Book Reviews & Recommendations
Mai Corland returns to her bloodsoaked playground with Four Ruined Realms, the propulsive sequel to Five Broken Blades. The stakes are bigger, the double crosses are sharper, and the blades are somehow both more fractured and more entangled. If book one was […]
Shelley Parker-Chan’s She Who Became the Sun is a fierce, lyrical reimagining of the rise of the Ming dynasty’s founding emperor, told through the eyes of a nameless peasant girl who claims her dead brother’s fate. Marketed to fans of Mulan and […]
Django Wexler’s How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying is what happens when epic fantasy crashes into Groundhog Day and Deadpool. It’s chaotic, clever, and absolutely bursting with energy. This is a story that gleefully mocks fantasy tropes while still […]
Book Review: Totally and Completely Fine by Elissa Sussman – A Tender Story of Grief, Love, and Rediscovery Elissa Sussman, bestselling author of Funny You Should Ask, returns with Totally and Completely Fine, a heartfelt and emotionally rich novel about grief, second […]
Cassandra Khaw’s The Library at Hellebore is not your typical dark academia novel. Where others flirt with danger and decadence, Khaw dives headfirst into a world soaked in blood, dread, and devoured flesh. This book is horror academia at its most unhinged, […]
Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson begins as a gentle, honey-scented sapphic romance and ends as a full-blown nightmare. At first glance, it feels like the perfect cozy novella: farmers’ markets, pastel soaps, homemade cupcakes, and the spark of a new romance between […]
In Silvercloak, the first book in The Silvercloak Saga, L.K. Steven and Laura Steven invite readers into a world where magic is not a gift but a transaction fueled by pleasure and pain. It’s a darkly seductive premise that sets the tone […]
Samantha Shannon returns to the Roots of Chaos universe with a sweeping, stand-alone prequel that proves epic fantasy can be both thunderous and intimate. Set roughly five centuries before The Priory of the Orange Tree, A Day of Fallen Night charts the […]
Yasmin Zaher’s debut, The Coin, is a razor-edged portrait of a young Palestinian woman trying to reinvent herself in New York City while her body, memory, and politics keep tugging her back to the past. Part immigrant tale, part psychological spiral, part […]
In The Once and Future Witches, Alix E. Harrow takes readers back to 1893 New Salem, where witches are no more than whispers and nursery rhymes. Yet beneath the polished veneer of progress, three estranged sisters are about to rewrite history. With […]