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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Night Gift by Patricia McKillip turned out to be the only non-fantasy title in her large catalogue, so reading it for a fantasy book challenge didn’t really work. That being said, it’s a surprisingly modern book for being from the 70’s. 3 young girls deal with adolescence and a Very Big Thing

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sometimes what you need is cute, tropey, funny, quirky romance about a librarian and a shapeshifting dragon doing research and having adventures. Sometimes you need Nobody Told Me Dragons Use Libraries. I especially appreciated an neurospicy MC who is aware of how her brain works, and unapologetic

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

NGL I only read Small Things Like These because it was the smallest book on a Goodreads challenge list. I’m too tired at the moment for books that are ‘deep’ and ‘worthy’, and a second book about Homes for Unwed mothers was like touching a bruise. Oh well, I was already depressed

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The problem is that Grady Hendrix sounds like he should be my jam, but it just doesn’t quite fit right for me. Every premise of his books sounds amazing, but I’m not the right reader. In this one a group of unwed mothers in 1970 get mixed up with witchcraft. Made me sad

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Babysitter Lives by Stephen Graham Jones was a strange one for me. I’m not sure what I was expecting. The set up was pure slasher, but it felt….sadder than that. I enjoyed the Buffalo Hunter Hunter, so I will definitely try another one of his. My Heart is a Chainsaw is on the list

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In a world where soulmates exist, if you don’t find yours by 25 you get put into prison with a hunger games style population control. So far, so ridiculous. But somehow….ridiculously fun? Kill to Love by Penny Sunday looks like it’s a debut novel

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Murder at Magical Medical School. Boom. Either you 100% need it immediately or you need to reread that sentence. Bodies of Magic by @freyamarske.bsky.social

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tenderly I Am Devoured by Lyndall Clipstone is about a girl who finds herself engaged to an underworld god (shades of Persephone) but caught up in her feelings for both a brother and a sister from a wealthy family. Possession and obsession.

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is the horror of dreary minutia and dehumanisation, and pettiness. It’s casual cruelty and it’s brilliant, but possibly not something that I could ever reread. Or ever forget. Dystopian corporate cannibalism is actually a believable future

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I normally like my horror a bit camp, or intellectual, or the kind of dreamy gorgeousness of Sarandon and Deneuve in The Hunger Tender is the flesh is the exact opposite of this

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nothing But the Rain by Naomi Salman is a devastating and brilliant novella with an alternative narrative structure. A small town is quarantined by mysterious armed forces after the rain starts stealing people’s memories. Will mess you up (And you’ll be grateful)

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Generation Trauma x Haunted House yet somehow still a little bit cosy, because T. Kingfisher is a genius. A House With Good Bones by @tkingfisher.com (Not for anyone with a fear of bugs) (Please also check this fear re. the ridiculously good Wolf Worm) (Because NIGHTMARES guys)

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A guide from a secretive group of “pathfinders” that help people navigate a world consumed by dangerous magical beings rescues a mysterious (and handsome) man from being executed. He thinks she’s flirting with him. Pathfinder’s Way and Mist’s Edge

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is a kind of poor, white, southern community halfway between Magic town, and normal-ville where people love feuds and cursing is an art form. I hate the covers, but the books are great.

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I loved the Kate Daniel’s series, but I think that I like this slightly cosier spin off version better. Chaos still happens, but Kate begins and ends happy Magic Tides and Magic Claims (no clams!) by @ilonaandrews.bsky.social

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What if the creepy, haunted, porcelain doll wasn’t the villain of the story, but was the victim….. Firstly, I didn’t expect to actually be brought to tears by a haunted freaking doll. Bravo Barbara Truelove and @bindary_books

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I did myself a disfavour when reading Slasher Summer by expecting it to not be a slasher. I was expecting genre subversions for some reason, and didn’t let myself just go with it. A high school scary movie club gets together years after high school. Things get…..slashy.

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hear the Dead, coming October. A 66 year old former punk photographer who is losing her hearing to tinnitus goes viral after the death of a famous punk rocker brings her photos into the public eye. Which would be great if she wasn’t being haunted by her best friend’s death 40 years ago…..

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I hope this email finds you in hell is what happens if you mix a workplace romance with the tv show supernatural. Ghosts, demons, deals, and fixing the f***ing fax machine. I would have lived to see a little more of the hellscape infrastructure, but you can’t have everything from your katabasis

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Despite my love of Seanan McGuire, I had somehow missed reading her Mira Grant Parasitology trilogy. Dear Gods. This book is brilliant, terrifying, prescient, and deeply strange to read in a post-pandemic world. She made me have feelings for parasitic invertebrates!!!!!!!!!

