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wearethekat · 1 month ago
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November Book Reviews: A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience by Stephanie Burgis
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I decided to read this novella since I've enjoyed Burgis' middle-grade and I was interested to see what her works for adults would be like. Ferocious academic Margaret has been forced into marriage by her unpleasant family—to a grouchy vampire, who she finds has also been blackmailed into marriage.
This was a fun little souffle of a book, just right at the novella length. Arranged political marriage is my kryptonite trope, and it was played nicely here. Margaret is a doctoral student, and her practicality and single-minded devotion to her research—to the extent of dangerously ignoring faculty politics—is a delight. Lord Riven is less of an original personality, but he's sensible and tends more towards at being annoyed at being woken up for this nonsense vampire rather than the pushy and possessive type. The pair's eventual unravelling of the plot behind their Situation (tm) is very satisfying.
Recommended if you'd enjoy a light romance in a fantasy setting with some great characters.
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checkoutmybookshelf · 16 days ago
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You Have My Attention: The Harwood Spellbook First Lines
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Stephanie Burgis's reimagined, magical, and gender role-swapped regency fantasy novella series is honestly one of my favorites. They're sweet and fluffy and a truly delight to read. But as with any author, Burgis has to catch her readers with those first few sentences. So let's see how she does it!
The evening of the Spring Equinox was cool and balmy, just as the weather wizards had--for once!--reliably predicted. The glittering guest list for the Harwoods' annual ball was exactly to Amy Standish's design. As she prepared to descend into the lake that gently rippled, reflecting the full moon and stars, outside the grandeur of Harwood House, Amy knew she had organized the most important night of her life to absolute perfection. The only tiny, insignificant task left to do was to propose marriage to the right man by the end of this evening. Then she would finally win everything she had ever dreamed of, and it would be utterly perfect. She knew it.
-- Spellswept
Of course, a sensible woman would never have accepted the invitation in the first place. To attend a week-long house party filled with bickering gentleman magicians, ruthless cutthroat lady politicians, and worst of all, my own infuriating ex-fiancé? Scarcely two months after I had scandalized all of our most intimate friends by jilting him? Utter madness.
-- Snowspelled
It was bad enough to be deprived of my new husband before our wedding night. It was utterly unjust to be tormented by nightmares weeks afterward as I slept, still alone, in our marital bed. For the ninth morning in a row, I woke up gasping and clawing at my throat, fighting to yank piercing thorns out from my skin...thorns that, of course, existed nowhere but in my dreams.
-- Thornbound
Dressing for a ball would always be a challenge for any lady who found it easier to analyze--from memory--an obscure spell from two centuries ago than to remember which sleeve lengths were currently fashionable across the nation. But dressing for a ball at Angland's first women's college of magic, where at least half the dancers were certain to add competitive spellwork to their costume and the enigmatic local fey were likely to make an appearance? That raised the standards--and the stakes--enormously.
-- Moontangled
There was this much to be said, Honoria supposed, for comprehensive public and personal ruin: once all that she'd ever cared about had been ripped from her grasp, she no longer had anything left to fear.
-- Spellcloaked
There was a fine line between ambition and foolishness, and I had spent most of my life walking it. Still, as looked around the crowded, fey-lit dining tables at Thornfell College of Magic for Young Women on the eve of our second Winter Solstice, I was forced to admit that--just this once--I might have aimed my goals a bit too high.
-- Frostgilded
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fairytalejello · 7 days ago
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My Little Pony Color Challenge - A Real Page Turner
The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart and The Girl with the Dragon Heart by Stephanie Burgis were both so much fun. 💜
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jonathanpongratz · 5 months ago
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Book Review: The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart (Tales from the Chocolate Heart #1)
  Hello chocoholics and chocolatiers! It’s time for another book review. This time I chose to read The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart (Tales from the Chocolate Heart #1) by Stephanie Burgis. I needed some cozy fantasy for my grad school assignment, and this one definitely fit the bill. I mean, who doesn’t like chocolate? Let’s get this review started!     Blurb Aventurine is a brave young dragon…
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nzbookwyrm · 7 months ago
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terapsina · 1 year ago
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Book asks: 12, 23, 26
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12. which book will you read next?
My to-be-read list is quite extensive so I haven't settled on my next book but it's probably going to be one of these three.
