts and claim Ava. Even if she wants him, too.

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

omg i got my first audio arc !! 🥳

email notification reads “Your approved request to view Scorpion Deep
from Macmillan Audio”

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I haven’t started it yet so I can’t tell you if it’s worth the time yet but it’s this one 😈

a witches guide to freeing a minotaur by vivian quest

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

dude Thule Emma never being able to reunite with Thule Julian after death because she came here and died here like this ?? brutal and devastating. I mean yeah they’re essentially demons but damn

part of a page in a book reads -

But death will be no mercy. She understands that, now, too late, the crumbs of her spirit drifting on the sea breeze, carrying her further and further from herself.
Her spirit will disappear into this world, into its moonlit skies and shimmering waters. She will pass through to whatever is next, and she has no illusions it will be Heaven. She had known herself Hell bound for a long time, but had always assumed she would meet Julian there, in the place of fire and torment. Better to be with Julian in Hell than alone in Heaven.
But whatever place she passed to now would be this world's afterlife.
Her Julian would not be there. She would always be an unreachable world away from him. Lovers parted in death. Julian is lost to her, forever. This is her final mistake, her final failure, her final agony.

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

damn the fairchilds uhhh have a thing for paris

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

babe, wake up, new sobh twins art just dropped & i’m sooo totally not normal about it {insta @/toka_sketch}

close up of ghost livvy hovering in a sitting position while reading a paper of notes, and irene the lynx is also perched on the stack of books that are directly behind livvy so you see irene through her lol

slightly closer view of livvy and ty and irene

full art of Tiberius and Livia Blackthorn (and Irene) in a darkly lit library. she is hovering in the air reading over on the left and he is squatting down looking at books on a shelf on the right

closer up of Ty, he’s got one hand sliding against the spines of books trying to find the proper one and the other hand resting on the side of the bookcase while squatting bc down for a better look in the dim lantern light you can see Irene’s face and she kinda looks like she’s about to pounce onto his shoulder

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

second time hearing my fav author, i’m on cloud nine 🥹🖤

Victoria Schwab chatting with John Scalzi on a stage chatting

the title page of Victorious by VE Schwab with her signature and the book tour seal embossed into it that says “the end is here” with the image of a shovel

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

🌟⭐️🌟.5 I didn’t really think this was much of a dark academia as it’s marketed, but I was entertained so I will probs read the other one thank you Victory Editing NetGalley Co-op & Lexi Davis for a copy of the e-arc! my full review is on StoryGraph: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/c185...

kobo ereader displaying the cover of pretty vicious by lexi davis - it has skulls and flowers and says “the order, book one: obey” under the title and above it says “obey or die”

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

giggling despite the circumstances lmao

text messages on an ebook page

Felicity: I lived bitch

Morgan: oh so the first thing you send me is a fucking meme

Felicity: AAAAHAHAHAHA

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

always gotta stop & say hi when i see my girls out in the wild

my hand making a half heart in front of the copies of the locked tomb at the bookshop

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

too bad i don’t love them like i love everdale because they’re soooo

page in a book highlighted -

The problem is that sometimes, when Atlas looked at Ezra Fowler, he saw himself, like facing down a mirror that showed him all of his best qualities and none of the ugly ones. The problem is that it was not romantic, not platonic, not fraternal.
The problem is that it was closest to alchemical—the feeling like you've met the person you want to make magic with for the rest of your life.
The problem is that sometimes, when Atlas looked at Ezra, he only saw an ending; someone to eventually, inevitably lose.
Because it is impossible to remove from the equation of the problem the fundamental nucleus of truth, which is that Atlas Blakely loved and was Loved by Ezra Fowler, and that becoming mortal enemies is unfortunately one plausible strand of outcomes of loving and being loved this way.

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

SAME, i adore the hunt of thrifting the og ones but small local gift shops & hallmark are the best bet i think for finding the new editions. it’s nostalgic as hell! 🖤

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

what’s keeping me sane lately - additions to my collections 🖤

Two 60s yellow spine editions of Nancy Drew Mystery Stories by Carolyn Keene - the clue in the crossword cipher and the invisible intruder

The new northern giraffe webkinz stuffie

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

brb crying at the foreword alone

The letter reads -

“I always knew that Matthew had more of a future after the end of Chain of Thorns. (I mean, every character who survives has a future after the end of a series, but some I've thought about in more detail than others.)
Matthew's arc in Last Hours was always about healing and sur-vival. Matthew had to find a way out of his addiction, and his unhap-piness, before he could move past it and be healthy enough for all sorts of things: living his life into adulthood, becoming the person he'lleven-tually be, coping with the death of Christopher, and yes, finding reciprocal love — especially since so much of his story was about how he always fell in love with people who couldn't love him back because he wasn't yet ready to accept the real love he deserved.
I set this story on a glorious old ocean liner because Ilove them —the glamor, the dressing for dinner, the gorgeous rooms, wandering around on the deck in the moonlight... and of course I had Matthew bring Oscar with him because how could he solve a mystery without Oscar?
This was my first foray into Matthew POV, and I wondered at first if it would be difficult, but it felt like inhabiting the skin of someone Id known incredibly well for so long. I was delighted to get to spend time with him, and to introduce Sylvain, and to take these next steps on Matthew's journey. This doesn't bring him to the end of anything-he's young, with his whole life ahead of him! — but it does I think open the door to a new phase of Matthew's life, one that allows him to accept the grief and loss he's felt while also accepting that he deserves love and happiness.
Enjoy!
Xoxo
Cassie”

