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 […]
By: Sue Lynn TanGenre: FantasyPublisher: Harper Voyager Publishing “Few wrote poems about the half-moon or immortalized it in paintings-devoid of the elegant arch of a crescent or the perfect wholeness of the orb. Clinging to both light and dark, and lost somewhere in between. It resonated with me, a child of a mortal and immortal […]
By: Claire NorthGenre: Fantasy, Fiction/Modern & Contemporary FictionPublisher: Orbit Books “Follow me through the halls of the palace of Odysseus; Follow to hear the stories that the men-poets of greedy kings do not tell.” Claire North, Ithaca Claire North’s Ithaca is an incredible telling of the tale of Penelope as she awaits the return of […]
By: Rebecca RoanhorseGenre: FantasyPublisher: Saga Press I love Rebecca Roanhorse’s books. I first found her when I read Race to the Sun, her YA fantasy based on Native American mythology, published through Rick Riordan Presents. I went on to read Black Sun and Fevered Star, the first two books in her Between the Earth Sky […]
By: Jason DenzelGenre: FantasyPublisher: TOR Books WARNING: There will be spoilers for Mystic and Mystic Dragon Mystic Skies is the final book in Jason Denzel’s fantasy series, The Mystic Trilogy. On the whole, this series was an average fantasy read. This final installment left me with more questions and it was a very unsatisfying end […]
By: Jon SkovronGenre: Epic FantasyPublisher: Orbit Books WARNING: There will be spoilers for The Ranger of Marzana & The Queen of Izmoroz The Wizard of Eventide is the third and final book in Jon Skovron’s epic fantasy series, The Goddess of War. I found it on par with the first book, and throughout the series […]
By: Jon SkovronGenre: Epic FantasyPublisher: Orbit Books WARNING: There will be spoilers for The Ranger of Marzana The Queen of Izmoroz is the second book in Jon Skovron epic fantasy series, The Goddess of War. While it was better, it still was lacking in drawing me into the story. The characters are, for the most […]
By R.R. Virdi Genre: Epic FantasyPublisher: MacMillan/Tor-Forge “This is not a story of only wonder and horror. Of heroism and the moments I’ve fallen far short into villainy. It is, in its whole, a tragedy…This is the truth of why most people fear the real me”Elione squeezed my shoulder tight, looking at me with burning […]
By: Rachel Gillig Genre: Dark Romantic Fantasy Audience: 18+ Publisher: Orbit Books CONTENT: Please see this link for Content Warnings: https://rachelgillig.com/2022/05/23/one-dark-window-content-warnings/ “That’s how the best lies are told-with just enough truth to be convincing. For a time, I even found myself believing the lie-believing I had no magic…But that was a time I tried not […]
By: Megan Bannen Genre: Romantic Fantasy Publisher: Orbit Books “Oh. It’s you,” She said, the words and the unenthusiastic tone that went with them dropping of her tongue like a dead weight…“Most people start with hello.”“Hello, Hart-ache,” she sighed.“Hello, Merciless.” He gave her a thin, venomous smile as he took in her oddly disheveled appearance.”Megan […]