Analeigh Sbrana

A stunning Romantasy debut about an enchanted library, two handsome Fae, and one human who brings them all together. A library with a deadly enchantment. A Fae lord who wants in. A human woman willing to risk it all for a taste of power. In a land ruled by ruthless Fae, twenty-one-year-old Lore Alemeyu’s village is trapped in a forested prison. Lore knows that any escape attempt is futile—her scars are a testament to her past failures. But when her village is threatened, Lore makes a desperate deal with a Fae lord. She will leave her home to catalog/organize an enchanted library that hasn’t been touched in a thousand years. No Fae may enter the library, but there is a chance a human might be able to breach the cursed doors. She convinces him that she will risk her life for wealth, but really she’s after the one thing the Fae covet above all: magic of her own. As Lore navigates the hostile world outside, she’s forced to rely on two Fae males to survive. Two very different, very dangerous, very attractive Fae males. When undeniable chemistry ignites, she’s not just in danger of losing her life, but her heart to the very creatures she can never trust.

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Lore of the Wilds

Nothing too important about this quote. It just made me laugh and thinking about dumplings made my stomach growl really loudly to the extent that my cat thought that I was growling at her lol 

Lauren Lipford

“You seem to enjoy them even more than I do, which I hadn’t known was possible.”

For those brief moments, Lore hadn't been painfully aware that as a human, she didn't belong here. She walked away from them with a tightness in her throat and the urge to cry at the normalcy of it all.

“There is something I can't quite wrap my head around, Asher. You willingly put on those vile blue stripes of your uniform every morning, and yet, you buy me damned delicious dumplings. And you encourage me to try a certain set of creams for my hair, ones that you think would make me 'happier'. I can't seem to grasp how all these things can be true of one person."

As a reader, I know that every single one of us can relate to this quote from Lore. Being able to escape into a book is my favorite part of reading because it allows you to forget the realities of life and the sometimes awful circumstances that we’re in. 

“My favorite stories are the ones I can escape into. The ones where I can leave behind this bleak existence and be somebody else, even if just for a little while. Someone braver than me. Someone with the power to change their circumstances.”

Not that this comes to me as any sort of surprise, but this reminds me of the years of fighting that people have to go through just to be able to be with or marry someone that they love. Interracial marriage wasn’t legal (and still isn’t explicitly protected by the Constitution but is widely accepted as being a protected right by the 14th amendment) until 1967, and the same kind be said about same sex marriages. Being able to marry who you love shouldn’t be something that people have to fight for. 

She hadn't been aware that it was a death sentence for the sentries who were with humans. She just knew that when the fae forced themselves on humans, it was never the human's choice, and the humans didn't live to tell the tale.

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