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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

My fave attacks I have done on art fight so far. #artfight

An angelic white and black Borzoi, with red accents, stares up st the sky while bleeding and crying gold. Red clouds gloat around him and he has wings behind his ears.

A monster animal grims straight forward toward the camera. She js a purplish gray with rainbow coloured dreadlocks.

A man grins toward the camera. He js slate gray with purple gray hair and neon pink horns.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Finished April 20th Title: The Heavenly Horse from the Outermost West Author: Mary Stanton Genre: Fantasy 344 Pages 1988 Pub Date 3.5 🌟

The cover of The Heavenly Horse from the Outermost West by Mary Stanton. Two horses rear, facing each other, in a fight. The right one is a rusty red with glowing yellow eyes and fangs, the rivht one is a blue-black Appaloosa with a rainbow mane and tail. Two dogs face off each other below them. The left is a gray brown demon wolf and the right is a brown and white collie. They sre fighting in a setting that is half snow and ash, and half sunlit meadows, with a mountain range in the background. The title and authors name are at the top.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Finished April 16th Title: This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me Author: Ilona Andrews Genre: Fantasy 470 Pages 2026 Pub Year 5 🌟 My favourite book of the year so far!! All The Stars!!

The cover of This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews. Three circles cross diagonal over the cover. The bottom left is a medium sized moon with the authors name in it, the center cricle is the largest and a green blue colour with the title in gold in the center, the third circle is top right and just a moon. A large long necked bird covers the entire left side of the cover, its head turned around the top with beak in the biggest center circle. A tall stone tower with a petal peak sits on the right and a cityscape os in the background.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Finished April 16th Title: Pawn of Prophecy Author: David Eddings Genre: Fantasy 258 Pages 1982 Pub Year 3.5 🌟

The cover of Pawn of Propechy by David Eddings. The book is an old yellowish colour, like old paper. There is a red border around the center image, which is a map. On the map is a woman holding the shoulders of a young boy, on the othrrside is a man on a horse. There is a wolf silhouette on the map behind the woman and boy. The title and author are at the top of the book.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Finished April 1st Title: The Dark Lord's Guide to Dating (and Other War Crimes) Author: Tiffany Hunt Genre: Romance Fantasy 534 Pages 2025 Pub Year 3 🌟

The cover of The Dark Lord's Guide to Dating (And Other War Crimes) by Tiffany Hunt.

The main cover colour is a blue black with thorns of black around the edges. In the center is a black rose with melting gold dripping from it. Behind a burning fire and embers and a dagger stabbing through it. The title goes down behind it and (and Other War crimes) is in a banner below that.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Finished March 16th Title: Rose of Jericho Author: Alex Grechian Genre: Historical Horror 335 Pages 2025 Pub Year 4 🌟

The cover of Rose of Jericho by Alex Grecian. The image is a dark forest with twisting branches. A noose hangs down the center of the image. Rose of Jericho is in green letters behind the noose and the authors name below in white.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Finished March 11th Title: Dogs of War Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky Genre: SciFi 346 Pages 2017 Pub Year 4 🌟

The cover of Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Two large humanoid dogs are fighting dead center, shown from waist up. They are on their hind legs twisted around each other. The left one is white, the rivht one is black with guns on a harness. A bloody red sum glows behind them and the foreground are large palm leaves. The title is at the bottom in white and the author name at the top, also in white.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Finished Mar 10th Title: Voidwalker Author: S.A. MacLean Genre: Romance Fantasy 572 Pages 2025 Pub Year 2 🌟 - I will drop my review separately cause grumpy -

The cover of Voidwalker by S.A. Macalean. The cover shows a wintery forest jn the background, with a purple, pink, and black tear through it. A creature of the same starry space colour reaches out of it. They are humanoid in appearance but with claws, horns, and a tail that curls forward. A white woman stands between his outreached arms, facing forward. She has black and rainbow dyed hair, wearing a tight fur trimmed black jacket, and holding a glowing blue sword. The title is in white at the bottom and the author name below it