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It kinda depends on what my mood's going to be after I finish the middle grade audiobook I'm currently listening to.
If I feel like a light, fun adventure with a woman who was the brightest magician of her age until she lost her magic (and was the only woman accepted in the Victorian(ish)-time magic university) but now has opened a school for female magicians? Then the second book in The Harwood Spellbook series.
(also depends if I'm feeling like audiobook or not, the narrator in the first book was excellent so I'm planning to read the second book by listening too).
If however I want something heavier and completely new then Elatsoe looks like it's a very interesting read. A queer fantasy book focusing on a main character from a Lipan Apache family who can raise the ghosts of dead animals? Sign me up.
But yeah, I feel like that one will require more mental and emotional space in me, so I'll need to be in the right frame of mind.
And finally, if I feel like checking out the newest Brandon Sanderson book (which I've heard is getting excellent reviews). I'll read Yumi and the Nightmare Painter.
23. what book to movie adaptation do you love?
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The Martian by Andy Weir. Great book, great movie. Had a lot of fun with both.
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Matilda by Roald Dahl. I've got a special place in my heart for that book because it's actually the first book I ever read. And the movie was everything that kid!me wanted it to be (including the ending, I'm still glad they changed Matilda's ending to not losing her power).
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. And its absolutely perfect 2005 adaptation (though this is a bit of a cheat as I watched the movie first, but as it inspired me to immediately go read the book I'm going to count it).
26. do you use libby? (or other)
No. It's unfortunately unavailable in my country.
I do subscribe to Scribd, but I know that's not the same.
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autumn2may · 2 years ago
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Today our judges review Stephanie Burgis' Scales and Sensibility for this year's Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO) finals! 🐉
Background image by Ivana Djudic.
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ghosthermione-reads · 1 month ago
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Wooing the Witch Queen
I originally knew Stephanie Burgis as a children's writer, but I've been reading her romances for a while now and they never fail to disappoint. I especially like the recurring trope of "Person is rumoured to be a complete monster but is actually a cutie patootie"!
The Plot
Queen Saskia is the wicked sorceress everyone fears. After successfully wrestling the throne from her evil uncle, she only wants one thing: to keep her people safe from the empire next door. For that, she needs to spend more time in her laboratory experimenting with her spells. She definitely doesn’t have time to bring order to her chaotic library of magic.
When a mysterious dark wizard arrives at her castle, Saskia hires him as her new librarian on the spot. “Fabian” is sweet and a little nerdy, and his requests seem a little strange – what in the name of Divine Elva is a fountain pen? – but he’s getting the job done. And if he writes her flirtatious poetry and his innocent touch makes her skin singe, well…
Little does Saskia know that the "wizard" she’s falling for is actually an Imperial archduke in disguise, with no magical training whatsoever. On the run, with perilous secrets on his trail and a fast growing yearning for the wicked sorceress, he's in danger from her enemies and her newfound allies, too. When his identity is finally revealed, will their love save or doom each other? 
The Review
I won an ARC in Stephanie Burgis's newsletter raffle, and I couldn't wait to get to it! I'm very happy she's getting published by Tor, as her books deserve it.
It's sweet, it's fast paced enough and yet you still get to see cute little scenes, there's books and a pet raven involved, and the two main characters are each loads of fun. At the same time, it deals with the heavy issue of abusive families, in a way that I found quite cathartic.
Also, this reader enjoys bisexual main characters in romance, who don't end up "choosing" a side when they pick a love interest! it shouldn't need saying but it still does sooooo this book gets all the points.
I'm looking forward to the two more books hinted at in the series! I forgot how reading ARCs means you have to wait longer for the next one...
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bookcoversonly · 1 year ago
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Title: Moontangled | Author: Stephanie Burgis | Publisher: Five Fathoms Press (2020)
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emiline-northeto · 1 year ago
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I had a lovely time this week getting into an October mood rereading Good Neighbors: The Full Collection, by Stephanie Burgis. It's a charming and delightful closed-door romance (four connected stories) between a metal-working magic user and a necromancer and there's a lot of found family and found community. The main romance is f/m, and there are side queer romances. One of the things I really like about these stories is there is a lot of kindness and goodness in them, and people banding together against cruelty and evil.
