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✨👻COVER REVEAL 👻✨

We’re thrilled to share the stunning cover of The Girl With A Thousand Faces, coming this spring from Sunyi Dean, the USA Today bestselling author of The Book Eaters! ⭐⁣

The Girl with a Thousand Faces is a Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong that meshes ancient myths and local legends into a haunting story of ghosts, grief, and women who will not forgive. 

Complete with restless spirits, watery dungeons, and even a ghost cat named Bao, add this gripping fantasy horror to your shelves on 5.5.26⭐⁣

Cover art by Lindsey Carr, Cover design by Shreya Gupta

Last week I finished The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean as part of a buddy read with Destiny.

This book was visceral! 🔥

Devon is a book eater, an individual with the appearance of a human (for the most part), that absorbs sustenance and knowledge from consuming books/any form of paper with inscriptions. She was raised by one of the six families, to consume nothing but fairy tales so she might learn good manners and presume the role of a perfect princess, to be wed and give birth to two girls. Instead, after a slew of runaway attempts, and the birth of her son (Cai) that has to consume minds instead of paper, she sets forth on a scorched Earth plan to save him.

I loved everything about this book. The chapters alternate between Devon growing up and a few years prior to the current events, and modern day. The pacing is perfect, as it's revealed who true allies are, how her second ex-husband was disposed of, and what her brother Ramsey is willing to do to keep the Knights running. Each chapter starts with a literature reference, always fitting to the theme in some way. One of my favorites was something along the lines of "Maybe some day I can read fairy tales again". The videogame references are relatable and meaningful in providing Devon and Cai some form of escape.

The characters are so compelling, especially Devon's girlfriend Hes, brother-in-law Jarrow, and human journalist Mani. Nearing the final showdown in the book, Cai talks about how despite society seeing him as a monster, Devon would eat the world to protect him and he'd do the same for her. I love this monster family!! Though the most monstrous character is by far Hes' brother with his Catholicism inspired sacrificial cult.

The author has mentioned maybe returning to this world from the perspective of a side character after publishing two very different books, and I hope she does!

Note: This book has fantastic sapphic and asexual rep! With Dean being autistic herself, I think it's fair to say that Devon is as well.

As we know Harry Potter’s story presents interesting and memorable characters that keep living in every single reader. First of all, we have Harry Potter who has very beautiful green eyes covered by his characteristic round glasses. He also has short black hair and a scar with a thunder shape on his forehead. He is quite tall and slim, and has pale skin. On the other hand, the book also mentions his two best friends: Hermione Granger who is an intellectual girl with large front teeth and brown hair; and Ron Weasley who is a part of the Weasley Family, and their similar red hair. 

In the first chapter, we can see Harry potter trying to deal with his life in his uncle’s house. He is finishing an essay from school trying not to wake up his uncle and aunt. It is actually Harry potter's birthday but, as in every single birthday, he does not celebrate it since it reminds him of when he lost his parents against Voldemort. As he is doing his homework, he notices a group of owls with letters for him. One is from his best friend Ron; the other is from Hermione and the last one is from Hogwarts requesting him to ask his “Parents” for permission in order to let him attend the wizard village of Hogsmeade. He definitely knows that his uncle would never sign the form, but he decides to sleep and consider this letter as a special gift for his birthday.

The second chapter explores the dynamics of the Dursley family during breakfast time while on the news it is being announced that a prisoner has escaped. On the other hand, Uncle Vernon says his sister Marge is coming for Dursley’s birthday. Marge is well-known for mistreating Harry, for having lots of bulldogs. Vernon and Harry arranged to sign the Hogsmeade permission form if Harry behaves properly and to say about his “school” which is one for troublemakers (instead of saying he attends Hogwarts for young witches and wizards). When Aunt Marge has arrived, she starts drinking and shows herself really mean towards Harry, insulting him and his parents, which annoys Harry to a point that he uses unconscious magic on her, inflating her as a balloon. After an argument with the Dursleys, Harry gathers his belongings and leaves the house.

The Dark Lord isn't here yet to wipe the world out from muggled born, in the meantime listen to Manuel Pech's podcast with a special guest, Armando Angulo, and his thrilling coming story "Ticket Bus"

Disclaimer: We don't own the background music. Credits to "Martia's Muses" (on youtube)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third of eight books written by the famous British writer Joanne Kathleen Rowling. This marvelous author is considered one of the most important and influential authors of all time, not just in England, but in the whole world, and all this is thanks to the Harry Potter series. Since the beginning of her career as a writer, she had to deal with misogyny and machismo that had been settled in the big publishing houses from that time. In fact, her first Harry Potter book which is “Harry Potter and the philosopher’s stone” was rejected 12 times, and when it was accepted by Bloomsbury Publishing, she was asked to use the two initials of her name rather than her full name because the company was sure that young boys would not read any book written by a woman, this is why we know her as J.K Rowling.

Regarding the book previously mentioned, its story develops in the wonderful wizarding world which is a whole new world to explore in which only magicians are knowledgeable about it. The story happens mainly in Hogwarts castle which is well-known for being the most important school of magic for every single wizard and witch from the United Kingdom.

The main reason why we have chosen this book among the others from the series is due to the differences regarding the first two books, in which the wizarding world is explored through Harry’s childish eyes. In other words, from this book on, Harry will start developing his own personality, accepting the fact of his loneliness, and meeting people that can give him a different kind of family love. Another motivation to pick up this book is the plot, which involves time travel, werewolves, animagi, and fantastic beasts, and most importantly because this book is the twist and the waterfall that divides the Harry Potter series from the children's story to a darker and considerably more mature story to explore and enjoy.