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Finished March 7th Title: God's Junk Drawer Author: Peter Clines Genre: SciFi 580 Pages 2025 Pub Year 3.75 🌟

The cover of God's Junk Drawer by Peter Clines. It is a black background with dinosaur skeleton falling down. A human skull, robot arm, and other bones are also falling. The title and author is also in green text across the center and bottom.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Finished Feb 28th Title: How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying Author: Django Wexler Genre: Fantasy 387 Pages 2024 Pub Year 4 🌟

The cover of How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler. The cover is an illustrated landscape of a hillside and forest, a tower in the back corner. The title covers most of the image in yellow and white text. An illustrated Dark Lord sits on the bottom left, he is wearing spiky armor, red cape, and a skull staff.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Finished Feb 24th Title: Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die Author: Greer Stothers Genre: Fantasy Romance 383 Pages 2026 Pub Year 3.75 🌟

The cover of Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die by Greer Stothers. The cover is a pink brick wall with a purple pennent hanging down. The pennent has the title in gold and red across it. A circle with the silhouette of a man with a green eye in one is on the left top and a circle with a vulture is in the bottom right. There is filigree all around along with a bunch of arrows sticking out of the pennent.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Finished Feb 15th Title: The Cursed King Author: Abigail Owens Genre: Romance Urban Fantasy 479 Pages 2021 Pub Year 4.5 🌟

The cover of The Cursed King by Abigail Owens. The image is of a shirtless man from nose to top of his thigh. He looks off toward the left while his chest faces straight on. He is white and muscled, a purple symbolized pheonix tattoo sits across his collarbone and top of his chest. The title is in gold font in the center of the cover with the authors name is white at the bottom.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Finished Feb 14th Title: Trad Wife Author: Saratoga Schaefer Genre: Horror 320 Pages 2026 Pub Year 3.25 🌟

The cover of Trad Wife by Saratoga Schaefer. A black cover with a red negative image of a pregnant woman standing in the center. Her face is obscursed, tilted toward the viewer, and she holfs her stomach. A black silhouette of a hand, with long clawed fingers, is across her side reaching to her pregnant stomach. The title is in red and white gradient across the top and the bottom has the author.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Finished Feb 8th Title: How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates Author: Shailee Thompson Genre: Romance Horror 368 Pages 2026 Pub Year 4.75 🌟

The cover of How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates by Shailee Thompson. The top half of the cover is red, it drips like blood down into the pink colored bottom half. The title is in white in the red and black in the pink, located down the left side. An illustrated hand extends out of the right side of the cover, it holds a stop watch with hearts in the place of numbers. The hand has red nails and blood drips out down the palm.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Finished Feb 8th Title: The Warrior King Author: Abigail Owen Genre: Romance Urban Fantasy 356 Pages 2021 Pub Year 2 🌟 - This was a huge dissapointment -

The cover of The Warrior King by Abigail Owen. The image is of a shirtless man from nose to mid thigh. He is a tanned white and muscled, his arms crossed over his chest, a green stylized dragon tattoo is across his chest. The cover has a green hue. The title is in a gold font in the center and the author is a white font at the bottom.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Finished Feb 1st Title: I'm Traveling Alone Author: Samuel Bjork Genre: Mystery 400 Pages 2013 Pub Year 4 🌟

The cover of I'm Traveling Alone bt Samuel Bjork. A solid black cover with sketchy white font with the title across most the cover, a salmon red front has the authors name. At the top, off center to the right, is dangling feet of a young girl. They are wearing red socks (same colour of the font for the authors name) and black Mary Jane shoes.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Finished Jan 29th Title: The Blood Kint Author: Abigail Owen Genre: Romance Urban Fantasy 416 Pages 2020 Pub Year 5 🌟

The cover of The Blood King by Abigail Owen. The cover image is a shirtless man from nose to ass, facing away from the viewer. He is flexing his arms back, hands clasped. He is a tanned white with a stylized blue dragon across his back. Most of the image is blue tinged. The title is in gold front across the center and the author is in white on the bottom.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Finished Jan 17th Title: There is No Antimemetics Division Author: qntm Genre: Scifi Horror 275 Pages 2025 Pub Year 4.75 🌟

