#ya paranormal romance

[amanda-n-newman-author]

A new release and the end of an era!

Today marks the official release of the final Hybrid Empire trilogy book, making this my first complete series. And, the completion of this trilogy marks the end of an era for me.

For those who don’t know, Hybrid Empire was the first novel I ever published (my debut novel) and the first completely original novel I wrote (before this, I wrote fanfiction which I kept mostly to myself). I started the first draft of Hybrid Empire back in 2012 when I was in my senior year of high school.

To think that the whole series is finally out there for the world to read completely blows my mind. In a way, it’s a little bittersweet because the first series I ever worked on has drawn to a close, though I’m no less passionate about my current projects compared to this one. It truly is the end of an era.

[theromanceriot]

Riot Author Highlight - Zachary Jeffries

Introducing Romance Riot Author Zachary Jefferies

Introducing Romance Riot Author: Zachary Jeffries Author Bio – Zachary Jeffries is a sucker for love and finds magic everywhere. It was only a matter of time. Before he combined the two. Daydreaming through jobs cleaning horse stables, cooking in kitchens, and making cheese by hand. Now he works as a Dad, flexing creativity during bedtime stories. He writes off-kilter Paranormal Romance with…

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌙 What to Read After Watching Agatha All Along 🌙

❓ Who is your favorite fictional witch?

🦇 Enjoying Agatha All Along on Disney? Check out these books featuring witches, covens, chaotic queers, & everything in between, perfect for fans of Agatha All Along! List below!

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✨ Payback's a Witch - Lana Harper 🌑 How to Get a Girlfriend (When You're a Terrifying Monster) - Marie Cardno 🌒 These Witches Don't Burn - Isabel Sterling 🌓 This Spells Disaster - Tori Martin 🌔 The Scapegracers - H. A. Clarke 🌕 Beetle & the Hollowbones - Aliza Layne 🌕 The Twice-Sold Soul - Katie Hallahan 🌖 In Charm's Way - Lana Harper 🌗 Brewed with Love - Shelly Page 🌘 Carry On - Rainbow Rowell 🌑 So This Is Ever After - F. T. Lukens ✨ Spells to Forget Us - Aislinn Brophy

✨ Basics of Spellcraft - L.C. Mawson 🌑 How To Succeed in Witchcraft - Aislinn Brophy 🌒 Sweet & Bitter Magic - Adrienne Tooley 🌓 The Midnight Girls - Alicia Jasinska 🌔 Labyrinth Lost - Zoraida Córdova 🌕 The Shattered Lands - Brenna Nation 🌕 Otherworldly - F. T. Lukens 🌖 Coven - Jennifer Dugan & Kit Seaton 🌗 The Dark Tide - Alicia Jasinska 🌘 Queen B - Juno Dawson 🌑 Her Majesty's Royal Coven - Juno Dawson ✨ Wild and Wicked Things - Francesca May

✨ Cemetery Boys - Aiden Thomas 🌑 The Last Sun - K. D. Edwards 🌒 The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri 🌓 The Sun and the Star - Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro 🌔 The Witch and His Crow - Ben Alderson 🌕 Lord of Eternal Night - Ben Alderson 🌕 The Crimson Crown - Heather Walter 🌖 Tonight, I Burn - Katharine J. Adams 🌗 Witches of Ash and Ruin - E. Latimer 🌘 The Severed Thread - Leslie Vedder 🌑 Pumpkin Spice & Poltergeist - Ali K. Mulford and K. Elle Morrison ✨ Love and Other Wicked Things -Philline Harms

✨ Off With Their Heads - Zoe Hana Mikuta 🌑 Practical Rules for Cursed Witches - Kayla Cottingham 🌒 Two Broke Witches - Kate Starling 🌓 Bitterthorn - Kat Dunn 🌔 The Honey Witch - Sydney J. Shields 🌕 The Witch and the Vampire - Francesca Flores 🌕 Spell on Wheels - Kate Leth, Megan Levens, Marissa Louise 🌖 The Witchery - S. Isabelle 🌗 The Hummingbird Coven - Augusta Owens 🌘 Children of the Night - Cara Malone 🌑 The Hex Next Door - Lou Wilham ✨ Malice - Heather Walter

✨ Mortal Follies - Alexis Hall 🌑 The Balance of Fates - Raquel Raelynn 🌒 Edie in Between - Laura Sibson 🌓 Doughnuts and Doom - Balazs Lorinczi 🌔 A Spell for Heartsickness - Alistair Reeve 🌕 Evocation - S.T. Gibson 🌕 The Spells We Cast - Jason June 🌖 An Education in Malice - S. T. Gibson 🌗 Rise and Divine - Lana Harper 🌘 Not Good for Maidens - Tori Bovalino 🌑 A Dark and Starless Forest - Sarah Hollowell ✨ Netherford Hall - Natania Barron

