Litsy

Choice of the Cat: Book Two of the Vampire Earth | E.E. Knight

I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it.

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julesG

Dreadful Company | Vivian Shaw

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Second book in the series

Dr Greta Helsing is in Paris for a medical conference and gets to see far more of Paris' underground world than she intended to.
Includes cute monsters.

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ShyBookOwl I keep trying and failing to get into book 1 but it seems right up my alley! 23h

TheSpineView Well done! 23h

julesG @ShyBookOwl have you tried the audiobook? Maybe it works better this way. 23h

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ShyBookOwl @julesG I haven't, but I did put a libby hold on it so hopefully I'll get it soon 🤞🏽🤞🏽 thx for the tip 20h

BookmarkTavern @ShyBookOwl Absolutely seconding the recommendation for the audiobooks! They‘re amazing! 18h

julesG @ShyBookOwl 🤞🏻🤞🏻 7h

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ShananigansReads

Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood | J.R. Ward

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

89/150

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#ShananigansReads25

TheSpineView I think there are two more books before we get to the book dedicated to Blay and Quinn. It will be worth the wait. 2d

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julesG

Strange Practice | Vivian Shaw

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Urban Fantasy set in London with vampires, ghouls, witches,..., and Dr Van Helsing. What's not to like?

Already have the next one in the pipeline.

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TheSpineView There is something about books with vampires! ❤️🧛‍♂️ 2d

BookmarkTavern Woo! 💖 18h

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julesG

Strange Practice | Vivian Shaw

#audiobook #SeriesLove2025 @Andrew65 @TheSpineView

Need to clean a few corners today 🙄😩

First book in the series.

TheSpineView Awesome! 🤩📖📚 2d

BookmarkTavern This is a fun series on audio! 😁 2d

julesG @BookmarkTavern I flew through the first and have the next queued up already. 2d

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BookmarkTavern I think two and the novella are my favorites of the whole series. 💖 2d

julesG @BookmarkTavern wait, there's a novella?? I missed it. 2d

BookmarkTavern It‘s delightful!

Bitter Waters

julesG @BookmarkTavern Thanks. It's #3.5 Means two new stories for me. 😁😁 2d

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LitsyEvents

Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Sussex Vampire | Arthur Conan Doyle

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Fabulous discussion and insight yesterday, Sherlockians! We're getting closer to the end! Next up: “(TAo) The Sussex Vampire.“ Discussion will be this coming Saturday, 6/7, and will be led by @Cuilin. Have a good week. 🤗

Link to summary and analysis (spoiler alert!): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZbyHAZrTXjmnC6KRzh5x6YdASAOmncCq/view?usp=shari...

dabbe TY! 😍 3d

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dabbe

Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Sussex Vampire | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes
@Cuilin @LitsyEvents

Fabulous discussion and insight yesterday, Sherlockians! We're getting closer to the end! Next up: “(TAo) The Sussex Vampire.“ Discussion will be this coming Saturday, 6/7, and will be led by @Cuilin. Have a good week. 🤗

Link to summary and analysis (spoiler alert!): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZbyHAZrTXjmnC6KRzh5x6YdASAOmncCq/view?usp=shari...

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dabbe @Librarybelle YW! 😍 3d

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Robotswithpersonality

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter | Stephen Graham Jones

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I understand that given the setting and the plot that historical horror is how this book will be described, but my main feelings were not dread or disgust but sadness and anger.
Abhorrent deeds from history are retold, the reader is well-placed by the author in a position to look on helpless, infuriated that it is occurring, grief-stricken by so much loss, and yet suspecting some internal bias, blood connection, makes them complicit. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? While there are a heart-breaking number of innocents suffering in this story, Jones makes clear the main characters are not included in the guilt-free tally.
Good Stab/Fullblood/Takes No Scalps echoes a motif from The Only Good Indians, he chose to do something against his beliefs, culture, society, knowing it was wrong. It's short term gain vs long term curse, and yes, he was in even more disadvantaged straits than TOGI's protagonists, 5d

Robotswithpersonality 3/? due to white colonialism, systemic racism, but I think the message remains: there is value in being true to yourself even when things are shitty. That you'll pay the price if you take the easier path in desperate circumstances.
Which of is, of course, even clearer, in the much less ambiguously evil actions perpetrated by Beaucarne in his own self-described desperate circumstances.
For both characters, the focus on appetite is paramount: 5d

Robotswithpersonality 4/? the vampire's thirst almost an entity in itself, an ungovernable force, and the more you learn about the pastor, the more grotesque his relishing of his meals, his willingness to trade alcohol or food for information, becomes, knowing hunger played a pivotal role in his unforgivable actions.
The pace doesn't plod, it stalks, it might seem slow, but there's a definite deliberate creeping up on you of hints and foreboding. 5d

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Robotswithpersonality 5/? A sense of loss permeates everything, even Esty's framing sections, her academic future, her sense of self, her cat, are all in a precarious state. Good Stab's losses hit the hardest though, it may have been at least one action of his own human volition that first distanced him from his people, but it's a new wound everytime he tries to reconnect after his dark transformation, tries to adopt some signifier of this former life and it isn't 5d

Robotswithpersonality 6/6 possible or outright harms him, rejects him. Tries to save his people over and over and often ends with the opposite. The suggestion of acceptance, of regaining an identity at the end is that much more poignant as a result.
If you're emotionally prepared, It's an incredible book I highly recommend, and I can't wait to see what Jones comes out with next. ♥️

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Robotswithpersonality ⚠️Animal death, animal cruelty, mention of domestic abuse, period-typical language, slurs, racism, SA, child death, gore, genocide 5d

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