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Kelsey Kicklighter

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in Brunswick, Ga, The United States

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Kelsey Kicklighter grew up in libraries. She built forts in the only section of her mother's college library that was even vaguely set up for children: Non-fiction section 398.2. Fairy tales.
She was raised in a small southern town on the coast of Georgia with an absurd amount of sisters, and misses midnight trips to the beach.
She has an excessive amount of tattoos with plans for more and has never met a hair color she doesn't like. She loves to read, grow things, and eats an unreasonable amount of jalapeños.
She is a librarian living in another small town with the love of her life, their abnormally cute kid, two cats, and one three-legged dog. She writes stories for anyone who still believes in 398.2. ...more

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Of Beast And Burden (Hollow and Hill, #1)

3.53 avg rating — 380 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions

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A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)

by Rebecca Ross (Goodreads Author)

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Seer of Sevenwaters (Sevenwaters, #5)

by Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)

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In the Ravenous Dark

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“For darkness restores what light cannot repair.”
― Joseph Brodsky

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“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

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