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

idk how much i’ll yall over 80 pages but it’s matthew finally being happy so possibly a bunch, who knows

endpaper art of a blonde guy and his golden retriever on a boat - aka THE matthew fairchild and his pup oscar wilde

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

just going to read a sea change for now to keep moving before tlkof, but i will loop back to the other stories she wrote, i swear!

careful of books by cassandra clare, a novella collection

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

TWO A WEEK?! eeeeeeeek!! 😻

the season 3 schedule for percy jackson has episodes 1&2 on nov 20, 3&4 nov 26, 5&6 dec 4, 7&8 dec 11

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

playing sherlock holmes rn to fill the void 25 days until tlkof 😭🖤

Art of Tiberius Blackthorn and Kit Herondale as Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, respectively- Ty is sitting at a desk reading over a paper with a magnifying glass and Kit is leaning down over the side of the desk to speak with him.

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🥹 well guess what’s my first preorder for 2027

Rachel Gillig posted to her Instagram “surprise! I wrote a novella about Bartholomew!” and it’s titled the sprite and the gargoyle

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

IVE MISSED THEM LOL also nico just head over heels about kissing gideon and then libby returning within minutes of it is so precious. i love him so much. baby boy’s got both of his soulmates right beside him again 🥹🖤

Highlighted sentence in a book-

Literally, his first words to her— "You know, all of this could have been accomplished with about fifty percent fewer theatrics"-to which she responded with a narrowing of her slate eyes, a moment's pause, and then, just when she ought to have had a witty (witty-ish) comeback at the ready, an abrupt and thorough retching that resulted in a pool of vomit at Nico's feet.

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

CASSIE PLEASE we haven’t even read tlkof yet 😭😭

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

currently reading ~ fine, i’m finally ready for the emotional damage olivie is going to give me, i guess. 😭❤️‍🩹

The Atlas Complex by Olivie Blake (The Atlas Six book 3) sitting on my bookshelf and facing the viewer

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

dnf i don’t like the writing because i keep getting lost… and i’m less than a full chapter pages in. it’s just jumping without any explanation whatsoever and kinda messy feeling? idk maybe i just don’t have patience rn 😬

a paperback book sitting on a dog hair covered porch sofa cushion - it’s titled “chaos at the lazy bones bookshop” written by emmeline duncan

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

happy release day to all those who understand how monumental this book finally being published is 🥹🖤 {art is @/surayart on tumblr}

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

like wdym 30 days until this is in my hands

the last king of faerie endpaper art of Tiberius and Kit leaning in a door way full of yearning and next to kissing ugh I NEED IT

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

their first time bowling was a success 🖤

mine, my nieces, my spouse, and my nephew’s bowling shoes. 3 pairs are bright orange and yellow and 2 pairs are black.

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

currently reading ~ 👁️ this was the july evernight pick!!

the sea hides its dead by megan bontrager

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

currently reading ~ 🔪 I’m really excited to read Andrew Joseph White’s newest, I’ve heard from others whove read the arc that this is their fav work of his so far!! this one releases October 27th, thank you Peachtree Publishers & NetGalley for the e-arc! 🖤

Cover of You’re No Better by Andrew Joseph White - it’s a black background shattered with pink fault lines like a mirror that have brief sketched images of someone on the phone and someone else covered with bandages. In the center is someone with matching pink hair kneeling and staring down at their hands covered in note matching dripping pink that’s also puddling between their knees. Scattered across them are photographs.

Book Description -

Bestselling author Andrew Joseph White returns with another horrific YA thriller: a profound portrait of a struggling teen trying to convince the world-and himself-that he's better than the serial killer who raised him.
Morgan Slaughter, a seventeen-year-old trans boy with autism, put his serial killer father in prison years ago.
Despite that, everyone thinks Morgan will grow up to be just like his dad: including his volatile mother, the documentary crew following their family, and maybe himself.
Desperately, Morgan latches onto his father's final victim-the only one who was never identified-hoping that if he unravels the mystery, he'll finally prove he's better than the man who hurt him. But this puts Morgan in the crosshairs of classmate Felicity Keating, who knows the truth about Morgan's childhood-that he wasn't just a witness to his father's brutality, he was an accomplice. And if he doesn't let them help with his investigation? They'll tell everyone.
Forced to confront his past, Morgan's ugly but carefully controlled world unravels. The film crew is manipulative. His mother's temper spirals into malice, then violence. And Morgan and Felicity may be more tightly intertwined than either of them can stomach...

