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Friendly neighborhood vampire and book lover. I accept ARCs! Current Read: Katabasis Current 🎧📚: https://linktr.ee/thebookvampire 💌[email protected]💌

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Katie 🦇📚 @thebookvampire.bsky.social · Jan 20

Books I’ve Read in 2025 (a real time thread) #booksky #booktok

1. The God of Endings by Jacqueline Holland. A haunting and new take on the vampire story. We get to bounce between Anna’s past experiences as a vampire and her current story set in the 1980s. Her love of humanity is heartbreaking. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Book cover of The God of Endings. Shows a door lock over the painting of an 1800s woman

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Katie 🦇📚 @thebookvampire.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thankfully I left that career path behind so it’s been a lovely distraction from my professional stress

Katie 🦇📚 @thebookvampire.bsky.social · Sep 2

I just got off in May after over a year of waiting! Slowly but surely it’ll happen

Katie 🦇📚 @thebookvampire.bsky.social · Sep 2

I’m really glad it kept the UK cover because I prefer it to the US edition

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Katie 🦇📚 @thebookvampire.bsky.social · Sep 2

Maybe Katabasis will take away the anxiety about going back to work #booksky #katabasis

Photo shows the Fairyloot edition of Katabasis by R F Kuang next to a plush purple bat

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Katie 🦇📚 @thebookvampire.bsky.social · Aug 18

If you have never planned an event before, do not decide your first event will be a convention. Planning any event is hard but planning a bookish convention is going to be exponentially harder. I say this as someone who’s worked in the industry for years at venues #booksky #onceuponacon

Katie 🦇📚 @thebookvampire.bsky.social · Aug 18

I just realized I’ve worked 8 days in a row and now me being on the verge of a crashout makes a lot more sense

Katie 🦇📚 @thebookvampire.bsky.social · Aug 18

My fiancé did not appreciate me telling him that book Stuart Little is actually a human boy that looks like a little mouse and was born to a human family #booksky

Katie 🦇📚 @thebookvampire.bsky.social · Aug 17

My Penny A Page trip to 2nd and Charles was successful yesterday!!! #booksky #bookhaul

Photo shows six books lined up. The Hemlock Queen by Hannah Whitten, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett, What the River Knows by Isabel Inbañez, The Atlas Sic by Olivie Blake, Where the Dark Stands Still by AB Poranke, and The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Siri

Katie 🦇📚 @thebookvampire.bsky.social · Aug 13

Happy Release Day to Lord of Ruin by @kmenright.bsky.social!! I’m 75% through and it absolutely lives up to the bar Mistress of Lies set. If you’re looking for a dark, sexy, bloodbath of a vampire series with a trio of morally grey protagonists, The Age of Blood is for you. #booksky #bookreview

Photo shows Mistress of Lies and Lord of Ruin by K M Enright on a shelf

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Katie 🦇📚 @thebookvampire.bsky.social · Aug 11

My fiancé surprised me with the build a bear bat bear I’ve been saying I want. He went and got it made on his lunch break today 😭😭😭😭 #goth #booksky #halloween

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Katie 🦇📚 @thebookvampire.bsky.social · Aug 8

I’m already on chapter seven and I’m hooked yet again!!!!

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Katie 🦇📚 @thebookvampire.bsky.social · Aug 8

Time to read about my favorite morally grey polyam trio. Still confused that @netgalley.bsky.social and @orbitbooks.bsky.social gave me an e-ARC of my most anticipated sequel this year by @kmenright.bsky.social #booksky #lordofruin #netgalley #ARC #eARC

Picture is of a digital ARC of Lord of Ruin by K M Enright

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · Aug 4

Pssst AN ARCANE INHERITANCE is Read Now on Netgalley right now

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An Arcane Inheritance

NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

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Katie 🦇📚 @thebookvampire.bsky.social · Aug 4

How the fuck did I get approved for an e-arc of Wild Reverence? #booksky

Katie 🦇📚 @thebookvampire.bsky.social · Jul 21

Working in the events industry while seeing multiple bookish convention controversies is such an interesting overlap of my professional knowledge and my hobbies #booksky

Katie 🦇📚 @thebookvampire.bsky.social · Jul 18

The new Superman being only two years older than me is a really specific indicator of me getting older. Never in my life has a Superman been my age.

Katie 🦇📚 @thebookvampire.bsky.social · Jul 18

My commute to work today was so long because of whatever rail issues Metro was having. Got on at 8:12 and didn’t get off till 9:45. Normally like a 30 min trip 😑😑😑 #booksky #metro #washingtondc

Katie 🦇📚 @thebookvampire.bsky.social · Jul 8

I see that V E Schwab will be at the National Book Festival. So I will definitely be at the National Book Festival this year #booksky #nationalbookfestival #veschwab

Katie 🦇📚 @thebookvampire.bsky.social · Jul 6

Thank you!!!

Katie 🦇📚 @thebookvampire.bsky.social · Jul 6

Thank you!!!! I’m so excited

Katie 🦇📚 @thebookvampire.bsky.social · Jul 6

While I’ve been offline for my mental health, I GOT A PROMOTION!!!! #booksky

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Katie 🦇📚 @thebookvampire.bsky.social · Jun 17

Finally broke through my reading slump & finished A Treachery of Swans by @abporanek.bsky.social. An absolutely mesmerizing take on Swan Lake. I might be biased since it’s one of my favorite ballets & Barbie movies but this was so good. Full of mystery, friendship, & gay longing #bookreview #booksky

Katie 🦇📚 @thebookvampire.bsky.social · May 29

I’m hoping a @netgalley.bsky.social ARC of one of my most anticipated reads of the year can fix my reading slump. I’m so excited to get to read A Treachery of Swans early @simonteen.bsky.social @abporanek.bsky.social #booksky #bookreview #netgalley #arc #advancedreadercopy

E-ARC of A Treachery of Swans by A B Poranek

Katie 🦇📚 @thebookvampire.bsky.social · Jun 16

It’s finally time to start The Knight and the Moth #booksky #bookreview

Photo shows the Fairyloot special edition of The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig

Katie 🦇📚 @thebookvampire.bsky.social · Jun 15

I’m not mad at it. I’m chalking it up to taking care of my inner child lol