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Ardent Eshteross admirer. Writer, reader & reviewer. 📚🐉 Editor & proofreader. Goth. AuDHD introvert+. Demi & sapio NB/GF (they/them)🔞 ⛔ No Al ⛔ No unsolicited DMs My reviews & me: https://linktr.ee/lacrimamundi #BookReview #IndieBooks #AmReading #Poetry

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Lacrima Mundi - Indie Book Reviews [requests closed][¾hiatus] 📚✍ @lacrimamundi.bsky.social · Aug 27

So far 80 books read, 74 reviewed and 16 rated.

Discrepancy due to a shocking increase in Al-slop and my urge to warn people about it (only reading free samples of that).

All my 2025 reviews, listed by month & with some subcategories 👇

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Lacrima Mundi's review of 2025 on Goodreads

My 2025 in Reviews & Ratings Total counter: 90 August To be continued 90. T.L. Stone: Tusks, Tails & Teacakes (Tales from the Tavern #1) ★★★★☆ 89. Kristen Perrin: How to Solve Your Own Murd...

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Lacrima Mundi - Indie Book Reviews [requests closed][¾hiatus] 📚✍ @lacrimamundi.bsky.social · 1d

Do you have a critique partner or trusted beta reader? If so, I'd suggest asking for a second (or third, or forth) opinion before you delete it.

If in doubt, general rule of thumb: It's easier to take something out later on that to add it (back) in.

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Lacrima Mundi - Indie Book Reviews [requests closed][¾hiatus] 📚✍ @lacrimamundi.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations! 🥳

Lacrima Mundi - Indie Book Reviews [requests closed][¾hiatus] 📚✍ @lacrimamundi.bsky.social · 1d

Best of luck! 🤞🍀🤞

Lacrima Mundi - Indie Book Reviews [requests closed][¾hiatus] 📚✍ @lacrimamundi.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Release Day! 🥳

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C. J. Daley (BestGhost Out Now!) @cjdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

THE WAIT IS OVER, Tales From Cemetery IS OUT NOW!

This collection is the perfect range of stories for the Halloween season for horror fans both new and old.

Ebook and paperback available now, hardcover to follow.

Reshares welcomed

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Lacrima Mundi - Indie Book Reviews [requests closed][¾hiatus] 📚✍ @lacrimamundi.bsky.social · 1d

If you find it, great!

If you don't, don't worry about it.

The ADHD is strong in me these days, I totally understand.

Lacrima Mundi - Indie Book Reviews [requests closed][¾hiatus] 📚✍ @lacrimamundi.bsky.social · 1d

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Lacrima Mundi - Indie Book Reviews [requests closed][¾hiatus] 📚✍ @lacrimamundi.bsky.social · 1d

I am a Dr Pepper fan and my favourite colour is black.

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Lacrima Mundi - Indie Book Reviews [requests closed][¾hiatus] 📚✍ @lacrimamundi.bsky.social · 2d

'Given the volatile nature of their relationship, one might have predicted homicide rather than matrimony.'

- Seven of Nine (Star Trek: Voyager, s1, e17)

Seven's dry humour cracks me up every time, because she nails it every time. 🤣🤣🤣

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Lacrima Mundi - Indie Book Reviews [requests closed][¾hiatus] 📚✍ @lacrimamundi.bsky.social · 2d

Social media can be confusing at times, I totally get it, no worries. 🫂

Did you find your list? 🥹👉👈

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 2d

🖤🌊 Drowned Hearts 🌊🖤
- eerie island vibes
- creepy ocean creatures
- grave digging
- a sinister goddess
- oh the bad choices...
- 30min read

Ebook 99c
--> https://linktr.ee/klykkebo

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Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 2d

“Why are the men in romantasy all alphaholes”

Actually some of them are cinnamon rolls who make mechanical owls and worship the ground she walks on!

Also they’re both furry and their civilization is about to be destroyed but they still fuck

danifinn.itch.io/wings-so-soft

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 2d

🎃October Sale🎃

Grab a book or book box, a crochet mystery box, or maybe a handmade candle! Everything at Spilled Ink and Coffee is 35% off!!

