Ava Reid

If the monsters are real, so are the women who defeat them. Effy has always believed in fairy tales. She's had no choice. Since childhood, she's been haunted by visions of the Fairy King. She's found solace only in the pages of Angharad - a beloved epic about a mortal girl who falls in love with the Fairy King, and then destroys him. Effy's tattered copy is all that's keeping her afloat through her stifling first term her prestigious architecture college. So when the late author's family announces a contest to design his house, Effy fells certain this is her destiny. But Hiraeth Manor is an impossible task: a musty, decrepit estate on the brink of crumbling into a hungry sea. And when Effy arrives, she finds she isn't the only one who's made a temporary home there. Preston Héloury, a stodgy young literature scholar, is studying Myrddin's papers and is determined to prove her favourite author is a fraud. As the two rival students investigate the reclusive author's legacy, piecing together clues through his letters, books, and diaries, they discover that the house's foundation isn't the only thing that can't be trusted. There are dark forces, both mortal and magical, conspiring against them - and the truth may bring them both to ruin.

A Study in Drowning

this quote ate; the prose in this book is beautiful the main character made it unbearable 

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Ralie Sutton

Everytime someone says this I'm feeling sick. They all need to be castrated.

Sophia

Ianto watched her without blinking , his watery, colorless eyes unreadable. When she was mid-bite, he said, “You’re a very pretty girl.”

That's a 101 guide to being a rapist🤢 They should just burn the whole house down

. Effy slid it back into place with a shudder.

Isabelle

When you leave, all I can think about is when you'll come back, and how I'll survive seeing something so beautiful I can't touch. 

We must discuss then, the relationship between women and water. When men fall into the sea, they drown. When women meet the water, they transform. 

It becomes vital to ask: is it a metamorphosis, or a homecoming? 

Jeanne L Collier

Effy hated that she couldn't tell right from wrong, safe from unsafe.  Her fear had transfigured the entire world.  Looking at anything was like trying to glimpse a reflection in a broken mirror, all of it warped and shattered and strange.

The ocean is beautiful and free. Lovely and dangerous and vast beyond mortal comprehension, the sea makes dreamers of us all. 

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