“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…
Tag: Fantasy
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,…
Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher
“Some thoughts burrow into your mind as thoroughly as a wasp larva burrows into an unsuspecting caterpillar. The trick, which I am still learning, is how to live without being devoured by them.” The year is 1899 and Sonia Wilson is a scientific illustrator without work, prospects, or hope. When the reclusive Dr. Halder offers…
This Monster of Mine by Shalini Abeysekara
“‘Aelius’s beliefs are his own.’‘Are they?” Kadra flipped through a stack of letters. ‘He’ll be devastated to hear it He’s been trying to make them everyone else’s for quite some time.’” Eighteen-year-old Sarai doesn’t know why someone tried to kill her four years ago, but she does know that her case was closed without justice….
The Strength of the Few by James Islington
“Grief, my mother once told me, is love’s most honest expression. The last and hardest aspect of truly, truly caring for someone. She said it at her own mother’s funeral rites, tears in her eyes even as she tried to comfort a boy too young to understand why he was so sad, why his grandmother…
Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne
“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…
The Great Book Wyrm 