Category: fantasy
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Book Review: Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
In Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales, Heather Fawcett wraps up Emily’s journey with heart, humor, and high-stakes faerie politics. Familiar faces return, past events converge, and Emily’s once-scholarly detachment gives way to something far more personal. If you’ve loved the series so far, this finale delivers everything you’ve been hoping for.
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Book Review: The West Wind by Alexandria Warwick
The West Wind by Alexadria Warwick is a darkly romantic fantasy inspired by Greek myth, The West Wind follows a devoted acolyte and a seductive wind god through a perilous realm where love and faith collide.
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Book Review: The North Wind by Alexandria Warwick
The North Wind by Alexandria Warwick is a romantasy filled with enemies-to-lovers tension, Greek myth vibes, and icy stakes.
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Book Review: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
In Heather Fawcett’s Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands, Emily Wilde returns with faerie maps, academic feuds, and heart-stirring magic in a sequel that blends cozy fantasy with real peril.
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Book Review: Tress of the Emerald Sea
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson is a fun and accessible entry into the Cosmere. Tress is quirky and bright, and you can’t help but fall in love with her and the rest of the crew.
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Book Review: The Book Eaters
The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean is dark, unsettling, and strangely sympathetic. Everyone’s a monster, and I loved it.
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Book Review: The Dead Cat Tail Assassins
An enjoyable, quick read with a twist, The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark grabs you from page one and never lets go.
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Book Review: The Courting of Bristol Keats
This post contains spoilers. This post also contains affiliate links. If you buy through Bookshop.org, I may earn a small commission—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the blog and indie bookstores! The Courting of Bristol Keats by Mary E. Pearson is a 547-page fantasy novel and is the first in a two-book series. After losing both parents, Bristol Keats and her two sisters struggle to make ends meet in their small town of Bowskeep. When Bristol begins to receive letters from an aunt she’s never heard of who promises she can help them, she reluctantly agrees and…
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Book Review: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries
This post contains spoilers. This post also contains affiliate links. If you buy through Bookshop.org, I may earn a small commission—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the blog and indie bookstores! Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett is a 317-page cozy fantasy and is the first book in the Emily Wilde series. Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a meticulous researcher who’s writing the world’s first encyclopedia of faerie lore. But Emily is not good at people, with their small talk and parties. She much prefers…
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Book Review: Legends and Lattes
This post contains spoilers. This post also contains affiliate links. If you buy through Bookshop.org, I may earn a small commission—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the blog and indie bookstores! Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree is a 296-page cozy fantasy book and is the first in a series. It follows Viv, a battle-weary orc, who hangs up her sword after a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed and aims to start fresh, opening the first ever coffee shop in the city of Thune. However, old and new rivals stand in the way of success—not to mention…