☆ what to read next if you loved the house in the cerulean sea! ☆
if you... loved the magical setting
• magyk (septimus heap #1) by angie sage. the better, funnier, unproblematic-er harry potter, with an amazing setting and amazing and SO lovable characters
• inkheart (inkworld #1) by cornelia funke. one of my favorite magical settings of all times. also the plot is basically THE dream of all readers aka: what happens when the real world and the world of a book collide? but make it BAD
if you... loved the vibes
• the starless sea by erin morgenstern. do you love ghibli vibes?? do you wish you could permanently live in a bakery next to the ocean??? then fear no more, because this book is the one for you!
if you... are aching for more soft and yearning gays
• novae by kaiju. it's a comic but its so. it's so. GOOD. also sun and moon and star dynamics + amazing art + fantastic historical settings... what more do we need!
• check, please! by ngozi uzaku. YES this is another comic YES I am biased bc mr jack laurent zimmermann is my favorite hockey bro ever. and what about it.
if you... want to meet more weird children
• the emerald atlas by john stephens. vibes similar to a series of unfortunate events but with an actual happy ending!!! and caring adults!!!!! we love to see it
that's all I can think about rn!!! happy reading friends!
im going through that phase, yknow the one, where im super into various mythologies and literally have shelves just full of myths and legends
ALL THREE MXTX NOVELS ARE GOING TO BE OFFICIALLY PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH, THIS IS NOT A DRILL, IT'S REAL AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
Here is the link: http://sevenseasdanmei.com/
Also, please check suika's tweet for more details: https://twitter.com/yummysuika/status/1422968206420021253
juno steel and what lies beyond: pt 3 except it’s just the bits when joshua ilon’s voice acting made me cry
Where Adam has been killing off abusive assholes for years, and the FBI brings in special agent Ronan Lynch to help find the Killer . But (surprise) Ronan and Adam end up falling in love, and Ronan needs to help Adam get away from the FBI
Arthur Parnassus (of The House in the Cerulean Sea), Norman (of The Promised Neverland), Kite (of Japan Sinks 2020), and Kenya Kobayashi (of Erased) give off the same vibes no i will not elaborate
*places down 1 and jokes*"uno" *places down 0*"fuckyou-no"
Guys people always complain about how monopoly tears families apart but have you played uno? It slowly makes people hate each other and I swear to god There’s so much yelling “I hate you all!” “I choose red” “we are on red” “I choose green ” “but I don’t have green” “red” “seriously?” “I don’t have red ” “I choose green” “FUCK”
HELLO y'all. you might remember me from this post where I went on about why people should read wolfsong, the first book in the green creek series, and it’s been two years since I made that post. it still gets notes, and judging by how many it has I’m guessing I got a good portion of y'all to read it. so I figured I’d try again with a new book series and a new author!! I completely devoured this series over the last week and a half, and as far as I know, it has almost no fandom on here or anywhere else I’ve seen and I need to fix that. SO, here we go:
it’s six books (the first one is called revelations, shown above), so there is plenty of content for you to absorb!
and the series is completed so there will be no agonizing waiting between books, you can just read the next one right away!
it’s a dark new adult fantasy/romance set in a world of angels and demons, heaven and hell
sloooooow burn at first. but oh my god the payoff.
as of now there are only 2 (TWO!!) fics on ao3 and NOTHING in the tags here (except a moodboard I made hehehe) so just like when green creek was just starting to be popular, we all have the opportunity to build up the fandom and spread word of it around!
eventually ends up being a poly romance!!!
poly rep, ace rep (in a main character!), gay rep, bi rep, fluid characters (characters who identify with he/him pronouns but like to dress up occasionally/wear feminine things), just delightfully queer from beginning to end
begins with our hero riley shephard, sweet, sweet, sheltered riley, who has grown up in an abusive household and is away from home for the first time at college
in the first book you can tell that he’s very innocent and naive, he hasn’t been exposed to the outside world much due to his upbringing with an abusive foster parent, so to watch him grow and discover himself is just so incredible, and by the end of the sixth book you’re like WOW!! MY BABY GROWN
a heart-wrenching journey of self-discovery, freedom, and love and acceptance that I just could not stop reading from start to finish, I literally finished every single book within a day or two and I can’t remember the last time I binged a series like that
will definitely not be for everyone, but if you can handle all the stuff listed below then I promise it is SO worth it to read because of the story at the heart of it
TRIGGER WARNING: the whole series contains graphic violence, gore, scenes of traumatic sexual assault both on and off page, child abuse, torment, and a couple other things that might be difficult for people to read, but the author includes a content warning at the beginning of every book!!
hella, hella angst
but so many beautiful scenes too, scenes of coping and healing from trauma and incredible chemistry between the characters!!
did I mention the poly romance
it’s a long journey to get there, but it ends happily and in such a satisfying way!!
the development of the main character is just such a great thing to read, it made me cry to read how he changes for the better but also has to fight the darker parts of himself
if you liked the green creek series I truly believe you’ll like this too! and if I’m wrong you can come into my inbox and drag me! but this is one of my new favorite series ever and I have no one to talk about it with!
but seriously if you like gay werewolves and gay witches, try some gay angels!
I just love Riley Shepard so much
and the angels. oh my god the angels. jairus, noel and gideon. I love them all so much.
I don’t know what else to say I just want to spread this series around because it deserves the love!! it’s so good! so fucking good!
I’m just begging y'all to give this series a chance so I won’t be alone in my little corner
Editing this to add: Kirt Graves, the same person who narrates TJ Klune’s audiobooks, will also be narrating this series!!
Watch me whip Now watch me pass out
Day 8: Your Favourite LGBTQ+ Book - I couldn’t possibly choose just one!
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just one, is that too much to ask? - 19yo he/them
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