iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

225 The Martian by Andy Weir I’m pretty much fucked. That’s my considered opinion. Fucked.

Book cover of The Martian shows an astronaut in a white suit surrounded by hazy red and gold.

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

224 White Trash Warlock by David Slayton Adam would have given anything to be like the other boys, whose biggest concerns were girls and sneaking their dad’s beer. Even if he’d been straight, Adam’s father had vanished, and he couldn’t drink without his Sight making him crazy.

Book cover of White Trash Warlock is deep green. A building is being taken apart by enormous tentacles. A car is flying in the air next to the building.

020 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

223 Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid Unless Ilya was very bad at reading people- and he definitely wasn’t - Hollander probably would have kissed him right back. And, Jesus, that thought had consumed Ilya since draft day.

Book cover of Heated Rivalry shows two ice hockey players on the rink. One is a little smaller, in a red uniform and with dark hair. The other is in black and gold, with dark blond hair and beard.

030 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

222 Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo “You don’t look like a monster.” “I’ll tell you a secret, Hanna. The really bad monsters never look like monsters.”

Book cover of Crooked Kingdom is bright red. A woman with dark hair in a long braid and wearing a cloak is depicted in shades of gray, running. She holds a knife in one hand with another knife tucked into a strap wrapped around her calf.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

221 The Wayfinder by Adam Johnson Hine threw up her hands. “They’re all blurring together,” she says. “I can’t keep them straight.” “That’s good,” Tiri said. “There’s only one story, the story of our people. It can come in scraps.”

Book cover of The Wayfinder shows two people, covered in tattoos. They appear to be swimming, but they are surrounded by stars in the night sky.

010 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

220 Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito I was sixteen years old when realized I was unable to feel fear. At least, not in the way other people experience it-in that undignified, acutely desperate sort of way.

Book cover of Victorian Psycho shows a close up of a painting of a child with curly brown hair and blue eyes. The title in in neon green, with the color running down the page.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

219 The Last Town by Blake Crouch I wish we lived in a world where actions were measured by the intentions behind them. But the truth is, they’re measured by their consequences.

Book cover of The Last Town shows an image of tall Victorian buildings, cut together like a kaleidoscope. The sky behind the building is orange and purple.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

218 A Power Unmasked by Freya Marske “It meant something, to hear from a real person. It made it all seem less tawdry. It was-a kind thing.” And Jack wasn’t going to ask how few kindnesses this man had received in his life, that a page-long letter…would rank so highly.

Book cover if A Power Unbound shows two men in purple silhouette, both in suits. One is holding a cane. They are surrounded by tall trees with deep green leaves.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

217 Canticle by Janet Rich Edward’s Aleys has tried everything she can think of to prove herself to God. She can’t help but feel her talents are wasted. The saints get all the adventures. All the friends. “You’re a strange child,” says Papa, “but you’ll save us in the end.”

Book cover of Canticle shows a woman in a red cloak. She is standing in front of a golden wall that is surrounded by green vines.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

216 Game Changer by Rachel Reid It wasn’t just being gay, or being famous. It was both of those things combined and knowing that it wasn’t possible to openly be who he was in his line of work.

A tall blond man is leaning against a counter holding a hockey stick and a purple drink. A brunette man stands behind the bar, smiling at him.

020 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

216 A Psalm For The Wild Built by Becky Chambers Sometimes, a person reaches a point in their life when it becomes absolutely essential to get the fuck out of the city.

Book cover of A Psalm For The Wild Built shows a gray robot in the top left corner and a person on a bike pulling a two story trailer in the bottom right corner. In between them is a twisty road surrounded by leaves and plants.

020 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

215 You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego But a decade in courtrooms had instructed me that anyone was capable of anything-including celebrities, including authors. Including myself. What on earth possessed me to think coming was a good idea?

Book cover of You Are Fatally Invited shows a large house on top of a rocky shore. The ocean is a bright teal color and the sky is red. The house and land are so dark they are almost black.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

214 The Book That Held Her Heart by Mark Lawrence The library was never about taking charge. It’s a memory. It’s ideas. It might have hoped to stop what’s happening here, but it’s too late. There will be blood, and horror, and probably all the worst things that humanity is capable of.

