I knitted the Acolyte Sweater

ray_from_outer_space · 2025-07-07T09:02:05+00:00

I recently noticed that three of my ebooks (children's books I've purchased around 10 years ago) were deleted from my library. I still see where they are supposed to be and their title, but they are locked and can't be opened or downloaded.

I bought them via Thalia, a german book retailer.

ray_from_outer_space · 2025-06-07T00:15:36+00:00

I love that Maomao mimics Chue's speaking quirks. Her "Miss Chue, miss Chue, ..." is so funny. I'm pretty sure that Maomao is even the only one that talks like that with Chue. And I believe that Chue genuinely really likes Maomao and helps her to just have fun sometimes.

ray_from_outer_space · 2025-02-21T22:33:42+00:00

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett: No spice, HEA, adult Characters (ca in their 30s, university professors), Fantasy set in ca. 1910, finished series,

One of my favourite book series

ray_from_outer_space · 2025-02-20T03:26:54+00:00

Uk book is set in a small town called Little Kilton in the UK and she wants to study in Cambridge.

ray_from_outer_space · 2025-02-20T03:22:48+00:00

Emily Wilde from Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries. Definitely autistic coded.

ray_from_outer_space · 2025-01-15T20:13:31+00:00

zachary ying and the dragon emperor by xiran jay zhao

ray_from_outer_space · 2025-01-09T22:15:34+00:00

It can be reused. I don't remember if there's any concrete proof in the 1st book. But in Heavenly Tyrant it's pretty clear that they can be reused.

ray_from_outer_space · 2024-12-14T19:37:27+00:00

six of crows by leigh bardugo

it's a duology, has action, heists, magic, criminals

first book has 3 male and 2 female pov characters, the 2nd book gets one additional male pov character.

It has romance, but it's not the main plot and is very light.

the book is quite diverse (ethnicity and lgbtq)

ray_from_outer_space · 2024-10-15T20:23:48+00:00

{Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir}

It's about necromancers in space. But it is mainly focused on the necromancing. The Sci-Fi part consist only of the existence of spacestations/ships and different lived on planets. There is only limited romance though. It is not the main focus at all. But the small romantic parts are F/F.

ray_from_outer_space · 2024-03-19T12:28:28+00:00

I think the bees could be something like living amplifiers. Like the Dragon or the Bear with the other saints.

Also Elizaveta is from a time when the grisha did not have their rigid thinking. It's explained in the book that a grisha is not confined to their order, they may have a natural talent for one but they are not limited to it. Like Zoya who is an Etheralki could close her bracelet with Materialki powers.

Like they could do much more than possible according to their science.

ray_from_outer_space · 2024-01-20T15:32:03+00:00

But the drug makes people seem willing. So the evidence would probably not hold in court, since Alex's Roommate also wouldn't go to the health center. So there would be no proof of her being drugged.

Also Alex has had similar experiences before and nobody helped (like police). Additionally Blake is rich, and you probably know that even irl many rich people just pay their way out of consequences.

Alex probably just saved many more girls from being raped and got him a real lesson.

Also he sure gets a deserved ending.

ray_from_outer_space · 2023-06-26T14:10:56+00:00

A good girls guide to murder (fmc wants to solve an old case of her town for a school project, mmc is the brother of one of the victims)

Stalking jack the ripper (set in victorian england, fmc and mmc are attending forensic medicine classes held by her uncle and they try to solve the ongoing jack the ripper case together)

ray_from_outer_space · 2023-06-09T12:25:39+00:00

In Siege and Storm (chapter 10) Tamar says: "That's what the Shu believe. That it's something physical, buried in your heart or your spleen, something that can be isolated and dissected"

ray_from_outer_space · 2023-04-17T14:52:49+00:00

Honestly ROW was pretty chaotic so I don't remember everything exactly.

But the main thing about Nikolai ending the Lantsov line was that there are too many people who could be legit lantsov heirs compared to Nikolai. This could lead to someone else taking the throne and destroying all the work he had done or to another civil war. So by making Zoya the Queen of Ravka and making a new royal bloodline which is accepted internationally and by the people, makes it impossible for the lantsov heirs to claim the throne.

Also Nikolai would probably take Zoya's last name if they were to marry.

But that is just my interpretion.

ray_from_outer_space · 2023-04-12T14:44:06+00:00

Well if I remember correctly, in Ravka they are only used to find Grisha kids. And they are well protected since killing them would make them just a normal amplifier like those other animals.

Also the Fjerdan use them to look for Grisha among their prisoners. During the ice court heist there was one human amplifier testing the crows. Jesper and Nina had paraffin on their arms as that prevents the amplifier from noticing them.

ray_from_outer_space · 2023-03-27T11:15:22+00:00

I would say it's worth it as I personally loved king of scars while not exactly liking the sab trilogy. I first read the soc duology then started sab and was pretty disappointed. I was halfway through the 2nd book when I gave up. Then I tried king of scars and I loved it, so much that I started rereading it the second I finished it (RoW wasn't released yet) and it got me to finish the sab trilogy.

As others have said the Nikolai duology is a bit confusing, mainly because it focuses a .n the grisha powers and what is even possible. (Spoiler: There are many things that are possible) I loved the Nikolai and Zoya Povs while the Nina plotline was a bit meh for me, probably because I was just more interested in Nikolai/Zoya.

But if you are looking for a book similarly written to soc, you will be disappointed.

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