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@botaboxed.rwrb.social
for fandom and writing ✌🏻 mostly rwrb firstprince brain rot but also d20

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this has been my experience too 🩷
December 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
immediate thought as well
December 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
the kids running free the whole time had me STRESSED, like hayden hold their HANDS
December 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
i recently read starling house and loved it!
December 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
it's on my library cart 👀
December 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
those are all very different ones, too! 🩷
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
i'm a scaredy cat so i always thought i wouldn't be able to handle them 😅 don't let the forest in by cg drews was my #1 for sure, every time i see it mentioned anywhere i go into hype mode (but see also: the bone houses, starling house, hazelthorn)
December 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
it's short but so good!
December 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
20. CINDER HOUSE. and yes, absolutely. another home run from freya marske.
December 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
17. i don't know if i was 'surprised' by any books in particular, bc i expected so many to be good, but i WAS surprised by how good the horror books i read this year were, as that's a genre i've never really been interested in before.
December 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
6 & 14!
December 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
i read it when it was originally coming out and OMGGGGGG so good
December 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
CHECK, PLEASE!!!!
December 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
i branched out this year and was surprised by how much i enjoyed a new genre! i hope you have that experience too 🩷
December 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
what graphic novels have you gotten into?? we have a bunch in our collection
December 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
9 & 25!
December 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM
6 & 20!
December 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
6. so much! my TBR can attest to that. i hope to get a few more in before the end of the year, but a few i really wanted to read: upright women wanted, captive prince, the corruption of hollis brown
December 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
18. 25! for my birthday i went to the book outlet where everything is 75% off so i got a good haul
December 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
i totally get that! but (imho) you're nailing it 🩷
December 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
LEGIT. i was like, oh these aren't gonna be a surprise, but that's bc they're SOLID.
December 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
11. i had to go look at my 5⭐️ ratings because so many of them came out this year 😅 BUT the two that have been out the longest are: the song of achilles, and the seven husbands of evelyn hugo
December 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM