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ABIGAIL founded Abigail’s Tales as a bookstagram in 2017 and expanded it into a blog in 2018. She writes reviews and other commentaries on reading culture. Although she is an English literature student, you will usually find her with a young adult fantasy novel in her hands.

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Hello everyone! Long time no post. Sorry I’ve been absolutely AWOL, but life just gets in the way sometimes. But all that is hopefully behind me now, so I am BACK. I got home from school last week, and it is so good to be back (I missed my dog and my books). Anyway, I’m super happy to be motivated to take pictures again, and I have some ideas that I want to try that are outside of my comfort zone, but those are the best kind, right? • • I finished The Winter of the Witch yesterday morning, and I absolutely loved it. It was an amazing conclusion to that trilogy, and I think it ended exactly the way it needed to. I started The Demon King and am about a quarter of the way done with it, but I’m not sure I like it that much. I’m intrigued, but I don’t think it’s what I want to read right now. I’m probably going to stick with it in hopes that it picks up soon.

>he smiled, and his face was like the sun<⠀ •⠀ •⠀ Well, I managed to pickup the flu today so I feel pretty terrible. I also haven’t been reading much, and I feel like this should be the perfect time to finish up The Wicked King, except my head hurts and I can’t really focus. I just wish I felt a little better so that I could read. I’m not as far along with The Wicked King as I’d like to be, so that stinks as well. ⠀ •⠀ •⠀ QOTD: What book took you a surprising long time to finish?

>from the heart - may it return to the heart<⠀ •⠀ •⠀ I really love the aesthetic of this picture. I need to take more pictures with music since I have so much of it, but I have so few books that are actually relevant to it and I have this weird opposition to just using music as a prop if the book isn’t music related. Also, I’m really just posting this because I’m studying my butt off for a music theory exam that I have tomorrow. Please wish me luck and good vibes; I need all the help I can get. Oh, and I haven’t read this book and I probably never will at this point, but I like the idea of it so much I think I’m gonna hang on to it for a while. Who knows, maybe I’ll read it now that I’m obsessed with music history, but I will probably just fixate on inaccuracies 🤷🏼‍♀️ This quote is also really my peak music nerd-it’s the dedication from Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, and I honestly love it so much. Mostly I just love Beethoven (basic, I know), but how can you not?⠀ •⠀ •⠀ QOTD: How’s your week going?

>only those who persevere can find their true ending<⠀ •⠀ •⠀ Quick post for today since I have 2 exams this week and realllyyyy need to study. I read the first volume of The Steel Prince comic/graphic novel bind up yesterday, and I thought it was really intriguing. It’s such an interesting format that I’m totally not used to (I read a few volumes of The Walking Dead when I was high school, but that’s the extent of my comic experience). I want to reread it to pay a little more attention to details and really appreciate everything about it, but I thought it was a great expansion to the Shades of Magic world (although I love that world so much I’ll take any expansion). I also read a good chunk of The Wicked King (about 20%), and so far it feels like nothing has happened. I didn’t love The Cruel Prince, so I’m a little wary about this, but everyone was talking about how shocking the ending of The Wicked King is, and I want to know what they’re talking about. We’ll see how it goes. (wow, so much for quick post 🤦🏼‍♀️)⠀ •⠀ •⠀ QOTD: What books were 100% cover buys?

QOTD: What new release are you really scared to start? • • Hi guys! Sorry I missed my post this weekend, but it was a CRAZY couple days. Saturday was the last day of my swim meet, which are always a whirlwind, when our 7-hour bus ride home Sunday turned into a 17-hour one. Worst travel experience I think I’ve ever encountered. ANYWAY. I put this on my story earlier, but I had 6 books on hold from my library’s e-book collection and very. single. one. got loaned to me in the past week. Like what?? I’ve been waiting on some of those for MONTHS, so of course they all happen at once. Spread the love maybe, Overdrive? We’ll see how many I manage to get to in time. At least my swim season is done now so I have a bit more downtime. • • To answer my own question, I am TERRIFIED to start King of Scars. I picked it up on a whim like 2 days after it released after thinking I’d wait to buy it, and I still haven’t started it. I’m so scared. Yeah, I want to know what happens, but I don’t want to be disappointed by it. I’ve tried to avoid reading anyone’s responses to it, but I haven’t been able to do that completely and a handful of people say they were disappointed. I just don’t want to think that too 😫

>human nature is both predictable and mysterious; prone to great and sudden advances, yet still mired in despicable self-interest< • • I finished this beauty yesterday, and I was totally blown away. I didn’t really know what to expect (I don’t even think I really read the summary before starting it), and it was really just phenomenal. It still isn’t quite a favorite, but definitely a solid 4 star read. I remember reading the first couple books of Shusterman’s Unwind series in high school and being really intrigued, and this did the exact same thing. It’s really amazing how he can create such plausible futures that make you think about the present. • • Also, quick life update: if I’m MIA for the next week or so (not interacting or liking things), it’s because I’m at a swim meet and will be really busy and doing a lot of resting, and I’m trying not to devote too much time to social media. Yeah, so that’s that. • • QOTD: Are there any books you really loved, even though you had no idea what they were about before you started?

>maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder< • • Short caption with just a reading update for today. I finished The Poppy War and thought it was okay. There were a lot of things I really liked about it, but also quite a few things that kind of bugged me. A solid 3.5 star read, but edging towards 4. I asked it in my story, but now I’m trying to decide if I should read Scythe or King of Scars next. Thoughts??? • • QOTD: How do you decide what book to read next?

QOTD: Do you have any exciting plans this week? • • I don’t really have a whole lot to say today. I bought this plastic skull for Halloween and it’s been sitting on my desk ever since. It’s my new staple decoration, and I regret absolutely nothing. I’m Im surprised it took me so long to think of taking the classic Hamlet-with-Yorick’s-skull pic with it (okay, really it’s that I low key forgot I had a Shakespeare anthology on my shelf.) I’m about halfway through Th Poppy War, and I’m really enjoying it. I wasn’t sure what I thought of it at first and it took me a good 100, 150 pages for me to really get interested, but I’m with it now. It’s one of those books where I’m halfway through but have no idea where it’ll go next, which is really fun and interesting. I should hopefully finish it within the next couple days.

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