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There was a reddit thread about which celebrity would you NOT be surprised at if they turned out to be a serial killer. Answers were interesting Mindy McGinnis might have a book coming out in January that asks a similar question. What if a billionaire pop star was a serial killer?

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’ve seen this book critiqued for how unobservant the MC is, but I’ve also known a lot of academics and scientists, and it tracks. Did I get sucked into a cute rom-com trailer? Absolutely. Did I proceed to read the whole book in about two hours? When I should be asleep? And it was suddenly 3am

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

@jodimca.bsky.social I have been trained well by now in What Would Doctor Jodi Read. I started a cute Aussie indie that is Love Island meets Hunger Games, and, well…..

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Actual picture of unassuming box

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Bingley will let you pet the belly if it helps.

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

@jodimca.bsky.social guess what is STILL at the top of the list on edelweiss? (I’m not surprised at all) Yay carousel of books!

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

“I am trying to be truthful” “It’s scent will cling to your fingers, cling to your knife”

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

A movie that takes place where you’re from. Also the funniest and most underrated Australian comedy out there

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

@tkingfisher.com I hope that you’re proud of yourself young lady! The nightmares that I had last night!!!!! This was……masterful. Genuinely creepy, clever, and so uniquely you that no other author could have written it

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

@seananmcguire.bsky.social have you heard that Australia discovered a whole new species of stuck insect? 40cm, 44gm, and officially the heaviest insect in Australia. (As if we weren’t scary enough) www.jcu.edu.au/news/release...

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Book friends: If you go to a book launch, and pre-purchase a book with your ticket, does that count towards the authors first week sales, or for the date of the event? If I’ve got tickets for an event two weeks after the official release date, is it better for the author for me to buy beforehand?

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

@jodimca.bsky.social Ahhhhh! Look what is on Netgalley! (and praise the arc gods) (But also it’s 1:10am and how am I to be expected to be an “adult” right now)

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Happy book birthday! I was very sad that I couldn’t make it to the launch today. My poor ma isn’t well unfortunately. I’m sure that everyone had fun 🖤❤️🧛❤️🖤

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

@bethrevis.bsky.social Eeeeeeeee! Now I am torn. Do I devour it all now, or do I reread books one and two for the whole trilogy experience??????

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

@broughtyoubooks.bsky.social Can I just say OOF! I’ll definitely have to get my hands on the fantasy ones too. Excellent recommendation

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

With the world as it is right now, let me just add this. You are safe with me.

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

@yumewrites.bsky.social deep breaths Saltcrop arcs have arrived on edelweiss! Luckily I have a very long train commute today and can spend some quality time reading 🌊

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Now reading They Watch From Below by Katya De Becerra, & it’s totally getting to me with it’s moody, atmospheric, dark academia vibes I also love that it’s inspired by the authors memories of her undergrad anthropology degree, which is giving me nostalgia for my own anthro undergrad.

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

My other extra special read was Overgrowth by Mira Grant. Imagine a three year old who keeps telling people that she’s actually an alien plant person sent to earth as a harbinger of an inviding species. And she’s not lying……

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

> in a wonderful gothic fantasy. Also…vampires Due out February 11th, but luckily you can start Path of Thorns, her mysterious family manor with secrets in the middle of nowhere gothic immediately. (Do it!)

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I love @angelaslatter and her Sourdough world with my whole heart. Her ability to fill her books with small details that turn out to be super important later blows my mind. The Crimson Road feels like The Avengers of the Sourdough world, where those details, characters, & plots all tie together >

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Summers at It’s major social Commentary, but subtly. High fantasy, fae beings, magic, all of it.

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Over the many summers she starts to see the problems in the kingdom and the need to fix them. Summers at Castle Auburn by Sharon Shinn is one that I’ve read over a dozen times, and I still find something new in it. It’s deeply, achingly romantic, but it’s written almost between the pages.

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

There’s a new tv show out based on Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquival, so I figured that now was a good time for a reread. It’s been about twenty years since I read it, but all I’m wondering is HOW did I miss the darkness and the trauma!!!! I remembered the food magic, but Jeepers!

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Imagine if the daughter of Johnathan and Mina Harker and the daughter of Professor Moriarty both worked for a supernatural investigation service and ended up on a murder investigation filled with a surprisingly large amount of banter and flirting? Strange Beasts by Susan J Morris

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

It was more spicy than I expected from a book about faith, darker than I expected from something categorised as romance, and a little unsettling. Which in really didn’t mind at all. The Golem of Mala Lubovnya. How this was only my second golem book (after Feet of Clay) is a surprise to me

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