Book cover of The Book That Held Her Heart shows an enormous library with swirling staircases leading up many floors. The entire picture is in links and purples with glowing yellow lights.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

213 The Everlasting by Alix Harrow She only knew that her father was dead, and that the hilt in her hand felt like the clasp of an old friend. And so-full of grief and fresh-born fury-she drew the sword from the yew.

Book cover of The Everlasting is black. A large silver sword is centered, surrounded by vines and flowers.

010 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

212 Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman “In mortal days, when they couldn’t cure a cancer-illness, they cut that cancer-illness out. That’s exactly what I do.” “It’s cruel.” “It’s not. The scythes that I end feel no pain.”

Book cover of Thunderhead shows two figures in cloaks. The shorter one is a dark teal, the taller one is in all black.

010 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

211 The Place Where They Buried Your Heart by Christina Henry When grown-ups said “dangerous,” they meant “structurally unsound.” They didn’t mean the house could devour a child whole.

Book cover of The Place Where They Buried Your Heart shows an enormous, three story Victorian house. It is night time and the sky is purple and black.

010 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

210 The Stranger In Her House by John Marrs Either he has brainwashed all of them or in the one who has got it hopelessly wrong. Maybe I’m projecting. Not everyone is a liar, not everyone has a hidden agenda, not everyone is going to stab me in the back like Caz did.

Book cover of The Stranger In Her House shows a rocking chair in a dimly lit room. A person’s silhouette is visible outside the window.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

209 Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree She sighed and whispered, “If I read this in a book, I’d never believe it. It’s too amazing and stupid at the same time.

Book cover of Brigands & Breadknives shows a green person with red hair, a mouse and a tall elf with white hair surrounding a fire. It is night time and a horse stands behind them.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

208 Haven’t Killed In Years by Amy Green On the day my mother was released from prison I stubbed my toe four times. Same toe. Four times. It was a statistical anomaly and, in hindsight, a warning that bad things were coming my way.

Book cover of Haven’t Killed in Years shows a Polaroid picture of a tall man and a child. The picture is faded and has been ripped in half, separating the man onto one side and the girl on the other.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

207 A Restless Truth by Freya Marske “A wild goose chase with a side order of possibly being apprehended for theft.” “Or, apparently, murdered,” said Violet. “Doesn’t it sound a lark?”

Book cover of A Restless truth is real with a darker teal design on it. The yellow silhouette of two women in dresses is centered.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

206 The Merge by Grace Walker You’ve got Alzheimer’s. I’m an addict. Noah’s got leukemia. Were the misfits if society. If they find a way to successfully merge us, to get rid of our problems, then they’ll do it to anyone with an ailment. Soon, only the healthy, rich ones will be left.

Book cover of The Merge shows a close up of a woman. Her picture has been painted over with bright streaks of blue, pink and yellow paint.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

205 There Is No Antimemetics Division by QNTM But an idea can end a world. An idea is alive. It can mutate, it can replicate, it can predate on other ideas…and it can hide.

Book cover of There Is No Antimemetics Division shows an enormous black tower with no visible windows. The sky is orange and gold. The building towers above trees and low lying fog.

010 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

204 Kill The Beast by Serra Swift …to Lyssa it would always be “the Beast.” The horror that had shaped her life into something she hardly recognized, and still haunted her nightmares almost thirteen years later.

Book cover of Kill The Beast shows a tall woman and shorter man standing outside. The night sky is surrounded by trees forming a doorway around them. At the top of the doorway is a white lions head.

010 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

203 The Perfect Hosts by Heather Gudenkauf They didn’t do shit. You know why? Because these small communities protect their own. Always have. Always will. Mom was a nobody cleaning lady who picked up their shit, and we were her nothing kids.

Book cover of The Perfect Hosts is blue. There is a white cake on a cake stand. Bright pink and blue icing is dripping down from the top. A sharp knife has been stabbed into the middle of the cake.