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

alrighty besties, it’s time. next month is officially tlkof release month, so we are about to wrap it up and finish the last few remaining stories. next up, sobh 🫡

Secrets of Blackthorn Hall by Cassandra Clare

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

currently reading ~ i know nothing about this book other than there are horses?? so here goes nothing 🐴🩸

a paperback copy of the unmothers by leslie j anderson propped up on my bookshelf and facing the viewer

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

honestly the goal this month is just only read from my physical tbr shelf unless it’s an arc with a review due soon since rory & i are going to be hella book shopping come our trip in november lol

currently reading:
the unmothers by leslie j anderson
threnody by cas e crowe (an arc)
better in black by cassandra clare

october hopeful tbr:
you’re no better by andrew joseph white (an arc)
all of us villains by amanda foody & cl herman
the sea hides its dead by megan bontrager
as many souls as stars by natasha siegel

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

𝚜𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 ~ + 𝟷 𝚍𝚗𝚏

my september 2026 reading wrap up

18 books
5,510 pages
4.0 average rating

Highest rated reads:
The knave and the moon - Rachel Gillig (5 stars)
Ninth house - Leigh Bardugo (5 stars)
Hell bent - Leigh Bardugo (5 stars)

Average book length - 299 pages
Average time to finish - 4 days

100% fiction
15 fantasy
6 thriller
6 horror
4 manga
3 romance

56% print
39% digital
6% audio

cover collage for my September reads:
Babe Bloom by Sharon Lynn Fisher
Knave and the Moon by Rachel Gillig
The Nightmares: Descent to Nowhere comic
Tokyo Ghoul vols 5-8
Adversary to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
Rottenheart by Kat Dunn
Cathedral of the Drowned by Nathan Ballingrud
Thief of Night by Holly Black
Percy Jackson the Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan
Alex Stern trilogy by Leigh Bardugo
The Book of the Dead anthology
The Resurrectionist by EB Hudspeth
Grim Tidings by BK Borison

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the tiny reminders of the domestic & mundane happily ever after is all a girl wants, kit and jem both deserve the precious family moment

believe-in-kit-supremacy asked
Hi Cassie! How are you doing?
If it's not a spoiler: does Ty know about Kit being the First Heir? It's a big secret, but some of his family know, so what about him?
Also, since I've been obsessed with the cute little family Tessa and Jem created with Kit and Mina, I was wondering-how much of them will we see? I've been craving some family fluff ever since gotsm, if you know what I mean!
Thank you so much for creating these amazing stories and characters!

Cassie answered
A limited amount of people know Kit is the Heir, but Ty is among them. Kit doesn't tell him, he already is aware.
We do absolutely get to see the Jem-Tessa-Mina-Kit household and some cute stuff.

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

and we love her for it !!!!! 👏👏👏

cmsorsomething asked
Hi Cassie!! I have always wanted to ask you if you often see shadowhunters related post on tumblr just to see what is the fandom discussions, posting, etc?

Cassie answered
Nope, in fact, I stay strictly away from them.
Sometimes someone will send me a link to something funny or to art, which I love. But it is my general feeling that fandoms do not need the creator of the source material watching them and creeping them out.

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

starting off today’s session strong lmaoooo

judesblade asked “Jem”

Cassie answered “I mean, sure. I feel you.”

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

currently reading ~ 🌊 this is book 1 of the salt and song duology and it’s releasing October 13th, thank you Cas E Crowe & NetGalley for a copy of the e-arc!! i’m excited to dive in, pun intended hehe

“Threnody” by Cas E Crowe. The cover art is of a woman in a dark red gown wading into the sea under a full moon. The image is in an ornate oval frame covered with shells coral and skulls, and the background is the depths of the ocean.

The book description -
The sea has whispered Ezra Thorn's name for as long as she can remember.
After surviving a shipwreck, Ezra washes ashore on the cursed island of Port Calliope Bay, where sirens haunt the surrounding waters and a brutal ritual sacrifice known as the fleshing keeps the island alive. As an outsider with no protection, Ezra quickly learns her survival is uncertain.
Her only refuge lies with Archie Abrams, the governor's nephew. He's dangerously charming, fiercely secretive, and bound to the island's darkness in ways he refuses to explain. When an ancient artifact tied to the sea resurfaces, Ezra and Archie join forces to end the curse that has long fed the islanders to the sirens. But as they delve deeper into its secrets, forbidden desire ignites between them, becoming a temptation neither can afford.
Yet Port Calliope Bay hides truths older than its curse, and the voice calling Ezra from the depths knows her far too well. With each haunting song, it lures her toward a fate written long before she was born.
Because some curses aren't meant to be broken-but fulfilled.
A gothic romantasy of sirens, morally grey heroes, and dangerous desire, perfect for readers who love dark, atmospheric romance with supernatural intrigue and a steamy slow burn

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akiapapaya @akiapapaya.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i know that’s right !! the world would heal if left up to pamela dawes !!

Section of a page highlighted reads - “The movies loved cold-eyed assassins and flinty lone wolves. But the world needed people who wept and fought on, saps and suckers and fools who had their hearts broken but kept loving anyway, women who knew how to work magic with nothing but water and flour, a little salt, and a will that could grind iron to dust.”

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