“Run away with me. You like tea. I like books. Care to open a shop and forget the world exists?” All Reyna and Kianthe want is to open a bookshop that serves tea. Worn wooden floors, plants on every table, firelight drifting between the rafters… all complemented by love and good company. Thing is, Reyna…
Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones by Priyanka Mattoo
“There is a Kashmiri phrase, chhari daud te mahe adij, “bird milk and mosquito bones,” used when someone is describing things so rare and precious that the listener should question their very existence. It comes to mind whenever I think about that little treasury of items we gathered.” Priyanka Mattoo was born into a wooden…
The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman
‘I wish I had — I wish I had longer. I wish I could let go of these desire, because they are doing me no good, and I wish he was mine so that I didn’t have to.’ Bisclavret is cursed: to live his life in exile; to take a wolf’s shape involuntarily; to lie…
Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree
“Always remember, although the unimaginative see life as a thread stretched from one point to another, birth to death, a life truly lived is a glorious tangle. One is never lost. And if one is lucky, one is never found, either.” Fern has weathered the stillness and storms of a bookseller’s life for decades, but…
When They Burned the Butterfly by Wen-Yi Lee
Singapore, 1972: Newly independent, a city of immigrants grappling for power in a fast-modernizing world. Here, gangsters are the last conduits of the gods their ancestors brought with them, and the back alleys where they fight are the last place where magic has not been assimilated and legislated away. Loner schoolgirl Adeline Siow has never…
Violet Thistlewaite is Not a Villain Anymore by Emily Krempholtz
“Goodness wasn’t something you could just be; it was something you did.” Guy Shadowfade is dead, and after a lifetime as the dark sorcerer’s right-hand, Violet Thistlewaite is determined to start over—not as the fearsome Thornwitch, but as someone kind. Someone better. Someone good. The quaint town of Dragon’s Rest, Violet decides, will be her…
Brimstone by Callie Hart
“I could be dead in the ground five thousand years and the frosts could have taken my bones, and still no other male will ever have loved another female the way that I love you.” Saeris Fane doesn’t want power. The very last thing she needs is her name whispered on an entire court’s lips,…
Kill the Beast by Serra Swift
“Fiction was so much tidier than real life. Justice always prevailed, and the heroes were always victorious.” The night Lyssa Cadogan’s brother was murdered by a faerie-made monster known as the Beast, she made him a promise: she would find a way to destroy the immortal creature and avenge his death. For thirteen years, she…
2025 End of the Year Wrap-Up
Finally, 2025 is coming to an end. This year has been rough in a few ways, but one of the ways that impacted me the most, but not others, is that I’ve had a pretty shit reading year. I have a few really big highs, some absolutely depths of hell level lows, and a lot…
Quicksilver by Callie Hart
“Nobody will ever fuck you the way I’m about to fuck you, Saeris Fane. I’m about to introduce you to all seven gods. When you meet them, don’t forget to tell them I’m the one you worship on your knees.” Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers…
The Great Book Wyrm 