010 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

202 Hazelthorn by CG Drews He knows what it is to be buried alive, the feeling of dirt in his mouth and the quiet fitting around him like a well-tailored grave.

Book cover of Hazelthorn shows a person with pale skin and dark hair, looking up at the sky. Their eyes are bound tightly by thorny vines. Blood is dripping from their eyes.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

201 Witch King by Martha Wells The ghoul choked out, “I didn’t know you were a…” “Say it.” Kai smiled “…a demon.” “You idiot.” Kai leaned closer to whisper, “I’m the demon.”

Book cover of Witch King shows a person running. They are wearing a blue cloak and face long wavy hair.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

200 Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire Now I know that if you open the right door at the right time, you might finally find a place where you belong. Why does that mean I can’t go back? Maybe I’m just not finished being sure.

Book cover of Every Heart A Doorway shows a wooden door in the middle of the woods. The sun is glowing through the trees. The door is partway open.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

199 Seveneves by Neal Stephenson The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason. It was waxing, only one day short of full. The time was 05:03:12 UTC. Later, it would be designated A+0.0.0, or simply Zero.

Book cover of Seveneves shows a black and white image of an extreme close up of an eye. Reflected in the iris is a bright white light with a blue corona.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

198 Ask For Andrea by Noelle Ihli I first realized I was dead the same way you realize you’ve been dreaming. Except backwards, I guess. Because the bad dream was real.

Book cover of Ask For Andrea shows a dirt road in a wooded area. There is a red high heel laying on the road. The sun is setting and the sky is orange and red.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

197 Recipes For An Unexpected Afterlife by Deston Munden It’s been hundreds of years since you’ve been living. How long can a dream live without nourishment? How long has it been since you’ve thought about you- you underneath all that bloody history?

Book cover of Recipes For An Unexpected Afterlife shows a hand drawn image of a city. A woman leans out of a building holding a loaf of bread; a knight in armor holds a spear; a dark skinned orc in an apron and chef’s hat sits near a stove.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

196 How To Kill A Witch: The Patriarchy’s Guide To Silencing Women by Venditozzi and Mitchell When the going gets tough in any society, it is the most vulnerable who are accused of causing the damage.

Book cover of How To Kill A Witch is black with bright red flames covering almost the entire cover.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

195 Disappoint Me by Nicola Dinan …when it came to race, part of how well you were doing was how well you hid it, at least back then. I hate that it still feels the same with being trans. For me. I can’t ignore that the hiddenness, the cloaked transness, might be why Vincent thinks this will work

Book cover of Disappoint Me shows a woman in a black dress laying on a green couch.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

194 One Bad Night & Other Stories “I would remember if I had a sister,” I say, but the words are too fragile, too uncertain, and I’m sure Axelle hears it. “Would you?” She says. “It’s so hard to remember anything in all this darkness.”

Book cover of One Bad Night & Other Stories is black. A bright red mouth is open and about to swallow a black fish. The mouth has rows and rows of sharp teeth.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

193 Artemis by Andy Weir “Jazz, I’m a businessman,” he said. “My whole job is exploiting underutilized resources. And you are a massively underutilized resource.”

Book cover of Artemis is black, with an image of the moon in gray and black.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

192 Alchemy of Secrets by Stephanie Garber By now, I’m sure many of you have tried to find the devil at a hotel bar, and I probably should have said this before: Be very careful. Hollywood was not built on dreams, it was built on favors from the devil….

Book cover of Alchemy Of Secrets shows a woman in a pink dress sitting at a green bar. She is holding a pink drink and has blond hair.

010 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

191 The Infernals by John Connolly What Mrs Abernathy had discovered, even if she refused to admit it to herself, was that if you go to a place intent upon changing it, then sometimes that place may end up changing you instead.

Book cover of The Infernals is black, with white flakes at the bottom. One of the flakes looks like a horned goat. The author’s name is at the top in red.

010 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

190 Extremity by Nicholas Binge Maybe that’s my punishment. Maybe I’m doomed to repeat all this, again and again and again, like some kind of sick purgatory, for the rest of time.