✨ The Poisons We Drink - Bethany Baptiste 🌑 This Poison Heart - Kalynn Bayron 🌒 Over My Dead Body - Boo Sweeney 🌓 Girl, Serpent, Thorn - Melissa Bashardoust 🌔 The Bewitching Hour - Ashley Poston 🌕 Pushing Daisy - Isla Winter 🌕 Daughter of the Bone Forest - Jasmine Skye 🌖 Keep Your Witches Close - Colette Rivera 🌗 Mooncakes - Suzanne Walker, Wendy Xu 🌘 Snapdragon - Kat Leyh 🌑 Runaways - Rainbow Rowell & Kris Anka ✨ Witchlings - Claribel A. Ortega

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[belle-keys]

Exhibit A: here

Exhibit B: here

[desdasiwrites]

– Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire

[bestlaidplansproductions]

Villainess and romantasy fiction fans - do you want to read about a villainess trying to keep her prince alive... even as someone plots their deaths?!

Try The Villainess Wants Her Prince to Live on Tapas and Royal Roads. This free villainess rofan / romantasy novel updates twice a week!

(This novel is also a prequel to our upcoming villainess isekai game, Save the Villainess. You do not need to play the game to understand and enjoy the novel... but their mysteries do have fun connections!)

[somedudewithantlers]

stricken with the sudden urge to write a dumb urban fantasy book with a mermaid/human/vampire love triangle

[vanebookrecs]

My simple review on "Shadow & Bone" by Leigh Bardugo. This book has been on my bookshelf since 2021 and finally decided to read it. I have to say... it wasn't all that interesting. I don't know if I'll go through with the series.

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I think I’ve come to the conclusion that adult romantansy isn’t for me

[joyffree]

🆓IT’S #FREEBIEFRIDAY Sept. 6th

I present to you this week's bag of mixed delights

⇒ Starshot: A Science Fiction Adventure by A.R. Knight ⇒ The Tempest: A Disaster Suspense Thriller by A.J. Scudiere ⇒ Better with Friends: Women's Fiction by Kimberly Diede ⇒ Cold Silence: A Romantic Thriller by Toni Anderson ⇒ Daughter of Fate: YA Epic Fantasy by Aaron Hodges ⇒ Little Blue Box: A second chance romance set in Australia by Frances Dall'Alba ⇒ Whiteout: An MM Bisexual Out For You Sports Romance by Ann Grech ⇒ The Little Cottage on the Hill: Feel Good Romantic Comedy by Emma Davies ⇒ Murder on Tyneside: British Heist Cozy Mystery by Eileen Thornton ⇒ The Merman’s Kiss: Paranormal Romance by Tamsin Ley

Until next week May your journey be magical 🔮

[bonobochick]

Spellbound ... available to stream on Hulu... is fine. 🔮

The writing skewed a bit younger than I thought it would (it's along the lines of Free Rein) but it's nice to have a Black female lead plus the cast has good chemistry with each other. I still have a bunch of eps left to watch.

I like to support shows with Black female leads esp young Black women, hence my tuning in to check out this show. (Emily in Paris doesn't even believe Black women exist in Paris so it's nice to have Spellbound throw tomatoes at that bit of misogynoir 🍵)

I haven't seen much chatter about this new show, maybe due to the holiday weekend, but I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents.

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

💖 Sapphic Books Coming Out October 2024

🩷 Good afternoon, bookish bats. By now, you know that sweet, sapphic romance books have a special place in my heart. Here are only a few of the amazing sapphic books hitting shelves in October 2024.

💖 Which ones are you adding to your TBR?

Contemporary 💖 Stand Up! - Tori Sharp 💖 I'll Be Gone for Christmas - Georgia K. Boone 💖 Haunt Your Heart Out - Amber Roberts 💖 Most Wonderful - Georgia Clark 💖 Make the Season Bright - Ashley Herring Blake 💖 Make My Wish Come True - Rachael Lippincott & Alyson Derrick 💖 How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? - Anna Montague 💖 Turning Twelve - Kathryn Ormsbee & Molly Brooks 💖 Sweet Home Alabarden Park - T.J. O'Shea 💖 Lucy, Uncensored - Mel Hammond & Teghan Hammond 💖 New Horizons - Shia Woods 💖 Writ of Love - Cassidy Crane 💖 What It Meant to Survive - Mala Kumar