Now onto a reread of "Dangerous Flames", which is another story in the same universe, with an f/f romance.
(Stephanie Burgis originally published the four stories separately, and one of the individual stories is called "Good Neighbors", so if you want to read all four, excluding "Dangerous Flames" which isn't in the full collection version as it was published later and focuses on secondary characters, make sure your get Good Neighbors: The Full Collection and not just "Good Neighbors").
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betterbooksandthings · 4 months ago
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"Windswept hair, bone-chilling cauldrons, and more magic than you know what to do with are par for the course with delightful witchy romances. Fall is the season of the witch, and these romances will satisfy your every witchy desire.
Witch romances might as well be as old as time itself. Sundry medieval history of witchcraft books lists the many times witchy women have been accused of tempting men (and demons) with their feminine wiles. Witches have been figures of prophecy, power, and more generalized magic in poems, plays, and literature for a reason. They work as an easy shorthand for mystical danger. Witches pop up again and again in romance because of this history.
After all, women who have access to uncontrolled power falling in love is an endlessly interesting combination. With the most recent wave of paranormals coming back to haunt everyone’s bookshelves, there are more witchy romances than ever. The real trick is knowing which ones are worth your time. Because I love them, there is nothing more disappointing than reading witchy romances and not enjoying them.
I like a witch romance where their powers are relevant to the story and have an impact on both the witch’s character and their eventual romantic relationship with whomever they fall in love with. As a fan of early 2000s paranormal, I tend to like a bit of plot too. The following delightful witchy romances are a mere sampling of my favorites, but I hope you have a fun time with them nonetheless."
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pendragyn · 2 years ago
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Kobo sure knows how to grab my attention lol dragons and Seanan and Joy, oh my!
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checkoutmybookshelf · 1 month ago
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Sometimes That Hard Left is the Best Choice
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Gender swapping is an I-don't-think-uncommon media trope at this point. However, this book doesn't swap genders, it swaps gender roles, which I actually think is even more interesting. Add that to a regency setting, magic, and the aftermath of a terrible, academically hunristic accident and you kind of tick several of my very specific boxes. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this novella. Let's talk Snowspelled.
So in honor of our protagonist, let's be a little bit academic and define our terms. Gender swapping is when a character is imagined in a different gender (most typically a make to female or vice versa swap in traditionally published literature but can and should be conceived to be a swap from one gender identity to another, inclusive of trans and nonbinary gender idenities) in a retelling, revival, adaptation, or even fanfic. This is about reimagining characters.
Gender role swapping, on the other hand, is about how society imagines gender roles. Gender roles are generally (and broadly) described as a series of traits and/or attitudes that a specific gender should ideally have or embody according to a specific culture's norms. Again, this is often imagined on a male/female binary, but can and should be imagined more broadly and inclusively for nonbinary, trans, and intersex gender identities. So to put it simply, while a gender swap is about individual characters on an individual level (and such a character may also take on the gender role of their new gender or not, as the author and story desire), a gender role swapped story is society focused. The characters are whatever genders they are, but the roles are what change. So for Snowspelled, this means that in a regency setting and culture, it's MEN who can be compromised, not women. Men are not expected to be involved in politics, women are. The society and societal expectations have changed from real-world standard, rather than a character being reimagined.
So when Cassandra Harwood is her society's first female magic user educated at the major institution and also the first female magic user to burn herself out, she is transgressing the gender roles of her society. She is also in just so, so much pain because she burned herself out via academic hubris and a desire to be recognized for her own merits that was so strong it turned self-damaging. In the process, she also jilted her fiancé Rajaram Wrexham, convinced her brother and sister-in-law that if she wasn't watched she would try to do more magic and actually kill herself this time, and lost her entire raison d'etre. Cassandra is not ok, and thanks to that, she ends up accidentally making a deal with a HELLA sketchy fae lord who is super excited to take her back to faerieland and hunt her for sport when she fails.
Wrexham is objectively not having that though. He is still head over heels for Cassandra, despite being pushed away HARD, and he is very much here to help her figure out how not to end up hunted to death. Also here to help Cassandra are Amy (her pregnant sister-in-law), Jonathan (her brother), and Misses Fennell and Banks (a couple who are working toward becoming the new political power couple but need training first). Admittedly, Misses Fennell and Banks are less explicitly there to help, but they are the route to Cassandra finding a new purpose in life.
