“I know the stories. Dragons disguising themselves as humans and seducing innocent men and women, luring them from their homes, then turning them into concubines and never letting them leave Ai’long.” Truyan Saigas didn’t choose to become a con artist, but after her father is lost at sea, it’s up to her to support her…
A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett
“To serve is a tremendously humbling thing. How easy it is to mistake glory and fame for duty! But duty is thankless, invisible, Forgettable—but oh, so very necessary.” In the canton of Yarrowdale, at the very edge of the Empire’s reach, an impossible crime has occurred. A Treasury officer has disappeared into thin air—abducted from…
The Secret Market of the Dead by Giovanni De Feo
Just beyond the waking edges of Lucerìa, an 18th-century town in the kingdom of Naples, lies the an enigmatic fiefdom governed by seven immortals and fueled by Moira, the power to reshape one’s destiny. On this porous border separating Day from Night, Oriana spends her time fantasizing about becoming a smith in her father’s forge…
The Memory of the Ogisi by Moses Ose Utomi
“Evil didn’t change. The evil of yesteryear was no different from the evil of today, and the Aleke had shown him that.” The City of a Thousand Stories stands resolute on the edge of the Forever Desert. It is a lush metropolis, where water flows into every mouth that thirsts and knowledge sprouts in every…
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon
“Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can’t get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.” The year is 2059. For two centuries, the Republic of Scion has led an oppressive campaign against unnaturalness in Europe. In London, Paige Mahoney holds a high rank in the criminal underworld. The right hand of…
2025 Mid-Year Book Freakout Tag
Wow. Another one of these? I can’t believe that half of the year is over. I’ve gone through a really rough patch with my reading these past few months. Like taking three weeks or more to finish one book. I’ve had a few things going on in my personal life that are probably partially to…
Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender
“Energy is infinite, and love is energy, so love has the potential to be infinite too.” Only an elite few are legally permitted to study the science of magic―so when Ash is rejected by the Lancaster Mage’s College, he takes a job as the school’s groundskeeper instead, forced to learn alchemy in secret. When he’s…
The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
“When you do the right thing for the wrong reason, no one praises you. When you do the wrong thing for the right reason, everyone does, even though what is right and wrong depends entirely on the story you’re living in. And no one says they need recognition or praise or love, but we all…
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
“The fields of these lands are wet with the blood of many officers. And though we keep hoping the Empire grows more civilized, somehow it finds clever new ways to stay savage.” In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a tree spontaneously erupted from his body. Even…
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness by Irene Solà
“Where women are not, the devil, he will bring them.” Dawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, brigands, deserters, race-car drivers, ghosts, and demons. In a remote farmhouse called Mas Clavell, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed. Family and caretakers drift in and out….
The Great Book Wyrm 