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Genoveva Dimova

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Genoveva Dimova is a Bulgarian fantasy author and archaeologist based in Scotland. Her debut novel inspired by Bulgarian folklore, Foul Days, came out in June 2024, and the sequel, Monstrous Nights followed in October 2024. When she’s not writing, she likes to explore old ruins, climb even older hills, and listen to practically ancient rock music.

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Average rating: 3.9 · 7,027 ratings · 1,710 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Foul Days (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 4,955 ratings — published 2024 — 27 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
	Monstrous Nights (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #2) 4.01 avg rating — 1,828 ratings — published 2024 — 21 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
	Ace Up Her Sleeve (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #1.5) 3.76 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 2024	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
	Some of the Best from Reactor: 2024 Edition by Kemi Ashing-Giwa (Goodreads Author), Renan Bernardo (Goodreads Author), Genoveva Dimova (Goodreads Author) 3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2024	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 Travelling Museum of Witchcraft 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — 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
	Reactor Magazine Short Fiction July/Aug 2024 by John Wiswell (Goodreads Author), Mary Robinette Kowal (Goodreads Author), Martin Cahill (Goodreads Author) 3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings	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 Monster Hunter’s Bargain: A Tor Original it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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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I recently got some happy news: in addition to English and Bulgarian, my book, FOUL DAYS, is also going to be available in Polish, Spanish and German. This is enormously exciting for me. Growing up, I had to rely on translations as English-language books were hard to find. This meant that the only books I had access to were the ones Bulgarian publishers had decided to buy and translate: those were

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Genoveva Dimova rated a book it was amazing There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm (Goodreads Author)	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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Hannah Kaner has outdone herself with this one. This is the sort of complex, political epic fantasy where everyone is a little bit morally grey, and where everyone has their own complicated loyalties and motivations. Tilde is a superb main character. ...more
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Genoveva Dimova rated a book it was amazing You Made Me by Meredith Adamo (Goodreads Author)	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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Genoveva Dimova rated a book it was amazing The Solstice Bargain: a dark and witty portal fantasy (Prophecy Filler Book 1) by Sophie Williamson (Goodreads Author)	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
An absolute gem of a portal fantasy. We first meet Seraphina on the winter solstice in a bar in London, after she'd been stood up by a date - then a suspiciously handsome stranger offers her a deal. She'll have to agree to impersonate her dead sister ...more
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When reviewing audio ARCs, I usually focus on the story first and then add a sentence or two about the audiobook narrator in the end. In this case, I don't think I can do that, because Imogen Church, who narrated the story, absolutely killed it. The ...more
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Genoveva Dimova rated a book it was amazing Heaven's Graveyard by Grace Curtis (Goodreads Author)	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
Absolutely loved this - which is unsurprising, as it is a book about an archaeologist which opens with a murder mystery, so it feels tailor-made for my tastes. I'm always a bit apprehensive when it comes to books about archaeologists, because so much ...more
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“Every self-respecting witch had a few battle scars.”
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“He had the spine of a snake and the moral compass of a vulture.”
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“Why would such a powerful being from another dimension put so much effort into bringing you down if you were weak and useless?”
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“I'm not fucking dead," I said, which wasn't even true, and I was choking up; everything I'd ever done, everything I'd ever been through, and I was choking up.
As the Emperor of the Nine Houses, the Necrolord Prime, stood from his chair to look at you-- at me; looked at your face, looked at my eyes in your face. It took, maybe, a million myriads. The static in your ears resolved into wordless screaming his expression was just--gently quizzical; mildly awed.
"Hi, Not Fucking Dead," he said. "I'm Dad.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

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