The cover of There is No Antimemetics Division by qntm. The title covers the entire cover in a white strange symbolic font. The background image is a very foggy forest with a black monolith sticking out of it. It is a very orange sunset.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Finished Jan 16th Author: Abigail Owen Genre: Romance Urban Fantasy 429 Pages 2019 Pub Year 4.5 🌟

The cover of The Rogue King by Abigail Owen. The cover shows a half naked man from bottom section of his face to his thigh. He is hairless and tanned white, with a very short beard. He has a red stylized tattoo across his chest. The title is in the center around his waist and the author is at the bottom.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Finished Jan 13th Author: Alan Baxter Genre: Horror 316 Pages 2021 Pub Year 2.75 🌟

The cover of the novel The Gulp by Alan Baxter. The cover is a landscape image of a cliff edge beside the ocean, the PoV is from on the water. There is a dock st the bottom of the cliff and on the top a large tree and a giant light. The flare of light covers a huge section of the left, hiding what is behind it. The title and author are at the top and near the bottom is the words Five Tales of Horror.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Finished 2nd Jan Author: Stacy Reid Genre: Historical Romance 286 Pages 2023 Pub Year 4.75 🌟

The cover of The Wolf and the Wildflower by Stacy Reid. A white man stands on the left of the cover, shirtless and cupping the cheek of a woman. He has shoulder length brown hair and scruff. The woman is in a scarlet strapless red ballgown, with curly blond hair, leans up toward him. They are about to kiss. The cover is very red.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Finished 1st Jan Author: T. Kingfisher Genre: Horror 257 Pages 2024 Pub Year 3.75 Stars

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Book 34: Annihlation by Jeff Vandermeer July 2nd 3.75⭐️ What a weird book. I liked it but it didn't really capture me. I personally wish there was more explanation but understand why there wasn't, what a weird little fungusy book. 💙📚🪐

The cover of the book Annihlation by Jeff Vandermeer. It is a pale yellow beige cover with a vibrant green planet coming up from the corner and wrapping around the black title. The plant is alien looking, almost animal like. There is a dragonfly flying away from the plant.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Book 33: Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire June 30th 5⭐️ A Reread for me. I wanna catch up on series, so I decided to start at the beginning. Not as impactful as the first time I read it, but still beautiful and dark. How I wish I could have found a doorway as a child. I'm still wishing. 💙📚🪐

The cover of Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire. A doorway sits half open in a forest clearing, the sun setting and casting a flare against the door frame. The white words of the title are entering the door, fading away where the letters are through the door.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Book 32: When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy June 29th 3.25⭐️ I am in the minority here, not enjoying the book. It should have worked, I have no father and the fear I have is clinical, but maybe that is why it didn't hit. Since I deal daily with debilitating fear. I did like THAT Santos part.💙📚🩸

The cover of When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy. It is from the inside of a cabin looking out a window at a giant wolf snarling back. The colours are black, gray and red.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

The fungi I found hiding in my yard.

A photograph of a yellow mushroom peeking through green grass.

A photograph of a brown and beige mushroom in green grass.

A photograph of a yellow mushroom in green grass.

A photograph of a grey and brown mushroom in green grass.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Book 31: Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett June 24th 4⭐️ More difficult to get invested in than the last romance, but I really enjoyed it by the end. Wendell is my favorite and the reason I am continuing the series with my best friend. I do love sassyness in my couples. 💙📚🪐

The cover of Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett. The novel is a deep green in colour, almost black, with white and Lilac writing. Vines of green and snowflakes border the edges of the cover, with a bunch of mushrooms and some antlers at the bottom. It is a very winter foliage feel.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Have my boy Murphy really wanting dinner early!

