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New Release Highlight: THE MIDNIGHT GIRLS

Image Credit: Sourcebooks Fire Fellas, is it gay to fantasize about your rival monster girl and to dream about her and to spend all of your time thinking about her and wondering if she spends all of her time thinking about you, too? Welcome to The Midnight Girls by Alicia Jasinska. In a fantasy version… Continue reading New Release Highlight: THE MIDNIGHT GIRLS

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New Release Highlight: A MARVELLOUS LIGHT

Image Credit: Tordotcom Robin Blyth, a struggling English baronet, is shuffled off to run a small, forgettable bureaucratic office. Enter Edwin Courcey, a magician with mystery and murder on his heels -- and he is not happy to see that the previous liaison between the mundane and magical worlds has disappeared, and that Robin is… Continue reading New Release Highlight: A MARVELLOUS LIGHT

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New Release Highlight: LITTLE THIEVES and WITHIN THESE WICKED WALLS

Image Credit: Henry Holt and Co. This very special Tuesday, I have not one but two fantastic new releases I need to highlight. These books are two of my most anticipated titles of 2021 from two incredibly talented authors, and together, they make an ideal double-feature for readers who enjoy retellings of fairy tales or… Continue reading New Release Highlight: LITTLE THIEVES and WITHIN THESE WICKED WALLS

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New Release Highlight: THE QUICKSILVER COURT

Image Credit: Orbit The Obsidian Tower was one of the best fantasy novels published in 2020, and Melissa Caruso raises the stakes with more political cat-and-mouse games -- this time with way more demons (and their secrets) in the mix -- in its stellar sequel, The Quicksilver Court. Reeling from the revelations and betrayals of… Continue reading New Release Highlight: THE QUICKSILVER COURT

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New Release Highlight: VESPERTINE

Image Credit: Margaret K. McElderry Books Margaret Rogerson's newest standalone fantasy Vespertine fuses elements of Gideon the Ninth and Marvel's Venom into a poignant, cathartic story about learning to see the best in others -- and in yourself -- when the world has given you every reason to doubt. The heroine is also possessed by… Continue reading New Release Highlight: VESPERTINE

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New Release Highlight: LAKESEDGE

Image Credit: Henry Holt and Co. Love beats at the heart of Lakesedge, but as our heroine fights for survival -- hers, her brother's, and that of the monstrous boy who has drawn her into his secretive life -- she discovers that to end a curse, love will demand sacrifice. With notes of Labyrinth and… Continue reading New Release Highlight: LAKESEDGE

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New Release Highlight: IRON WIDOW

Image Credit: Penguin Teen In this blistering debut, a peasant girl's revenge on her sister's murderer, a mecha pilot, carries her to the top of a futuristic world gripped by greed and misogyny -- a world totally unprepared to meet its match in a ruthless, ambitious Iron Widow. Xiran Jay Zhao was already one of… Continue reading New Release Highlight: IRON WIDOW