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The Wicked Deep and Winterwood: Reading Shea Ernshaw's Books

Hi everyone! Welcome to Nox the Reader, I'm "Nox", and today I'm talking about Shea Ernshaw's books  The Wicked Deep  and  Winterwood .          "We wait for death. We hold our breath. We know it's coming, and still we flinch when it claws at our throats and pulls us under." ~ The Wicked Deep "Because I am more darkness than girl. More winter shadow than August sunlight." ~ Winterwood Two-Sentence Synopsis: The Wicked Deep  is about the town of Sparrow, which is cursed by three sisters that were accused of witchcraft and drowned centuries ago. Every summer, the three sisters possess the bodies of three of the town's girls and drown three boys in revenge. Winterwood  is about Nora Walker, who comes from a long line of witches died to the local Winter Woods of Fir Haven. Nora finds Oliver Huntsman, a lost boy from a local camp for troubled boys, and is caught up in a mystery. Content Warnings The Wicked Deep :  Drowni...

New Year, New Blog! Where I've Been and 2020 Goals

Hello everyone! I'm "Nox", and welcome to Nox the Reader! For those of you who are new, welcome! It's very nice to meet you! For those of you who know me, some might be thinking that the blog looks, and sounds, a bit different. You might have some questions, like: What's going on with the blog? I've been on an on-and-off blogging hiatus since about June of 2019. Nox Reads was a lovely space, but it didn't feel very... me, in a way! For some reason, I wasn't able to edit the site's design, and in the end, I needed to create a new space and move my posts somewhere else, so here we are! I would've loved to keep the domain as Nox Reads (like my Twitter ... and my Instagram ... and my Booktube ...) but unfortunately, my new domain meant a new name for the blog. If you've seen any of my social media, you may know that I absolutely adore Laini Taylor's Strange the Dreamer, and have a way-too-large-and-not-entirely-fictional crush on La...