Overall, I adored the gender role swap conceit of this book paired with the recovery from a catastrophic error. Cassandra was an immediately sympathetic protagonist to follow, and watching her pull herself out of the hole she dug without judgement and while letting go of her own self-loathing was really compelling. I felt like I only got a little bit of a taste of the world, but the worldbuilding was compelling enough that I very much wanted more, and will absolutely be reading the rest of the books in the series.
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battyaboutbooksreviews · 17 days ago
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💙💜🩷 Upcoming Bisexual Book Releases of 2025
💜 My little bisexual heart is SO excited for this upcoming bisexual book releases of 2025. Which ones are you adding to your TBR?
🩷 Say a Little Prayer - Jenna Voris 🩷 Love in Focus - Lyla Lee 🩷 We Are the Match - Mary E. Roach 🩷 Roll for Love - M.K. England 🩷 Solo Stan - Talia Tucker 🩷 Dream On, Ramona Riley - Ashley Herring Blake 🩷 Hopelessly Teavoted - Audrey Goldberg Ruoff 🩷 My Lady Hiraya - Steven Sy 🩷 The Gryphon King - Sara Omer 🩷 We Are the Match - Mary E. Roach
💙 Daughters of the Blue Moon - Millie Abecassis 💙 A Gentleman's Gentleman - T.J. Alexander 💙 Last Hellos and First Goodbyes - Elba Luz 💙 Tenderly, I Am Devoured - Lyndall Clipstone 💙 If I Dig You - Colby Wilkens 💙 Tenderly, I Am Devoured - Lyndall Clipstone 💙 Modern Divination - Isabel Agajanian 💙 Don't Drag This Out - Emery Lee 💙 For One Night Only - Jessica James
💜 Death Card - Jasmine Smith 💜 The Cuffing Game - Lyla Lee 💜 Lovely Dark and Deep - Elisa A. Bonnin 💜 A Ballad for Slayers & Monsters - Rita A. Rubin 💜 The Transition - Logan-Ashley Kisner 💜 A Vow of Wrath and Ruin - K.W. Foster 💜 A Fix of Light - Kel Menton 💜 No Body No Crime - Tess Sharpe 💜 The Trial Period - Auburn Morrow
💟 A Traitorous Heart - Erin Cotter 💟 Tarnished - Erica Rose Eberhart 💟 This Raging Sea - De Elizabeth 💟 An Arcane Inheritance - Kamilah Cole 💟 Nobody in Particular - Sophie Gonzales 💟 Better Catch Up, Krishna Kumar - Anahita Karthik 💟 The Afterdark - E. Latimer 💟 A Murderous Business - Cathy Pegau 💟 Her Dark Grace - Rae Valtera
🩷 The Broposal - Sonora Reyes 🩷 It's a Love/Skate Relationship - Carli J. Corson 🩷 Futbolista - Jonny Garza Villa 🩷 Holly Jolly July - Lindsay Maple 🩷 Homegrown Magic - Jamie Pacton & Rebecca Podos 🩷 Murder Land - Carlyn Greenwald 🩷 Iron Tongue of Midnight - Brittany N. Williams 🩷 Behooved - M. Stevenson 🩷 A Legionnaire's Guide to Love and Peace - Emily Skrutskie
💙 The Coven Tendency - Zoe Hana Mikuta 💙 Serial Killer Support Group - Saratoga Schaefer 💙 How to Survive a Slasher - Justine Pucella Winans 💙 Well, Actually - Mazey Eddings 💙 Unromance - Erin Connor 💙 Medievally Blonde - Cait Jacobs 💙 Hazelthorn - C.G. Drews 💙 Savage Blooms - S.T. Gibson 💙 The Incandescent - Emily Tesh
💜 Backhanded Compliments - Katie Chandler 💜 Build a Girlfriend - Elba Luz 💜 Virulence - Toni Duarte 💜 This Feast of a Life - Cynthia So 💜 On Her Terms - Amy Spalding 💜 Wooing the Witch Queen - Stephanie Burgis 💜 Love Points to You - Alice Lin 💜 The Sun and the Moon - Rebekah Faubion 💜 Thrill of the Chase - Kathryn Nolan
💟 Exquisite Ruin - AdriAnne May & A.M. Strickland 💟 Alice Rue Evades the Truth - Emily Zipps 💟 Lucky Day - Chuck Tingle 💟 Dawn of the Obsidian Sun - R.N. Barbosa 💟 The Billion Dollar Dynasty - Dominique Davis 💟 Cyrus - A.E. Cosby 💟 Now She's Dead - Roselyn Clarke 💟 Voidwalker - S.A. MacLean 💟 Of Abrasion - S.J. Lee
🩷 Tavern Tale - Kristina W. Kelly 🩷 An Honored Vow - Melissa Blair 🩷 Love on the Sunny Side - Cozy DuBois 🩷 Advocate - Daniel M. Ford 🩷 TSWR: Love At First Flight - S Sidney 🩷 Vessel of Shadows - Rowan Redfield 🩷 Flirting Lessons - Jasmine Guillory 🩷 Love At First Fright - Nadia El-Fassi 🩷 French Pressed Love - M.C. Hutson
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wearethekat · 4 months ago
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Anticipated Upcoming New Releases
Anticipated by Me. Asterisk for titles where I haven't read anything by the author previously (ie sounds cool but unvetted)
*Single Player, Tara Tai. f/nb romance about a romance storywriter and her video game dev boss.
