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Xia Xia Lake

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in Bucharest, Romania

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Gay and Lesbian, Historical Fiction, Fantasy

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Xia Xia Lake decided a couple of years ago that she wanted to spend her free time writing stories about mythologies. She was a student at the Bucharest University of Foreign Languages, Japanese Major - English Minor, where she fell in love with Japanese History and Ancient Literature. At twenty years old, she got hired in an IT corporation, where she spent the next decade forgetting everything she ever learned in school, including the Japanese language. In 2017, she took two months vacation from work and with the help of Kogitsune, she dusted off her school books and began writing as a method of stress relief. This is how the Takamagahara Monogatari was born. 

Xia currently lives in Bucharest with her husband and two giant Bucovina Shepherd ...more

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Average rating: 4.11 · 381 ratings · 138 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Kogitsune (Takamagahara Monogatari, #1) 4.09 avg rating — 255 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shinigami (Takamagahara Monogatari, #2) 4.28 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Darkness of Our Wounds: Ciarán 3.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Seek Eternal Love really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kokaji, il piccolo forgiatore di spade by Xia Xia Lake (Goodreads Author), Cristina Massaccesi (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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天官赐福 [Tiān Guān Cì Fú]

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The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom

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Matelots (Raised By Wolves, #2)

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Xia Lake made a comment on January 2023 Book TBR and Ideas to Keep Myself Motivated " Shile (Hazard's Version) semi-hiatus wrote: "Xia wrote: "Shile (Hazard's Version) semi-hiatus wrote: "Good luck Xia. Keep us updated at the end of eve ...more "
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Xia Xia Lake wrote a new blog post January 2023 Book TBR and Ideas to Keep Myself Motivated I've made a deal with myself.
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Xia Lake made a comment on her review of 2022 on Goodreads " Shile (Hazard's Version) semi-hiatus wrote: "🤣🤣🤣See. it's him." 🤣 I think of calling my DNF folder the "Evil Bald Man" 🤣 ...more "
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Xia Lake made a comment on Elena’s review of 2022 on Goodreads " Elena wrote: "And I'll definitely try out her Fifth Season,." That's how I started! I fully recommend it! Elena wrote: " even dished out a lot of 5-sta ...more "
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Xia Lake made a comment on Linda ~ they got the mustard out! ~’s review of 2022 on Goodreads " Linda ~ they got the mustard out! ~ wrote: "Actually, this is a rare case of the flaws adding to the charm. 🤭." YEEEES YEEEES! a thousand times YES!!🥰 ...more "
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Xia Lake and 28 other people liked JAN's status update JAN is starting Over the Tracks: Nothing's working, the synopses aren't compelling, and worse, I can't even finish the samples. ✨ Re-reading my best read of 2022. ✨
Jan 03, 2023 06:59AM
Xia Lake and 9 other people liked Rosa's review of The City of a Thousand Days: "This is a delightful tale full of magic, exotic settings and dijins. I loved it. "
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Xia Lake and 12 other people liked Linda ~ they got the mustard out! ~'s review of The City of a Thousand Days: "I had no idea what to expect from this story, so I was pleasantly surprised that it was set in Baghdad in the Abbasid caliphate, so somewhere between 750 to 1258 C.E according to Wikipedia. This is a region whose history I know almost nothing about, " Read more of this review »
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There’s an evil character in Romanian folklore which needs to be avoided if he appears in your path. He’s a trickster meant to enslave you by taking for himself your riches, goals and sometimes even life. His name is the Evil Bald Man. I cannot help ...more
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“Upon Hirotsugu’s birth, the Fujiwara clan made great plans for his future, and I watched from my throne of skulls behind the kagerō veil and laughed and laughed and laughed.”
― Xia Xia Lake, Shinigami

tags: bl, fantasy, gay-fiction, historical, japanese-mythology, lgbtq-fiction, mythology, yaoi

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“There are many kinds of love. There is the love one feels for his sire for breathing life into his bones. There is the love for brothers, and there is the love for friends. And then is the love that brings the heaviest of heartaches.”
― Xia Xia Lake, Kogitsune

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“I am here with you, boy,” she said softly. “Listen to my voice. Remember who I am. I am your Dominant. Your master and protector. I am your liberator and the bearer of your pain. Trust me, and give me your old pain. I will lift it away. Trust me to take away your past, and give you a future. Trust me to hold you tight as I take you away from your hell. I am everything you need. Stop fighting your nightmares yourself, and let me fight them for you.”
― Xia Xia Lake, The Darkness of Our Wounds: Ciarán

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June Book of the Month Poll

Smash & Grab by Maz Maddox

10 votes, 19.6%

Kogitsune by Xia Xia Lake

7 votes, 13.7%

Must Love Demons by Meghan Maslow

6 votes, 11.8%

Strangers in the Night by E.M. Jeanmougin

5 votes, 9.8%

Origin by A.J. Sherwood

4 votes, 7.8%

Dragon's Winter by Elizabeth A. Lynn

4 votes, 7.8%

Witchblood by Lissa Kasey

4 votes, 7.8%

The Hunter's Gambit by Nicholas McIntire

4 votes, 7.8%

The Beauty's Brother by Leon Hart

3 votes, 5.9%

Still Waters by Alex Gabriel

2 votes, 3.9%

Hummingbird and Kraken by Reese Morrison

1 vote, 2.0%

Aurora's Angel by Emily Noon

1 vote, 2.0%

Gumption & Gumshoes by Alex Kidwell

0 votes, 0.0%

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Xia’s Quotes

“Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.”
― Thomas McGuane

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“I saw death come for you, and I had no philosophy.”
― Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine

tags: love

34 likes

“We shall either find what we are seeking, or free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.”
― Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine

tags: philosophy, seeking-truth

9 likes

“Three Rings for Elven-Kings under the sky
Seven for the Dwarf-Lords in their halls of stone
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

49 likes

“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

tags: annoyance, writing

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