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💭 what book are you reading right now (or what do you think your last read of the year will be)?

2025 IS STILL HAPPENING! i’m not counting out any potential favorite books that I squeeze in during this last week, because they ALL SOUND AMAZING! my TBR is overflowing.

📚 books mentioned:

- Fawn's Blood by Hal Schrieve

- The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World by J.R. Dawson

- Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite

- Undrowned by G.M. DiDesidero

👗💄:

- dress is from Farm Rio, rented from Nuuly

- earrings are from Art By Mesoma

- eye makeup: Lord of the Rings palette from Glamlite, Ourbella duochrome eyeshadow, Kaleidos eyeliner

- nails are from Glamnetic

- (also if you have a question about my makeup or something i’m wearing, most of it is curated in my shopmy!)

thank you to Seven Stories/Triangle Square, Tor Books, Doubleday, and Leaning Pole Press for the gifted copies!

#fantasybooks #horrorbooks #bookrecs #nycinfluencer #booktok @Tor Publishing Group @Seven Stories Press @Knopf Doubleday @DoubledayBooks @FARM Rio @nuuly @Mesoma @Glamlite @OURBELLA SHOP @Kaleidos Makeup @Glamnetic

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