Mirrored Heavens: Between Earth and Sky, Book 3


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By: Rebecca RoanhorseGenre: Epic FantasyPublisher: Gallery/Saga Press WARNING: There will be spoilers for Black Sun and Fevered Star “The war on earth may have yet to start as the gods claimed their vessels and set their stakes, but the war in heaven had already begun.For what was earth but a mirror of heaven?And what was […]

July 31, 2024

Blood Jade: The Phoenix Hoard, Book 2


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By: Julia Vee and Ken BebelleGenre: Urban FantasyPublisher: TOR Publishing “All at once the soft touched reminded my that chains were still chains, even when they were chained with love and duty.”Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle, Blood Jade Blood Jade, Book 2 of the Phoenix Hoard, by Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle, continues the journey […]

July 21, 2024

The Undermining of Twyla and Frank


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By: Megan BannenGenre: Romantic FantasyPublisher: Orbit Books “Early in their friendship, they had discovered a mutual tendency to burst into song whenever the lyrics to a particular ditty seemed relevant to the topic of conversation. Considering the fact that most of the records cranked out of the Bushong music scene over the past half century […]

July 4, 2024

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

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 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