Sighting of the Book of the Month club edition of This Princess Kills Monsters in the wild - this one from Pittsburgh!

I wasn't aware of it, but I'll definitely check it out!

SNOW!

Other great books from March:

SILENCED by Ann Claycomb
THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY by Edith Wharton
ARKHANGELSK by Elizabeth Bonesteel
THE EMILY WILDE TRILOGY by Heather Fawcett
THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS by Arundhati Roy
COME CLOSER by Sarah Gran
THE ONES WHO COME BACK HUNGRY by Amelinda Bérubé

Favorite Books — March 2026 The standout book for me in March was: CHILDREN OF STRIFE, by Adrian Tchaikovsky An interspecies starship rediscovers a forgotten human colony. Then human crewmate Alis wakes to discover that she, …

The standout book for me in March was:

CHILDREN OF STRIFE, by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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(And I think Kristen Sieh did a fantastic job with the audiobook -- hope you enjoy it!)

Aw, thank you so much!

I think the audiobook of This Princess Kills Monsters is on sale right now. Certainly on Apple Books, but I guess maybe also on Amazon.

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What tipped me off:

(Well... certainly on Apple Books, but I guess maybe also on Amazon?)

@hollygodarkly.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy Have you read This Princess Kills Monsters by @ryherman.bsky.social Absolutely incredible homage to fairy tales

The French language edition of This Princess Kills Monsters comes out today!

BRIGANDS & BREADKNIVES by Travis Baldree
YOU WEREN’T MEANT TO BE HUMAN by Andrew Joseph White
TRESS OF THE EMERALD SEA by Brandon Sanderson
THIEF OF NIGHT by Holly Black

Favorite Books — February 2026 Once again, there are no books I specifically want to highlight, but a whole lot of books I very much enjoyed this past month: THE POET EMPRESS by Shen Tao, GREEK LESSONS by Kang Han, TAPPING THE D…

There were a whole lot of books I enjoyed this past month:

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THE POET EMPRESS by Shen Tao
GREEK LESSONS by Kang Han
TAPPING THE DREAM TREE by Charles de Lint
THE HUNGRY GODS by Adrian Tchaikovsky

I would like to write a cookbook which contains a few different ways to prepare every recipe solely so I could call it Bay Leaf It Or Not.

Print copy of the book This Princess Kills Monsters (with the tagline “The misadventures of a fairy-tale stepsister”) by Ry Herman, sitting on a laptop keyboard. The cover is filled with a colorful illustration of a silhouetted figure brandishing a sword on a bridge, facing off against silhouetted monsters, with a castle in a cliff in the background and a dragon flying past the castle.

After a meetup last weekend at a new-to-me bookstore-cafe, my latest “browsing” resulted in getting this by @ryherman.bsky.social . I finished it yesterday and it was a delight to read. #BookSky #AmReading

finished the audiobook of This Princess Kills Monsters yesterday. it was delightful! I enjoyed the fairy tale references (even though I didn't understand some of them), the consistency of the main character's personality traits, the humor, and the great job the narrator did with Scottish accents! 🌈📚

Thanks to the works of Sigrid Undset and Xenophon, I now have every single letter of the alphabet represented by the author names on my bookshelf. This makes me obscurely happy.

The cover for the French language edition of This Princess Kills Monsters!

This Princess Kills Monsters by Ry Herman is based on The Twelve Huntmen but incorporates many different fairytale characters. It's an amazing adaptation of a classic fairytale.

#booksky #fairytale #fantasy #cleanromance #LGBT

ONCE WAS WILLEM by M. R. Carey
THE PROJECTIONIST by Kirsti Wishart
THE ANTIDOTE by Karen Russell
THE BEWITCHING by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

HEAP EARTH UPON IT by Chloe Michelle Howarth
TO RIDE A RISING STORM by Moniquill Blackgoose
WILD GEESE by Emmanuel Soula
SNAKE-EATER by T. Kingfisher
NEEDLE LAKE by Justine Champine

Favorite Books — January 2026 There’s no specific book I want to single out this month, but a whole bunch I very much liked, including: SLOW GODS by Claire North, WE COULD BE RATS by Emily Austin, ASUNDER by Kerstin Hall,…

There’s no specific book I want to single out as the best of the month, but there were a whole bunch I very much liked, including:

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SLOW GODS by Claire North
WE COULD BE RATS by Emily Austin
ASUNDER by Kerstin Hall

The world is insane and sometimes we all need some escapism.

Check out "This Princess Kills Monsters" by @ryherman.bsky.social for an entertaining and inclusive story that takes the best parts of classic fairy tales and twists them into a clever and engaging critique of what we think we know. 💜

Another sighting of This Princess Kills Monsters in the wild! This one from Olympia, Washington courtesy of Ruth Apter!

A snippet of text from the book "This Princess Kills Monsters" by Ry Herman. The text reads, "She narrowed her eyes, trying to determine whether or not I was being sarcastic. I showed her a sweet smile. I considered giving her the appellation Giant Fucking Asshole Yvonne. But that, I decided, would be too mean. I went with Snotface Yvonne instead."

Another snippet of text from the same book. The text reads, "Then I burst out laughing. 'Oh, my goodness!' I said, gasping for breath. 'Should I promise I'll safeguard your unwedded virtue?' 'Stop it.' Sam was blushing, his pale cheeks turning a deep red. 'It isn't that funny. It's just that we've not so much as had dinner together, and I didn't think—' 'This situation doesn't seem funny to you? At all?' I flung a dramatic hand to my forehead. 'A snowstorm forced them together, and there was only...one...bed! What were they to do?'"

People should read more books ngl

Shoutout to "This Princess Kills Monsters" a banger fairy tale book I found lying around in my library
Hilarious dialogue and gay (bi) main character, I think this one was basically made for me specifically

Will do!

This Princess Kills Monsters has officially earned out its advance!

So, it turns out that a hot water bottle is basically an artificial cat.

I read "This Princess Kills Monsters" by Ry Herman, audiobook narrated by Kristin Sieh.

A queer fairytale adventure that is brimming with references to stories both popular and more obscure! Such a delightful novel.

Recent reading:

@ryherman.bsky.social ‘s three novels - This Princess Kills Monsters, Love Bites, and Bleeding Hearts. Dropped fives on them all. All three are great spins on fairy tales/vampire stories. If you’re a Christopher Moore fan, I think there’s some overlap here.