*Hammajang Luck, Makana Yamamoto (14 January). In a far-future world, a thief is approached by the partner who betrayed her for one last job just after getting out of a prison planet on early parole.
*Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor (14 January). Recently unemployed Zelu starts to write a new science fiction book, as the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur.
*Modern Divination, Isabel Agajanian (30 January). Young witch has carefully balanced her witchcraft with her demanding life at Cambridge University—only to find that her magic powers are fading.
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales, Heather Fawcett (11 February). Book three of a series, in which Emily deals with the repercussions of being engaged to a faerie king.
*But Not Too Bold, Hache Pueyo (11 February). Novella. Sapphic retelling of Bluebeard featuring a giant humanoid spider.
Wooing the Witch Queen, Stephanie Burgis (18 February). Romantasy in which an evil sorceress queen gets catfished by a disguised imperial archduke pretending to be a librarian in a gaslamp setting.
*Greenteeth, Molly O'Neill (25 February). The legendary Molly Greenteeth teams up with a local witch to defeat an evil pastor.
*The Fourth Consort, Edward Ashton (25 February). A human representative to what's supposed to be a pan-species space confederation finds out he's actually on the wrong (and losing) side, and gets trapped on another planet.
The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (4 March). Novella. Two sisters living at the edge of Faerie tumblr into trouble when one of them takes a faerie suitor.
Once Was Willem, MR Carey (4 March). In medieval England, the eponymous Willem drags himself out of his grave to defend his village against an evil threat.
The Tomb of Dragons, Katherine Addison (11 March). Reportedly actually coming out this year! In book 3 of the series, Thara Celehar investigates a case involving an old cemetery and a miner's group.
A Gentleman's Gentleman, TJ Alexander (11 March). Alexander sticks their nose into the Regency genre with this t4t lord/valet romance.
Idolfire, Grace Curtis (11 March). One woman searching for a last chance and another woman looking for redemption travel to a sleeping magical city.
*Murder by Memory, Olivia Waite (18 March). A sci-fi mystery novella set on a generation ship, where a ship's detective investigates a mysterious murder.
*Aunt Tigress, Emily Yu-Xuan Qin (18 March). Reformed monster Tam investigates the murder of her aunt in Chinese folklore inspired urban fantasy Canada.
*The Keeper of Lonely Spirits, EM Anderson (25 March). Cursed to live forever, ghost hunter Peter starts to settle after two hundred years in a small town in Ohio.
A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett (1 April). Sequel. Our Sherlock Holmes coded detective investigates the disappearance of a treasury officer with the help of her trusty assistant in a complex secondary fantasy world.
*Where the Axe is Buried, Ray Nayler (1 April). In a crumbling near-future Earth, a brilliant scientist flees, because her new invention might be key to assassinating the immortal uploaded President.
*A Duke Never Tells, Suzanne Enoch (1 April). In this Regency romp, somehow both a young lady and the man she's affianced to are in disguise below stairs.
