The Keeper’s Six


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By: Kate ElliottGenre: FantasyPublisher: Macmillan-Tor/Forge The Keeper’s Six is a fantasy novella by Kate Elliott. I was looking forward to reading it as it sounded like a fantasy that I would really enjoy, Unfortunately, the story never fully came together for me. There were plenty of great elements, but I felt that there was simply […]

August 2, 2023

Down Below Beyond


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By: TA BrunoGenre: Science FictionPublisher: Feathersong, LLC (Self Published) “Something clawed at Levort’s heart as stood at the base of the bed. Memories of loneliness, sorrow, never-ending dread. It was all still resting here, in this room. Places remembered what people often forgot-or what people would strive to forget.”TA Bruno, Down Below Beyond. On the […]

July 31, 2023

The Traitor, Book Three of The Covenant of Steel


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By: Anthony Ryan Genre: Epic FantasyPublisher: Orbit Books Content Warning: Gore, violence, torture. There will be spoilers for The Pariah and The Martyr “What do you know of the Malecite, Alwyn?…They are the wellspring of evil in the world, I said…I stared at him, baffled but also fearful, refusing to prompt him further, but he […]

July 20, 2023

Ebony Gate: The Phoenix Hoard, Book 1


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By: Julia Vee and Ken BebelleGenre: Urban FantasyPublisher: TOR Publishing “Not one minute after I vowed in the car ride over to stop living up to the moniker of the Butcher of Beijing and I was tapping my sword and threating pimply faced kids. The ones who called me the Butcher were right about me. […]

July 12, 2023

The Bone Shard War, The Drowning Empire 3


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By: Andrea StewartGenre: Epic FantasyPublisher: Orbit/Hatchett Book Group “I watched the flames lick up the side of the piece of paper I’d taken from the census book…I should have burned the thing years ago, should have hidden my origins better, but it was a part of my past – a reminder of who I was […]

July 3, 2023

Untethered Sky


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By: Fonda LeeGenre: Fantasy NovellaPublisher: Macmillan-TOR Forge I loved her with the gravity of a stone sinking into a pool”Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky Untethered Sky is a beautiful fantasy novella by Fonda Lee that touched me on a deeply personal level. It is the story of young Ester, who dreams of one day becoming a […]

April 12, 2023

The Wolf and The Witch: A Witch Walker Novella


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Author: Charissa WeaksGenre: Adult Romantic Fantasy (18+)Publisher: City Owl PressWARNING: There will be spoilers for The Witch Collector and City of Ruin CONTENT/TRIGGER WARNINGS: Content and trigger warnings can be found for each book on Charissa Weaks’ website: https://charissaweaks.com/content-warnings “Many believe Loria chose the grove on Mount Ulra as the final resting place for the […]

March 27, 2023

The Tyranny of Faith: The Empire of the Wolf, Book 2


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By: Richard Swan Genre: Epic FantasyPublisher: Orbit Books WARNING: There will be spoilers for The Justice of Kings “I was surprised by Vonvalt’s anger…To see him now, trembling with fury – well, frankly, it frightened me. It was a side of Vonvalt I did not see often.”Richard Swan, The Tyranny of Faith The Tyranny of […]

March 23, 2023

Song of Silver Flame Like Night, Song of the Last Kingdom Book 1


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By: Amélie Wen ZhaoGenre: YA FantasyPublisher: Random House Children’s Book “If she closed her eyes, she could remember exactly how her world had ended.Snow, falling like ashes.Wind, sighing through bamboo.And the song of a woodlute weaving into the skies.She’d had a name, once. Her mother had given it to her. Lian’er, meaning “lotus”: The flower […]

January 7, 2023

A Bond of Thread, The Mountain Fell, Book 1


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Genre: Fantasy RomanceBY: Allegra Pescatore & J.P. Burnison Publisher: AO Collective Content/Trigger Warnings: Shown on page: Mentions of rape, sexual abuse, and torture; Realistic representation of PTSD; Violence; One romantic sex sceneAlluded to: A brief mention of self-harm where a character considers killing themselves in a memory “Since I cannot guarantee that I won’t die, […]

December 27, 2022