La felicità è una delle emozioni più complesse e ognuno ha una concezione diversa di ciò che significa essere felice. Spesso, infatti, la felicità è fortemente legata alle aspettative sociali. La felicità non esiste in isolamento, e questo Lena lo sa bene. La sua vita sembra ordinaria: una famiglia tranquilla, una gattina bianca come il latte di nome Nuvola, e buoni voti a scuola. Ma è proprio tra i banchi di scuola che i suoi problemi iniziano a emergere. Dietro il suo sorriso, Lena nasconde una lotta interiore, soffocata dall'ansia sociale che lentamente la isola da un mondo che sembra non capirla. -------------------- 02/10/24 🥇isolamento 05/10/24🥇cuffie 23/11/24🎖️sole 16/12/24🏅gatti

Damsels aren't supposed to wield swords, especially ancient swords that will have the blood of thousands spilled across it. ✵✵✵✵✵ Deep in the mountains of Cambria, there lives a legendary queen of unparalleled beauty, benevolence and brutality. She seeks only to avenge her family, but it is easier said than done. She must travel far into the formidable lands of Northumbria to find the king who killed her father. With the help of an assassin turned friend, queen Una sees that nothing can get in her way, except a secret that will shatter her reality forever. ✵✵✵✵✵ EXCERPT ✵✵✵✵✵ "I can understand what it must be like for you, trapped in the walls of the north mountains. While Christian Bryttania grew, your pagan roots began to rot as your people lay waste to the invasions of the Danes and Vikings. A millennia ago, most lived and died within the short distance of which they were born. Their existence was bounded by the wilderness in the unyielding darkness of ancient woods, by the ice shown peaks of impenetrable mountains. This old truth is your reality, is it not?" ✵✵✵✵ WARNING CONTAINS ✵✵✵✵ Disturbing Images Strong Sexual Content Strong Violence Pervasive Language ✵✵✵✵✵✵ Word Count ✵✵✵✵✵✵ Number of words: 191,554 Number of pages in book: 734

In a land held firm by ancient dynasties, where dragons once roamed, mothers tell their sons of the shining days of heroes. Beautiful knights would fearlessly ride out to slay evil in the name of their king. More than anything, this is the life Raphael desires for himself. He dreams fervently of the day when he can lay his sword at the feet of his king and stand between his people and the countless evils of the world. But, fate, it seems, has other plans for him. **SOME MATURE CONTENT (blood, gore, alcohol usage, mild language, suggestive themes)** Highest Ranking: #107 in Fantasy (October 2017) Special thanks to @Benee03 for an awesome cover!

The Blood Moon Festival is a deadly competition that selects the next generation of dragon riders. Most competitors spend their childhood honing their Divine - a rare, godlike power typically found in the ruling class. But Raven Black, a poor orphan with an unusually powerful Divine, spent her childhood breaking more laws than she can count. At sixteen, Raven's list of crimes is taller than she is, and she is paying the price for it. Caught and sentenced to death after a heist gone wrong, Raven figures her luck has finally run out. That is until a dragon rider sees potential in Raven's Divine and offers her a chance to avoid execution by competing in the Blood Moon Festival. With no other choice, Raven enters Skydescent, a castle where contestants train and form alliances. As the only ex-criminal, Raven figured she would be the most cutthroat, her competitors too worried about honor to get their hands dirty. But in Scadril, a powerful dragon is honor. 128 competitors enter the Blood Moon Festival, and each will do whatever it takes to come out on top.