Don't Sleep With The Dead, Nghi Vo (8 April). Vo returns to the fantasy Great Gatsby setting with this novella from the POV of Nick Carraway post-novel events.
*The Raven Scholar, Antonia Hodgson (15 April). Seven candidates compete to become the next emperor—until one of them is murdered. The emperor's scholar attempts to find the killer.
*The Gentleman and His Vowsmith, Rebecca Ide (15 April). An accidentally falling in love with your wedding vendor by during your arranged marriage book, now with a locked mansion murder mystery.
*Notes from a Regicide, Isaac Fellman (15 April). Trans Griffon's adoptive parents die suddenly, leaving him to sort through their papers, which follows the failed revolution they fled.
Advocate, Daniel M Ford (22 April). Book three of a series. Insufferable lesbian necromancer Aelis is summoned back to the capital to investigate an accusation against her former teacher.
Saint Death's Herald, CSE Cooney (22 April). Sequel to my particular favorite Saint Death's Daughter. Lanie Stones must contain her murderously ambitious (and dead) great grandfather before he conquers the world.
*The Sun Blessed Prince, Lindsey Byrd (29 April). Queer romance between a prince with healing magic and the assassin sent to kill him.
Brighter than Scale, Swifter Than Flame, Neon Yang (6 May). Emissary and dragon hunter Yeva is sent to a nation that worships dragons to seduce their queen. Novella.
Drop Dead, Lily Chu (6 May). Rival journalists Nadine and Wesley spar for the scoop on a reclusive author-- until she dies suddenly, and the executor grants them both three weeks to study her papers together.
Ascension, ST Gibson (13 May). Sequel to Evocation about the contentious urban fantasy wizard polycule.
The Incandescent, Emily Tesh (13 May). A professor at a magical academy deals with some troublesome demons. (I'm VERY excited for this one)
*Anji Kills A King, Evan Leikam (13 May). In an impulsive moment, a laundry maid assassinates the king. She flees, pursued by a band of mercenaries with magic masks.
The Starving Saints, Caitlin Starling (20 May). After a six month siege, a castle is freed by a group of cultlike saints. As the castle descends into cannibalism orgies, can three women find a way to save themselves?
Strange New World, Vivian Shaw (20 May). The fourth book in the Greta Helsing series, in which Greta escorts an angel and a demon across America .
*Behooved, M Stevenson (20 May). Princess Bianca agrees to marry a prince in order to end the war—only to have a botched assassination attempt turn him into a horse. They flee together in order to unravel the evil plot.
The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association, Caitlin Rozakis (27 May). Ordinary parent Vivian has to rapidly adapt to the world of magic schools when her kindergartener is bitten by a werewolf.
June and later releases under the cut
The Listeners, Maggie Stiefvater (3 June). Hotel manager June is put to an unexpected test when the hotel's rich owners make a deal to host captured Nazi officials.
The Witch Roads, Kate Elliot (10 June). An arrogant prince enters the haunted Spires against the advice of their guide, leaving ex-slave Elen with the unenviable task of guiding a man who isn't quite the same as the one who entered.
The Mercy Makers, Tessa Gratton (17 June). Criminal heiress Iriset uses her ability to create magical disguises to infiltrate the palace and free her father, insinuating herself into the lives of the emperor and his sister in the process.
*This Princess Kills Monsters, Ry Herman (17 June). A sapphic retelling of the Grimm fairy tale The Twelve Huntsmen.
A Far Better Thing, HG Parry (17 June). Changeling child Sydney escapes and crosses over to the human world during the French Revolution to get his revenge on the fairie that took his place.
A Legionnaire's Guide to Love and Peace, Emily Skrutskie (24 June). Two redshirts unexpectedly don't die in a fantasy apocalypse after a band of plucky heroes intervene, forcing them to contemplate their one last night stand.
The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (15 July). A multigenerational story about three women and the curse that stalks their family.
The Memory Hunters, Mia Tsai (29 July). Secondary world academia about using memory magic powers for archaeology.
Hemlock & Silver, T Kingfisher (19 August). A retelling of Snow White from the point of view of a healer trying to cure the poisoned princess.
*Terms of Service, Ciel Pierlot (23 September). Luzia sells herself to the mysterious fae-like Astrosi who live above the metropolis in order to rescue her nephew.
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nzbookwyrm · 2 months ago
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February 2025
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