A black dog named Murphy lays with his head on an iPad, looking up at the camera with the biggest, saddest, puppy dog eyes because he wants dinner.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I finished up Lucky's reference yesterday, for my first ever Art Fight. My duel personality embodiment of fate/destiny and chance. They love messing with mortals. artfight.net/~RainbowFinch

A drawn reference sheet of a greyscale humanoid with messy silver hair and ear wings. They have trans scars that look like black starts and a black star on their chest. His name is Lucky, and I love them dearly, any pronouns for her.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

This is my fist year! I am uploading Lucky and Temprance today. artfight.net/~RainbowFinch

The artfight card for Team Fossil. It is a yellow brown colour. Five personal character headshots sit at the bottom.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Book 30: Strange Houses by Uketsu June 21st 2⭐️ I liked Strange Pictures much more. This one felt convoluted and jumped to a lot of conclusions. I didn't really find it mysterious and the final twist was fine I suppose. I still like the style of the author, so I will pick up more in the future. 💙📚

The cover of Strange Houses by Uketsu. The cover is a berry red eugh a floor plan of a Japanese house on it.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

A big thank you to @igotbigbooks.bsky.social for mentioning Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove. I just finished it and it has taken the spot of my favourite book, so far, this year.

A photo of my copy of the book Of Monsters and Mainframes by Badbra Truelove.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Book 29: Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove June 16th 5⭐️ This may have taken the spot of my favorite book of the year; so far. A monster mash full of heart and characters I fell in love with. Queer monsters in space with A.I. Parents. I would do anything for Demeter, I love her. 💙📚🪐

The cover of the book Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove. The cover is solid black, with the mouth of a vampire open wide in the center. An explosion of colours (pink, orange, yellow, green, and blue) stream out of a spaceship and fill the monsters mouth along with the title and author. It is quite a psychedelic cover.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I think Carwyn the Incubus would look great in your style

A screencap of a character named Carwyn from art fight.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Book 28: The Geographer's Map to Romance by India Holton June 7th 5⭐️ Another warm hug of a book. I love the humour, the ridiculousness, the low stakes drama. These people are never cruel to each other and I like that in a romance. Just so soft and what I need when the world is on fire. 💙📚

The cover of the book The Geographer's Map to Romance by India Holton. It is a lush green colour with a gold frame around the edge. There is a gold compass in the center, with gold mountains and stars in the back. The title sits in gold banners in the bottom third of the cover.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Here is my Succubus Tempeance (Tempy). Her tail and horns change colour depending on emotion and she's a sex worker who loves her job. She dyes her hair and can wear anything or nothing. She is just my fun girl who loves life and passion.

The drawing of a pink skinned woman standing looking up. She has a cat tail and small pointy horns.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I am trying to get back into art and fight against the negative thoughts that remain from school. If I keep trying and pushing eventually it will look more like how I wish it looked. It has to, right? Anyway this is Temprance my Succubus character. Pose from @adorkastock.com

A coloured sketch if a pink skinned woman with blonde and blue hair, looking up toward the sky wirh a hand shielding her eyes. She has a tail and small horns.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

She should have the snow leopard tail in her mouth like all those snow leopard pictures. Or maybe he could be holding it in his mouth.

A photograph of a snow leopard holding their tail in their mouth.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Book 27: The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love by India Holton May 29th 5⭐️ A cozy hilarious romantic comedy across a fantasy historical England. I loved this. A breath of fresh air and sweetness, sometimes you just need to read happiness. This is happiness bound in a book. 💙📚

The cover of the book The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love by India Holton. It is a hot pink colour with gold framing detail around the entire front cover. Inside the frame are the gold name plates with the title of the novel. Flying behind the title is a golden bird with a long fire tail. There are gold stars around the cover as well.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Got my hands on this lovely piece of dark fantasy. 💙📚🪐 📚🩸

The book The Devils by Joe Abercrombie is lying on blankets on a bed. The cover is dark red with a bright red skull in the center. The skull has lit candle horns.

