“Doors are magical things. Always. It doesn’t matter whether they connect two familiar, well-known rooms or two entirely undiscovered spaces: to travel from one distinct location into another simply by passing through a portal, whether bound in wood or carved from stone, is a magical act.” After Nancy was cast out of the Halls of…
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A Treachery of Swans by A.B. Poranek
“She had a warmth, a light, that drew me into her orbit—I was a moth and she a flame, I the tides and she the moon. Whatever we were, she was always, always the light, and I the thing skulking in the dark.” Raised by a sorcerer, Odile has spent years preparing for the heist…
The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco
“Then perhaps we should carve a world one day where the strength lies in who you are, rather than in what they expect you to be.” When Tea accidentally resurrects her brother, Fox, from the dead, she learns she is different from the other witches in her family. Her gift for necromancy means that she’s…
The Poet Empress by Shen Tao
“How to write a love poem for someone I hated so deeply, with every drop of my blood in my veins?How to do it so convincingly that even the Ancestors believed it?” In the waning years of the Azalea Dynasty, the emperor is dying, the land consumed by famine, and poetry magic lost to all…
Burn the Sea by Mona Tewari
“If you wanted me to be a bauble, you never should have given me a blade.” Abbakka Chowta never expected to be queen. The youngest of Ullal’s two rajkumaris, Abbakka has spent years in rigorous combat training to become her sister’s blade. But when the monstrous Porcugi attempt to lay claim to Ullal, Abbakka’s world―and…
The Fake Divination Offense by Sara Raasch
“To be fair, we were broken for a very long time. And I’m not saying we’re both perfectly functional, wholly healed adults—gods, no. But I think you see healing as a straight line, and any symptoms mean going backward, but I’ve found healing is more of a …squiggle.” Orok star defensive tank on the Philadelphia…
The Entanglement of Rival Wizards by Sara Raasch
“Lock up your kids, Sebastian Walsh might come along and tempt them to fall upon the sacrificial altar of student debt.” Sebastian Walsh: twenty-four. Grad student at Lesiara University in the Mageus of Evocation program. Human. The first of his family to go to college rather than the military (and it goes over at family…
Innamorata by Ava Reid
“Absolute reality was too much for any human to bear.” Once there was an island where the dead walked the earth, and seven noble houses ruled by the arcane secrets of necromancy. A conqueror’s blade brought them low, burning their libraries, killing their lords, and extinguishing their eldritch magic. But defiant against the new order…
Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman
“They were all gone. All I had left in this world was right here. Mongo soon started to snore. I could feel Donut’s warmth against the back of my neck. She breathed softly, oblivious of all that had occurred tonight. This, I thought, this is my family.” The ratings and views are off the chart….
The Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Love by India Holton
“All may be fair in love and war, but this is ornithology. Cheating is practically one of our scientific principles.” Beth Pickering is on the verge of finally capturing the rare deathwhistler bird when Professor Devon Lockley swoops in, capturing both her bird and her imagination like a villain. Albeit a handsome and charming villain,…
The Great Book Wyrm 