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#booksky #bookboxes #crochet 🧶 #handmade #smallbiz 💙📚 🌈📚 🌶️📚 ♿️♾️📚 🎨💼

Spooky Vibed Only.
Grab any item from Spilled Ink and Coffee for 35% off all month.
October 1st - 31st.
Books, crochet items, and handmade candles.

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Lacrima Mundi - Indie Book Reviews [requests closed][¾hiatus] 📚✍ @lacrimamundi.bsky.social · 2d

A "joke account" (with terrible jokes) that doesn't get jokes. Sums up some parts of social media in a nutshell, really. 🙄

Off to the blockhouse you go, mate. 👋

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Lacrima Mundi - Indie Book Reviews [requests closed][¾hiatus] 📚✍ @lacrimamundi.bsky.social · 2d

Much better!

I'd still prefer the beast though... 😏

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Lacrima Mundi - Indie Book Reviews [requests closed][¾hiatus] 📚✍ @lacrimamundi.bsky.social · 2d

Now reading

Robin McKinley: Rose Daughter

Thank you to @penguin-ponders.bsky.social for recommending it when I was looking for Beauty and The Beast retellings in which the beast stays beasty (bc let's face it, that prince is nothing but a massive downgrade)

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Robin McKinley: Rose Daughter

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Lacrima Mundi - Indie Book Reviews [requests closed][¾hiatus] 📚✍ @lacrimamundi.bsky.social · 2d

As the comment section shows, some people have already managed. Bugger.

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Lacrima Mundi - Indie Book Reviews [requests closed][¾hiatus] 📚✍ @lacrimamundi.bsky.social · 2d

I'm jealous, I wish I could turn my brain off from time to time.

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Lacrima Mundi - Indie Book Reviews [requests closed][¾hiatus] 📚✍ @lacrimamundi.bsky.social · 2d

Some people... 🤦

Where does a mansplainer get his water?

From a well, actually.

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Lacrima Mundi - Indie Book Reviews [requests closed][¾hiatus] 📚✍ @lacrimamundi.bsky.social · 2d

A thread worth reading:

Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 5d

The funniest thing about Twitter was that its owners didn't understand it, didn't like it, and didn't know how to make money from its unprecedented ubiquity except to eventually sell it to some asshole who wrecked it. Imagine having the most popular website on Earth and not knowing why.

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Lacrima Mundi - Indie Book Reviews [requests closed][¾hiatus] 📚✍ @lacrimamundi.bsky.social · 2d

I'm bad at maths but not THAT bad; I rather pass, thank you very much. 😂

Lacrima Mundi - Indie Book Reviews [requests closed][¾hiatus] 📚✍ @lacrimamundi.bsky.social · 2d

As per usual these days, the people in charge neither know what they are doing nor to they fucking care.

Disclaimer: Exceptions might exist.

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Lacrima Mundi - Indie Book Reviews [requests closed][¾hiatus] 📚✍ @lacrimamundi.bsky.social · 2d

If that would have made the prices of books go down, I might be more forgiving, alas prices shot up into dimensions that are ridiculous; yet they pay way less wages than they formerly did. IF they even pay wagers and not straight outsource all that "pesky editing and proofreading shit". 🙄

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Lacrima Mundi - Indie Book Reviews [requests closed][¾hiatus] 📚✍ @lacrimamundi.bsky.social · 2d

Yes!

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Lacrima Mundi - Indie Book Reviews [requests closed][¾hiatus] 📚✍ @lacrimamundi.bsky.social · 2d

everything and maybe one proofreader, who's so abysmally paid that they only get newbies to do that for them. Which is fine, if they are 1st in a line of a couple, but not on its own (some might be great, but they probably won't work for the salary they tend to offer, not if they know they're great)

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Lacrima Mundi - Indie Book Reviews [requests closed][¾hiatus] 📚✍ @lacrimamundi.bsky.social · 2d

and then a system of proofreaders (from least to most experienced - usually about 3-5). Who worked in succession, not parallel to each other. (As it should be, if you want to assure a certain level of quality.)

I'm not sure where we're now at, but the way most books read I suspect one editor for

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