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K.J.’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at K.J.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
K.J. Charles’s Followers (12,702)
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K.J. Charles
Goodreads Author
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in The United Kingdom
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June 2013
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/kjcharles
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The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)
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2013
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25 editions
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The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1)
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2023
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Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)
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2020
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A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)
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2014
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Flight of Magpies (A Charm of Magpies, #3)
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2014
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The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #1)
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2021
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The Sugared Game (The Will Darling Adventures, #2)
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2020
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Subtle Blood (The Will Darling Adventures, #3)
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2021
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Think of England (England World, #2)
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2014
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A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books, #2)
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2023
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Summer Reading But This Time the Books Exist
In a new low for literacy, the Chicago Sun-Times decided to print a Chat-GPT generated article recommending for ‘Summer Reading’ a whole bunch of books that literally don’t exist. Oh, and also Atonement because Ian McEwan is always a great beach read.
I don’t need to rehearse everything wrong with a newspaper uncritically putting out the regurgitron’s unconsidered slop, or the environmental cost of
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K.J.’s Recent Updates
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| Regency with shy radical lady and reclusive inventor Scottish earl. This one starts rather slowly, but when it gets going it hits its stride with panache. Very strong emotional sex scenes and well drawn intriguing minor characters, such that I actual ...more | |
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Lori wrote: "This book is promoted as sapphic yet the spiciest scene is between a woman and a man."
Technically a shape-changing fae, but one who is ce ...more " |
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| Murder mystery which for me hit just the wrong note, in that the tone and byplay and setting are all signalling cosy while the story is about domestic abuse, gangs, stalking, trauma and professional killers. Possibly detective novels were always thus ...more | |
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Besieged castle with nuns, knights, magic, cannibalism, and bees. Also ?gods. This is a very fever-dream sort of book. A lot of things change weirdly and without explanation, beyond the machinations of the strange visitors who are more like fae. The ...more |
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| Disclaimer to start with: I am a 50something white British cis woman who forgot her Tumblr password about five years ago. As such I am probably not able to appreciate and certainly not qualified to assess a lot of what the author is doing with this b ...more | |
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| YESSS someone is writing queer sensation novels! Very much in the vein of Wilkie Collins, only a lot shorter and somewhat queerer. We have a complicated family, an even more complicated inheritance plot, disputed titles, a big lost diamond, coloniali ...more | |
“What the fuck, what the fucking, bloody devil-shit, what in the name of Satan's swollen cock was that?”
― The Magpie Lord
― The Magpie Lord
“When I fuck you, Mr. Day, it will not be briefly. It will be long and hard and extremely thorough. I'm going to take pains with you.”
― The Magpie Lord
― The Magpie Lord
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“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“Lying in bed would be an altogether supreme experience if one only had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”
― Tremendous Trifles
― Tremendous Trifles
“Well, are you not going to give the man a round of applause?" he asked. "I mean, that was fucking amazing, didn't you think? Honestly, if you'd asked me ten minutes ago, hypothetically, if it was possible to cut your own head off, I'd have said unequivocally no. You've really got to hand it to the bloke -- though it's fair to say luck was involved. I mean, there's no way he could do it again.”
― Be My Enemy
― Be My Enemy
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CONGRATS on the huge news today, KJ! So excited for you and proud of you and amazed by it all...
K.J. wrote: "Thanks! Flowcharts are much more fun than I remembered..."You certainly proved that haha ;)!
Leo wrote: "Thanks for accepting my friend request! Enjoyed your flowchart/ Anne Rice post this morning :D"Thanks! Flowcharts are much more fun than I remembered...
Thanks for accepting my friend request! Enjoyed your flowchart/ Anne Rice post this morning :D
Gina wrote: "Hi KJ, thanks for accepting my friend invite. I just finished The Magpie Lord and A Case of Possession, they were awesome!!! :)"Thank you so much! Really glad you liked them. (Have you read the in-between freebie, Interlude with Tattoos?)
Hi KJ, thanks for accepting my friend invite. I just finished The Magpie Lord and A Case of Possession, they were awesome!!! :)
Thanks for accepting K.J. And thanks ever so much for Stephen & Crane.
Thank you! Freebie Magpie short will be out in Dec as a little Christmas stocking filler... :-)
Hi K.J. Thanks you so much! I'm a incredibly in love with your words and I'm very impatient for January's release of A Case of Possession. Very. Impatient. :D!
Thank you! I'm really enjoying the sensation of being read, having been a secret writer for ages, so I really appreciate the feedback. :-)
Thanks for accepting KJ. I really am a massive fan. Loving your books. :)
Josephine wrote: "Hi KJ - good to see you here! Now you need to upgrade yourself to author status :)Jo x"
Will do - I hope... completely new to this site, I need about a week to get used to it...
Hi KJ - good to see you here! Now you need to upgrade yourself to author status :)Jo x
