Ruby Dixon started her new Minotaur-hero based series Royal Artifactual Guild in 2024 with Bull Moon Rising, which I thoroughly enjoyed. So I knew I would be interested in reading the next in the series, By the Horns. Just like its predecessor, it’s a combination of spicy scenes, magic and intrigue in a fantasy world…
(this review contains spoilers for Book of Night, the first book in this duology) Thief of Night is the rare sequel that not only improves its predecessor—it redeems it. I came to this duology as a fan of The Folk of the Air, expecting something equally dark and irresistible. Instead, the first book, Book of…
Hannah Nicole Maehrer is back with the third installment of her Assistant to the Villain series, Accomplice to the Villain. If you’ve been following along from book one, you’ll know that Evie Sage never intended to be an evil henchwoman – she just kind of fell into it. But you also know, as it turns…
Sexy and filled with swagger and solid world building, The Sea Witch is a great ride. I enjoyed this more than I have any of Leigh’s historical romances – I loved the fantastic way the magic is employed. It’s not a perfect book but it’s a good start to a new series. It’s 1719, and…
Dire Bound’s debut authors landed a seven-figure deal from Hachette Books and so I had to see what the excitement was all about! It’s marketed as Fourth Wing meets The Hunger Games and it did indeed remind me of both books. I liked the direwolves and their magic but, sadly, I struggled with the romance. …
The Enchanted Greenhouse is book two in Sarah Beth Durst’s The Spellshop Series. If you don’t want to read any spoilers from that tale, please stop here, because the entirety of this review contains surprising information about a character in that story. In The Spellshop we met Caz, a sentient spider plant who had worked…
Rose in Chains started out as Draco/Hermione fanfiction. I found it almost impossible to imagine how that couple could become a romantic duo, but I needn’t have worried. This novel’s hero, heroine, and world bear little resemblance to those in the Potterverse. Briony’s twin brother, Rory, is the Heir Twice Over, foretold in prophecy and…
I was intrigued by this quirky and snarky, enemies to lovers, slow burn, fantasy. It has an assassin versus a healer and I lost myself in their world of intrigue and magic. Some of the world building in the beginning took some time for me to understand, but once I figured out what was going…
I was introduced to Sarah Hawley’s writing when I read her lighthearted paranormal rom-com Glimmer Falls series, which includes A Witch’s Guide to Fake Dating a Demon. But Servant of Earth, the first in the author’s The Shards of Magic series is a grittier fantasy story with romantic elements that had me spellbound right from…
When the Tides Held the Moon is a captivating and imaginative historical fantasy with a beautiful romance at its heart, set amid the carnivals and sideshows of 1910s Coney Island. I admit that I first noticed it because of its beautiful cover – and I’m not normally someone who takes notice of covers (I read…
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