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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
Image Credit: Sourcebooks Fire The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska combines the lush, haunted seaside atmosphere of Maggie Stiefvater's The Scorpio Races with a to-die-for queer romance that will keep your heart racing. This gorgeous standalone novel crystallizes all that makes dark, romantic fantasy such an alluring subgenre. The magic shines on the page, inviting… Continue reading Backlist Highlight: THE DARK TIDE
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
Image Credit: Ace Books With its latest film adaptation now in theaters and streaming on HBO Max, it's time to talk about Frank Herbert's classic science-fiction novel, Dune. Strap in. The term "space opera" has never applied more literally to any piece of fiction than Dune. Thousands of years in the future, a frightened emperor… Continue reading Test of Time: DUNE
Cover: Erewhon Books, Edit: Tori Kiersten Frost Witchy books became the trend in contemporary fantasy -- and everywhere else on the bookshelf -- starting around 2019, when fiction publishers began to catch up with a booming modern interest in astrology, tarot, and alternative spiritualities. Despite debuting in a crowded field in the middle of a… Continue reading Backlist Highlight: THE SCAPEGRACERS
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
Image Credit: Greenwillow Books Diana Wynne Jones was a powerhouse in the world of children's literature, writing more than 40 books in her career, including well-known favorites like Howl's Moving Castle and the Chrestomanci series. Today, I'm reviewing one of her funniest novels, 1998's Dark Lord of Derkholm. Pilgrim Parties are the worst. Every year,… Continue reading Test of Time: DARK LORD OF DERKHOLM
Image Credit: Houghton Mifflin Welcome to Test of Time! This new bi-monthly series examines classic science-fiction and fantasy with a modern reader's eye. Which books have aged gracefully, and which ones maybe need to keep gathering dust on your shelf? Let's find out. In 1968, author Ursula Le Guin published A Wizard of Earthsea. This… Continue reading Test of Time: A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA
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