Book cover of Extremity shows a woman in a white shirt and dark jacket, a tall black man in a suit and a young cop in a British police uniform and hat.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

189 A Marvelous Light by Freya Marske Robin and Edward had already shared a handful of secrets, and now they shared another, and this awareness of their common nature- in a way that had nothing whatsoever to do with magic- hung delicate and unspoken between them as they left the room.

Book cover of A Marvelous Light is dark purple, with hot pink plants and flowers covering it. The outline of two men in orange and white stand centered.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

188 What We Can Know by Ian McEwan But it strikes, deep in my chest, a curious pleasure-pain of longing, delight, sadness. I think those who love our accumulated centuries of literature feel this most.

Book cover of What We Can Know shows an ornate mirror lying on the ground. The mirror shows a blurred image of greenery.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

187 Future X by Georg Koszulinski All I have to offer is myself. Jane Ballard. Survived. Whatever happens, remember my name, it’s all I have in this world.

Book cover of Future X shows the title repeated in red font 7 times. In the background is an abstract image, purple and green and blue paint splotches on a black background.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

186 All Of Us Murderers by KJ Charles And yes, Zeb has ruined everything, but he hasn’t done it because he was scheming or acquisitive: the very opposite. Gideon might believe he was callous or careless or culpable stupid. He had no right to think him a villain who would marry…for money.

Book cover of All Of Us Murderers shows two young Jen running away from a mansion. It is nighttime and the windows are all lit up.

010 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Oof this is pretty bleak. I had no idea book sales were in such a slump already.

010 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

185 Strange Houses by Uketsu It’s a rather unsettling house in general, isn’t it? Well, do you think my friend should hold off from buying it?

Book cover if Strange Houses is neon pink, with a white, black and pink floor plan of a house.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

184 The Mad Wife by Meagan Church I knew to be sweet, as Mama always said. I had forgotten for a moment, but it had come back to me. For now, I needed to stay quiet. Smile the smile. And save the screams for the hours when the others slept.

Book cover of The Mad Wofe shows a woman in a 1950s dress and apron standing in a kitchen. There is a black bar covering her eyes.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

183 The Women of Wild Hill by Kirsten Miller “What is the mission?” “Topple tyrants. Balance the scales. Protect the earth. Avenge the wronged,” Sadie recited.

Book cover of The Women Of Wild Hill shows dark trees m, mushrooms and foliage. A red and orange flame fills the center of the picture.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

182 Colin Gets Promoted And Dooms The World by Mark Waddell Sure, I still had some unknown and possibly horrific price to pay for my promotion, and yes, it sounded like there was as a decent chance my new job would kill me, but these were minor details. Right then…I was on top of the world.

Book cover of Colin Gets Promoted And Dooms The World shows a white hand handing a clack business card to a tan hand. A chain with a heart shaped lock is wrapped around the white hand. In the background is a city surrounded by red smoke and flames.

010 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

181 The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson If I have a new world, it means that particular Earth’s me isn’t using it anymore. I’m dead again, somewhere else, and I didn’t feel a thing.

Book cover of The Space Between Workds shoes a person in clothing like army fatigues, walking in a warm, brown toned world. On the other side of the giver a figure in fancy white clothing is walking in front of a cool, blue toned city.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

180 Wayward by Blake Crouch More and more, he was coming to realize that living in Pines was like living in an elaborate play whose curtain never closed. Everyone had their parts.

$Book cover of Wayward shows a fractured aerial image of a road winding through Rocky Mountains and trees.$

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

179 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Maybe I’m overthinking that photo, but I’m starting to notice a pattern: Evelyn always leaves you hoping you’ll get just a little bit more. And she always denies you.

Book cover of The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo shows a close up of a woman in a vibrant green silk dress.

000 0

Laura @breathefire210.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

178 Six Of Crows by Leigh Bardugo When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.

Cover of Six of Crows is a deep mustard yellow. In black and white there is a young man with shirt dark hair, wearing a full dark trench coat and holding a cage with a raven’s head at the top.

110 0