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book that turns u evil

req for @hawkepockets !

“hope started to beat its angry little drum in hathin’s chest again”

You should be allowed to cruise in bookstores

tlt fans will be like read my books. jakey the ninth is about [long list of tumblr post motifs that were popular 2 years ago, 1 plot point from the adventure zone balance, & no indication of the premise or genre]

my best tip for anyone trying to get back into reading is to remember that you can read books to avoid other responsibilities in ur life and it can become a vice if you play your cards right

not every song on the shuffle can be about bffffuuuuuck this instrumental break is scrummyyy you could totally execute tain hu to this

me: sees an absolutely outrageous costume me: ok but what if Fitz wore -

okay so like…. maaaybe im in love??

The Night of Baba Yaga

Akira Otani (Author), Sam Bett (Translator)

A fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment to the yakuza princess she’s been forced to protect in this explosive queer thriller: Kill Bill meets The Handmaiden meets Thelma and Louise.

Tokyo, 1979. Yoriko Shindo, a workhorse of a woman who has been an outcast her whole life, is kidnapped and dragged to the lair of the Naiki-kai, a branch of the yakuza. After she savagely fends off a throng of henchmen in an attempt to escape, Shindo is only permitted to live under one condition: that she will become the bodyguard and driver for Shoko Naiki, the obsessively sheltered daughter of the gang’s boss.

Eighteen-year-old Shoko, pretty and silent as a doll, has no friends, wears strangely old-fashioned clothes, and is naive in all matters of life. Originally disdaining her ward, Shindo soon finds herself far more invested in Shoko’s wellbeing than she ever expected. But every man around them is bloodthirsty and trigger-happy. Shindo doubts she and Shoko will survive much longer if nothing changes. Could there ever be a different life for two women like them?

Akira Otani’s English-language debut moves boldly through time and across gender, stretching the definitions and possibilities of each concept. Rendered in a gorgeous translation by International Booker–shortlisted Sam Bett, this lean, mean thriller proves that bonds forged in fire are unbreakable.

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