Fantasy 💖 Metal from Heave - August Clarke 💖 Whispers Most Foul - Emma MacDonald 💖 Fang Fiction - Kate Stayman-London 💖 House of Frank - Kay Synclaire 💖 The Ghostwing's Lie - Rebecca Mix 💖 This Dark Paradise - Erin Luken 💖 Chai Jinxed - Emi Pinto 💖 The Bloodless Princes - Charlotte Bond 💖 Skysong - C.A. Wright 💖 The Forbidden Book - Sacha Lamb 💖 Until We Shatter - Kate Dylan 💖 Witchwood - Kalyn Josephson

Paranormal/Horror 💖 Haunting Melody - Chloe Spencer 💖 All the Hearts You Eat - Hailey Piper 💖 The Bloodred Moon - H. Noah 💖 Strange Beasts - Susan J. Morris 💖 Feast While You Can - Mikaella Clements & Onjuli Datta

Historical 💖 Women's Hotel - Daniel M. Lavery 💖 I Shall Never Fall in Love - Hari Conner 💖 Outlaw Hearts - Lori G. Matthews

Mystery/Thriller 💖 Staying the Course - Rebecca K Jones 💖 Long Time Gone - Hannah Martian 💖 Johnny-Boy - A. F. Carter 💖 This Ends Now - T.M. Payne

Sci-Fi 💖 On Vicious Worlds - Bethany Jacobs 💖 Sargassa - Sophie Burnham 💖 Villain - Natalie Zina Walschots

[batboys-cumdumpster]

Created a brand new "Book lovers" discord server!

I am still setting it up. Come and hang out, give server recommendations, and let's build a community together!

[theeccentricraven]

can you tell me about the lands that Voice of Shadows takes place in?

Thank you for asking! The universe of Voice of Shadows takes inspiration from Asheron's Call and the Elder Scrolls. I also owe inspiration to Shannon Hale's Books of Bayern series. It's a more traditional high epic fantasy (as opposed to The Keeper of Maralla) but with its own unique flavor. It spans over three continents that make up the world of Edon. At the dawn of time, Edon was full of many tribes that each specialized in their own weapon. The Drylan tribe specialized in the sword. The Ranlans specialized in archery. The Moga specialized in martial arts. The Sumar specialized in short blades, clubs, spears, and slings. The Erewon tribe used magic as their weapon. The Baddoners were dragon riders. Over the centuries, these tribes formed large nations. The weapon holders often fight each other over territory and resources, but they leave the Erewons and Baddoners alone because no weapon is a match for the magic wielders nor the dragons. The Jaralans were a peaceful people who never carried weapons, leaving them vulnerable to lose their ancestral land. Many mixed with Ranlans, learning the talent of archery.

Voice of Shadows tells the story of Myralyna, an Erewon who was ostracized because she wasn't good at magic and her mother was a Ranlan. Her people learn that a Drylan emperor has a new weapon that will tip the balance of power in his favor so that even the magic users should fear him. Myralyna also learns she has a half sister named Repp, a Sumer. They go on an adventure together to uncover the emperor's weapon. Myralyna soon discovers there are other types of magic, finding her own talent in a newly discovered magic called "shadow speaking". While other Erewon's wield the powers of the elements, Myralyna draws power from shadows.

There are companion books to Voice of Shadows, too, focusing on other tribes. Whelped in Fire tells the story of two Baddoners and their dragons. Of Thorns and Feathers tells the story of a Ranlan and a Jaralan, lifelong friends who get lost and embark on an adventure to find each other. I might come up with other companion stories, too, depending on where inspiration and time goes. There is a lot of romance in each of these stories💕😘

[jessread-s]

Thanks to @fiercereadsya for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review

✩🩸🫖Review:

Faizal’s latest page-turner is the perfect blend of vampires, heists, and tea with a hint of romance!

“A Tempest of Tea” follows Arthie Casimir, a criminal mastermind who runs a tearoom by day and a bloodhouse that caters to the local vampires by night. When her establishment is threatened, she’s forced strike a deal with an unlikely adversary in order to save it.

Admittedly, the slow pacing at the start threw me off, but once Faizal set the scene, the action and suspense surrounding Arthie and her crew of misfits infiltrating the vampire underworld captivated me. Faizal’s writing is immersive and she cleverly conceals all that Arthie has up her sleeves until the very last second, which allows for many jaw-dropping moments.

I was most drawn to reading from Arthie’s pov. As the mastermind of the operation, it was fascinating to see her scheme and navigate through the tangled web of heists spanning across the books. I also appreciate how her character represents the anger and pain that stems from colonialism. Before dominating the streets of White Roaring, Arthie lived in a country much like Sri Lanka that was invaded by Ettenia (a fantastical version of 1920s England). Many of the choices that she makes are intentional in exposing the dangers and repercussions of conquest.

It was also exciting to read from the povs of two members of Arthie’s crew! Their perspectives offer insight into each person’s role in the heist and their motivations for being involved.

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