Alphareader - Danielle Binks

gotta love Suzanne Collins' dedication to dropping a banger every few years, re-traumatizing a whole generation and disappearing back into the abyss without a single word

Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.

'Daughter of Smoke and Bone' by Laini Taylor

If you liked Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour, try The Monster of Her Age by Danielle Binks

They both include:

sweet wlw romance

a window into the scandalous lives of fictional Hollywood stars

explorations of how films impact and interact with real life

More of my recs are available in my “book recommendations” tag!

A person is among all else a material thing, easily torn not easily mended.

'Atonement' by Ian McEwan

Odysseus had twenty years to shed his battle skin. My grandfather left the battlefield in France and rode home in a ship that crawled across the ocean slowly so he could catch his breath. I get on a plane in hell and get off, hours later, at home.

‘The Impossible Knife of Memory’ by Laurie Halse Anderson