The naked hardback of the book The Devils by Joe Abercrombie. It is a black cover with metallic red inlaid design of skulls and vine patterns. A pentagram sits in the center with the words The Worst Monsters make the Best Allies, circled around it. There is a skull st the bottom and a crown at the top.

The two end papers of the book The Devils by Joe Abercrombie. The left image is a painting of a black werewolf and the right image is a painting of a white praying monk looking up at the heavens.

The end two end papers of the book The Devils by Joe Abercrombie. The left image is a painting of a holy woman looking scared and holding a long stick with a feathery looking end. The right image is a painting of a pointed eared creature, almost like it is just a shadow or someone destroyed the painting. There are no features, just a silhouette

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Book 26: This Alien Shore by C.S. Friedman May 12th 4.5 ⭐️ For a book so diverse and forward thinking on disabilities it is so heternormative and binary. That is the main reason it is not 5, but I did love the ideas, the world, the views and quotes about humanity and our nature. Also autistic MC 💙📚🪐

The cover of This Alien Shore by C.S. Friedman. There is a purple strip up the side with the author's name in block white letters. Leaning against this pillar in the main cover is a white girl with long red hair. She is in a gold dress and holding a gold circlet. Behind her is a stairway, with buildings and a teaming city. A bunch of different aliens and humans walk around behind her. The title sits in the top right in purple blocks.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

This Alien Shore by C.S. Friedman 💙📚🪐

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Book 25: Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud May 6th 4.75 ⭐️ Probably was a bad idea to read this right before bed. Horrifing and gross, I tried not to think too hard about some descriptions because some big phobias for me. I loved it! So weird and so good, arachnophobes be wary. 💙📚🩸 📚🪐

The cover of Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud. A painted textured woman's head floats at the top of the cover in a background of slate gray. She has green eyes with black hair that extends out in Spider legs around her head and over the cover.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Book 24: A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher May 6th 4.5 ⭐️ I love T. Kingfisher's writing. A young girl with an abusive Sorceress mother, who learns to fight back and find a true family. This is a fairy tale. Dark edges and cruelty, but also hope, love, and courage. 💙📚🪐

The cover of A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher. A dark grayish purple cover with an almost black circle in the center. Beige gold trees wrap up the two sides of the cover, they are a solid colour with brown outlines. Stars of the same tree colour are scattered across the cover. In the center is the title, coloured in a purplish white.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Book 23: Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas April 28th 3⭐️ This is a gothic romance with a small edge of horror. I wish it more balanced between the two, but the turmoil of the relationship was the main focus. I found the pacing of the novel off as well, rushing through certain plot points. 💙📚🩸

The cover of the novel Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas. A twilight cloudy sky is the background with a Mexican desert horizon at the bottom. A woman in red runs across the ground, a lightning bolt strikes the ears in the distance behind her. The colours are teal and reds.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Book 22: Area 51 by Robert Doherty April 6th 3.5⭐️ Apparently I forgot to update with this book. If you want a 90s Action Scifi Thriller packed into novel form. This is the one for you. Tasted like the movies I watched as a child, all crazy action and unbelievability. 💙📚🪐

The cover of the novel Area 51 by Robert Doherty. A saucer shaped UFO flies above the words Area 51, which is written in giant red letters. Below this is a mountain range and a military base lit up with electric lights.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

A girl needs a queen sized bed to stretch out on.

A medium sized black dog stretches out across a bed among a bunch of dog print blankets.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

A movie from the year you turned 30

The movie poster of the movie CATS. A uncanny valley humanoid cat walks up stairs toward giant stainglassed doors. Warm light spis from the cracks and through the glass.

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Quote with a movie poster from the year you turned eighteen.

The movie poster of Hairspray. A white background with 11 sparkly squares showing the upper faces of each character in the movie, especially their hair. It says Who's who behind the Do?

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Finch @rainbowfinch.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Walked the dogs for all our health and cause finally not storming. So here have Murphy staring longingly at ducks he really wants to go run after.

A black dog, in a yellow collar and teal harness, stands on his hind legs with paws on a wooden railing staring out at a snowy creek and two ducks.

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