What I am Studying: Vol. 125.

Hi there darlings,

Completely happy new 12 months!! Is it nonetheless okay to say that on January sixteenth? I’m going to say sure, as a result of the 12 months nonetheless feels all contemporary and new.

January is usually a tough month for me: the sky is darkish, the climate is chilly, and I’m nonetheless worn out from holidaying by the tip of 2023. However we simply had the hearth in our new home repaired, so I’ve been spending a number of time curled up in a fuzzy blanket in entrance of a heat hearth, studying nice books. It’s beautiful.

The solar will return ultimately after which there might be enjoyable issues to do, however for now I’m leaning into the hibernation vibes and taking numerous time to relaxation and recharge.

How is 2024 treating you up to now?

xoxo,
Becky

What I’m studying

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros.

I learn this whole ebook yesterday from begin to end. Not solely is it precisely my kind of ebook – fantasy romance with dragons and a powerful girl protagonist – the writer has the identical uncommon genetic connective tissue dysfunction as me (hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome) and so does Forth Wing’s primary character.

The world positively looks like a contemporary reimagining of iconic fantasy traditional The Dragonriders of Pern however with fewer sexual consent points and fewer home violence (no shaking of ladies). There’s journey, intrigue, and superior dragons who every bond to a rider and have the power to speak with that rider mind-to-mind.

I used to be actually shaken by how a lot it meant to me to learn a ebook a couple of character whose physique works the identical approach mine does. Apparently that’s one thing that I used to be craving so deeply that I wasn’t even consciously conscious of it. I’m positively trying ahead to ebook two.

Honest warning: this ebook appears like YA, however the intercourse scenes are a bit of extra on-page motion than I affiliate with YA. There are solely a few them, however the spice stage places on the identical shelf as ACOTAR relatively than The Starvation Video games.

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