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Song of Achilles

by Madeline Miller 🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣 5/5 ducklings tl:dr: I thought I knew how this 3000 year old story ended, and I did, and yet some how Madeline Miller surprised me and I may never recover. I am not ok. I have been emotionally devastated, I am broken and I truly will never be the same. As dramatic as that sounds, it’s true, I finished this in my car while on my lunch break at work and had to go back to work and pretend I hadn’t just had my heart ripped out and trampled on by a li

Aug 18

Spoiled Milk

by Avery Curran 🐣 1/5 ducklings tl;dr: a school for young girls is decaying, but the real decay is internalized misogyny and homophobia? I'm going to be honest, I did not like this book. I'll be as kind as I can, but I didn't find much redeeming about it. I hate it when I don't like a book, and not just because of the effort I made to read it. A novel, especially a debut novel, is so personal and it has a little piece of your soul, so it feels really bad when you receive neg

Mar 27

A Vow Made Twice

by Emma Denny 🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣 5/5 ducklings tl;dr: Ash finally gets his happy ending! A perfect ending for a perfect series. I’ve waited a long time for Ash’s story and I'm so glad I finally got to read his happy ending and watch my favorite grumpy eldest child heal in so many ways. If you have talked books with me any time since 2022, I’ve probably gushed at you about One Night in Hartswood . It’s a lovely tale of Medieval queer romance with a happy ending that found me at exactl

Jan 27

Wayward Souls

by Susan J. Morris 🐣🐣🐣🐣 4/5 ducklings tl;dr men are the worst…nope, that’s it. Men are the worst. This sequel to Strange Beasts is a fun gaslamp fantasy romp that reunites me with two of my favorite fictional women right now. I was so happy to be back with Sam and Hel and watch them solve the latest mystery while being harassed by various men. The events of Strange Beasts left their marks on Samantha Harker and Dr. Helena Moriarty. Sam still has flashbacks to her encounte

Jan 21